Konstantin Ryabitsev yesterday won Mastodon: “I believe that tree is in a detached state.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/19
I laughed a bit too hard: [Wayback/Archive] @monsieuricon@social.kernel.org: “@torvalds I believe that tree is in a detached state.” in a response to
[Wayback/Archive] Linus Torvalds @torvalds@social.kernel.org: Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason.…
Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason. One among hundreds in the area, but this is the one that took out *our* power and Internet.
PGE (Portland General Electric) claims we should get power back by 10pm today, but the ice storm arrives today, so we’ll see.
Edit: well, it looks like PGE fixed the outage by just removing me from the outage database, not by actually reconnecting power. That was the second time that happened, so I re-re-reported the outage. Not that I was hugely optimistic about the 10pm timeframe, but it looks even less likely now.
which had a later update
[Wayback/Archive] Linus Torvalds @torvalds@social.kernel.org: The reason why it’s taking so long is mostly that we’re in a fairly sparsely populated area on the outskirts of town…
The reason why it’s taking so long is mostly that we’re in a fairly sparsely populated area on the outskirts of town. So not only do we have a lot of these big trees around, PGE also always ends up prioritizing the areas with many more customers affected.
But it doesn’t help that this really is a pretty massive tree, and it has also fallen in a way that makes it hard to remove, with the middle unsupported.
One of our neighbors has a brother that is a logger, and he apparently thought you might want two trucks to get it out: one to support the tree while the other cuts it from above.
Me not being a logger just nodded wisely.
RE: social.kernel.org/objects/98d5c1fa-1f94-452d-868c-f49b6f250579
Note: quite a few other snarky comments on that announcement (:
Some of them:
- [Wayback/Archive] Cybarbie: “@torvalds Last time there was no internet for days git happened.” – Mastodon
- [Wayback/Archive] penguin42: “@torvalds No commits on that trunk.” – Mastodon.org.uk
- [Wayback/Archive] Odoben: “@ioletsgo @torvalds kernel development hindered due to the working tree having to be reset” – meow.social – the mastodon instance for creatures fluffy, scaly and otherwise
- [Wayback/Archive] Christian Lauf: “@torvalds Adopt the tree and name him Merkle!” – Karlsruhe.Social Mastodon
- [Wayback/Archive] p: “the trees are fighting back! @torvalds” – RaRu.Re
- [Wayback/Archive] Kaveh: “@torvalds git log” – Mastodon
- [Wayback/Archive] 0x10f: “@torvalds “GMove? What about TreeMove?”” – LGBTQIA+ and Tech
- [Wayback/Archive] guihn :blobcatfakeverified:: “@torvalds Trees, the curse of all developers” – beige.party
- [Wayback/Archive] slowtiger: “@torvalds Next Linux version should be called”Timber”.” – berlin.social
- [Wayback/Archive] Sora5084: “@torvalds Failed rebase – visualized.” – LGBTQIA+ and Tech
- [Wayback/Archive] jakob@soc.schuerz.at: “@Linus TorvaldsCan you zip and split this logfile?” Friendica Social Network | Display
- [Wayback/Archive] ᴚ uɐᗡ: “@torvalds have you considered trying “git log” on it” – Mastodon
--jeroen
Tree:
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CRConrad said
I think the main reason this got as much attention as it did on the Intarwebs (at least why I saw it; linked from HN IIRC) was that he lives in the same city as Linus Torvalds – it was used to show that Linus would also probably be offline for a little longer.
jpluimers said
Good point. Thanks!