@ljs

huge congrats and enjoy!

@vbabka @ljs
From: Lorenzo Stoakes (Unemployed) <ljs@kernel.org>

Feel emotional, last day at Oracle done.

It was my dream job, literally being paid to do my hobby full time.

I had incredible freedom to do whatever I wanted upstream for nearly 2 years straight.

I worked with some intensely smart people like Liam Howlett and Matthew Wilcox (two memory management legends) among many other great people.

I went from a hobbyist to a core kernel maintainer with many varied contributions throughout mm.

It was a great team to be part of and I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity.

With that said, I'm very excited about what comes next!

I will remain focused on upstream and my core mm maintainership continues :)

More on that shortly!

When I first pushed back on randomly putting LLM configs in the kernel, I was excluded from the conversation.

Then when further discussion was had about it, I was excluded from the conversation.

Then when I submitted a proposal to the maintainer's summit about AI, I was rejected and excluded from the conversation there.

And when documentation was submitted to the kernel, my feedback was ignored and I was excluded from that conversation too.

There was literal press about Linus calling me an idiot for it.

When I pushed back on a person lying about using LLMs to generate code, I was attacked and contradicted and forced to concede the discussion.

And recently, in yet another discussion about LLMs in the kernel, I was excluded from that too.

At each point I've had to fight to have my point of view heard.

It feels like many people in the kernel community just want to stick their head in the sand about AI slop.

But it's not magically going away. Ignore me all you want.

@ljs @Aissen

we should perhaps design anonymous cow tshirt!

@ljs ouch, we've lost some emails in the archive :(

@ljs santa probably loves you too if you watch out and don't cry & pout

So, seemingly, somebody's Fedora and proprietary-forge credentials were compromised and used by some sort of LLM-driven bot to take over a lot of Fedora bugs:

https://lwn.net/ml/all/bf38c0fd4537c2908a84b4a4b1fcec8083925918.camel@fedoraproject.org

This person is now claiming to have regained access to the accounts, but it seems that not everybody is buying it.

What a world we have made for ourselves...

@vbabka it might not be the slipperiness, it might be the BPF

Finally found a comic about myself!

@ljs @lkundrak @liskin @ptesarik @vbabka

"satanic" because it lives in people's minds without actual physical existence!

@vbabka @ljs @lkundrak @ptesarik @liskin

he's writing an AI dystopian novel
because he can't be bothered to write more MM books

Everyone wants to be tall until they take a flight

Kernel memory management microconf at LPC 2026 is announced with the opening of CFP: https://lore.kernel.org/e3dc73df-0032-4e71-ab80-21b29c6efb46@kernel.org

#linuxplumbers

@ljs they are not shy!

@ljs the sun is too shy to show up, as usual

Me: as suggested by willy, adopt an unusual term in order to avoid an established term with weapons connotation.

Youtube shorts algo: haha, look at this, you fool.

(~40 seconds in) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UkNnZgBnyqQ

After Gitlab's recent announcement I am strongly considering migrating Redox OS to Forgejo, a truly open source community maintained project.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

@haoli I guess jail cells are free though... and more convenient than economy seats with free meals

@haoli which Korea did you mean??