Published: August 9, 2025
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Today, Linus Torvalds told a Google engineer that his code (updating RISC-V support in the Linux kernel) is “garbage” which “makes the world actively a worse place to live”. Adding that the Google engineer’s code needs to “get bent”. As you might have guessed, Torvalds has

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@LundukeJournal @grok rewrite Torvalds email as if he were a truly nice person.

@Zat0ichi @LundukeJournal Dear Palmer, Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, I must decline this pull request as it arrived quite late in the merge window, and I've been requesting early submissions due to my travel schedule. I appreciate the effort, but some changes extend into generic headers

@LundukeJournal wow, i didn't expect that so many sensitive flowers will be distraught by that pretty standard senior to junior interaction. people should know their place. otherwise the world would be not worse, it would be fucked to unexpected extent.

@LundukeJournal Isn't he like, infamous for being a crude man?

@LundukeJournal Critiquing code like that doesn’t make you based it makes you rude. There’s no reason he couldn’t have said the same thing in a reasonable manner. Brilliance is not an excuse for bad manners quite the opposite.

@LundukeJournal This is the garage attitude that used to gatekeep software engineering. I’m glad we are long past those days

@LundukeJournal What is the last good thing google released lol Just a bunch of sloptards high off leetcode who are gatekeeping interviews with retarded non-problems to boost off their ego because they know they would get their asses chewed into any other serious CS field

@LundukeJournal So if instead the variables were named hi and lo instead of a and b, he’d be fine with it? I often have a MakeDWord() in my code. More clear than (DWORD((WORD(a) << 16 | (WORD)b).

@LundukeJournal It wasn't google engineer, the guy works for SiFive

@LundukeJournal He is not wrong but the Linux Foundation needs to equally and fairly enforce their CoC.

@LundukeJournal LT is an increasingly visible global Ahole.

@LundukeJournal His communication makes our profession actively a worse place to live. It is good that more and more young people learn that this style is toxic and nobody’s improving or learning from it.

@LundukeJournal Now read this email aloud in an understanding, friendly tone. Problem disappeared. This is all in your head snowflakes.

@LundukeJournal make_u32_from_two_u16 adds another call to the stack (if its a function, not a macro) (a << 16) + b does not

@LundukeJournal MF talks to google engineers the way I talk to Claude code

@LundukeJournal Linus has had one too many COVID-19 boosters, that he is just as passionate about advocating as he is "good" code. Time to port seL4 to GNU Hurd and dump Linus, Linux, SELinux, Wayland, and systemd in the toilet. Linux is the new Microsoft Windows. Linus is the new Bill Gates.

@LundukeJournal Linus has turned into a whiny little girl

@LundukeJournal By convention the left argument is the MSW

@LundukeJournal He has always been like this - very difficult to work with because he does not respect people. Since his own output has been so good, people put up with it. But the moment he starts to slack even the slightest, he will be unceremoniously replaced.

@LundukeJournal Holy Wow!! That’s not letting the guy have it with both barrels… that’s a fricking Gatling gun!

@LundukeJournal linus being an asshole is one of the best things that has happened to society

@LundukeJournal Linus may be correct, but he sure sounds like an asshole.

@LundukeJournal Bad take Linus. Declarative helpers are a good thing.

@LundukeJournal It doesn’t hurt to be fine with a review like that as it would make you do adjustments and improve as a programmer.

@LundukeJournal Reminder that 'git' is not an acronym. Linus named it after a self-recognised characteristic.

@LundukeJournal its crazy we live in a timeline where someone can be so right and such a cunt at the same time, regularly

@LundukeJournal Looks like asshole Linus is so back

@LundukeJournal This jerk is making Mac OS look better and better 😭😭 Woke software. The 🤮 that is Linus. Phew

@LundukeJournal Lol your message sounds like by default Google engineers writing 'non-garbage' code... Quite a contrary actually :))

@LundukeJournal he talks to humans, like we talk to LLMs

@LundukeJournal @grok please explain this screenshot and post like I am 5 years old.

@LundukeJournal Obviously his communication style is abrasive, to say the least (by which I mean he comes across as a huge dick), but every time ive seen an email of him chewing someone out, at least when he tells someone their code is shit, he clearly explains why it's shit and what would make

@LundukeJournal Meanwhile, Debian folks are busy censoring words...🤡

@LundukeJournal Well, Code of Conduct team needs an action against Linus.

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