I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC.

[tekhedd@byteheaven.net]

@Colman @datarama "This episode was badly written" is becoming a mantra.

[whitemice@mastodon.social]

@tekhedd @datarama The only way to win is not to play.

[wrench@wandering.shop]

@datarama Well, linux filesystem devs back in the day would murder their wives and hide their bodies in shallow graves, so...

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@wrench @datarama

You omitted "… and then gloatingly explained their foolproof perfect murder method to the cops when they confronted him."

(And who now uses ReiserFS?)

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@datarama 202X ... the year where we all lost our collective minds

[josh0@babka.social]

@datarama at least it’s better than some of the things Linux filesystem maintainers used to get up to?

[nakeee@mastodon.world]

@datarama please tell me there are links—search didn’t give me much and now curiosity is looking for a cat to kill….

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@datarama

this has to be the least plausibly written timeline ever...

[thad@brontosin.space]

@datarama I don't know if "totally normal" is the modifier I'd use...

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@wrench @datarama The Hans Reiser story has so many weird points to it:

He wanted a mail order bride from Russia, but didn't speak the language and hired an interpreter. Married the interpreter as he liked her better than the woman he'd intended to marry.

The prosecution of Reiser nearly got derailed by a friend of his repeatedly claiming to have murdered a bunch of people, but not his wife.

His own children ended up suing him for the murder of their mother and won a $60m judgement.

[moranaga@literatur.social]

@Infoseepage

Also, people seem to have forgotten how unhinged Hans Reiser came across on practically all mailing lists and the quasi-religious idealism with which he tried to sell his file systems as the next best things since sliced bread. (I had a colleague at the time who had previously worked at SUSE.) The comparison between Kent Overstreet and him is perhaps not absolutely far-fetched after all ...

@wrench @datarama

[sgsax@mastodon.social]

@wrench @datarama That too

[lykso@tiny.tilde.website]

@datarama Most people are muppets. Always have been. Scenarios once constrained to thought experiments in undergraduate philosophy courses becoming actual reality are just throwing that into ever-starker relief.

[lykso@tiny.tilde.website]

@nakeee @datarama I saw this chat log posted in my feed earlier: https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN

Didn't see Ken throwing a fit, but only skimmed it. Would love to see the fit-throwing, if you find it!

[cazabon@mindly.social]

@datarama

Don't forget him casually dropping the reference to himself as the greatest engineer who has ever lived.

Bugfuck crazy.

[coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social]

@datarama

is there a link for this? (I love good tea)

[jimsalter@fosstodon.org]

@datarama do you have a link to the bit where he throws a fit?

I've seen the IRC chat log where freya convinced it to say it was a trans lesbian (with essentially no effort required), but I haven't seen Overstreet's reaction to it.

[jimsalter@fosstodon.org]

@moranaga @Infoseepage @wrench @datarama I was already working in the Linux consulting space back then, and mostly wound up taking over abandoned projects whose last "Linux guy" had departed, leaving the rest of the business stranded.

I started out with no real opinion about the filesystem itself, let alone its creator--but I learned very quickly that if I saw a ReiserFS root filesystem, I should expect ENDLESS fucking insanity to go along with it.

[jimsalter@fosstodon.org]

@moranaga @Infoseepage @wrench @datarama so... I wouldn't say it was exactly a SURPRISE when the news about him murdering his wife broke.

Crazy tends to attract crazy, and I'd seen too many examples of what the man's *fans* left in their wake by then, you know?

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@datarama@hachyderm.io finally, something I would want to see a phoronix article on.