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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Oct-2026 02:23:39 JST Matthew Lyon
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@janl that moment when the mask comes off of “merit” and it’s been “wealth” all along

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  Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Thursday, 15-Oct-2026 02:23:43 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
  
  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomaswilburn/117439476156199985
  This does not look great.
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    @mhoye@cosocial.ca > That amount of work cannot be done with a free LLM account. I asked whether that risked cutting off bright new developers that we would rather hang onto; Torvalds answered that the kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world. "Linux development is only for the wealthy" has probably always been true to some extent but I'm surprised they'd just say it out loud.

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