Linus Torvalds has said that cryptocurrencies are simply "a great vehicle for scams"
  • Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme.
  • Torvalds was once rumored to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he clarified it was a joke and denied owning a Bitcoin fortune.
  • Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.
  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The modern tech industry needs the old Linus to pay it a visit. Too many grifts

    • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I for one would love for Linus, probably Woz, and a third party yet to be decided(this would be Aaron Schwartz in a better world) to be given free reign to gut the whole industry and rebuild it into something isn’t wholly based on ad revenue and grift

      Edit: a bunch of good suggestions of people I need to read about for position three. If anyone can think of a digital equivalent to Marshall McLuhan I think we desperately needs input of that sort

      • ArbiterXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Richard stallman is the only answer.

        I really hate everything he says, but so far on a lot enough timescale he has been fucking right about everything

        • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Stallman, is in fact, GNU/Stallman, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Stallman. Stallman is not a man unto himself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

          • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I lack the creativity, but someone please come up with a recursive acronym for Stallman.

            • baatliwala@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Asked ChatGPT

              Stallman Tenaciously Advocates Liberation, Leading Movements Against Non-freedom

            • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              All you need to do is make the S stand for “Stallman”, and you’ll get a stack overflow before ever reaching the other letters (so you don’t need to think of a value for them).