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Linux kernel hacker and maintainer etc.

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 20 days ago
I don't get the noise of one particular famous person using LLM to generate a Python visualizer. There's absolutely zero real intellectual challenge to write visualizers with Python *beyond* the essential domain knowledge.

If you know the domain, and can describe requirements for it accurately enough, I personally call this smart use of automation for the *unpaid* time of hobby projects :-)

I'd do the same and spend rest of the time with friends and family and shit...
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I personally do not have any LLM crap in my vim but I do use AI to scavenge PDF spec and data sheet type of stuff, which is a real quality of life improvement :-)
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The situation is a bit analogous to AI generated apps.

E.g., one can create a Tetris clone with AI but it is not likely to be the one consumers end up buying.

Every kernel patch is also similar puzzle i.e., we are seeking for the best possible option, not just any possible option. And if the best known option is not good enough, a feature is likely get simply postponed.

As of today, AI is not great for code with is aimed to be "commercially viable" i.e., usable e.g., in data center across the globe. It's more like something substituting the same space where e.g., Microsoft Visual Basic used to live, when it comes to writing software.

In the context of kernel development it is literally comparable on using GNU sed and similar text processing tools, and I'm not going to throw stones on anyone using those tools either :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 24 days ago
I'm not sure if I have any practical use as a maintainer for any possible AI guidelines because such priority emphasizes the task of writing or generating code. It is for me as important for a code review as whether one used search-replace functionality of a text editor while writing the kernel patch.

#linux #kernel #ai
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Linux Security Summit 🐧

📢 Save the date! The 2026 Linux Security Summit North America (LSS-NA) will be held May 21-22 in Minneapolis, MN, co-located with OSS-NA.

🐧 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/
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State of the art game dev tools in 1989:

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 24 days ago
Trying to figure where I left of with the V4L2 loopback driver year ago. It's not easy return to a feature patch after such period :-) But perhaps that also makes "over-engineering" less probable. Sometimes "I don't know hat I'm doing" state can be surprisingly productive :-)

It looks like at least that there is half-way complete VB2 integration so I guess I try to see what is left to do and squash that at first.
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@Netux it shows at least it for any significance this will take about same time as ipv6 :-)
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... and "bevar grønland og cristiania" ;-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 26 days ago
shout out both to my personal friends (which there are many) in denmark, and also danish colleagues and collaborators in open source!

#denmark #greenland
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Jarkko Sakkinen

i guess midi 2.0 is like ipv6 of audio.

there was big announcement in 2020 with synth companies like yamaha, and also IT companies such as Google, but nothing has came out so far :-)

never seen a product claiming midi 2.0 support
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@mjg59 oops, right, does not address "no wifi" requirement
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@mjg59 I've been using Turris Omnia for a number of years: https://www.turris.com/en/

Switched from "blue-black-box" LinkSys router when it finally died.
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@neal @monsieuricon @Foxboron @sequoiapgp see my comment to Konstantin. I was too hasty with my conclusions.
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@monsieuricon @Foxboron

dude, not against switching gnupg :-) just worried about hardware and software that rely on it.

Now that I think about it there's no really huge issue in the end of day as presumably new system can also use smartcard keys (yubikey) :-) Sorry, I did not think this through as there is no really any interference with pass.
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@Foxboron Hardware supports it broadly. Also, I completely rely on 'pass'. Any alternative should be at least fully backwards compatible and not breaking any tools that depend on GnuPG (or OpenPGP).
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@Foxboron GnuPG is IMHO great and basis of security for everything I do :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

of course got sick for the holidays :-) don't expect much activity pre-NY at LKML.
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