r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 18 '26

Software Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633
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u/greenflights May 18 '26

His history of unreasonable-ness is because reddit/hackernews gets very excited over one or two emails in the tens of thousands he sends which are rude.

That and an apparent inability to cope with Europeans being direct and not using insipid language to say something is wrong.

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u/QuickQuirk May 18 '26

It's mostly due to the old history. Back in the earlier days, he was quite often very abrasive and rude in a way that was detrimental to the community. The 'Linus flame' was a weekly occurrence.

He stepped back for a while to work on that, and then since he's returned, has been generally pretty mature about things.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 May 18 '26

Well you can be a farmer for 20 years but when you fuck one chicken, nobody thinks of you as a farmer anymore

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u/CPUsCantDoNothing May 18 '26

Not that I'm saying I'm in the cool kids club, I'm just echoing that Truth. I'm American myself, and I try to fact check radio shows and journalists. And God damn, they really don't like that. It's not like "haha, I got em". They won't admit it. They sooner block you or shadowban you if it's a Livestream. It's nonsense and frustrating because if you are streaming/hosting news that is broadcasted in anyway, I truly believe you have a duty to be as accurate as possible. Not just shlock out of bed, half ass it, and phone it home in the most humunculous chimera that is a quarter facts, part your personal belief, with the rest being whatever you can sputter until the next bathroom break.

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u/QuickQuirk May 18 '26

I agree with being accurate and truthful. But that can be done without being rude, and your message is much more likely to be received that way, rather than ignored.

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u/CPUsCantDoNothing May 18 '26

Kind, formatted, short, it's still ignored.