• molave@reddthat.com
    551·
    1 year ago

    “Knows of Linus Tech Tips but hasn’t watched it”: kalm

    “Read the latest drama and how Linus is a horrible person”: panik

    “It’s not Linus Torvalds”: kalm

    • Bondrewd@lemmy.world
      121·
      1 year ago

      Bro. The shit he talked to people on all those Linux kernel mailing lists is in a whole different league. There was an entire subreddit dedicated to all the Torvalds rants. He wouldn’t survive a day working as a CEO.

      Also he and Stallman both had to back off or resign in a way.

      • Macros@feddit.de
        7·
        1 year ago

        Letting this stand this way is close to misinformation.

        Linus Torvalds got accused of sexism, as to be expected with a person so public, but nobody ever proved anything. In contrast he shows the opposite of sexist behaviour nearly every day by working with all people equally on the Linux kernel. Also his daughter Patricia is a feminist and he fully supports her. Honestly I am surprised that with so much of his communication being public (Mailing list discussions) nobody found any piece which sounds outright sexist. Not even a bad joke. He is a role model regarding this.

        His toxic behavior is another thing. And also up for discussion I think. Firm words to discourage bad behavior regarding contributions to the kernel. He went to far at times, recognized it, and improved. He still has the stance to not use overly polite words to play around any bad statements, which many think is correct to improve communication and finding a common ground instead of secretly harboring ever greater dissent. Many discussions by many qualified people on this in the net.

          • Square Singer@feddit.de
            5·
            1 year ago

            Might be, don’t know. Depends on how seriously it was taken back then. If they dismissed it, then no changes had to have been made. Since Madison quit anyway there was no urgency to do anything.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    Narcissist YouTuber, but I repeat myself, has trouble backing down and taking feedback.

    Now that there’s some drama people are dogpiling with more drama, related to ex employees.

    My guess is we’re not going to see much more drama from the LTT side. The new CEO is going to go silent running for a while, which is probably their best course of action. Then release of statement that they’re going to investigate the exemployee’s accusations, but since it’s a private matter they can’t talk about a publicly. Which again is the most reasonable thing they can do.

    In a week they’ll start publishing videos again without talking about either event. Maybe in a month they’ll be a follow-up on their new processes.

    So for the next week everyone’s going to brigade against LTT because it’s fun to do, and then it will blow over.

    The memes though, the memes will be legendary!

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

        That didn’t happen.

        And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

        And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

        And if it is, that’s not my fault.

        And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

        And if I did, you deserved it.

        -The Narcissist’s Prayer

        • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          What started as a few friends dicking around together, RT grew to be one of the giants in the YouTube space (probably still is). A lot of the edgy humor that flew with the team and also the fans in the 2010s but generally not accepted now, stayed with them as they grew bigger. There were multiple allegations of sexual harassments, racism, and not to mention the Adam Kovic/Ryan Haywood stuff.

          Come to think of it, not much controversy has been popping up from them lately. Maybe it’s because I don’t really watch their content anymore, or they have actually improved their work culture since then.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    385·
    1 year ago

    I’ve seen that guys face on my recommendations before, but never watched anything because he looked like a whiny removed 😂 looks like I was right!

  • v_krishna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    291·
    1 year ago

    I was just happy to realize this afternoon that this is a different Linus than Linus Torvalds. I was very confused this morning how out of the loop I was to not realize The Linus had become a youtuber. Now this makes more sense (or at least I no longer care at all)

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
        12·
        1 year ago

        My first introduction to him is when he had like a PetaByte of data on a huge array that wasent backed up, and then managed to physically drop it somehow?

        As i recall actual tech youtubers flew out and helped him recover data off of it.

        • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
          6·
          1 year ago

          Dropping things has been his specialty since he dropped an early prototype of the RX480 at a trade show event. I’m still not sure if he’s really that clumsy or if he intentionally drops things for entertainment value, but he drops an awful lot of things.

          • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            To be fair, I am also a clumsy son of a removed and have dropped quite a few expensive items that I have purchased with my own money

  • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    303·
    1 year ago

    I’m just getting caught up, never watched any of their videos before either. Was hoping the drama was just over something inconsequential but juicy & amusing… but no, of course it’s something icky and depressing.

    Also this is from Linus Sebastian’s email response to the Verge:

    In addition to our existing report systems (both anonymous and otherwise) we’ve proactively reached out internally today to encourage members of our team to report any workplace bullying or harassment…

    So they’re proactively reacting to the allegations? Am I just really stoned?

    • berkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      They’re proactively reaching out to employees in case that they’ve experienced any bullying of harassment, but haven’t self reported it.

    • Isthisreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Honestly it has been a pretty good techy channel for a while, but like many things, apparently it’s become a victim of its own success. Ive gone down the rabbit hole on LTT YouTube episodes a few times in the past - really enjoyed what I decided to watch, this news is really unfortunate to what was (in my opinion) a great channel

      Gamer nexus was always great too (the few episodes I watched), that’s why this is such news. I’m going to sit down and really listen to the video GN did

      • smackjack@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I used to really enjoy watching LTT unboxing videos even if it was for a product that I wasn’t interested in. Watching Linus struggle to open product boxes while he talked about their features was just a part of my nightly routine. The videos back then were much more down to earth. There was no B roll, and hardly anything got cut out. The closest thing we have to that now is the Short Circuit channel, but even that is overproduced compared to old school LTT videos.