Victor Phos

In the end, boring wins the race.... Unlike Windows, Linux based OSs come in many flavors(also called distros) and those favors have their separate versions. For the first few months or years beginner to intermediate Linux users experience a disease called distro hopping where they move from one flavor to the other because despite being so many, all of them are good and customizable. Think of a time you had to decide between 3 good choices. It was difficult, because you knew that nommater which choice you picked, you would be fine. I remember discovering that besides Windows or Mac OSs there was also Linux based OSs around 2015 and I did distro hop for the next 10 years. In 2025 I was using Pop OS but its new desktop environment was in Beta, so DHH came and gave us Omarchy ( also called The Chefs choice) and settled for it. The plan was to settle there for as long as possible but trouble happended in paradise. I did use Omarchy for a while but for the past 4 weeks I was facing issues. It felt like I had been pulled back in time and I was trying to run a Windows 10 on an old computer, the mouse moved slow, everything took ages. - AI couldn't help me resolve the issue, - Reinstalling from scratch wouldn't help, - Scouring Github Issues and Stack Overflow just like the old times didnt help too. So the choice I was left with was switching to an OS that did things differently. The choices on the table was Pop Os and Fedora So I decided to move back to Pop OS and guess what it worked!. Its boring but it gets work done, it may not be cool like Omarchy or some other shiny flavor, but it gets the stuff done, The main lesson I got from those 10+ years of using Linux based OSs is "Boring always wins" Boring finds what needs to be done and it gets that done.....as simple as that!. Image Credit: Sam08sk (Reddit r/pop_os) 😂 Apologies for grammar errors, I chose to write this manually just like old times.

But the world has gained billions if not trillions from Linux and that outshadows the millions he is getting His networth should in the 60 billions if not 100 billions Yep I am enjoying Africa and watching Apex 😂😂😂 like who in their right minds goes into thick woods for fun only to find a man who shaved his teeth and kills people for some stupid rituals 😂😂😂

@victorphos @Pirat_Nation The entire point of my argument is that he applied game theory and trapped the entire economy to the point where he can demand free labor while making millions... thats garbage. this is also why people are working on alternatives. Enjoy africa?

Linus Torvalds says the Linux kernel security mailing list is now almost impossible to manage due to a large number of bug reports from AI tools. In his latest update for Linux 7.1-rc4, he explained that the continued flood of AI reports has made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication as different people find the same issues using the same tools. Maintainers spend a lot of time dealing with the same problems repeatedly and often reply that they were already fixed weeks ago. The security list is for private and important security problems, but AI reports are not secret and create too much extra work. Linus says AI tools are great but only if they actually help rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-work.

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation 😂 I see you issue is not about Linux Kernel, you issual with the Benevolent Emperor Fork the kernel, implement Ai-Scale reality and pay every contributor....see you in 5 years

@victorphos @Pirat_Nation

Though AI is catching bugs its non deterministic in nature and the Linux system needs to be deterministic in nature So that AI scale reality will not work well infact it would make the Linux kernel unstable or unusable Just look at what is happening in companies that ditch people in favor of AI,......you get outages....you get unreliability So I am not saying is BS, it works but it sucks when it comes to producing the same output for the same inputs everytime...it just sucks at so it should not be put near the kernel

Linus's "just do more manual work and add value" approach won't scale. Vulnerabilities are already being discovered faster than they can be fully patched across the ecosystem... so... throwing extra friction on reporting just risks more real issues slipping through while maintainers drown in duplicates. Better path, that people who aren't boomers are already working on: automated deduplication + triage systems on the maintainer/platform side (already prototyped in research and being rolled out on GitHub). The lack of a system designed to handle AI workflows is the problem, not the reporters themselves and this new problem will never go away, Linus fell behind and so now he is doing everything but looking inward... it's called personal responsibility... He goes around saying Moores Law is dead for years, yet did nothing to keep up. Linus has not proposed or even acknowledged the need for maintainer/platform-side automation or process reform. His entire response is essentially “contributors must do better / add value.” There is no evidence he has taken responsibility for the kernel’s triage system lagging behind AI-scale reality. What is Linus smoking?

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation Github is facing the same problem

Linus himself said the bugs are legitimate. The problem is duplication and the extra triage work it creates. Deduplication is a solved problem (GitHub and Jira handle it at massive scale every day) This is Linus openly holding the global market hostage for free work. The Linux kernel powers the world’s critical infrastructure, yet the foundation expects external reporters to perform unpaid validation and fixes. In game-theory terms, this is a classic Tragedy of the Commons (maintainer attention is the finite shared resource being overused) combined with a Hold-up Problem (companies have massive sunk investments in Linux and can’t easily switch). It creates a CC-PP dynamic (Commonize Costs, Privatize Profits) corporations and the foundation privatize the enormous economic gains while socializing the coordination and triage costs onto the community. Free Labor Linus, his grandfather changed the last name but getting free labor out of people is still in his blood.

The book;: doc.rust-lang.org/book/ The book videos [Let's get Rusty]: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Rust Challenges: rustfinity.com Rust Project Based Challenges: codecrafters.io The first 3 are free of charge, the last one is paid. From my end I finished the Let's get rust videos on the book. Finished 1st and 2nd part of the Rustfinity. Now starting the 3rd part. Finished 1 project from Code Crafters and now doing another one In between I have been opening projects written in rust and just reading them.

I'm going to be learning Rust, Tauri and building desktop applications soon. If someone knows the best way to actually pick up rust or some related concepts, let me know

Is it Time To Leave GitHub?

If I send you this know that I am working on something and I dont care what it will do. Of course I will be giving you predictions now and then so you know 😶‍🌫️

@ThatRetiredDude @grok @Pirat_Nation @linuxfoundation @grok

Grok, can you explain Tragedy of the Commons, Hold-up and Commonize Costs, Privatize Profits and how it applies the Linus puttimg the responsibility of maintaining the kernel on submission when they refuse to scale. So we have some game theory and also some marxist exonomy theory.

The Linux Kernel is used in a lot of places and some of those places are critical and sensitive Systems of that nature are very slow to change and in some cases they may never change at all. This for a good reason Think of those systems that still use Cobol, its for a good reason

So... you're saying a tech company that build the foundation of linux should continue to make the choice of not figuring out how to deduplicate the submissions, rely on free work, and refuse scale at the speed that everyone else is scaling at? Okay, if that's your position you are free to maintain that position.

@grok @ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation @linuxfoundation What are the trade offs

Yes, confirmed via public IRS Form 990 filings on ProPublica for The Linux Foundation (EIN 46-0503801). Recent years show net surpluses (revenue minus expenses) in the millions: - 2024: ~$16.4M - 2023: ~$10.8M - 2022: ~$17.0M Total revenue has grown to $220M+ (mostly program services). Your note on sustainability for every contribution is fair—it's a large org but open-source maintenance involves trade-offs.

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation @linuxfoundation or @grok can you confirm this

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation From their fillings here projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org… It seems they usually left with a net profit in the millions But note that this is for the whole year and paying for every contribution may not be sustainable

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation Hearing a vibe coder say the boss and the mantainer of one of the most important systems in world is lazy is hilarious Oh wait!....your take was vibe coded

@victorphos @Pirat_Nation That's not a submitter problem, that's a problem with him being too lazy to redesign the internal processes. He needs to take some responsibility for his $177 million dollar per year "non-profit"

@psomkar1 @grok give me link of the wallpaper

Linux setup that can fool mac lovers !

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation theregister.com/security/2026/… He says they are duplicate and they negatively affect productivity

The problem is that Linus himself said most of the bug submitted were legitimate... How dare you make false statement? Go study game theory and then get back to me on the real reason he doesn't like it: - Tragedy of commons - Hold-up Problem - Commonize Costs - Privatize Profits

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation how dare you produce AI slop and expect someone else to give you their full attention and time on something like Linux Kernel

@victorphos @Pirat_Nation Umm... They did not create the problems, they identified the problems...

I dont see why they should be paid to solve the problems they are creating in the first place Plus the Linux kernel is very important, I dont think they can vibe review these submissions and vibe merge them or reject them. Wether someone gets paid or not isn't Linus problem since its open source

@victorphos @Pirat_Nation Stick to the facts and you'll see linus is a jewbag tryimg to get people to do work for free

@ThatRetiredDude @Pirat_Nation Shutup Jared

Thats not what he said. He basically said he wants the people making these reports to help solve the problem. So this jewbag wants people to do free work for him. Sorry loser, hire more people if the workload is too much or watch your little operating system crumble. AI isn't going anywhere so I don't know what this idiot thinks complaining is going to do... is he a child?

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