The second fire in a week — in what is supposed to be our wettest season.

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/04/boulder-wildfire-crews-responding-to-vegetation-fire-at-heil-valley-ranch/

They seem to have a handle on it, but unless something changes this is going to be a long and brutal summer.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116145194552591221

US government finally acts to pop AI bubble 🤣

Dan Simmons is gone.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/

There are people saying that he was not an entirely pleasant person. I know nothing about that. I do know that I found the Hyperion series to be mind-blowing; I wish I could write like that. May he rest in peace.

@not2b @osi I certainly did not (intentionally) disable quoting, I suspect something else is going on?

I just stumbled across the "Open Source Endowment":

https://endowment.dev/

Seems like a good cause, but the page to nominate a project for funding requires a GitHub URL to identify that project. There are, I guess, no open-source projects outside of GitHub?

"This winter wasn’t just a bit warm or slightly unusual. It was a complete failure of the cold‑season that the West depends on, and the consequences will extend far beyond a lack of snow along Colorado’s Continental Divide. When winter fails this profoundly, the disruption radiates outward through every system that relies on the steady rhythm of cold, snow, and gradual melt. Water managers lose the natural reservoir that mountain snowpack is supposed to provide, leaving cities, farms, and entire states in the Colorado River Basin facing increasingly uncomfortable decisions about how to stretch a shrinking supply. Reservoirs that should be quietly refilling through winter will instead stumble into this spring underfilled, offering far less protection against the triple punch of summer heat, irrigation demand, and wildfire suppression. Millions of Americans who depend on the Colorado River will feel the consequences of this winter long after our snow-starved peaks fade from the headlines."

https://bouldercast.com/a-complete-failure-of-winter-across-the-west-and-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-2026/

*sigh*

@quad @lanodan Ah that's something I hadn't thought about. One VPS can easily host a big set of IPv6 addresses, appearing to come from a lot of different sources. *That* seems like a relatively easy thing to detect. Hmm...

@akosiaris @quad @lanodan Ah I hadn't seen that report, thanks for sharing that! I've been developing an understanding of that economy for a while, but this fills in a lot of blanks.

One of those little details that, probably, only I care about ... a year ago, when dealing with AI scraper problems, I observed that almost all of the traffic came from IPv4 addresses — millions of them. Use of IPv6 was a pretty strong indication that there was a human involved.

Now, when we get a heavy attack wave, it is strongly dominated by IPv6 addresses; the bots seem to actively prefer IPv6.

I wonder if it's because IPv6 addresses are more likely to remain unique through NAT boxes, giving these sleazy people yet more IP addresses to bring down web sites with?

I was just informed that today is an important holiday; is it too early to start celebrating?

https://nationaltoday.com/national-drink-wine-day/

@jzb Something like that...we're under red-flag warnings yet again. The snow, alas, seems mostly limited to the western slope...it will be welcome there, but we could sure use some of it here too.

Ah...winter in Colorado...

There is a phase of life where Valentine's Day brings images of flowers, fancy dinners, and romance.

There is another, later phase where one is informed that the best way to demonstrate the depth of one's affection would be to finally get around to re-caulking the shower.

@kernellogger I wrote a bit about how the LF supports the kernel community back in December:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049035/

@mhoye This post builds up a straw man just to set it on fire. The logos you posted are from companies that donate directly to kernel.org (not Linux Foundation). Kernel.org is a separate legal entity from Linux Foundation and is a registered charitable organization. Donating to kernel.org is tax deductible whereas contributing to the Linux Foundation isn't. These companies are gladly and willingly donating their resources to kernel.org specifically.

The companies supporting kernel.org operations are:

Akamai: provides free hosting to git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org.
Constellix: provides free DNS hosting with failover and geoDNS.
Fastly: provides CDN services.
Servers.com: provides mirrors.kernel.org hosting (the two nodes that we currently have in operation).
Google: provides a git mirror at kernel.googlesource.com.
Red Hat: donates RHEL licenses.
Linux Foundation: employs staff operating kernel.org

The reason I'm asking for more hosting opportunities for mirrors.kernel.org is two-fold: it's a community service that hosts distros, and not so much the kernel. Providing mirroring opportunities for distros is not our primary charter -- we provide kernel archives, not distro binaries. However, we've operated mirrors.kernel.org for 30-odd years and if we stop running the service, parts of the Internet break (it's a fact). So, we continue operating it and will do so for the foreseeable future.

The second reason is because for many hosting companies it makes a lot of sense to donate hardware and bandwidth to a charitable organization like kernel.org -- for reasons of tax deductions and because it often benefits them directly (their own cloud hosting can then benefit from a tier-1 mirror in their datacentre). So, it makes commercial sense for them to donate to kernel.org as a tax write-off as opposed to for the Linux Foundation to pay for hosting, plus they get other perks, such as getting a bit of publicity, a good standing with fellow nerds, etc.

Your post is unnecessarily inflammatory and poorly informed.

@jzb I would have loved to see Pink Floyd, certainly. I did manage to catch the Talking Heads at Red Rocks many years ago ... *that* was a good show...

@luis_in_brief Said milestone was reached in December, but I'm glad the world is catching up :)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/

@luis_in_brief @osm_tech We (LWN) have seen attacks from over one-million IP addresses over the course of a few hours, repeatedly downloading stuff we published 20 years ago. Who knows, maybe somebody will go back in time and change Darl McBride's mind, so you gotta keep checking...

@ayushnix The length of the paywall period has been a concern since its inception in 2002... We want to be a part of the development community, and, I fear, walling off the content for too long would interfere with that.

@JustinDerrick Good advice but inadequate. We do definitely operate that way most of the time; here I thought it was important to call out what is going on.

But if I search Google for "Linux 7.0", I see that two out of seven of the "top stories" are from that site, including the one I posted. This stuff is being strongly amplified in ways that we're not well placed to counter.