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Jarkko Sakkinen

This looks appealing. From the creator of Signal, Moxie Marlinspike: https://confer.to/
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@lnl it would not be the same :-/
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Jarkko Sakkinen

It seems that Windows is purposely made worse version by version, and it is probably a strategy (i.e. not a mistake).

Still, what if the AI/subscription crap does not pay off or the market segment suffers a major decay?

Often history shows that when a company attacks to its own genes in the favor of profit, at some point this tends shoot back.

I'm worried about Windows, I always have at least one Thinkpad with Windows installed, and in the end of the day NT kernel itself is pretty cool entity (if you are interested on OS kernels).

Also, what is there to hate if Windows deceases :-/
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@fustini PDX is my favorite place in the States!
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@mjg59 it is pretty much the same silly story as with systemd making no rational sense at all.
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It is actually kind of wild that we're simultaneously in an era of people complaining that Wayland is destroying choice and also maybe the greatest number of high-quality desktop environments aimed at different use cases the free software world has ever had

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Jarkko Sakkinen

oldie goldie with (ai) 4k remaster cool :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw9Ubf3iuNo
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Interesting tidbit in history of US special forces is that lots of that expertise transfered to US after the second world war from Finland, when many of the long-range patrolmen had to flee from Finland after the war. They became soon educators and developers of practices and strategies on how special forces work over there, including combat strategies and also things like how to provide food and nutrition for the teams at the field.

In Fort Carson, Colorado, there's even a special forces building named after a Finnish soldier, and associated annual price [1].

[1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 4 months ago
Attacking to any of countries, or associated autonomous territories in the arctic region here in the cold and dark north would not be a walk in the park for any adversary.

Also, Denmark to its size has lost most soldiers per capita than any of the NATO allies in recent'ish wars started by US (mainly Afganistan and Irak).

The storyline that thanks to US protecting us our territories are safe is total bullshit. If anywhere in the world, in the north it is all about mutual benefit in defence and security when it comes to NATO.

E.g., US trains it special forces for arctic conditions in Finland from time to time.
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My pixel take on the uninhabited Sol system.

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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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