Linus' use of explicit language was exactly something that should be used as an example. He rarely attacked people, but instead attacked the actions that they did or ideas that they had.
I'm not sure what point you're making here? In hindsight, he views his words as inappropriate. I'm not sure I understand what the temporal distance between the words and the apology has to do with how appropriate they were.
He's the Gordon Ramsay of the software world. Sometimes it just takes strong language to get a point across: "your code is low quality and you're wasting my time by having me review it". And to be honest, I'd gladly take being insulted over having to waste my time. Strong language doesn't hurt anyone, but you won't ever get that wasted time back. I consider it verbal self-defense.
First impressions matter mostly to those who are influenced by them. Many scams have been successful because of exactly that.
A stupid name might do well on search engines for example (as in, those names could be easily searched)
Furthermore I don't really consider the name to be stupid. I don't quite really know of many other ways of succinctly highlighting resilience as a property in a name.
I've been tinkering on Linux as a hobby for about 2 years now and was made aware of strace a couple of months after starting to dig a bit deeper. You make me hopeful of my future employment.
I’m 100% telling the truth when I say I got a job as a Linux sys admin at a massive tech company on the basis of knowing a little bit of bash scripting. And this wasn’t even that long ago. Learn some devops stuff and you’re golden.
Then again, you can't expect Signal's target users (normal tech un-savvy people) to have FDE.
But that's not necessarily bad in my book. IIRC Signal's security model wasn't aiming for maximizing security but instead making mass-surveillance harder to execute while offering an acceptable UX.
Added to the fact that you need a boatload of stuff to even build it [1], and you get an interesting cocktail of mass-exploitation.
0: https://old.reddit.com/r/mealtimevideos/comments/dulvpz/subs...
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22614247
This doesn't look good:
https://old.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/flcqsd/trojan_...
https://old.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/fknfnm/is_this...
https://old.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/fluait/the_vpn...