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Reply to @krzk
@krzk @jarkko I could certainly consider adding per-employer test and review stats. If so, they are likely to show up in KSDB (https://lwn.net/ksdb/) first; I need to get back into that code anyway...
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Definitely a day best spent outdoors
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Maybe these AI models are onto something after all? https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spreader/
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Reply to @kernellogger@fosstodon.org
@kernellogger @torvalds I am almost certainly the person who wrote those words. Yes, they could be improved... but note that the text talks about failing to *respond* to the regression, not the revert. That was surely the intent there, and I think it remains true.
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Reply to @kernellogger@fosstodon.org
@kernellogger @jann It's not just "unusual" that a cycle takes longer than 70 days, it has only happened twice in the last 15 years: 3.1 (slowed by the kernel.org compromise) and 4.15 (the meltdown/spectre release). It takes an event of that magnitude to slow things down at this point.

I'm not sure if we can realistically make the cycle shorter - some problems just take time to turn up and to be fixed.
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Snowy day in Boulder
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For morbid reasons of my own I keep an eye on the Apache OpenOffice project's regular reports to the ASF board:

https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/OpenOffice.html

As is normal, the September report says that all is great with the project - community health is always "improving". And they are clearly on top of upcoming problems: "Python 2 is unmaintained. We have in the development tree the external python3 support. Internal python 3 support is difficult. We are checking alternatives." They plan to fix it in "the next major release". The project hasn't made a major release in ten years, so I wouldn't hold my breath...

(OK, so I'm still clearly in a snarky mode, sorry.)
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Perhaps I am the only one out there using the Python GnuCash bindings to load and manage accounting data, but just in case: the GnuCash 5.9 release has a bug that completely wipes out an accounting file when opened in a Python program. It's a good way to get an extreme adrenaline burst, but I really don't recommend it otherwise.

GnuCash fixed this upstream on October 26, but has not made a release with the fix, so my 5.9 Fedora version showed the bug in all its glory. I've submitted a bug there (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2323303), hopefully they will include the fix soon. Meanwhile, I strongly recommend that anybody with GnuCash 5.9 installed be extra careful.
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In Japan even the cannibals are polite...I guess...?
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RIP Phil Lesh

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/1227749378/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dies

He brought a lot of joy to a lot of people and will be deeply missed.
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Filled out my ballot over the weekend — a rather time-consuming task in Colorado, as we have a lot of things to vote.

Now I just have to endure a few more weeks while the rest of the country catches up. And hope I don't find myself living in a fascist nation...
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Reply to @Greg@social.coop
@Greg The "don't F*** with paste" extension is the droid you're looking for
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So I am not quite sure what to make of this article. It is nice to see attention paid to documentation... but this is really about the man pages, and somehow the problem is Linus's fault...? The idea that we can solve it with some sort of editorial structure in the "post-Torvalds era" seems ... weird.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-No-money-for-documentation-9978257.html
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Reply to @djc@hachyderm.io
@djc That's what I would recommend, yes. Thanks.
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Reply to @djc@hachyderm.io
@djc Thanks for the heads-up. We were actually approached by the person placing those links there and asked for our thoughts; for the time being, we told them they could continue. The hope, of course, is that these links will help to bring in folks from the Rust community as subscribers — time will tell.
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Nature's way of telling you you're hanging out in the wrong tree: https://coloradosun.com/2024/10/09/eagle-nest-lightning-strike-boulder-county/
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Reply to @kernellogger@fosstodon.org
@kernellogger @LWN That guy in the red sweater sure knows how to stand out in a crowd :)
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"LWN is basically what ChatGPT summarization as advertised itself to be, except it's actually good and coherent and useful."

— HN commenter saagarjha https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643325

Nice to know we haven't been overtaken quite yet :)
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So here I am in an airline lounge in Munich when suddenly everybody's phone starts simultaneously screaming bloody murder. I'm trying to decrypt the flashing red message in German, wondering if I have time to say goodbye to my family before whatever apocalypse is coming hits. Eventually I find the second version in English... It's national alert test day. I guess I can get another coffee after all.
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Reply to @vegard@mastodon.social
@vegard @kernellogger @linuxplumbersconf The role of the TAB has shifted over the years, but its purpose has *always* been to serve the community. It was originally created, all of those years ago, to try to better align OSDL with how the community worked.

The best thing the current TAB does, IMO, is to serve as a place for maintainers with a certain amount of community influence to discuss and head off problems before they explode.
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