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Do you even know how many people are killed by cars each year? This is nothing compared to that. Most cases cited here are because people acted completely recklessly. The same can't be said about many car accidents.

Yup.

Legal experts agree, a sale to The Onion is more likely now that Infowars' fate has shifted to Texas state court.

Yup, I saw that one as well after I left this comment. It showed really well not only that this is the largest number of journalists killed in such a conflict, but by really, really far. And did it in a way that shocked even me.

I watched that segment. I remember them saying very clearly that Israel didn't allow them to film it. So you know what they did? They showed footage from the ground, and didn't mince words as to how horrific things were. They showed the landscape, where barely anything is standing. They showed people digging through the ground looking for spilled kernels. There was absolutely no way you could watch that report and not understand the insanity of what is going on there.

In fact, anyone who follows CBC's news coverage has no reason to not understand the depths of the horrors happening in Gaza, or in Palestine in general. They don't shove it into the corner. They place it center stage. Again, and again, and again. As if to say, "don't forget what is happening here".

The CBC definitely has its faults, but this article is blowing things way, way out of proportion.

Good to know... Although hitting enter twice or adding two spaces makes me feel like a boomer. Oh well

OK, weird, I had them in there, but I added a second newline per paragraph and it seems to look better now.

I might not have everything, but here's the best summary I can put together:

This back and forth has been going on for a while now. The main complaints more recently have been the timing of his pull requests, and just generally his attitude and cooperation with others. The most recent spat was because he submitted a feature in the rc3 merge window, whereas you're only supposed to submit Bugfixes in that time frame. The feature in question was a journal rewind function, which would essentially move the filesystem back in time, which could fix an issue that did crop up in the testing phase. As such, he saw it as a workaround to fix an issue that had arisen, and so despite it technically being a feature, he saw it in the category of Bugfixes. The caused major disagreements as well as the way he talked with others. And now his pull request for rc1 has been simply ignored by Linus.

The point where Kent is coming from is that he wants a rock solid file system, and he's following a bit of a take no prisoners approach to reach that goal. He seems to get most of his income from his following on Patreon, and so his focus is squarely on the users. With that focus, he seems to lose sight of other things, especially the cooperation with others in the kernel team. In fact, a number of people he has sparred with have shown decent respect for his code recently, saying the problem is really the cooperative aspect. One of the main reasons for bcachefs is also the lack of a proper CoW-filesystem in the Linux kernel that doesn't have the kinds of problems that btrfs has. And the fact that he states this and also talks about the lessons he's learnt from btrfs's shortcomings rubs a number of people the wrong way.

Now here's some stuff I read into this personally: I have the impression that Kent looks up to Linus in a way. And they're actually both kind of similar: they both are extremely talented engineers, they both saw something missing in the software landscape and said "fuck it, I'll make it myself", and they both can be pretty serious dicks. I mean Linus managed to get suspended from his own damn project for being a dick - now that's an achievement. He's older now and somewhat calmer, but even recently he had quite the outburst on the mailing list. And I get the impression I get is that Kent (probably subconsciously?) has an attitude of "if he can do it, so can I". Which would be fair (even though it is poisonous), the only problem being Linus having the longer lever.

Then there's the aspect of his mental health. He has said multiple times that his mental health has been suffering, which honestly doesn't surprise me. And if you look at his responses in different places, there seems to be quite an up and down. In some cases, he's very respectful to Linus, and in some cases he's pretty nasty (yes, Linus level nasty, but still). As far as I can tell, he needs a break and therapy. The only problem being, bcachefs has quite the momentum currently, and it wouldn't exactly be great for the project to lose that momentum, either. (Mind you, probably still better than being kicked from the kernel)

Well yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Abuse causes mental health problems. How is this news?