Check out our own Ryan Goodfellow’s fantastic InfoQ talk on how we're innovating rack-scale computing with P4! From programmable fabrics to debugging tools, Ry shares how to turn theory into production-ready systems. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tofino-2/
curl bans “AI” security reports as Zuckberg claims we’ll all have more “AI” friends than real ones
Daniel Stenberg, creator and maintainer of curl, has had enough of the neverending torrent of "AI"-generated security reports the curl project has to deal with.
That's it. I've had it. I'm putting my foot down on this craziness.
(Almost) the last embarrasing GNOME website revamped! Big shoutout to @felipeborges
Looking for a new laptop that runs Linux out of the box? Get a ThinkPad!
Lenovo has been offering ThinkPads with Fedora and @ubuntu preinstalled for a few years now. The more people who shop for these devices, the more attention they can give to this business!
Here's an article of someone discovering Lenovo's Linux program: https://news.itsfoss.com/lenovo-cuts-windows-tax/
In my opinion the title screen for the Mac release of Wizardry was very, very good.
I've done a series that adds support for AF_UNIX sockets in coredumps. Userspace provides an AF_UNIX socket path via core_pattern and the kernel connects to it, shuts down the read side and writes the coredump to the socket.
This means no more super privileged usermode helper upcalls and makes for a very nice API experience. I captured coredumps simply via socat:
https://lore.kernel.org/20250430-work-coredump-socket-v1-0-2faf027dbb47@kernel.org
The receiver can use SO_PEERPIDFD to get a stable handle on the crashed process.