Patch submitted to the Linux kernel by a 4 year old.
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...Kernel patch at age 4. Sigh... What have I done with my life?
You done fucked up from the moment you turned 5. That's where you went wrong. You should have just stopped getting older
Dose mental age count?
The Internet didn't even exist when I was four, let alone Linux, so I don't feel so bad.
Well, you shoulda been working on ARPANET then, slacker!
Lucky bastard!
she's going to one of those mythical 20 yo with 15 years of experience 😉
You can start now!
I am no developer, but I've submitted my first patch a few months ago.
It simply added my laptop to a list of quirks, in order to make the microphone work.
Breaking News at msn.com: "Linux uses child labour!"
Unpaid child labour!
Don't threaten the far-right with a good time
Oh god, maybe they'll start calling actual child labor "open source"
FOSS
Free and Open Source Slave
FOSS: Forces Orphan Se--
No matter how many times I read this I have no idea what's going on. Can someone explain this like I'm 3
A girl read documentation and see that all the titles are underlined with -, but one of the letter isn't underlined like the others (that's the lonely s). Then she asks the person doing the commit to fix it and they fix it together.
And then the older pair programmer goes to social media and calls out their partners age for clout. Ageism is real in tech. :)
Wow we really can’t just appreciate a wholesome/cute moment?
They’re telling a joke.
I didn’t see how it’s funny.
Because it’s an absurd statement, as in completely obviously not an example of ageism in tech.
Inevitably, there will be times in one's life when another's attempt at humor fails to amuse. When striken by such terrible tragedy, take heart, for you have the knowledge that it's just your opinion, bro.
This is obvious
If nothing else, the smiley can be taken as a hint that it's not serious.
This is truly a Reddit moment
I wonder how many 4 year olds are using Lemmy... Ah sorry, there's the ageism again :<
See the first red box in the ext4 documentation text? The underline dashes don't go up to the last letter (s).
4 year old girl said the "s" was sad because of that, uncle submitted a patch to fix that, and it was accepted.
No no the uncle submitted the patch. The girl did. He helped her though.
So, is it her gmail account, while the minimum age for registration is 13 years? And why does she write about herself in the singular 3rd person?
She spotted that there was a missing
-in the underline for a heading in a piece of documentation, and her parent helped her submit a fix.The first red box shows that the dotted line underneith the text doesn't go all the way to the s in the text above. In the other red box, the dotted line goes all the way.
The neice submitted a patch to add the missing line.
That is adorable.
I want her to do a Ted talk on the morality and ethics of making sure no letter is left behind when underlining text.
You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.
lazy to not submit a unit test to check for this throughout the repo. That girl isn't going anywhere with that kind of work ethic
Sphinx has warnings for these already. They're just suppressed and ignored :)
Some problems just need a fresh pair of eyes. Sometimes literally.
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Can a 4-yr old legally consent to the copyright assignment?
No but the parents can on her behalf
Which copyright assignment?
A bunch of
=aren't copyrightable but even if they were, the child would retain the copyright.Why wouldn't they be?
Lol because they're 4
Somewhere, somehow, this is going to break something lol
It's almost 9 years ago, I think we're good.
I reckon we can still mine it for karma for another couple of years…
I would like to request a patch to the patch request. The submitter describes the dashes as equal signs and it's really bugging me.
I frankly have to very much agree with her.
This better get backported with high priority.
I just noticed it's from 2014.
This is just adorable. Poor s!
@ken27238 Actually great, it is good to see young people trying to help with a project.
I don't know, this feels cringe on some levels...(parents)
Welcome to Open Source software where its ok to help once and never again. Thats actually not even a bad thing.
Imagine there is this one project that kicks everyones autism and has many issues. But only a team of 100 people is allowed to change its code. I'd rather want the world to change the code and make it improve for everyones liking. Even if it was just one commit and never again.
I "maintain" (I don't) a thing I made 5 years ago for playing Minecraft. I no longer care about it because I don't play anymore, but over the years many people have submitted pull requests to improve it to the point there is very few miles of code that are from me.
Think about it this way. It's a social project. Everybody does their part to help. If they can only help once, great! If they have time to help a few hours a week, great! If they want to help in a significant way, great!
With these social projects, the most important thing is to help, even once.
Ah, yes, totally not written by one of her parents. I hate this kind of crap. She noticed that it wasn't underlined, and they did the rest. Why is this news? No 4-yo. spells "tragedy".
"Look how special my kid is, everyone!!"
I would normally be inclined to agree but this isn't one of those "omg I just had the most intelligent conversation with my 4-yo today".
It's clearly someone sharing their hobby/job with their niece, and what better way to do that than by including them in a practical aspect. It also literally says they "helped her as she's 4 years old".
You commenting is only bringing more attention to the post by increasing the comment count so maybe reevaluate your approach in the future if you're so against wholesome content.
Agreed. Sorry. I often hear this kind of stuff IRL from my relatives, so I might be prejudiced.
People bragging about their kids is irritating. However, I hope the girl ends up being a Linux guru :-)