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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] tiny@midwest.social 1 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

But Linux is just kennel we need to look at all the gnu components that make Linux a complete os.... Wait maybe not https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 minutes ago

Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:

  • 5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
  • people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

I'm kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 59 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'm genuinely baffled how many oligarchs had contact with Epstein. I do believe their primary job qualification is a lack of morals, but there's so many ways to be amoral, you don't have to all be friends with the guy that offers pedophilia.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 27 minutes ago

Beyond just the pedophilia, his (Epstein) operation was largely one of socialising, and securing (probably coerced) introductions from people he helped facilitate and now held blackmail over.

e.g. using blackmail material on a Bill Gates to secure an introduction to another wealthy and influential individual, offering them a “massage” and then producing kompromat at a later date to bring them into his circle.

Now don’t get me wrong, everyone who found themselves in this position was a willing participant, not a victim - but I can understand how so many oligarchs eventually found their way into his little black book.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 50 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What this whole thing has taught me is that there is a market among billionaires for someone to peddle enslaved kids.

Now epstein is gone, and has been for years, but that demand doesn't just die. I don't have proof, but there is zero doubt in my mind that epstein is not a one and done. There's either another epstein, or more likely a dozen smaller epsteins out there.

There's a part of me that thinks all these ICE abducting kids is being done at trumps order, specifically as a means to replace epstein.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There has been lot of information released indicating Epstein's child trafficking ring was barely impacted by his absence. He had lots of conspirators, most of whom are probably still at it, nevermind all of the Mossad, KGB, and CIA cooperation.

The only logical explanation I have found about it is by learning about Frankism from Professor Jiang and his youtube channel Predictive history.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 hours ago

Just a part of you?

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 149 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Linux user here. What's a friend?

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 hours ago

I searched the web and found this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends

[–] ray@sh.itjust.works 82 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It's a class that's allowed to access another class's private members. Obviously Linus doesn't have any, because he codes in C.

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

Private members aren't actively blocked from external access; they're passively marked "Access prohibited".

That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can't pick up on the signals telling them that they're not wanted.

(Fellow C programmers: I'm joking. :D)

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 33 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

i think you are mistaking friends with the boyfriends class

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a second user account on your machine. Of course, you don’t put them in the sudoers file. 

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 hours ago

That would be reported.

Friends don't let friends be root.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 37 points 7 hours ago

It's a user group

[–] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Friend here, what's a linux?

[–] derry@midwest.social 75 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Linus Torvalds flipping the bird

Don't know why but it feels right posting this.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 hours ago

Our prophet

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 45 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If he's in the files it's strictly to tear Jeffers apart for submitting a shit code patch and wasting his time.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He'll probably be associated with Satoshi that way, he tried to fund the bitcoin reference client with the intent to use it for untraceable transactions. Bitcoin has always been traceable though.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Bitcoin was probably created for Putin to hide his money. There's suspicious stuff about it in the Epstein files.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 3 points 49 minutes ago

Putin singledhandedly created bitcoin to fund the war in ukraine and own the libs

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That would be a coincidence since Bitcoin was created by a single college kid.
But I've seen SN's website a few years before 2022 when I figured out his identity and Putin knowing his identity would not be surprising considering what was on his main page.

What stuff is being said about in the Epstein files?

[–] PlasticQuality7519@reddthat.com 28 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The key is not having friends

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 14 points 7 hours ago

Have you read his comments and replies?

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 26 points 7 hours ago

Don't jinx it, you jerk!

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] muhyb@programming.dev 12 points 3 hours ago

WELL well ~well~

[–] morto@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Be careful. People are so dumb that they might misread or misinterpret it and create some hoax

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 0 points 4 hours ago

Linus doesn’t have any friends.