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Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

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[–] k_o_t@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (13 children)

comrade linus 🫡🫡

but also he’s finnish, which is communist, so he’s obviously a communist smh 🤷‍♀️

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  1. ~~He's not Finnish, he's a Swede from Finland. Please attribute the nationality correctly.~~
  2. He's not defending communists. He just points out that 'woke' is a word used in a spiritual context, which doesn't make sense with communism. The header of this thread is a clickbait. Read the article again.

EDIT: He's actually a Swedish-speaking Finnish guy, mea culpa.

[–] teemuki@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Torvalds is Finnish by nationality, he just speaks Swedish as his mother tongue. That's not uncommon in Finland.

[–] 61ennepi@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@teemuki @raubarno

In Finland they have bilingual street signs. Where the majority is Finnish-speaking, the signs are in Finnish first and then in Swedish. And in places where the majority is Swedish-speaking they have signs in Swedish first, then in Finnish.

To the best of my understanding cultural "!identity" is nort relevant at all there, and nobody really cares.

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