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Linus Torvalds Reads Your Mean Tweets

Posted by timothy on from the humor-trumps-malice dept.

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.

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  1. Terrifyingly Lame by Anrego · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That was painfully tame. Like, PBS levels of tame.

    Linux has provided some epic rants... this is just pathetic.

    1. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by Anrego · · Score: 1

      * Linus

    2. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by Ynot_82 · · Score: 2

      Linux has provided some epic rants

      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.

    3. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by MightyMartian · · 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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    4. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by Pinhedd · · Score: 2

      Linus Torvalds vs Theo de Raadt would make for a pretty sweet rap battle

    5. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by AbRASiON · · Score: 1

      You should tweet this at him and call his mom some kind of names too!!

    6. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by citizenr · · Score: 5, Funny

      actually its GNU/Linus

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    7. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by chispito · · Score: 1
      Hey, What do you have against PBS?

      Like, PBS levels of tame.>

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    8. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by Anrego · · Score: 1

      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.

    9. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      We need a good ol' flame war :-)

      Tonight on the net: Theo de Raadt vs Linus Torvalds. Who can cuss out their developers more!

  2. Note to self: by mythosaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Note to self: Send Linus some mean tweets.

    1. Re:Note to self: by MightyMartian · · 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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    2. Re:Note to self: by sjames · · Score: 2

      Because a tribe of cave people looking in awe at a pile of pebbles wouldn't have been very dramatic?!? :-)

    3. Re: Note to self: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      asswiped was replaced by the newer asshatd, which is lighter and faster for Ruby-based ass-hattery.

    4. Re:Note to self: by Dahamma · · Score: 1

      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??

  3. Hehe...we've got STEAM on Linux now. by MindPrison · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Epic comment by mr. Torvalds.

    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! ... Hm...those Hollywood stars, what can I say?!

    Oh wait...

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    1. Re:Hehe...we've got STEAM on Linux now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      it was the systemd bumper sticker...

    2. Re:Hehe...we've got STEAM on Linux now. by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      ...I do miss his "F*CK YOU NVIDIA" attitude sometimes

      There ya go.

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    3. Re:Hehe...we've got STEAM on Linux now. by jones_supa · · Score: 1

      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.

  4. just say no to video by X0563511 · · Score: 1

    Text, thanks.

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    1. Re:just say no to video by stoploss · · Score: 1

      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 video policy.

  5. trolls feeding trolls on the internet? by Osgeld · · Score: 1

    NO FUCKING WAY!

  6. Re:Wait, it's pronounced Leenus? by by+(1706743) · · Score: 2

    ...and if you want to hear him state his full name and how he pronounces Linux: ftp://kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...

  7. Re:Dice fucks you with Beta by epyT-R · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should use the browser that comes with sega saturn..

  8. Re: Ah, the edgiest moment by hawguy · · Score: 1

    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...

  9. Laugh track by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

    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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    1. Re:Laugh track by Osgeld · · Score: 1

      it wasnt even funny period

  10. Re: Ah, the edgiest moment by jedidiah · · Score: 1

    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.

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  11. Speaking Finnish by jones_supa · · Score: 1

    Here's also an unknown-to-many clip where he speaks Finnish. His Finnish has gotten a bit crusty, but still mostly fine. He speaks it in a Swedish accent. He says that talking about his job (involving various technical terms) in Finnish is a bit difficult.

  12. @anyone saying it's lame by Zaiff+Urgulbunger · · Score: 1

    It's clearly meant to be overly twee. That's what makes it funny. It's also why it's so short.

    I quite liked it!

  13. Well? by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 1

    "What's wrong with a dick in my mouth?"

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  14. What the hell by Anonymous Coward · · 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?