Ken27238Patch submitted to the Linux kernel by a 4 year old.
DevjavuWay to never make that person ever help again. You go!
Welcome to Open Source software where its ok to help once and never again. Thats actually not even a bad thing.
Imagine there is this one project that kicks everyones autism and has many issues. But only a team of 100 people is allowed to change its code. I’d rather want the world to change the code and make it improve for everyones liking. Even if it was just one commit and never again.
themoonisacheeseI “maintain” (I don’t) a thing I made 5 years ago for playing Minecraft. I no longer care about it because I don’t play anymore, but over the years many people have submitted pull requests to improve it to the point there is very few miles of code that are from me.
MereoThink about it this way. It’s a social project. Everybody does their part to help. If they can only help once, great! If they have time to help a few hours a week, great! If they want to help in a significant way, great!
With these social projects, the most important thing is to help, even once.
Except for decades if you tried to help but you were even so slightly wrong the lead developer would yell and swear at you and tell you to never program again. Social projects need better leaders than what Linus was.
GizmoLionYou're right he can be a bit crass without needing to be. The outcome of his methods is exemplary, though.
At every place I worked the motto for hiring has always been, you could be the best person in the industry for this job but if you’re an asshole we don’t want to hire you. I can’t agree more with that. I don’t care how good his code is, if he’s an asshole then I don’t want to submit to his project. He’s like the Elon Musk of Linux. We don’t need to support those types of assholes. I wouldn’t do paid work for Twitter or Telsa because of Elon, I ain’t going to do work for Linux for Linus.
Also, one person is not the life of a project but they can define the project’s culture. If Linus wants to write Linux all himself with a cult of followers then sure, he can have a slightly more successful version of TempleOS. He’s still not going to attract the world of developers out there that are far better as a whole and more successful as a whole than him. He proudly defines and encourages this toxic culture and it keeps very talented developers away. Frankly, someone should fork the Linux kernel and create a non-toxic work environment for people.
Why not be the change you wish to see, then? Fork it, and surely they will come.
That or Linus' work is of high enough quality that people are willing to put up with his crass behavior.
Also, somewhat unrelated, but comparing Linus to Elon is a nonstarter. Elon has money, but contributes little more than ego past that. Linus, on the other hand, actually gets his hands dirty. I don't care for his behavior, but I do respect someone who actually does the work.
FizzNo matter how many times I read this I have no idea what’s going on. Can someone explain this like I’m 3
She spotted that there was a missing
- in the underline for a heading in a piece of documentation, and her parent helped her submit a fix.
A girl read documentation and see that all the titles are underlined with -, but one of the letter isn’t underlined like the others (that’s the lonely s).
Then she asks the person doing the commit to fix it and they fix it together.
The first red box shows that the dotted line underneith the text doesn’t go all the way to the s in the text above. In the other red box, the dotted line goes all the way.
The neice submitted a patch to add the missing line.
See the first red box in the ext4 documentation text? The underline dashes don’t go up to the last letter (s).
4 year old girl said the “s” was sad because of that, aunt submitted a patch to fix that, and it was accepted.
No no the uncle submitted the patch. The girl did. He helped her though.
ipsircSo, is it her gmail account, while the minimum age for registration is 13 years? And why does she write about herself in the singular 3rd person?
whodoctor11There was a time when there was no minimum age for Gmail registration, as the registration process didn’t ask for your date of birth. Even if there was a limit at that time, no one ever lied about their age in an account registration?
Infamousblt [any]The line of code (well, documentation in the code) used to look like something like this
The code ends with an s
----------------------
And after her changes it looks like this:
The code ends with an s
------------------------
See how I added an extra - in that second line? That makes the S happier because now it also has a - below it like all the other letters
So in the documentation they had
1.9 Ext4 file system parameters ------------------------------As you can see the ‘s’ doesn’t get a ‘-’ under it. So they changed the documentation to:
1.9 Ext4 file system parameters -------------------------------so the ‘s’ in parameters gets a dash under it.
this seems to be the standard as everywhere else the dashes go for the same length of characters as the above line. Example:
2.0 /proc/consoles ------------------The little girl said the ‘s’ in parameters is sad because it didn’t get the dash under it and it was all alone. So they added the dash.
Mossy Feathers (She/Her)I want her to do a Ted talk on the morality and ethics of making sure no letter is left behind when underlining text.
You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.
That is adorable.
lazy to not submit a unit test to check for this throughout the repo. That girl isn't going anywhere with that kind of work ethic
Her coding style is on point, though.
Sphinx has warnings for these already. They’re just suppressed and ignored :)
Zamboniman…Kernel patch at age 4. Sigh… What have I done with my life?
BizarrolandYou done fucked up from the moment you turned 5. That's where you went wrong. You should have just stopped getting older
The Internet didn’t even exist when I was four, let alone Linux, so I don’t feel so bad.
samus12345Well, you shoulda been working on ARPANET then, slacker!
Kilgore TroutYou can start now!
I am no developer, but I’ve submitted my first patch a few months ago.
It simply added my laptop to a list of quirks, in order to make the microphone work.
shaullivshe’s going to one of those mythical 20 yo with 15 years of experience 😉
Though slightly cliche, this just feels right. That niece has learned a great lesson about how collaborating to improve things is always possible, and that open-source relies on everyone doing their bit.
roadkillI think it's fucking adorable. And kudos to the Uncle for using it as a learning moment instead of just brushing her off or doing it for her. Curiosity should be encouraged and this is a great example why.
You just know she unlocked a core memory that day. No way this experience doesn't shape her in some way.
BlizzardBreaking News at msn.com: “Linux uses child labour!”
Something Burger 🍔Unpaid child labour!
ZeroXHunterDon’t threaten the far-right with a good time
Oh god, maybe they’ll start calling actual child labor “open source”
FOSS
Free and Open Source Slave
The Ramen DutchmanFOSS: Forces Orphan Se–
This better get backported with high priority.
I just noticed it’s from 2014.
Untempered Steel 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺@ken27238 Actually great, it is good to see young people trying to help with a project.
I frankly have to very much agree with her.
I would like to request a patch to the patch request. The submitter describes the dashes as equal signs and it’s really bugging me.
Ah, yes, totally not written by one of her parents. I hate this kind of crap. She noticed that it wasn’t underlined, and they did the rest. Why is this news? No 4-yo. spells “tragedy”.
I would normally be inclined to agree but this isn’t one of those “omg I just had the most intelligent conversation with my 4-yo today”.
It’s clearly someone sharing their hobby/job with their niece, and what better way to do that than by including them in a practical aspect. It also literally says they “helped her as she’s 4 years old”.
You commenting is only bringing more attention to the post by increasing the comment count so maybe reevaluate your approach in the future if you’re so against wholesome content.
Agreed. Sorry. I often hear this kind of stuff IRL from my relatives, so I might be prejudiced.
People bragging about their kids is irritating, however, I hope the girl ends up being a Linux guru :-)
Some problems just need a fresh pair of eyes. Sometimes literally.
alcamtarCan a 4-yr old legally consent to the copyright assignment?
RegalPotooWhy wouldn’t they be?
Lol because they’re 4
Da_BoomNo but the parents can on her behalf
AtemuWhich copyright assignment?
A bunch of = aren’t copyrightable but even if they were, the child would retain the copyright.
I don’t know, this feels cringe on some levels…
FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]Nope, I was smiling like a maniac the whole time I was reading. Reject cynicism 😀
This is just adorable. Poor s!
Somewhere, somehow, this is going to break something lol
DefederateLemmyMlIt’s almost 9 years ago, I think we’re good.
I reckon we can still mine it for karma for another couple of years…