Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

Le 09-05-2025, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> a écrit :

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The late John W. Campbell, in one of his thought-provoking
editorials in Analog Science Fact<->Fiction in the 1960s,
pointed out that it's not power that corrupts.  People are
much less likely to abuse power if they can be held accountable

It's not that new. Platon already spoke about this with his invisibility
ring. But that's not the reason I answered you. The reason is:

(which is why the A-word is hated and feared among politicians).

Sorry, I'm French and I really don't know what the A-word could be. I
know what the N-word is, but the A-word, I have no clue. And when I
search for it, I have no interesting answer. If I search for A-word, I
have thousands of unrelated answers. If I put quotes around it, I have
no answer. The "A" could stand for "African" or "Arabic", but I don't
see a reason why one f them would be feared amongst politicians.

I hope my FAI will provide me an answer.

Campbell suggested re-writing the old saying as follows:
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    Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

It's not that simple. I really believe Elon MUSK is mad and even if he
acts as if he was corrupted, he's not. I'm pretty sure his immunity let
him do everything he wants, but he would try it even if he was not
immune. The only difference would be: if he wasn't immune, he would be
stop but he wouldn't stop himself by fear of reprisal.

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