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Jens Axboe

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Leave Tridge alone. Seriously. Just mind your own business. Various people stirring up drama, with a cohort of seemingly terrible followers. Fork it and do the work yourself, if you can think you can do better. If not, STFU, and let the man cook however he wants.

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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon The first one of those I had scared the crap out of me...now I just wait until I can read my screen again.
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @dirkhh@hachyderm.io
@dirkhh I don't think we have yet (yet!) reached the point where the transfer of an asset like the NCAR supercomputing center would proceed in the presence of an injunction prohibiting it.

One thing we've seen over the last year and a half is that this administration, when it runs into concerted opposition, often just backs down, perhaps declaring victory on the way. Hopefully that will happen here.
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Jonathan Corbet

US District Court issues an injunction preventing the government from tearing apart the National Center for Atmospheric Research — for now, at least.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496922/47/university-corporation-for-atmospheric-research-v-national-science/

"The Court finds that UCAR is likely to succeed on its claim that NSF’s decision to divest it of stewardship over the NWSC was “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
@mjg59 That is quite the collection of WTF to start the day with...
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Jonathan Corbet

So, seemingly, somebody's Fedora and proprietary-forge credentials were compromised and used by some sort of LLM-driven bot to take over a lot of Fedora bugs:

https://lwn.net/ml/all/bf38c0fd4537c2908a84b4a4b1fcec8083925918.camel@fedoraproject.org

This person is now claiming to have regained access to the accounts, but it seems that not everybody is buying it.

What a world we have made for ourselves...
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @dirkhh@hachyderm.io
@dirkhh @eloquence https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/ there seems to be a Chrome version too
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @ariadne@treehouse.systems
@ariadne LJ has been full-time slop for a while now. Truly a sad development.
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Robert Sanscartier

What the US Would Lose If It Eliminates the National Center for Atmospheric Research

“I think there's a great loss for the wrong reasons. There's no good reason for dismantling this or tearing it down,” a former NASA chief scientist says

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16052026/dismantling-the-national-center-for-atmospheric-research/

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Jonathan Corbet

Edited 19 days ago
Stuck watching my daughter's cats for a bit... There are worse fates.
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Jonathan Corbet

So it seems I got talked into doing a "live maintainer session" with the Linux Foundation on June 2:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-jonathan-corbet?hsLang=en

I will doubtless have all kinds of witty things to say ... mark your calendars ...
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs @lwn @david Somehow you managed to evade the LF photographer as well, not sure how you achieved that...

Nice to see you too!
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs @lwn @david I have a couple of similar photos, chose not to use them.

The podium in that room was relatively high, leading to a situation where a number of talks were presented by a pair of eyes peeking out over a laptop screen.
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @federicomena@mstdn.mx
@federicomena We have a 2019 Bolt, maintenance has been rotating the tires, really nothing else. Regenerative braking means you don't go through a lot of brake pads either.

The maintenance story is one of the great things about EV that folks don't yet appreciate.
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Jonathan Corbet

I have heard of similar things happening at other companies. Call me old fashioned, but to me it seems that a company that judges its employees based on how many AI tokens they consume has badly lost its way.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/
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Jonathan Corbet

I'm back from LSFMM+BPF (and a rather longer sojourn in Europe). Still tired. I'm now well into the process of writing articles about the discussions I was part of, which is a lot of typing. In the immortal words of Ringo Starr: "I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!"

LSFMM remains one of the most intense, technically challenging, and interesting events in the kernel space, and this year's gathering didn't disappoint. It was, though, somewhat overshadowed by the rounds of layoffs happening in the industry. There were developers present who had lost their jobs, or feared losing their jobs, or were working for companies that have decreed that they are no longer interested in upstream development. That added to the general sense of darkness that overlays much of life these days.

Things will get better soon, right?
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @jorge@hachyderm.io
@jorge @zonker Credit-card banks treat "donations" rather differently than they treat sales of a service; soliciting donations could land us in the worst kind of trouble. We've been there, many years ago, and it nearly killed LWN altogether.

Thank you for your support!
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs @david And we have Jeff Law ready to pick up the rest :)
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @paulmckrcu
@paulmckrcu @ljs Weird ... I would think that a full-house model would be an *ideal* time to flee the country... :)
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs Certainly I did not intend to leave anybody out, I apologize if it felt that way. In retrospect I guess I should have spent a bit longer on that article in general.
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