Lol as you help yourself to the fruits of his selfless efforts. God I wish you could be banned from Linux use. You'd definitely deserve it
Seconded. Few people alive have contributed as much to society.
Readit Newstorium commented on Linus: "Can we please stop this automated idiocy?" lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
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torium commented on Whistle-Blower Sues Meta over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws nytimes.com/2025/09/08/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
> Meta, which owns WhatsApp, also failed to adequately address the hacking of more than 100,000 accounts each day and rejected his proposals for security fixes
WhatsApp is absurdly unsafe to use, but so are SMS/MMS and unpatched web browsers for various reasons. There is also no good way to segregate them, meaning that their compromise is a compromise of the entire device. Even GrapheneOS is now unsafe because it hasn't received patches for months. The only logical conclusion is that both Google and Meta are in on it. Something tells me that these vulnerabilities are why the government gives both companies a free pass.
Even if these doors were closed, there is also the cell tower communication chip that has significant access to the phone, and risks device compromise. All together, using a smartphone is more unsafe than using Adobe Flash back in the day, but nothing is done about it.
Funny, because last time I said I thought it highly suspicious that GrapheneOS supports only hardware built by a surveillance corporation, I was told tinfoil hat.
torium commented on Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019) mikkel.hoegh.org/2019/11/... · Posted by u/kayaroberts
I am also one of those people who "don’t usually do a lot of networking stuff", so here's a question.
The article contains this:
#replace eth0 with the interface open to the internet (e.g might be wlan0 if wifi)
PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -A FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -D FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
So, which one is right and why?
torium commented on Linus: "Can we please stop this automated idiocy?" lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
torium commented on Linus: "Can we please stop this automated idiocy?" lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
Linus Torvalds, best living programmer. Change my mind.
torium commented on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks theverge.com/cs/features/... · Posted by u/leotravis10
Me getting free movies and music, piracy good
Meta getting free books to train an LLM, piracy bad
Powerful entities getting a pass, bad.
Individuals getting a pass, good.
See, it just depends on how you slice the Venn diagram. With a bit of imagination you'll be able to start connecting the dots by yourself in no time.
torium commented on OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/rntn
I don't see why it would be "kafkaesque" either.
In fact I fail to see any connection between those two facts other than that both are decisions to allow or not allow something to happen by OpenAI.
If you don't see why this is oppressive, that's really a _you_ problem.
torium commented on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks theverge.com/cs/features/... · Posted by u/leotravis10
I would say that OpenStreetMap is also a pretty good thing on the internet. Maybe not quite as impactful, and I'd say less well run, and rougher around the edges, but it's largely resisted being taken over by evil corporations or heavily influenced in bad directions.
Torrents are also a good thing on the internet.
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