Jonathan Corbet
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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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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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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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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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The end of support for CentOS 7 has gotten a lot of attention — and perhaps caught a lot of people off-guard. But yesterday was also the EOL for Scientific Linux, which is kind of the end of an era. Scientific Linux was the main alternative to CentOS back in the day, and was widely used. FNAL got out of the distribution business and never put out a RHEL 8 clone, so Scientific Linux is now entirely gone. Thanks to FNAL for having supported such a useful distribution for so long!
https://scientificlinux.org/
https://scientificlinux.org/
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I've worked in technology for decades, and am as fond as a nice gadget as any other ... and I like to see Linux everywhere ... but, somehow, a bed that one has to physically hack into to gain root access, and which as a backdoor providing remote shell access to the vendor is a step or three too far...
https://dillan.org/articles/how-to-get-root-access-to-your-sleep-number-bed
https://dillan.org/articles/how-to-get-root-access-to-your-sleep-number-bed
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Daniel Bristot de Oliveira passed away a few days ago at far too young an age. Some of his associates have just asked us to publish their memories of him:
https://lwn.net/Articles/979912/
What an incredible loss.
https://lwn.net/Articles/979912/
What an incredible loss.
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Folks waiting for the extensible scheduler class will get it in 6.11: https://lwn.net/Articles/978007/
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On the radar: using a large-language model to insert thousands of automatically generated "security checks" into the OpenBSD kernel:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171810103406609&w=2
I'm sure that will be received well...
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171810103406609&w=2
I'm sure that will be received well...
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Dangerous idiocy is not in short supply in the US but still this takes it to a new level.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/07/hageman-tells-la-la-land-cities-to-give-up-fossil-fuels-if-theyre-so-evil/
Here in Boulder, I guess we can only bow to this superior logic and start tearing up our streets...
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/07/hageman-tells-la-la-land-cities-to-give-up-fossil-fuels-if-theyre-so-evil/
Here in Boulder, I guess we can only bow to this superior logic and start tearing up our streets...
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On the radar: a new (WIP) document describing future incompatible changes in Git:
https://lwn.net/ml/git/cover.1717141598.git.ps@pks.im/
Included therein is the switch to sha256 to hash objects, seemingly planned for Git 3.0.
https://lwn.net/ml/git/cover.1717141598.git.ps@pks.im/
Included therein is the switch to sha256 to hash objects, seemingly planned for Git 3.0.
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Very pleased to say that I've now finished the first draft of my book, The Linux Memory Manager.
https://linuxmemory.org/
This represents 2 years of evenings and weekends, tons of research, 99.9% from first principles and the kernel source.
There's still plenty of editing to go, but the content is written! 1,351 pages of it (!).
I am not sure on ultimate release date as it depends on how the edit goes, but we're closer now :)
As you can see from the pic, I'm very very tired but also very happy to have finished.
I think I'll chill for a while before I get back to a leisurely edit, read books, watch films, play games, spend time with my wife and cats and do a bunch of stuff the book took out of my life for a long while!
Now I'll go to bed early I think! :)
https://linuxmemory.org/
This represents 2 years of evenings and weekends, tons of research, 99.9% from first principles and the kernel source.
There's still plenty of editing to go, but the content is written! 1,351 pages of it (!).
I am not sure on ultimate release date as it depends on how the edit goes, but we're closer now :)
As you can see from the pic, I'm very very tired but also very happy to have finished.
I think I'll chill for a while before I get back to a leisurely edit, read books, watch films, play games, spend time with my wife and cats and do a bunch of stuff the book took out of my life for a long while!
Now I'll go to bed early I think! :)
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I just put the last touches on the final article out of the LSFMM+BPF memory-management track. 25 articles written in just over a week; the final ones will trickle out over the next few days.
Now I can finally take a rest, perhaps go for an early Friday beer, and contemplate shopping for a new keyboard.
Wait — there's a merge window going on? Why didn't anybody tell me?!?
Now I can finally take a rest, perhaps go for an early Friday beer, and contemplate shopping for a new keyboard.
Wait — there's a merge window going on? Why didn't anybody tell me?!?
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It's rare to have a conference I can drive to - even if it takes all day. I took that opportunity for LSFMM and stopped at Dinosaur National Monument on the way there, totally worth it.
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