Re: OT: Linix goes politics

On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:24:23 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 05:55:57 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:01:40 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:12:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/russian-coders-removed-from-linux-maintainers-list-due-to-sanction-concerns/
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Torwalds brain going the same way as ByeThen's?
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There followed a number of messages questioning the legitimacy, suddenness, potentially US-forced, and non-reviewed nature
of
the commit, along with broader questions about the separation of open source code from international politics.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds entered the thread with, "Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about." He wrote: "It's entirely
clear why the change was done" and noted that "Russian troll factories" will not revert it and that "the 'various
compliance
requirements' are not just a US thing.
"As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains.
I'm Finnish.
Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history
knowledge too," Torvalds wrote before signing off.
Torvalds later wrote that he would not go into the details that kernel maintainers "were told by lawyers," and would not
"start discussing legal issues with random internet people," which he suspected "are paid actors and/or have been riled up
by them."
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US Linux?
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Betler write your own OS
Use an old Linux version, very old?

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For embedded stuff, go bare metal.

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Yep, that is what I do with Microchip PICs
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Multi-tasker is not that hard... did one, many have.
Get rid of all the bloat.
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Got it! Ask AI to write one free of politics.
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Ooops, AI invaded too..
OK, back to smoke signals for commienukatione

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Software seems to degenerate into language wars.

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Way too many languages.. the evil started with Cplushplush.

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There's a web site somewhere that lists the known programming
languages and variants. I think there are about 3000.
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Here is your weekend assignment:
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https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/new-programming-languages

Wow, I have read the site, is that enough?
Honestly, for some babble  I do not even know what they are carrying on about.

I guess if you were to get a job at some company that uses one or more of those
languages you could get going in a short time.
But would I want the job?

 

C is cool, asm is cool too.
The rest? Sometimes I thing as there is less hardware knowledge by programmers
each of those tries to re-invent the wheel  but without in depth knowledge,
resulting an a bunch of silly 'languages', that will change in every new release.
That will never be secure...
And why all that code? US got to the moon and back with less power than a Raspberry PI version 1

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A Pi Pico has hundreds of times more compute power. Maybe thousands.
For $7.50.

I am looking for a new laptop, old one is now more that 10 years, a Samsung core I5,
some parts are mechaniclly damaged, been around all over the place,
also need longer battery life.
Must run Linux of course.
Samsung Galaxy range seems a possibility...
Web browsing with the Pi4 8 GB is irritating slow at times.
Maybe extra cooling would help...