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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 272 points 1 month ago

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 116 points 1 month ago

Wasn't expecting this under a random unrelated post. A very welcome comment nonetheless.

Never forget that the exponential boom of renewable energy tech the last 20 years has entirely served as additional energy, not as replacement of fossil fuels.

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 23 points 1 month ago

Unexpected but entirely welcome.

People do forget this all too often.

Cheaper stuff, use more , value less.

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[-] ElCanut@jlai.lu 24 points 1 month ago
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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 183 points 1 month ago

LKML and patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0fc810ae3ae110f9e2fcccce80fc8c8d62f97907

He cites his work as being a variant of a patch submitted by another developer, Josh Poimboeuf. It's a team effort folks :)

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 71 points 1 month ago

Yeah, one man did hours of profiling and the other made the patch more elegant lol

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[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 140 points 1 month ago

Damn, those are not rookie numbers!

ITT: people upset claiming Torvalds is political getting all political on a post about kernel improvements.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I'm OOTL. Why are people upset with Torvalds?

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He followed legal advice from lawyers and removed some russians from being kernel maintainers to comply with sanctions.

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

He went beyond that. "As a Finn, do you really expect me to up in arms to support the Russians..."

Bravo, slow-clap.

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[-] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

People are more mad about how he did it rather than just the action he took. If he just explained why without being a prick nobody would care.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Without being a prick" Dawg being a prick is his primary way of communication, power to him

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[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago
[-] prex@aussie.zone 26 points 1 month ago

The discussion on LKML was so civilised compared to this one.
I wonder what the phoronix one is like...

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Great, now we're not going to catch the next zero day compression vulnerability. :)

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