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Edited 11 months ago
At the risk of spoiling next week's "quote of the week": @monsieuricon 's post on why projects like the kernel and Git continue working over email is definitely worth a read.
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Edited 11 months ago
Even in January, some days are just too nice to stay at the keyboard
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Sigh...it seems that almost anything good can be wrecked by adding the finance industry to it...

https://time.com/6565415/rooftop-solar-industry-collapse/

When we put the panels on our house, we dealt with a local installer (which are not in short supply in Boulder) and just paid for it like any other house work. No regrets so far.
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On the radar: proposals from the C standards committee (as seen in kernelland):

https://lwn.net/ml/linux-toolchains/9162660e-2d6b-47a3-bfa2-77bfc55c817b@paulmck-laptop/
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Jonathan Corbet

On the radar: the value of CXL (or the lack thereof):

https://lwn.net/ml/linux-mm/75f21150-1e12-4f4b-e578-e170e4fea18b@google.com/

A pre-LSFMM discussion on whether CXL memory is as wonderful as the vendors would have us believe.
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A drill with 25 CVE numbers: https://www.securityweek.com/bosch-nutrunner-vulnerabilities-could-aid-hacker-attacks-against-automotive-production-lines/ Of course they only use this thing to assemble cars and airplanes and stuff...
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Jonathan Corbet

Edited 1 year ago
Many years ago, my father set out to create a book that would help new spinal-cord-injury victims come to terms with (and love) their new life. The result, called Options, was widely distributed in rehabilitation centers for years and helped thousands of people before finally going out of print.

Inspired by the creation of the Full Circle film, which quotes extensively from the book, we have been working to bring Options back. Now, we're happy to say that Options is available, under the Creative Commons SA 4.0 license, in a number of forms. Enjoy!

As an aside, I have to say that the tools for scanning and OCR work have gotten pretty good. All of this was made possible by SANE, unpaper, tesseract, Sphinx, and surely some other tools I'm forgetting now.

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Not quite sure what to make of this:

https://www.huaweicentral.com/harmonyos-next-is-true-operating-system-with-self-developed-components-huawei-ceo/

"Eventually, HarmonyOS NEXT is not an Android skin but a true OS. It doesn’t run on a primitive Linux Kernel that’s used to bind the operating system in the U.S. hands."

It's also evidently "three times more efficient than Linux"

https://www.huaweicentral.com/huaweis-self-developed-harmony-kernel-is-3-times-more-efficient-than-linux/

It must certainly be good stuff! I'm not finding a repository link, though.
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Jonathan Corbet

On the radar: 874 gccrs patches pushed toward the GCC mainline:

https://lwn.net/ml/gcc-patches/298a50be-687c-444d-8fd6-656ccfb9f37d@embecosm.com/

Proc macros, closures, "the beginnings of a borrow checker framework", iterators, intrinsics, and more.
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Jonathan Corbet

It's acid-test time. Getting rid of the gas furnace and installing a #heatpump in Colorado was a bit of leap of faith, even though the consensus was that they are good enough to work in this environment now.

We're midway through a stretch of sustained sub-zero weather (as in, below 0°F, not that wimpy 0° used in other parts of the world), so we are definitely putting it to the test.

So far, so good. We did put in a backup 10KW resistance strip, that that has only come on once for a few minutes as far as I can tell. Even so, it's good that we like a cooler house than many; I think it would be hard-put to sustain the sorts of temperatures that a lot of people like to keep in their houses around here.

It *has* certainly burned through a lot of electricity; our summertime surplus from the solar panels is dwindling rapidly. The hope of getting all the way through the winter on our banked electricity seems to be falling by the wayside.

Still, the goal of turning off the fossil-fuel feed to the house remains on track.
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On the radar: the Git development community starts talking about incorporating Rust.

https://lwn.net/ml/git/ZZ77NQkSuiRxRDwt@nand.local/
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Jonathan Corbet

On the radar: a native OpenWrt system built right from the outset; I want one.

https://lwn.net/ml/openwrt-devel/a8aaa495-da0b-4ddc-8c4f-3e1192d8b012@phrozen.org/
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Jonathan Corbet

On the radar: debGPT — a large language model designed to help with Debian development.

https://lwn.net/ml/debian-devel/8e684936c9b419c8e5072b6543ee3b2e700ede40.camel@debian.org/
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Jonathan Corbet

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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Jonathan Corbet

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.)
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I had this feeling I was being watched on my ride this morning...
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Jonathan Corbet

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.
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Ah...Sharper Image...where would we be without you...? The "precision of a chainsaw" indeed.
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Jonathan Corbet

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.
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