Jonathan Corbet
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@drewdaniels No, it's just BBB, it never upgrades gracefully. I wonder how many ancient, insecure BBB systems are out there just because their admins have learned that updating them always breaks things...
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One of these days I'll do a routine update on a BigBlueButton server and not have to spend the rest of the day figuring out why BBB doesn't work anymore.
This is not that day.
This is not that day.
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@etchedpixels @wishy @neil I bought a wireless charger a while back for just that reason - a lot less plug cycles on the socket.
So, of course, the classic Pixel 7 failure mode seems to be the power button falling out, which naturally happened while I was traveling. At least that one is easy to fix.
So, of course, the classic Pixel 7 failure mode seems to be the power button falling out, which naturally happened while I was traveling. At least that one is easy to fix.
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fn algernon() -> impl Future
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.clubRepeating this again, from a different perspective: when your precious AI buddy requires hitting niche forges multiple million times a day, that is a cost your precious buddy generates.
Whenever a legit human visitor's browser has to solve an Anubis challenge, that is a cost your precious AI buddy generated.
Whenever you use these tools, these are the costs you push down onto others. Your precious AI buddies cost us countless hours of CPU time, bandwidth, and incredible headache trying to fend them off.
If you are using genAI for any purpose whatsoever, you are party to this carnage.
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@ljs @ptesarik You made me curious, so I did a couple of checks ... there are all of 12 commits in the mainline with Nacked-by tags. The most productive Nakers are Christoph Hellwig and Tetsuo Handa, with three each. There are single nacks from Hannes Reinecke, Jakub Kicinski, Manish Chopra, Pablo Neira Ayuso, Rob Herring, and Tejun Heo.
All the rest of you are slacking.
All the rest of you are slacking.
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"Over 70% of Business Insider employees are already using Enterprise ChatGPT regularly (our goal is 100%), and we’re building prompt libraries and sharing everyday use cases that help us work faster, smarter, and better."
...part of a memo explaining why the company is laying of 21% of its staff.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benjamin-mullin-b99abb35_scoop-business-insider-is-cutting-21-percent-activity-7333836611815661569-g4qk/
LWN is still 100% human-written content, and we intend to stay that way. We'll see how long the world lets us do that.
...part of a memo explaining why the company is laying of 21% of its staff.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benjamin-mullin-b99abb35_scoop-business-insider-is-cutting-21-percent-activity-7333836611815661569-g4qk/
LWN is still 100% human-written content, and we intend to stay that way. We'll see how long the world lets us do that.
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So I just learned that May is "Open Source Maintainer Month" — I almost missed it!
What happens in Open Source Maintainer Month? It appears that maintainers get all kinds of opportunities for discounts on proprietary services. I definitely feel appreciated now.
https://thenewstack.io/how-the-world-is-celebrating-open-source-maintainer-month/
What happens in Open Source Maintainer Month? It appears that maintainers get all kinds of opportunities for discounts on proprietary services. I definitely feel appreciated now.
https://thenewstack.io/how-the-world-is-celebrating-open-source-maintainer-month/
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@monsieuricon @pdp7 @skobkin We (LWN) ended up at masto.host ... our experience is short, but it has been easy and seems to be working out well so far.
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For $REASONS, we ended up deciding to move the LWN.net Mastodon feed in a bit of a hurry. The good news is that we now are able to appear under our own domain as @LWN. It looks like the migration magic has dragged about half of our followers (so far) along with us; the ability to relocate like that is a nice feature.
We're still figuring out various details of how to make the new server work well; please pardon any rough edges.
We're still figuring out various details of how to make the new server work well; please pardon any rough edges.
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@stux I agree we should stop talking about it seriously, but for a different reason. *Nobody* believes that Canada will become part of the US, nobody. It's a distraction; as long as we're screaming about this idiocy, we're not paying attention to all the nasty shit that actually *is* happening. People need to stop chasing these squirrels.
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@Conan_Kudo @axboe @brauner Kfuncs are designed with the BPF verifier in mind. The verifier (it is hoped) ensures safe usage, that locks are released, resources returned, pointers used within bounds, etc. Exporting those kfuncs to ordinary modules shorts out that layer of protection, perhaps exposing things beyond what was intended. A move like that definitely needs to be thought through well, if it is done at all.
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@linuxandyarn Welcome to the world of AI scraper bots ... https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/
Looking at the web page of a company called "Bright Data" is informative too.
Looking at the web page of a company called "Bright Data" is informative too.
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20 Years ago: the BitKeeper license changed, making it unavailable for kernel development.
https://lwn.net/Articles/130746/
It drove home the perils of relying on proprietary software and spurred the creation of Git - a significant event, overall.
https://lwn.net/Articles/130746/
It drove home the perils of relying on proprietary software and spurred the creation of Git - a significant event, overall.
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@LWN See also: Vint Cerf's comments on Dave's passing: "I could not say better than Frank already has how much Dave's work has helped to improve our experience of the Internet. I can't think of anyone more dedicated to the proposition that performance counts and should be pursued with determination and vigor. I've known Dave for many years and greatly valued his counsel and technical skills - to say nothing of his healthy sense of humor. I will miss him but will be always grateful to have known him."
https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAHxHggemafY9UP6Zm3oXVWWX5Wd+ffauot5MCN-6Gv-pOx3=Sg@mail.gmail.com
https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAHxHggemafY9UP6Zm3oXVWWX5Wd+ffauot5MCN-6Gv-pOx3=Sg@mail.gmail.com
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@fenruspdx He actually had the gall to write back to me and, after some sanctimonious bullshit about keeping publicly available data available, offered: "If you can have both visibility and control about any bot coming to your domain, and the option to set sensitive end points,
wouldn't that be something worth exploring?"
So yes, you were right. They are selling protection schemes as a side gig.
wouldn't that be something worth exploring?"
So yes, you were right. They are selling protection schemes as a side gig.
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