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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1 line of code?

Amateur, I changed 1 byte of code in the Linux kernel!

It was random driver with something along the lines of "if (hardware_version > 3) fail()".

One day we got a new shipment of hardware that wasn't working for some reason until I upped that 3 to a 4.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's 3 bits, from 00110011 to 00110100. Can anyone top that?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've changed 0 bits of the kernel

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someone needs to hit us with "I convinced someone to not contribute to the kernel"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Linus does this well enough on his own, he doesnt need help

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Myself, because I'm stupid with coding.

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

If you revert a change that's negative bits. You can do it!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still asking myself what that four year old girl who contributed to the kernel is doing today. Hopefully she goes into IT somewhere, she'd have a killer résumé.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Actual code!? Most of us have to settle for fixing a grammatical error in the documentation

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was thinking about trying to contribute, but the code I was fixing is filled with so many workarounds that I’m terrified of breaking one.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"What if I just change this a bit..."

segmentation fault

"Nope, nope, let's put that mystery code back..."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Do not touch The Coconut!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

🥳I am mentioned in the kernel git (even if it is only for a found bug in driver about a specific wifi dongle that had wrong MAC address)

It really feels like that ☺️💕

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

These days id prefer a developer produce negative lines of code without breaking anything.

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

As experience tells me, every program contains at least one bug.

Experience also tells me, that you can remove the buggy line of code and the program will still not work as intended.

From this follows, that every program can be reduced to a single line of code that doesn't work as intended.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I want to roll back my commits, not make more!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wasn't there a kernel release a few years back that actually resulted in less code? Or at least at some huge part?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

How I feel like after contributing