Jonathan Corbet
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https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/
In person, though, I've gotten far more grief for adding the "(successful)" parenthetical afterward — folks say the original was better.
Oh well, I've learned to be more careful with headlines now.
Next article: Seven Shocking Conclusions from the Linux Plumbers Conference — but #4 will warm your heart.
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Jens Axboe
axboe@fosstodon.org@corbet Another vote for keeping the original, was disappointed to see the edit 😉
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Michael Cook
foobarsoft@mastodon.social@corbet Personally, I enjoyed the original. I get it but things have been going too well for too long. I think there’s only one way this could “end“, so it was a fun little tease.
I’m sorry you had to take heat.
- Former longtime subscriber, recently rejoined.
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Hobart
hobart@uwu.social@corbet IMO both are fine, neither rustled my jimmies, though the parenthetical version delivered more info at-a-glance. :)
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aburka 🫣
aburka@hachyderm.io@corbet if the original was just without the parenthetical, I think it's much better with it added
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Josh Triplett
josh@joshtriplett.org
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llogiq
llogiq@hachyderm.io@corbet sorry to hear that you experienced distress over the headline. And I commend your decision to extend it for clarity, even when I must admit I got a good chuckle out of the original.
The only criticism I could offer is that the headline didn't need any parentheses. But that's a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things.
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@corbet I called it clickbait, but I never meant it as insult. Don't take it too harshly.
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@corbet
The tech slack I'm in, someone commented:
giving this guy's vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbQh_S2g6CI&t=30s
😆
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