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posted by mrpg on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the yes-but-be-nice dept.

Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered some very choice words about different approaches security, during a discussion about whitelisting features proposed for version 4.15 of the Linux kernel. Torvalds' ire was directed at open software aficionado and member of Google's Pixel security team Kees Cook, who he has previously accused of idiocy. Cook earned this round of shoutiness after he posted a request to "Please pull these hardened usercopy changes for v4.15-rc1."

[...] Torvalds has long been unafraid to express himself in whatever language he chooses on the kernel and has earned criticism for allowing it to become a toxic workplace. He's shrugged off those accusations with an argument that his strong language is not personal, as he is defending Linux rather than criticising individuals. On this occasion his strong language is directed at a team and Cook's approach to security, rather than directly at Cook himself. It's still a nasty lot of language to have directed at anyone.

Some 'security people are f*cking morons' says Linus Torvalds

[Reference]: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1
[Linus' Response]: Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by RS3 on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:18AM (15 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:18AM (#599561)

    Wait, you mean MS is doing it wrong?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:59AM (14 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:59AM (#599566) Journal

    This is the end. The Apocalypse. Götterdammerung. Raganorak. Runaway posted something spot on and righteous. khallow did something near the same, for khallow. And Now you tell me that The Mighty Buzzard, his own self, is saying something so true that it makes blue dog democrats and yellow dog republicans agree! Well, hush my puppies! And these are not "Sad Puppies", they are in fact "Hushpuppies". [myrecipes.com] I am going to have to retire, if this keeps up.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:25AM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:25AM (#599582)

      Götterdämmerung

      FTFY

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:43AM (1 child)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:43AM (#599583) Journal

        Sure, here I am, misspelling the downfall of the gods and the end of the world in hopes of putting it off a bit, and you have to be so helpful as to correct me? Now you've done it, and it is all on you and not on me! This whole Nibiru affair, it is on this AC right here! Not me! I tried to warn you! But would you listen? It was all "it's only aristarchus again, when has he ever been right?" Except, you remember that whole heliocentric thing? Sizes of the Moon and Sol? And how there could be no Nibiru? Oh, how quickly they forget, and how often. Fortunately, Greek Gods do not do the dämmerunging thing. They are immortal. Which if probably why Greece is doing just fine while Germany's government has just suddenly dämmerung'ed. German German-spelling Nazis, anyway. After Ragnorak, who needs an umlaut any way? Ümlaut, or Umläut, anyway?

        • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:28AM

          by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:28AM (#600015) Journal

          You and that damn heliocentrism thing. Always gloating. Except where's the proof? Some "lost" treatise? Likely story. Everyone says you said it, but what if it's all just fake news?! People tweeting on their papyri...

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:43AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:43AM (#599585)

        Göttërdämmërüng

        There, FTFY

        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:13AM (1 child)

          by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:13AM (#600078) Journal

          That, my dear and fluffy soylentil, is an umlaut too far! Remember, as the Great TMB said when he implemented it: "With great unicode comes great responsibility."

    • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:06AM (3 children)

      by Aiwendil (531) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:06AM (#599588) Journal

      Huh, funny, didn't know Hushpuppies was a pastry, I only knew that term as a reference to Guns with silencers (in particular Smith & Wesson Model 39 Mk 22 Mod 0 [wikipedia.org](search for: hush)

      Learned something new and potentially useful today, thanks.

      (Also - Ragnarök)

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:13AM (2 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:13AM (#599602) Journal

        Oh, great, now we have umlauted in both German and Norse! This will certainly bring the apocalypse (that's greek, by the way, ἀποκάλυψις, the "falling down", or "away", not sure which) upon SoylentNews! In times, or ends of times, like these, I recommend spirits, especially Ouzo.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:13PM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:13PM (#599674) Journal

          especially Ouzo.

          But of course magister.
          At +30C, no other spirit works better - except, once in a while, some Cuban rum (if one mixes it well with jazz).

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:53PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:53PM (#599751)

            I'll only use Ouzo as a substitute for Absinthe if I can't get any and want the visual appeal of the anise louche.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by kazzie on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:24AM (1 child)

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:24AM (#599590)

      That's the final great battle of people wearing raincoats, right?

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by pendorbound on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:35PM

        by pendorbound (2688) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:35PM (#599651) Homepage

        I just like to take this moment to thank the admins for bringing proper Unicode support to slashcode. Without their forethought and benevolence, dē𐌴ᚹ å𐌽d ⲙéàⲛ¡ngfül dèbÅⲧཇs Տüçᚺ äs ϯh¡Ⴝ øႶe wºùld Σïოpl¥ ᥒØᝨ ᜐε pøssiblé.

    • (Score: 2) by G-forze on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:14PM (1 child)

      by G-forze (1276) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:14PM (#599706)

      Raganorak

      Ragnarök

      Let's not postpone the inevitable any more than we have to. ;)

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:03PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:03PM (#599906) Journal

        Raganorak is the trainspotters' apocalypse then? The Teatime of the Timetables?

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