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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's paraphrasing Torvalds himself though. It's a cheeky title.

"... and I have absolutely no excuses to delay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is,"

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Actually, I think I have misread it. My bad. I'm the one running out of caffeine, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I could have sworn he has used this joke before? Like in the past year?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I don't actually follow the release schedule of the Linux kernel, but yeah, I was a little confused when I saw the mid-story link where he said roughly the same thing about 6.5 over the summer. That said, if we are going to call out middle aged men for repeating jokes, I'm in trouble.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Comedy follows the rule of 3s...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Idk. I found it pretty funny