this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
323 points (98.8% liked)

Tech

1845 readers
204 users here now

A community for high quality news and discussion around technological advancements and changes

Things that fit:

Things that don't fit

Community Wiki

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Vacant@programming.dev
323
Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/tech@programming.dev
76 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's possible to acknowledge his genius as well as call out his shitty behavior. We can and should do both.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's just guarding the fort. I'd rather he not be a pushover.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can guard the fort effectively without being an asshole. I admire Torvalds for his work, but his behavior is still awful.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago

The world sits on his shoulders and there are people actively trying to dismantle his work. He has every right to me an asshole.