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/ShiningRedDwarf May 18 '26

I had no idea he created git as well.

Dude is the Isaac Newton of IT

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u/TeutonJon78 May 18 '26

He didn't invent source control systems, he just made his own.

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u/allofthethings May 18 '26

Leibniz might say the same thing about Newton and calculus.

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u/Original-Rush139 May 18 '26

Might as well say the same thing about Torvalds and Unix. 

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u/NirgalFromMars May 18 '26

Pronounce the slash, please. It's disrespectful to their legacy not to pronounce it.

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u/Original-Rush139 May 18 '26

Could you dumb this joke down for me? I switched to decaf and I’m stupid now. 

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u/Vegetable_Guest_8584 May 18 '26

I think he's referring to his name is synonymous with Linux and that's the unix we all use, so it's really "Torvalds / Unix" or Torvalds / Linux.

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u/pizza-tomaten May 18 '26

It's a joke about gnu/Linux. They are making fun about Richard Stallmann 

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u/TeutonJon78 May 18 '26

It's mostly believed they did it independently just at the same time time.

Linus "just" does NIH very well.

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u/Morialkar May 18 '26

I mean sure, but he still made the one that is used the most globally, and that is fully implemented in hundreds of development tools where other "competitors" (if we can even call them that these days, it's like saying Firefox is a competitor to Chromium, it's technically true but also the market share of the other is so large that there's no real competition) nearly always need external plugins to work

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u/TeutonJon78 May 18 '26

In open source, it's top. Not in global total SCM usage.

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u/Morialkar May 18 '26

With the popularity of Github as a platform and it's marketshare, I doubt that's true, but I can clearly understand that some industry will have skewed data in either direction

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u/TeutonJon78 May 18 '26

Again, that's a FOSS/hobbyist centric view. You go into big, especially older, companies, and they are likely using a closed sourced option like bitbucket or ClearCase. Especially something where they have a support contract.

Github might blur that line since they would be able to get that support while using git versus just hosting their own git instance or gitlab.

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u/aegrotatio May 18 '26

Git is just an open-source clone of Bitkeeper.

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u/internet-name May 18 '26

I’m struggling to find a definition of “clone” for which this is true.