Jonathan Corbet
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@jarkko I hate to say it, but I think you are setting an impossible standard here. Is there any subsystem in the kernel, written in any language, that is so well documented that a developer unfamiliar with the implementation language could understand a patch to it?
The kernel's documentation is ... not great ... and it seems to me that the Rust folks are trying to do a little better.
The kernel's documentation is ... not great ... and it seems to me that the Rust folks are trying to do a little better.
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I'll answer your email soon, honest, but first I have some important meetings to get through...
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@oleksandr Ouch ... it is sad indeed to see a site like that go down. "the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again" - indeed.
RE: https://activitypub.natalenko.name/@oleksandr/statuses/01J6HPBQ5S4S1W6H5R172A6GMT
RE: https://activitypub.natalenko.name/@oleksandr/statuses/01J6HPBQ5S4S1W6H5R172A6GMT
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This year's COVID vaccine is coming out in the US. Just booked my appointment so I can get jabbed ahead of the fall travel nightmare.
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@evan We (LWN - @LWN) maintain an events calendar at https://lwn.net/Calendar/, with an associated call-for-proposals calendar at https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/ . We're focused on the Linux and free-software worlds, but try to be fairly comprehensive within it.
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If you want to know where the action is in a wildfire, just follow the aircraft. I'm supposed to be getting work done, but its hard, especially when they keep flying over my house.
Hopefully they are starting to get a handle on some of these.
Hopefully they are starting to get a handle on some of these.
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So there are fires burning up and down the Colorado front range. At least one person has died already. The air inside the house makes my eyes burn. It seems like a good time to be careful.
There are people seriously talking about the possibility of a serial arsonist setting these things off. But, then, some idiots decided that last night would be a good time to go play with fireworks above town and duly set another one. I guess we should not attribute to malice that which can be explained by appalling stupidity.
There are people seriously talking about the possibility of a serial arsonist setting these things off. But, then, some idiots decided that last night would be a good time to go play with fireworks above town and duly set another one. I guess we should not attribute to malice that which can be explained by appalling stupidity.
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There are now two fires visible from my house... Slurry bombers overhead. Still a tiny problem compared to what some others are dealing with, but still... this sucks.
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I went to Jasper many years ago and thought it was an amazing place; I've always intended to get back there. Not this year, I guess.
This sucks; we are losing our treasures.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5052037/jasper-alberta-canada-wildfire
This sucks; we are losing our treasures.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5052037/jasper-alberta-canada-wildfire
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@mcdanlj I've attempted such things, but the problem with playing whac-a-mole games is that there is an infinite supply of moles. I've found I can block a lot of subnets and not really make a dent in the problem.
I've started to wonder if some of these people aren't renting botnets to get around blocking, rate limiting, and other defenses.
I've started to wonder if some of these people aren't renting botnets to get around blocking, rate limiting, and other defenses.
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The amount of LWN traffic that is just AI bots downloading the same stuff over and over again is staggering; it's increasingly hard to see any sort of human signal in there at all. Something is going to give here at some point...
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
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@gnomon Replacing URLs isn't that hard, whether there's hundreds of them or thousands - a properly written script doesn't care.
I mentioned lore (and the LWN mailing-list archive) in particular because they are based on public-inbox. That is a great piece of software, but it has some interesting design decisions. Behind public-inbox is a Git repository with a single file called "m". Each message added to the archive goes in as a patch to "m". A mailing-list archive is a long series of Git commits to that one file.
What this means is that changing a message in the archive comes down to a rebase operation. Lots of fun in an archive with millions of messages (and thus millions of commits to rebase) in it. It's doable, but it's not fast or easy. It's not what public-inbox was designed to do. Archived emails aren't meant to change.
Changing URLs in an email will also mess with things like DKIM validation, of course.
This is why I think it's unlikely that the linux-kernel archive (or the LWN archive) will be patched; it's a massive job. But perhaps @monsieuricon has a different view of things...?
I mentioned lore (and the LWN mailing-list archive) in particular because they are based on public-inbox. That is a great piece of software, but it has some interesting design decisions. Behind public-inbox is a Git repository with a single file called "m". Each message added to the archive goes in as a patch to "m". A mailing-list archive is a long series of Git commits to that one file.
What this means is that changing a message in the archive comes down to a rebase operation. Lots of fun in an archive with millions of messages (and thus millions of commits to rebase) in it. It's doable, but it's not fast or easy. It's not what public-inbox was designed to do. Archived emails aren't meant to change.
Changing URLs in an email will also mess with things like DKIM validation, of course.
This is why I think it's unlikely that the linux-kernel archive (or the LWN archive) will be patched; it's a massive job. But perhaps @monsieuricon has a different view of things...?
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@albertcardona I am thinking about hacking together a URL-replacement script for LWN. Doing that on lore, though (or the LWN email archive) would be a rather more painful prospect, to say the least. I would honestly be surprised if it actually got done.
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Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
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"To better understand how the kernel community views Rust,
we collect the posts about writing Rust drivers from lwn and
ycombinator until 2023/08/05, and use Chatgpt to analyze
them."
I guess that's research in the 2020s... https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc24/presentation/li-hongyu
we collect the posts about writing Rust drivers from lwn and
ycombinator until 2023/08/05, and use Chatgpt to analyze
them."
I guess that's research in the 2020s... https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc24/presentation/li-hongyu
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Finally managed to ride the Medicine Bow rail trail in Wyoming - definitely worth it!
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