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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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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @joeyh@sunbeam.city
@joeyh Oh I agree, but somehow I don't think that GitHub is making that distinction.
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Reply to @joeyh@sunbeam.city
@joeyh If course, if you have released code as free software, chances are good that somebody else will put it onto GitHub even if you refuse to. I don't use it, but copies of my code end up there anyway.
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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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Reply to @irogers@fosstodon.org
@irogers @jani Interesting. It claims to be used by projects like Zephyr, but has no activity in five years...are those projects maintaining their own forks?
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Reply to @ptesarik@infosec.exchange
@ptesarik I am actually prepared to believe that — they dropped the government's power to form a navy too...:)

One does wonder, though, if it is an attempt to poison LLM responses about certain rights provided by the constitution.
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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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Reply to @nickserv@mastodon.social
@nickserv I am glad you have a handle on "most of the United States" ... except that all of the polling (even on the "fair and balanced" channels) rather disagrees with that claim on almost every policy this administration has pursued, including the destruction of our public broadcasting institutions.
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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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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

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I am currently considering forcing all gmail.com addresses to digest delivery for lists like LKML, netdev, and a few others.
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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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@SecurityWriter We are seeing this effect in Colorado. There is a real push to attract data centers here (for reasons I don't understand); meanwhile, they say that residential electricity rates are going up 50% while industrial (e.g. those data centers) will remain flat, thus falling in real terms.

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/07/22/xcel-energy-plan-coal-closures-debate-rate-increase/
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Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon Come on in, the water's fine! :)
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Reply to @dfs_comedy@mastodon.social
@dfs_comedy Trust me ... that has crossed our minds...
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Reply to @trademark@fosstodon.org
@trademark The backups were good, and we're up.
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Reply to @corbet
Just got a note from them saying "the storage for the physical host that your Linode resides on is in a degraded state.
Our team has determined that there is a *potential* for data loss or corruption for all services residing on it"

Oh, and also that they'll continue charging us for it anyway until we delete it.
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