Not involved with any fishy crypto fishy business

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I'm told that there are people claiming to "tokenize" my git repositories with my approval.

I just want to clarify that that is not the case. I do not believe in monetizing my repositories.

If you believe crypto-currencies are anything but a scam, I have a bridge to sell you.

But I'm not selling source code.

Doesn't matter. You can already setup Github sponsor to custom links.

Ah, I didn't know about this feature mainly because GitHub Sponsors isn't available in my country yet.

And I doubt Microsoft's gonna approve me anyway... I mean, I use Linux. That's probably a red flag for them. Still, it's kinda lame that they haven't added support for my country. It's been over ~3 years now! My application is still in the wait list, which makes using GitHub feel a bit discouraging sometimes.

But hey, screw it. Let's go broke and keep building cool stuff in Rust. Who needs approval when you've got cargo and dreams?

the issue is appropriation, setting up parallel channels that are not official to the actual owners of said repos.

I see! That's a meta thing and it doesn't make any sense to do so for real repos. +1 for Linus response!

@wiseaidev

I am very confused on how you think Microsoft is against Linux? They just (somewhat) open sourced WSL. Not only that, there are plenty of projects that you can only use on Linux that have GitHub sponsors. I don't understand this.

Doesn't matter. You can already setup Github sponsor to custom links.

Ah, I didn't know about this feature mainly because GitHub Sponsors isn't available in my country yet.

And I doubt Microsoft's gonna approve me anyway... I mean, I use Linux. That's probably a red flag for them. Still, it's kinda lame that they haven't added support for my country. It's been over ~3 years now! My application is still in the wait list, which makes using GitHub feel a bit discouraging sometimes.
But hey, screw it. Let's go broke and keep building cool stuff in Rust. Who needs approval when you've got cargo and dreams?

the issue is appropriation, setting up parallel channels that are not official to the actual owners of said repos.

I see! That's a meta thing and it doesn't make any sense to do so for real repos. +1 for Linus response!

@wiseaidev

I am very confused on how you think Microsoft is against Linux? They just (somewhat) open sourced WSL. Not only that, there are plenty of projects that you can only use on Linux that have GitHub sponsors. I don't understand this.

See Microsoft's anti-linux propaganda and tell me.

See Microsoft's anti-linux propaganda and tell me.

Thanks for the help 🫶🏻, much appreciated!

@wiseaidev
I am very confused on how you think Microsoft is against Linux? They just (somewhat) open sourced WSL. Not only that, there are plenty of projects that you can only use on Linux that have GitHub sponsors. I don't understand this.

See Microsoft's anti-linux propaganda and tell me.

@wiseaidev
I have actually, however Microsoft has been becoming increasingly more open. Nothing will happen to you. Especally from GitHub where they don't really care what code you post. Its stupidly simple. I will be more than happy to show you github repos that have the sponsors enabled.

bap2pecs

This scammer just rug pulled $7.5M from $LINUX

Appreciate all the discussion here, and wanted to follow up with a quick update:

We launched GitFish with good intentions but overlooked the point on getting projects' consent. It's a mistake.

Given all the feedback we received, we decided to make things right. So last week (May 29), we announced that we would retire the $LINUX token and use the liquidity from the AMM pool to refund everyone.

Since then, we already refunded 1829 users a total of 5864 SOL in two batches (1 and 2). All refund transactions are fully transparent and on-chain. We've included all refund transaction hash here.

There are still ~19500 SOL remaining, which will be dispatched to the users as soon as we finish data indexing and calculations. Our team isn't keeping a single dollar. All remaining transactions will be uploaded to the same repo once sent. Since it's on-chain, everyone can audit the data.

Going forward, we will only tokenize repos with the repo owner's consent and focus on helping underfunded OSS dev raise funds to sustain their work.

Mr. Torvalds, if you don't sell source codes, how did/do you sustain your life from the beginning of .. kernel development?

Probably this message is not related to the tokenisation or cryptocurrency. Apologies.

... I'm confronting an issue with sustaining life, currently building certain .. useful[?] tiny programs to productise for .. first maintaining this human mortal life till I die (since it's all we're destined at random moment of our lives) and at least contribute in small small ways to human society, parents are getting sick and old, and after resignation from private companies, I was unable to find any places to belong.

Do you have (automatised[?]) infrastructure to provide foods to yourself? ... Otherwise, how do you maintain your life? I maybe somehow share something similar to you. A man and computer, nothing much more required except my cats but at least I need to find a way to provide nutrition to this human body (and my cats).

I've approached you on another social but it seems probably you were busy on your work. (and I understand that you are likely and mostly focused on other various important things, but I guess it's most likely kernel maintenance) I was drunk when I was sending connection invitation on social, so I'm afraid whether I've made a mistake on the invitation letter to you.

I was hesitating whether it would be okay to leave message here or not, but made a decision since our time is limited on this earth... it would be better to leave a message here for messages' arrival on you.

• Is there any ... something similar to.. developers' council?

Thank you for reading my message and hope you are having a good day. I think this message is already too long here.

Our team isn't keeping one cent is hilariously comical in crypto shitcoin world

Our team isn't keeping one cent is hilariously comical in crypto shitcoin world

This is from the "team":

"When designing the GitFish protocol, we built in a special “pool retirement” mechanism to address the problem of “zombie pools”. A zombie pool is a pool where almost all tokens have been sold back, but some SOL remains locked forever. Retirement allows these funds to be withdrawn, so they can be redistributed to users.

Prior to this announcement, we invoked the retirement mechanism for the $LINUX pool, withdrawing 25,003 SOL to the admin wallet."

They rug pulled 25,000 SOL straightforward.

But they will pay back all users ! /s

But they will pay back all users ! /s

Yeah, that's what gonna happen. Not buying a lambo and an apartment in Dubai.

This thread reminds me of when I had a layover at the airport in New Delhi. There were few places to sit, however I observed a room with many seats open. As I approached the door to the room, I was stopped by two uniformed men who sat behind a table by the door. "30 rupees to enter." [I actually don't remember the amount] I explained I had just turned in the last of my Indian money for dollars. "No dollar, only rupees." So I went back to the pole I had been leaning on. A short while later the two men abruptly stood up and left. So I approached the room again, and another passenger saw the whole thing and came up me and told me that those guys did not work for the airport at all, and the real security people were always chasing them away. So I went into the room and finally sat down.

Of course I also realized that they were probably paying off the real guards to look the other way for a little while, in exchange for a cut of the take, otherwise how could they keep getting back in.

Damn ts people pmo tbh

i swear, people nowadays 😭😭

gitfish.dev (which I initially read GitPhish) is now sending spam mails to maintainers.

@MuntashirAkon i read GitPhish too,thats probably what they are doing to scam and phish people

This is ridiculous, I thought NFTs died out 3 years ago, and now they're scamming out Github repos?

This whole thing belongs to https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com
If someone made an crypto pump'n'dump out of my repos (If I had any), I'd seek legal counseling, probably already happened with someone else, since the scammers now seek permission by spamming spammy spammail

Thank you Linus for providing a disclaimer, and if you, dear reader, got an offer by them: don't fall for it, it's more likely to get the 5'000'000€ from the Nigerian prince you got in an email from 2008

This whole thing belongs to https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

I have made a suggestion here: molly/web3-is-going-great#1243

To close off this chapter, we’ve now completed full refunds for everyone who participated, and returned ~25k SOL to ~9k users (https://x.com/gitfish/status/1934094603998916932)

All transactions are recorded and auditable: https://github.com/gitfishdev/linux-refund/tree/main/data

The $LINUX token is officially retired.

This is ridiculous, I thought NFTs died out 3 years ago, and now they're scamming out Github repos?

This whole thing belongs to https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com If someone made an crypto pump'n'dump out of my repos (If I had any), I'd seek legal counseling, probably already happened with someone else, since the scammers now seek permission by spamming spammy spammail

Thank you Linus for providing a disclaimer, and if you, dear reader, got an offer by them: don't fall for it, it's more likely to get the 5'000'000€ from the Nigerian prince you got in an email from 2008

hi laura @torvalds be best friends with my best friend laura

This is quite literally, "I've got a bridge to sell you." NFTs can be generated for literally anything that exists. I wonder if anyone has attempted to sell an NFT for the number π (pi) ~= 3.141592653...? Or Euler's number, e ~= 2.718281828...? Maybe we can defeat NFTs at their own game: Concept #1: One NFT to rule them all. Can an NFT be generated for the entire universe? Once you have done that, would it make all lesser NFTs invalid? Could it break the NFT concept? Concept #2: Russell's paradox applied to NFT's. What about generating an NFT which represents all NFTs that do not include themselves as part of it!?! Boom. All NFTs self-destruct. It probably isn't that simple. But the whole scheme (yes it's a scheme, just like the Ponzi scheme) only has the value that people place on it. You could conceive of, design, and build the most perfect and beautiful system ever created, but if no one chooses to place their trust in said system, it has no value, other than its inherent aesthetic beauty in the eyes of its creators. So, when it comes down to it, the cleverest debunkery ever foisted on a system will be futile if people continue to place their trust in it. In a way, systems of trust are very much like the story of the "stone soup." Many of you have heard the story, but I will briefly retell it: A mysterious traveler enters a rural village, claiming to have in his possession magical stones that will turn plain water into soup. The village has had a bad year; the last harvest was very small, and no one had quite enough. News of the mysterious stranger spread quickly, and soon hungry villagers crowded into the village square, where the stranger was preparing to speak. He said, "I have in my hand some magical stones, that, if placed in a pot of boiling water, will make a delicious soup." The excited villagers brought out the largest and greatest boiling-pot in the village, usually used for the annual harvest celebration. It hadn't been brought out of storage yet this year because the harvest had been such a disappointment. The young and able grabbed buckets and used them to fill the great boiling-pot with water from the village well, and the village woodsmen brought firewood. Soon the pot was filled with boiling water, and the smell of the steam, reminiscent of harvest celebrations past, began to fill the villagers with some hope. The mysterious traveler then stood and spoke again. "These stones will make a wonderful soup. However, the soup needs one ingredient to get it started: carrots!" The Jones family's normal crop of wheat had been completely wiped out by a hailstorm, but their carrot crop, which grows underground, was safely harvested. It was all they had, so they had up until now kept it all for themselves. Upon hearing the request for carrots, Mrs. Martha Jones, the family matriarch and keeper of the family pantry, hesitated at first, thinking of her family and the long winter ahead. The village fell silent as she considered what to do. Finally, after visibly counting on her fingers for a few moments, she announced that the Jones family would gladly share a week's supply of their carrots with the village. A great roar of gratitude erupted from the gathered crowd, as Mr. Jones and their daughter Amy went to fetch the carrots. Inspired by this (and also envious of all the attention that the Joneses were getting), another family, the Jones's next-door neighbors, the Smiths, had some extra beans they had canned and were left over from last year's harvest. They asked the mysterious stranger if their beans would also help the stones make the soup. "It's funny you should ask!" he replied. "If no one had had any carrots, beans were the next thing I was going to suggest!" Now it was quite the spectacle to see the Smith and Jones families racing to be the first to get their contributions to the stones! Before anyone had even blinked, the Johnsons were offering a portion of their "secret" stash of dried ham; the Coopers brought out some corn that had been kept in a barrel; and the Metzgers had some beef jerky they knew would soften up nicely in the boiling water; and Addis and Abebe brought some injera, a family recipe from the old country, so the villagers could wipe their plates clean with the delicious bread! The Jones had the head start, so their carrots were in the water first, but only by a few seconds. Before barely another blink of an eye, nearly every family in the village had poured, thrown, tossed, or upended barrels of various foodstuffs that the industrious villagers had each been wisely keeping for themselves, but willingly contributed so as to ensure that the magical stones would issue forth the magical soup. And sure enough, just as the mysterious stranger had promised, soon there arose from the steaming water an incredible aroma of flavors that none in the village had ever smelled. Each of the families who had contributed their necessary "starting" ingredient insisted that the smell of their family's food was clearly the most important. But soon, as their stomachs started to rumble and their mouths began to water, they stopped arguing and joined together and cried, "Time to eat!" The mayor of the village, who normally only appeared at the square for the annual harvest festival, stood up and declared "Today shall be known henceforth as 'Stone Soup Day' in our Village!" The mayor then gave the mysterious stranger a ceremonial key to the village, and declared, "You my friend are welcome to return with your magical stones anytime, because, motioning out over the crowd of now happily fed villagers, your generosity had ended our famine! There is now plenty of food for all!" No one had noticed that each stone was engraved with the letters "NFT" along with a strange square pattern that looked as if it had been woven by a loom of black and white threads. "I have taken to wonderin'," said Mr. Humus, keeper of the village's richest soils, "why'd the mysterious stranger refuse to accept my carefully grown selection of th' village's finest mushrooms? His answer just makes no sense. He said the stones were 'non-fungible'.

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We randomly chose the hottest subject around for our first scam project. Using other's work and image for visibility and now refunding users in an poor attempt at recovery.

Adding a layer of shit to something that already exist (and works well) is still shit. About sponsor profiles not being accepted in countries unsupported is another question (and one for Shitcrosoft).

thats fucking fucking fuckin fucking gross

Ok this has escalated and surely we just have to stop this however Linus T. (@torvalds) wants and look at the GitFish website and press the info button (This is only for Chrome and Google users) you will see a warn pop-up.Surely all GitFish tokens are virtual malware and GitFish is probably phishing people.If i was Linus T. (@torvalds) i would stop this aswell so @tomviolin and the rest lets stop debating,I have been getting notifs from this gist in the night for SO LONG and i on average now have 5 hours of sleep,Ignore the crashout but lets touch grass for a day,the LINUX token was just a start-up for more controversy,Infact Linus T. (@torvalds) would prob say smth like this

aswell,And @MuntashirAkon i agree with you.

indeed open source projects need commercial support
but what the hell is wrong with you you launch token for some project without owner's consent
there are better ways to monetize stuff that have trust from people

♥

HEY! I think you misunderstood me. I was implying all cryptos are scams/mlm schemes.

BASED.

I didn't even know that someone "tokenize" github repo. We at https://namefi.io tokenize domains even so it will require domain ownership be put in the control of our system in order tokenize it. Tokenizing non-onchain assets always involves putting the right of control into a "vault". Any other approach that seems to issue token out of thin-air is pure scam.

GitPhish shitcoins