• loops ( loops@beehaw.org ) English
    77·
    2 years ago

    Hans credits his improved social and communication skills learned in prison among other details shared in the public letters.

    I thought prisons were meant to cause more trauma and help ensure people never leave so as to increase profits?

    • wiki_me ( wiki_me@lemmy.ml ) English
      16·
      2 years ago

      He is locked in California, a fairly progressive and leftist state i think , I am not entirely certain all that therapy is a good thing, i think i watched a documentary saying that psychopaths only learn from therapy how to be better manipulators and i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.

      With that said if he gets out of prison i think he should be allowed to participate in FOSS (when someone reviews his contributions), i can’t help but wonder if his reportedly unhinged behavior on the kernel mailing list was handled better (e.g. mandating he will go to therapy) the murder would not have happened.

      • The Doctor ( drwho@beehaw.org ) English
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        2 years ago

        The prisons he was in previously definitely are not the touchy-feely kind. These days he’s in California Health Care Facility, which is geared toward prisoners with significant mental health problems (notably, multiple serial killers). So, therapy of some kind definitely makes sense. However, Reiser’s been denied parole each and every time he’s been up for it (next review in 2025), so it is unlikely that he’s getting out.

      • deathbird ( deathbird@mander.xyz ) 
        3·
        2 years ago

        i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.

        I think it’s rash to judge the tone of his writing like that. It can be a struggle to identify and admit one’s flaws, and it’s certainly a struggle for most people of the modern era to write elegantly with only pen and a few sheets of paper.

    • ProgrammingSocks ( ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social ) 
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yes, most people experience prison in the way you described. There’s always exceptions, and like someone else said it’s in California. Not a left wing state but the closest you’ll get in the US.

      If the system was so great at rehabilitation the reoffender rate wouldn’t be so insane.

      • The Doctor ( drwho@beehaw.org ) English
        3·
        2 years ago

        Edit: Excuse me, he’s in California Health Care Facility, which is a state prison which is geared toward patients with long-term medical needs (acute chronic diseases, debilitating injuries) and acute mental health needs (which Reiser definitely fits the profile of). He was transferred out of San Quentin some years ago.

  • AutoTL;DR ( autotldr@lemmings.world ) BEnglish
    34·
    2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    While ReiserFS is obsolete and will eventually be dropped from the upstream Linux kernel in Linux 6.10 is one last ReiserFS change that was requested by former lead developer Hans Reiser.

    ReiserFS lead developer and convicted murderer Hans Reiser a few months back wrote letters to be made public apologizing for his social mistakes and other commentary.

    In his written communications he also made a last request for ReiserFS in the Linux kernel: "Assuming that the decision is to remove [ReiserFS] V3 from the kernel, I have just one request: that for one last release the README be edited to add Mikhail Gilula, Konstantin Shvachko, and Anatoly Pinchuk to the credits, and to delete anything in there I might have said about why they were not credited.

    Hans credits his improved social and communication skills learned in prison among other details shared in the public letters.

    Per the indirect request by Hans Reiser, SUSE’s Jan Kara has now altered the ReiserFS README file with the changes going in today to the Linux 6.10 kernel.

    The change landed today as part of the linux-fs merge to Linux 6.10.

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