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1. Linus Torvalds (torvalds@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 05:31:14 JST Linus Torvalds

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   • Thorsten Leemhuis (1/4)

   @kernellogger side note: one of my old rants against case-insensitivity was on good old Google+. Now you can’t see it any more, because G+ went away.

   But the gist of it then was (and still is) “Don’t do it. Please”.

   • Thorsten Leemhuis (1/4) (kernellogger@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 05:31:18 JST Thorsten Leemhuis (1/4)

     #LKML #QOTD from @torvalds:

     ```Case insensitivity is a subject near and dear to my heart.

     And when I say "near and dear to my heart", I obviously mean "I despise it, and I have spent _decades_ ranting against it and trying to explain why it's a problem".```

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi2c0ezx_OR50h3R6%2B9%2BECu3yDkrEuL34EobZ1b8pWnzQ@mail.gmail.com/

     In the same thread:

     ```But then at some point, we failed at life, and started filling in the upper bit cases too.

     Looking around, it was at Linux-2.0.1[…]```

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiTyTeHpn-zDkKmd2Cq53p=M3OVOJVbh-3AJd-nuAGyjA@mail.gmail.com/