Linus Torvalds Reads Your Mean Tweets 62
An anonymous reader writes "In the spirit of Jimmy Kimmel's popular Mean Tweets series and in a rare video appearance, Linus Torvalds takes to task a few 'tweeters' who have called him out. Never one to back down, Linus reads the tweets and shares his comments." Sadly, this is just a few -- with weekly updates, Linus could charge a subscription to fund unlimited diving trips.
Terrifyingly Lame (Score:5, Insightful)
That was painfully tame. Like, PBS levels of tame.
Linux has provided some epic rants... this is just pathetic.
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* Linus
Re:Terrifyingly Lame (Score:5, Funny)
actually its GNU/Linus
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Yes, but I don't think a rant about a device driver setup routine returing -EBUSY as opposed to -EINVAL would appeal to the general public.
Re:Terrifyingly Lame (Score:5, Funny)
A Theo de Raadt episode would be a lot more fun.
But seriously, I miss the Friday Star Wars and/or evolution stories.
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Linus Torvalds vs Theo de Raadt would make for a pretty sweet rap battle
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We need a good ol' flame war :-)
Tonight on the net: Theo de Raadt vs Linus Torvalds. Who can cuss out their developers more!
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You should tweet this at him and call his mom some kind of names too!!
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Like, PBS levels of tame.>
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Nothing, but it's kind of the gold standard for tame media.
For some things that's fine, but other things, like this, it just doesn't work.
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Perhaps you should use the browser that comes with sega saturn..
Note to self: (Score:5, Funny)
Note to self: Send Linus some mean tweets.
Re:Note to self: (Score:5, Funny)
How about "I'm the president of the Andrew Tanenbaum Fan Club, and we wondered why you're such an asswiped for choosing a monolithic kernel."
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Because a tribe of cave people looking in awe at a pile of pebbles wouldn't have been very dramatic?!? :-)
Re: Note to self: (Score:4, Funny)
asswiped was replaced by the newer asshatd, which is lighter and faster for Ruby-based ass-hattery.
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And some comedy writers.
Seriously, was that a laugh track behind him or was there actually someone on this planet who thought that was funny??
Hehe...we've got STEAM on Linux now. (Score:4, Interesting)
Personally I think he handled those tweets with grace and excellence, however - I do miss his "F*CK YOU NVIDIA" attitude sometimes, keeping it real, sticking it to the man and all that jazz.
Here's a fun fact, I met Mr. Torvalds in a parking lot of Astoria (Oregon, US)...he was just leaving Bridgewater Bistro with (his wife?!), albeit he has never seen me before, he obviously doesn't like fanboys too much as he grabbed his (wife?!) hand and ran like mad towards his car when I tried to say HI!
Oh wait...
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it was the systemd bumper sticker...
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...I do miss his "F*CK YOU NVIDIA" attitude sometimes
There ya go. [youtube.com]
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Personally I think he handled those tweets with grace and excellence, however - I do miss his "F*CK YOU NVIDIA" attitude sometimes, keeping it real, sticking it to the man and all that jazz.
Only if there's a reason for it. He will start to lose his reputation in the business world if he starts throwing around too much those "fuck you" things.
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Fuck yeah... if I were a hundred-thousandaire working a salaried position like Linus does I would definitely shove as much pizza, bacon, and Mt Dew down my gullet at possible.
Oh, wait. No I don't.
I think you mean a 10-mllion-a-year-aire with a net worth of $150M:
http://www.celebritynetworth.c... [celebritynetworth.com]
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It's poor people that are fat these days. Lack of resources and poor impulse control align nicely with both being poor and being fat.
just say no to video (Score:2)
Text, thanks.
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Text, thanks.
Look: in practically every other case, I would agree with you. However, why would you want to read a post by Linus with some tweets that he copied and pasted?
Then again, after watching the video, I regret wasting that portion of my life on such a lame set of vignettes. I was expecting him to be reading some kernel dev's ragequit tweet or something. Instead, what he got was the equivalent of a handjob by his "detractors".
The whole thing was paramasturbatory for Linus. I suggest you continue with your no vide
trolls feeding trolls on the internet? (Score:2)
NO FUCKING WAY!
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Laugh track (Score:2)
The laugh track makes me want to retch. Just what image is linuxfoundation trying to project? Anyway, Linus did not read any tweets that were actually mean, so it is also bait and switch. Funny, indeed. But would be way funnier without the laugh track.
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it wasnt even funny period
Speaking Finnish (Score:2)
@anyone saying it's lame (Score:2)
I quite liked it!
Well? (Score:1)
"What's wrong with a dick in my mouth?"
What the hell (Score:1)
why does everything have to be a freakin video these days? can't you type up a transcript, or just do text in the first place?