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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
@bert_hubert @lwn Today's attack on LWN was a good 250K addresses. Gotta download all those articles from 2010, just in case they changed somehow...

Something has to be done about this, but I sure don't know what. They are using other people's devices, so they don't really care about burning some CPU time on Anubis challenges - and they have evidently learned to do that.

Sometimes I think we need to just toss the net and start over.
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @foxylad@mastodon.nz
@foxylad @lwn There is no way to know who is after the data. The actual attack is likely perpetrated by Bright Data or one of its equally vile competitors.
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So @lwn is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet. It is a DDOS attack involving tens of thousands of addresses, and that is affecting the responsiveness of the site, unfortunately.

There are many things I would like to do with my time. Defending LWN from AI shitheads is rather far from the top of that list. I *really* don't want to put obstacles between LWN and its readers, but it may come to that.

(Another grumpy day, sorry)
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So somebody took a couple of LWN's recent conference articles, threw them into an LLM blender with some other stuff, and produced ... this ...

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-kernels-future-tab-integrates-rust-navigates-ai-boosts-collaboration/

Google News propagates that stuff - something they have long refused to do with LWN's original material. But somehow we're supposed to continue to exist to feed material into that machine?

Sorry, having a grumpy day.
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs Dunno, you have to get past the docs maintainer ... but more to the point, why is he calling you a toady? :)
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We're definitely winning now...

https://electrek.co/2025/12/31/energy-dept-orders-colorado-to-waste-millions-to-reopen-a-dead-coal-plant/
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I must confess I found this amusing... I don't normally look quite so psychedelic though.

https://canartuc.medium.com/linux-foundation-tab-election-jonathan-corbet-steps-down-after-18-years-80cebb9ef9f1
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @mackaj@mastodon.me.uk
@mackaj Less structural damage than you might think. High winds are not all that unusual here, so the building codes have them in mind. The real problem this time around was the combination with extreme fire danger; happily we seem to have dodged that bullet for the moment.
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Jonathan Corbet

Power is back on here. After two days without, one definitely appreciates the luxury of being able to flip on a light.

According to the official numbers, the peak wind gust in my neighborhood was 102mph. Suffice to say I didn't get my bike ride in yesterday... otherwise all seems well at this point, though.

[Now looking harder at vehicle-to-home power solutions.]
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Jonathan Corbet

Peak gust at the nearby NCAR weather station (which I helped set up nearly 30 years ago!): 88.4 m/h (140km/h). So far.

No power until 10pm tomorrow, or so the utility promises.

At least nobody seems to have set anything on fire. So far.

https://archive.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/weather.cgi?site=fl&period=5-minute&units=english
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Jonathan Corbet

Why NCAR matters. The Joint Aviation Weather Studies (JAWS) project described here is one I worked on quite a bit.

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/science-environment/ncar-boulder-microbursts
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @dentangle@chaos.social
@dentangle "Lashed to the keyboard" sounds an awful lot like my normal state anyway...
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Jonathan Corbet

So today I learn that the National Weather Service has a "particularly dangerous situation" designation that is more severe than a red flag warning. There has never been one in Colorado -- until now.

I would have rather not learned that.
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Oh boy, fun times in Boulder ... >100mph winds, red-flag warnings, power failures ... for the second time this week. Not the Christmas weather we were hoping for.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/COBOULDER/bulletins/4009a6b
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Jonathan Corbet

I worked at NCAR for 18 years; we did a lot of research that benefited a lot of people, and I felt proud to be a part of that institution. The administration's desire to destroy it is certainly in character; we can't have leading-edge science in a country ruled by ignorance, after all. But this one hits close to home. It will take generations to recover from the damage that is being done.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html
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Jonathan Corbet

I encountered this gathering in Japan; was really tempted to post it as another Maintainers Summit group photo but ... resisted ...
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So I took some grief yesterday about the "clickbait" headline on the brief Rust news I put up:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/

In person, though, I've gotten far more grief for adding the "(successful)" parenthetical afterward — folks say the original was better.

Oh well, I've learned to be more careful with headlines now.

Next article: Seven Shocking Conclusions from the Linux Plumbers Conference — but #4 will warm your heart.
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For those who are curious about tomorrow's Maintainers Summit session on machine-learning tools, Sasha Levin has put together a good summary of the state of the discussion: https://lwn.net/ml/all/aTYmE53i3FJ_lJH2@laps
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Jonathan Corbet

So it turns out that experiencing a middle-of-the-night earthquake on the 23rd floor of a Tokyo hotel is not conducive to a good night's sleep. Who knew?
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Kernel Recipes

Heya, Heya!

Before the presents land under the Christmas tree, we’re super happy and honored to reveal the name of our godfather for the 2026 edition: @corbet.

Huge thanks to him for giving us a bit of his time — we know how precious it is.

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