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Jonathan Corbet

Sigh ... it seems that the Groklaw domain has fallen into the hands of people who ... are inconsistent with the history of this site. I guess it's time to replace all the links on LWN with wayback machine equivalents.

https://fossforce.com/2025/08/groklaw-domain-hijacked-site-now-serving-crypto-content/
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For several summers now we have gotten our veggies by way of a community supported agriculture program. It's a great way to get lots of fresh, hyper-local produce, always getting the best of what's in season.

I will confess, though, that I begin to weary of zucchini season.
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@brennen This is one of the reasons why I haven't been hugely tempted to add a system like Anubis to @lwn ... it always seems that, once it started actively getting in the way of the scraperbots, they would just add the code to solve the challenges. These people aren't running the scrapers on their own computers, after all, they have little reason to care about burning more CPU time.

What a world we have created for ourselves.

RE: https://federation.p1k3.com/@brennen/115034083662379513
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The fact that Microsoft is reorganizing the management of GitHub, which it purchased in 2018, is not particularly surprising.

The fact that it is being moved into Microsoft's AI operation, though, says a lot about what GitHub is actually for now.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
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So it seems that the Constitution of the United States, as posted on congress.gov, is missing a few sections, including insignificant text like "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended".

I'm sure this is just an innocent editing mistake.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
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Jonathan Corbet

For a while now, the kernel's configuration and build systems have been an area of concern for me. Almost nobody truly understands those complex subsystems, which were handled by a single maintainer.

That maintainer, Masahiro Yamada, has just stepped down after eight years on the job:

https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8d6841d5cb20

Happily, Nathan Chancellor and Nicolas Schier have agreed to pick up the build system. The configuration system, instead, is now unmaintained. That ... seems less than optimal.

Thanks to Masahiro for doing this work all these years, and to Nathan and Nicolas for stepping up!
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This ... is not something I approve of ... to put it politely ...

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding
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Jonathan Corbet

"I credit a good portion of my success to knowledge and insight I've gained from lwn articles."

("sophacles" on HN)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747514

That is what we want @lwn to be, so it is nice to read a comment like that.
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And ... somehow ... nobody seems to stop to ask: does this actually make any sense?

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-center-electricity-wyoming-cheyenne-44da7974e2d942acd8bf003ebe2e855a
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Jonathan Corbet

list_add(figure_out_postgresql_replication, &task_list);

list_add(Linode, &shit_list);
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Jonathan Corbet

You really can't make this stuff up.

Maybe they should impose tariffs on the import of wildfire smoke? Of course, those of us in the western US know that our domestic production of smoke needs no extra support.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-canada-wildfire-complaint-letter
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"It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences."

404 Media seemingly reading directly from the @lwn playbook. We'll see if it works...

https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/
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Just last month we finally managed to get to the north rim of the Grand Canyon after years of wanting to.

Now the one lodge there has burned down.

Glad to have made it while it was still there but still ... this really sucks.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/wildfires-destroy-grand-canyon-lodge-north-rim
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Jonathan Corbet

I had the great privilege of seeing Bruce Cockburn play last night here in Boulder. Over the years, few musicians have earned as much of my respect as he has. Something like 40 years after I first saw him play, he is as good as ever.

If you get the chance to catch one of his performances, I would recommend taking it — I fear there may not be many more of those.
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Jonathan Corbet

It's awfully easy to get depressed about the state of the world, so an article like this one, on the speed and scope of the solar-power transition, is more than welcome.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
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Jonathan Corbet

I guess we just can't have good — or even nominally rational — things here. No easy unsubscription for us!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier/

The weird thing in my mind is that the cancellation gauntlet can only be hurting the industry as a whole. Once somebody has spent hours trying to turn a subscription off, they will be quite hesitant to sign up for the next one.
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Jonathan Corbet

Perhaps it's just me, but I do find it amusing that the GNU Readline 8.3 announcement, in July 2025, gives two FTP URLs as the primary way to obtain the software. I don't remember when I last fired up an FTP client, and my web browser has long since forgotten how to do it too.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2025-07/msg00004.html
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Jonathan Corbet

So of course they have to make an electric vehicle with a 128dB noise generator... And of course they screw it up. Sometimes I think there is no hope for the human race.

https://electrek.co/2025/06/30/ev-with-fake-engine-noises-recalled-for-not-having-the-correct-fake-engine-noises/
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Jonathan Corbet

If you run an operation that pays freelance authors for articles, you get a *lot* of people trying to sell you the output from their slop factory of choice. These pitches far exceed the legitimate ones at this point.

Today we got a pitch for an article about the load-balancing scheduler regression caused by the sched_ext framework in the 6.11 release. Somebody has clearly put a bit more than the usual amount of attention into the sort of topic that might appeal to @lwn. There is only one little problem... that regression had nothing to do with sched_ext, which was merged in 6.12. The pitch was a bunch of authoritative-sounding bullshit; the article would surely have been more of the same.

Sometimes I truly lose hope about humanity's ability to keep its head above the flood of this stuff.
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It took a long time and over 60 articles but, at @lwn, we have finally managed to complete our reporting from the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. If you want to know what is going on in those core parts of the kernel, this is the place to look.

We've put together an EPUB version of the whole set as well — good bedtime reading!

https://lwn.net/Articles/1026338/
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