• @CeeBee_Eh
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    -19 days ago

    Doubled down?

    Yes, doubled down. After being called out Linus made two separate long posts about why he wasn’t wrong.

    They also formed a volunteer team of “beta tester” viewers who see each video pre-release

    So using free labour instead of just doing their jobs? If they can’t “catch any mistakes internally”, then they’re just bad at their jobs (which they are).

    I think they handled it well.

    Yes, the PR team they used gave them a good corporate playbook to work with.

    “Slowed the upload cadence” is just another way to say “wait for this to blow over”.

    I used to watch LTT, mostly because it was interesting from the “let’s see what those guys have to say”. I had zero interest in their technical expertise because, well, they don’t really have any. They’ve always been clowns, but after their storage server video and their Linux “challenge” I lost all respect for any talent or knowledge they claimed to have. After the Billet Labs incident I lost any shred of respect I had for them.

    They are clowns.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 days ago

      You live in a fantasy world if you think it’s possible to catch 100% of mistakes internally. Even safety critical equipment with many layers of checks fails and kills people every now and then (medical equipment, bridges).

      • @CeeBee_Eh
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        07 days ago

        You live in a fantasy world if you think it’s possible to catch 100% of mistakes internally.

        Nice strawman. No one said anything about catching 100% of mistakes internally. But outsourcing that work to unpaid volunteers with zero verification of qualifications is the definition of “passing the buck”.

        The correct answer is to hire and train up a QA team.