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It's the first day of the merge window and, so far, there have been three pull requests with links to LWN articles describing the work. Nice to know somebody is reading all that stuff...:)
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/ZEbkqq1tvm1WHVHw%40bombadil.infradead.org/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20230421-freimachen-handhaben-7c7a5e83ba0c%40brauner/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHC9VhQEXm3XG7B1wJBVsd15xFNpMjyuyxWDEcTAGrSN6zWoaA%40mail.gmail.com/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/ZEbkqq1tvm1WHVHw%40bombadil.infradead.org/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20230421-freimachen-handhaben-7c7a5e83ba0c%40brauner/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHC9VhQEXm3XG7B1wJBVsd15xFNpMjyuyxWDEcTAGrSN6zWoaA%40mail.gmail.com/
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@mattdm @hrw The few lists I'm on directly go to folders. The bulk of my email following, though, is done in gnus, which allows me to quickly deal with something over 100 different lists. If those lists were on forum sites spread across the net, getting through it all would be much more of a slog; I doubt I would actually do it.
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Jonathan Corbet
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Just updated the laptop to Fedora 38. It seemed to go mostly well, but GNOME 44 seems to have changed something with font scaling; both gnome-terminal and emacs came up the size of a postage stamp — and a small stamp at that. Nothing like trying to tweak parameters when you can't see the dialogs without a microscope...
Firefox, instead, came up as always. Weird.
Firefox, instead, came up as always. Weird.
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@bookwar @mattdm Are you thinking of this talk by Greg KH, perhaps? https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/
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@mattdm The kernel community does cross-posting routinely, including often cross-posting with non-kernel lists. It's not generally seen as terrible; instead, it's a way to pull together the right people for any specific discussion. The world you describe is fine for *Fedora* discussions, but absolutely excludes anybody outside of that garden.
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@funnelfiasco Cross-posting is important, but that's not the whole of it. I follow a huge world in my NNTP reader; LWN would not be possible without it. Following a Discourse instance requires actually going and looking there; it's not scalable in any way. Each instance is its own little world, and the travel costs between them are high.
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@mattdm So how does one have a discussion involving, say, both the Fedora and Python communities? Cross-posting to mailing lists is easy, and happens frequently in some communities. Mailing lists are part of a global space. Each Discourse instance, as far as I know, is its own little world.
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@joeyh Indeed, I posted it to a *distributed* forum where we each can choose the tools we use to deal with it. I also don't mistake this forum for a place to have serious development discussions.
I did also send an email to the list expressing my thoughts as part of the discussion thread.
I did also send an email to the list expressing my thoughts as part of the discussion thread.
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@bookwar Discourse instances do have RSS feeds, but they are nearly useless. You can see if a topic starts, but nothing thereafter. I do try to follow some Discourses (including the Fedora one) that way, but it's painful.
Now a proper NNTP feed...*that* would be a useful thing...
Now a proper NNTP feed...*that* would be a useful thing...
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Jonathan Corbet
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Sigh ... another important mailing list (fedora-devel) is about to go dark: https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/20230420212037.GA7197@mattdm.org/
I get it that email sucks, but forum systems do as well. The future we are headed toward seems to have every project in its own little walled garden, isolated from the others.
But at least we can get cute little badges ...
I get it that email sucks, but forum systems do as well. The future we are headed toward seems to have every project in its own little walled garden, isolated from the others.
But at least we can get cute little badges ...
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@jjdavis Those are great places indeed, though my favorite stop in those parts a few years back was Canyons of the Ancients - the Colorado side of Hovenweep: https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/colorado/canyons-of-the-ancients
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Chaco Canyon pictographs thought to record a highly visible supernova that occurred in 1054.
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Jonathan Corbet
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When the passport office destroys your international travel plans, you might as well go and check out some of the local wonders. This is what's left of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, built in the years 850 to 1150.
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Jonathan Corbet
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Today's addition to the list of "things that it never occurred to me could be a problem".
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Jonathan Corbet
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A hard-earned lesson for US folks needing to renew a passport in the 2020s... there are two choices:
1) Send in an application, pay the "expedited processing" fee, fill in the blank indicating when you have travel plans. Then wait for over three months, spend countless hours in the State department's phone system from hell, and finally be told that there is absolutely no way to get a passport in time to salvage your trip.
2) Complain to your Senator's office. Hear back the next day with the time for appointment two days later to have a passport made on the spot. Actually showing up for the appointment is highly recommended.
I sure wish I'd known about #2 a week earlier. I'm still used to living in an America were government services (for the reasonably well off, at least) Just Work, and we're not there anymore.
1) Send in an application, pay the "expedited processing" fee, fill in the blank indicating when you have travel plans. Then wait for over three months, spend countless hours in the State department's phone system from hell, and finally be told that there is absolutely no way to get a passport in time to salvage your trip.
2) Complain to your Senator's office. Hear back the next day with the time for appointment two days later to have a passport made on the spot. Actually showing up for the appointment is highly recommended.
I sure wish I'd known about #2 a week earlier. I'm still used to living in an America were government services (for the reasonably well off, at least) Just Work, and we're not there anymore.
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@ieure @liw The C++ experiment was 0.99.11 - https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nico/archive/+/v0.99-pl11 - in 1993. It didn't last long, though.
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