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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] calango@programming.dev 17 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

this guy wouldn't pay for sex

Software is like sex; it's better when it's free. Torvalds Linus

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Paying is illegal(if not filming lol)

[–] meow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 minutes ago

But yes in my country

[–] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

😂😂😂

[–] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Gotta respect my G for that

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

Would like to see Linus rip a new hole on these assholes in some mailing list.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Files aren't fully released yet, this post is premature.

[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 1 points 1 hour ago

Yep, the worst documents are yet to come.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How dare you use .avif over .jxl

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

I agree. Jxl is superior.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 49 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.

[–] tiny@midwest.social 11 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

But Linux is just kennel we need to look at all the gnu components that make Linux a complete os.... Wait maybe not https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He's right that we shouldn't infantilise teenagers by calling them 'children', lumping them in with prepubescent children as if there's no difference between them.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 43 minutes ago

As much as people fucking hate when this line gets rolled out and for good reason.

There's a reason chronophilia is a term. Infantophilia, pedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, teleiopholia, mesophilia and gerontophilia. Are all different things.

Actually properly respecting, and using correct terminology can and should be a thing as it prevents unreasonable harm in instances where things are perfectly fine.

For example a 18 year old ephebophile. That's fucking normal, even tho in the eyes of the law it's punished as a sex crime. A 18 year old and a 17 year old with a 6 month gap gets fucked because we don't actually take into account logic when it comes to this topic.

So that 18 year old is now a "pedophile" a term with horrid implications and life defining punishments legally and socially just because we all refuse to actually educate ourselves of the terminology and actual research on the topic.

Because the word pedo has such a huge social negative (for good reason) that we basically just all collectively go stupid as fuck and go straight to the worse punishment we can with out ever considering logic.

It also makes further research into the topic absurdly hard to do and secure funding for. Because of the massive social problems with attaching your name to such research.

Cause even researching it can result in you being attacked. There's been a number of instances iv seen where research on the topic dead ends because no one is willing to actually attach their name to the subject. Or when something gets published it gets dragged through the mud because it's a easy headline.

So we never actually find healthy and effective methods to deal with the problem. We just attack, mislabel, don't think and cause more harm by not actually trying to deal with it. Because the problem is "icky".

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 8 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:

  • 5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
  • people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

I'm kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum

I question this, it's way too much labor with not enough compensation.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 7 points 7 hours ago

You've got the idea right

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