Linus_Torvalds

@Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance are on Feddit.dk, but you won't see them on your own instance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for putting in this amount of effort highlighting some shortcomings of the Fediverse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Integrating f-droid to lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool idea! THis should be more broadly discussed. After some discussion here, where could we share it with the F-Droid community? Is there a forum or such?

  My five cents: The problem I see is account stuff. You can use F-Droid without an account, and do not want to require an account for ratings. Yet, having no accounts, it is incredibly easy to manipulate votings.

  I would probably prefer a “Git Issue”-like thread for every app, where you have to register. This allows for

  • Deeper conversation, more insightful reviews, instead of “3 starts, UI ugly” (let’s face it, this is not the reason why we use F-Droid)
  • Pointing out code lines in the source code. This could help with bug fixes, malicious stuff, etc.
  • …
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In how far? I think it is actually a valid criticism of a very strongly opinionated take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  According to your logic, 30% of words would satisfy this property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Accordion
  2. Antenna
  3. Banana
  4. Character
  5. Deceived
  6. Elephant
  7. Greening
  8. Harbinger
  9. Insignia
  10. Knowledge

  GPT-4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  (Just letting you two know that this is exactly the kind of mindset I was looking for on Lemmy. Unfortunately, people bring their Reddit habits with them here.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the Fediverse reach Mainstream in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the new “Is $DATETIME_NOW.year the Year of the linux desktop?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there is one thing you can change about Lemmy, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is hilarious, thanks for the giggle :))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, will donate all profits on September 13th (tomorrow) to victims of the recent Moroccan earthquake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While it can be somewhat cynical to play out environmental vs social issues, I agree with the scepticism here.