ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem
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This one was a very interesting episode and made better since I had never heard the story before.
And btrfs also suffers from issues. ZFS happened. On Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux.
I'm curious about what you think is the relevance of this. Would you mind expanding on it a bit?
> And btrfs also suffers from issues.
Is this the write hole thing? Non-technological issues? Something else? What's the relevance?
> Hans was autistic.
I have now listened to the episode. I see a lot of judgement that becomes moot when you take his autism in consideration. It obviously doesn't absolve him from the crime, and it _seems_ to be pretty clear that he did it. It does provide possible alternative explanations for a lot of his actions, both pre and post crime.
I'm also reminded of this post [0] a coworker shared recently that I think a lot of people would benefit from reading.
[0] https://autisticscienceperson.com/2021/01/09/neurotypicals-l...
Also, I'm on the spectrum, and recognize a lot of behavior. I have been accused by my neighbors of a crime. One I did not commit (I did not abuse my children, sexually or otherwise), but you know how that goes? Gossip.
As for the podcast, I read the transcript (in less time than the podcast would take, as I skimmed through some parts). It had a lot of unnecessary content, and missed some details (such as the one I mentioned) but it was alright. It is a sad story.
> It simply explains a lot of his (odd) reasoning and behavior. It does not absolve him from his behavior, nor does it acquit him from time in prison for his criminal deeds.
100 times yes. That was what I was trying to convey, though mostly from the point-of-view that the police, public opinion and the podcaster have used his behaviour to amplify his guilt and the perception of him being a monster.
I don't even see why anyone would need any more than the fact that he murdered his children's mother to condemn him. Everything else is irrelevant and not necessarily an indication that he was going to commit a crime, as the podcast suggests. I guess it wouldn't make for nearly as much a compelling and revolting story.
He can get pretty heated in arguments on the LKML for sure, but those are arguments between devs, and usually for the benefit of the user.
I still think this way of working out disagreements sucks, but as a user it does not really affect me at all.
And other OS'es abuse their users on a whole other level and I'm quite sore that some of apples/microsofts middle managers can also be quite abusive to their devs behind closed doors, with linux it's just all in the open...
> We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack
- Linus Torvalds
These are examples of a committed champion and friend of users defending their interests.
We might disagree on the definition of abusive though.
I will grant you that he does sometimes say things on LKML that are inflammatory or at least angry (less so these days to be sure) but personally I prefer the unfiltered honesty. I believe most humans can admit that they've felt like Linus does in his rants at times. People have criticized the way that he speaks, but I believe his anger is very often because he cares about the users.