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Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module

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Post by gjm11 »

nobody9999 wrote: post #38
rualca wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.

Because having a sense of humor is frowned upon here. Want to laugh? Go to a comedy club.

Having a sense of humour is not frowned upon here.

Posting low-effort cookie-cutter jokes is frowned upon here, because (1) they usually aren't actually very funny and (2) empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes.

Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module

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Post by api »

gjm11 wrote: post #41
nobody9999 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because having a sense of humor is frowned upon here. Want to laugh? Go to a comedy club.

Having a sense of humour is not frowned upon here. Posting low-effort cookie-cutter jokes is frowned upon here, because (1) they usually aren't actually very funny and (2) empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes.

> empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes.

That also seems to be true of memes, trolling, and political propagandizing. Any forum where these things are allowed quickly becomes nothing but these things.

Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module

#43

Post by nobody9999 »

gjm11 wrote: post #41
nobody9999 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because having a sense of humor is frowned upon here. Want to laugh? Go to a comedy club.

Having a sense of humour is not frowned upon here. Posting low-effort cookie-cutter jokes is frowned upon here, because (1) they usually aren't actually very funny and (2) empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes.

>(1) they usually aren't actually very funny

A fair point. I didn't even recognize it as a joke until someone pointed it out. And I'm very easily amused.

Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module

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Post by tapas73 »

rovr138 wrote: post #21
miohtama wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Systemd of course has had its share of issues. But a lot of also comes down as natural resistance of change by sysadmins, which is a well documented psychological phenomenom https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2466/09.02.10.CP.1.... … and sysadmins tend to be at the deep end of the spectrum

I was with you at the beginning. This part just takes away from your argument, >… and sysadmins tend to be at the deep end of the spectrum Source?

> I was ...

We'll need a peer reviewed article to believe that.

Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module

#45

Post by denton-scratch »

skissane wrote: post #13
rualca wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.

I tend to downvote jokes or non-substantive comments about systemd (although I haven't downvoted any of the comments on this post). Like any other software system, anyone is welcome to question or doubt or disagree with systemd's design decisions. But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. Even if a person making a joke about systemd isn't thems…

> But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for.

That could be because somehow it's managed to become the default init on all mainstream distros, leaving few good options for those who would prefer to avoid it. I don't want to use a distro whose main raison-d'ètre is avoiding systemd.

Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module

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Post by edoceo »

denton-scratch wrote: post #45
skissane wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tend to downvote jokes or non-substantive comments about systemd (although I haven't downvoted any of the comments on this post). Like any other software system, anyone is welcome to question or doubt or disagree with systemd's design decisions. But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. Even if a person making a joke about systemd isn't thems…

> But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. That could be because somehow it's managed to become the default init on all mainstream distros, leaving few good options for those who would prefer to avoid it. I don't want to use a distro whose main raison-d'ètre is avoiding systemd.

Gentoo and others exist for far more reasons than just avoiding systemd.

Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module

#49

Post by macintux »

rimliu wrote: post #8
rualca wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.

HN is not into jokes very much, need to keep that "we are better than reddit" flag high.

I think "different from" suffices. One technical social media site without snark and acrimony doesn't seem like too much to ask.
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