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On the radar: the 2023 year in review page (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/2023-the-year-in-review/100689) on the Fedora discussion site ranks participants by the amount of time they spent reading on the site. Something there is tracking your behavior...does Fedora really need to do that?
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@vegard Something weird is going on there to get numbers like that. Sphinx got a lot slower starting with 3.x, but not that much slower (about a factor of two for me).
As far as I can tell, Sphinx can only do the parsing and building of the internal tree in parallel; the HTML generation is single-threaded. So more cores only help so much. But I have no idea why you would spend over an hour waiting for something I can do in six minutes on a basic desktop machine.
As far as I can tell, Sphinx can only do the parsing and building of the internal tree in parallel; the HTML generation is single-threaded. So more cores only help so much. But I have no idea why you would spend over an hour waiting for something I can do in six minutes on a basic desktop machine.
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@ceyusa @javierm Thanks for the concern... our experience, though, is that the sharing of subscriber links is one of the most effective forms of marketing that we have. (Of course, that may be a low bar since we don't really have anything that might be described as "marketing"). It exposes us to people who aren't normally reading our work, and some of them become subscribers, which is a good thing!
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Just checked my mail and found something straight out of McMansion Hell. This delightful little place will only cost you $12 million — and you get to live in Commerce City, which is even less of a garden spot than it sounds.
(Lest you wonder, I never asked to receive this rag; they figure that if you can manage to live in Boulder, you must be part of the market for this kind of atrocity so you get it whether you want it or not.)
(Lest you wonder, I never asked to receive this rag; they figure that if you can manage to live in Boulder, you must be part of the market for this kind of atrocity so you get it whether you want it or not.)
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"Just store your data in the cloud" they said, "what could go wrong?"
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/
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@mnalis SPF and DKIM are there and have been for some time. We just haven't done the DMARC part to tell sites that we mean it; I'm afraid to just turn it on, so I need to go through the reporting process and such, and just haven't found the time to figure out how to do that. Needless to say, my motivation level has increased...
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If you think you got spam from me — it wasn't me, honest!
It would appear that the folks at belleclair.co.jp are running an open email relay (or have been compromised entirely). Some bright individual has been using it to send out massive volumes of spam and, for reasons known only to them, chose to put my return address on it. That has resulted in just short of 40,000 bounce messages landing in my inbox.
As a way to start your day, that just isn't as fun as it sounds.
A single notmuch command made the bounces go away; a couple of lines in header_checks has, so far, prevented the arrival of about 1,000 more. But spam with my email address on it, it seems, continues to flood the net.
Time to get serious about that DMARC setup in the hope that it might help, I guess. Email is so much fun.
It would appear that the folks at belleclair.co.jp are running an open email relay (or have been compromised entirely). Some bright individual has been using it to send out massive volumes of spam and, for reasons known only to them, chose to put my return address on it. That has resulted in just short of 40,000 bounce messages landing in my inbox.
As a way to start your day, that just isn't as fun as it sounds.
A single notmuch command made the bounces go away; a couple of lines in header_checks has, so far, prevented the arrival of about 1,000 more. But spam with my email address on it, it seems, continues to flood the net.
Time to get serious about that DMARC setup in the hope that it might help, I guess. Email is so much fun.
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Ah...Sharper Image...where would we be without you...? The "precision of a chainsaw" indeed.
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@luis_in_brief Banks has long been a favorite mine, will have to check out Kincaid's book.
I was always struck by how *boring* the Culture is. The books are never just about the Culture — they are about its interactions with outside, distinctly less utopian, civilizations.
Still...wouldn't it be fun to travel the galaxy on a smart-ass ship?
I was always struck by how *boring* the Culture is. The books are never just about the Culture — they are about its interactions with outside, distinctly less utopian, civilizations.
Still...wouldn't it be fun to travel the galaxy on a smart-ass ship?
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On the radar: !CVE
An alternate list of (alleged) vulnerability numbers for problems that the designated CNA refuses to issue a CVE for.
https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/c01c1617-641d-4ec2-847f-2e85ea4676f7@notcve.org/
Perhaps this is an effort to identify vulnerabilities that, for whatever reason, the Powers That Be won't recognize. It also looks like a way to circumvent efforts to combat the growing bogus-CVE problem, though.
An alternate list of (alleged) vulnerability numbers for problems that the designated CNA refuses to issue a CVE for.
https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/c01c1617-641d-4ec2-847f-2e85ea4676f7@notcve.org/
Perhaps this is an effort to identify vulnerabilities that, for whatever reason, the Powers That Be won't recognize. It also looks like a way to circumvent efforts to combat the growing bogus-CVE problem, though.
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Aww...they deleted my old videobuf document:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a2fffb488a3c
I'd actually forgotten that I wrote that thing at all, evidently I did it back in 2010...
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4b586a38b04
Hopefully it was useful while it lasted.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a2fffb488a3c
I'd actually forgotten that I wrote that thing at all, evidently I did it back in 2010...
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4b586a38b04
Hopefully it was useful while it lasted.
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On the radar: what is the linux-kernel mailing list for? @monsieuricon is suggesting that many or most patch postings be redirected to a separate list:
https://lwn.net/ml/ksummit-discuss/20231106-venomous-raccoon-of-wealth-acc57c@nitro/
I've not jumped into the conversation because I'm still trying to figure out what I think about it. I'm one of those people who actually reads over that list; the broad view it provides is helpful in both the LWN and documentation-maintainer roles. But it *is* painful to keep up with.
LKML has traditionally been the place you post patches to get them reviewed. If that's not its role anymore, what is it for?
https://lwn.net/ml/ksummit-discuss/20231106-venomous-raccoon-of-wealth-acc57c@nitro/
I've not jumped into the conversation because I'm still trying to figure out what I think about it. I'm one of those people who actually reads over that list; the broad view it provides is helpful in both the LWN and documentation-maintainer roles. But it *is* painful to keep up with.
LKML has traditionally been the place you post patches to get them reviewed. If that's not its role anymore, what is it for?
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LWN is trying to hire a full-time writer/editor:
https://lwn.net/Articles/949461/
Please talk to us if you think you might be interested, and pass on a pointer to anybody else who might be a good fit.
https://lwn.net/Articles/949461/
Please talk to us if you think you might be interested, and pass on a pointer to anybody else who might be a good fit.
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@bookwar @llvm The thing is, I don't think we should have "reviewers" as a separate role. That is something that developers should be doing as a matter of course. They are best placed to do that work, but just as importantly, it's one of the best ways to learn about the kernel outside of one's little corner.
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@bookwar @llvm That's funny, I could have sworn I talked about the need for people to do code reviews (I said that was the most important thing to take away from the talk), documentation writers (I *am* aware of documentation, after all), and so on. About how it shouldn't be the maintainers doing all of that.
I'm not really sure what else you think I should have wedged into a 20-minute slot; I'm sorry you were disappointed with it.
I'm not really sure what else you think I should have wedged into a 20-minute slot; I'm sorry you were disappointed with it.
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@adamw @monsieuricon @Di4na @bars @marcan I have a different experience; I follow a vast number of projects on mailing lists quickly and efficiently - mostly without actually subscribing to the lists. But once a project disappears into its own special little web silo, it's gone from sight.
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@vegard I stashed that stuff aside somewhere, would have to look. Not sure I can post it and ever show my face in public again, though...
C++ was my thought too, but I'm not convinced of that. I was wondering if somebody had been looking forward to features they never implemented.
C++ was my thought too, but I'm not convinced of that. I was wondering if somebody had been looking forward to features they never implemented.
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@vegard The C-domain stuff spends a lot of time building an elaborate data structure that, as far as I can tell, it doesn't actually use. A couple of years or so ago I went in with a hatchet and hacked a lot of it out, with a build-time improvement of about 20%.
I ran out of time before I could go further with it. All that work must be there for *some* reason, and I'd need to figure it out and prepare a proper patch to even try to upstream that work, and that would take a while. It would be nice to get back to it...
I ran out of time before I could go further with it. All that work must be there for *some* reason, and I'd need to figure it out and prepare a proper patch to even try to upstream that work, and that would take a while. It would be nice to get back to it...
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