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Linux kernel mm contributor, kernel/systems developer, writing a book about mm.

C/C++/(rust at some point!)

Book - https://linuxmemory.org/
Me - https://ljs.io/
Music - https://soundcloud.com/distal_music/

Arsenal fan, cat maniac, synth experimentalist. Brit.

Opinions are all my own and represent nobody else.
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Jennifer Trouble

Shamelessly stolen from bluesky.

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Lorenzo Stoakes

Cherry wonders wtf you want from her?
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Lorenzo Stoakes

I know people enjoy saying 'geek' and 'nerd' and so on, but it really makes me cringe.

I am old enough to have grown up in a time when people threw that stuff at you to demean and debase you because you didn't conform to their idea of what a person should be, and they thought they were better than you.

You were treated as if you had a disease or something.

Doing the cute 'the nerd who X' 'oh he/she's such a nerd' stuff is just feeding into that, and you really don't have to scratch far to see that a great many people still feel 'better' than computer people.

I mean how many of us get contacted out of the blue by acquaintances to fix some horrifically trivial computer problem? And how often are those approaches respectful, or comparable to the way a person might speak to a lawyer friend for instance?

The more we empower that kind of stuff the more we act as if it's ok to demean the people who built the modern world.

And of course the SECOND people think they've found a technology that will 'replace' programmers/tech people it's remarkable just how quick they voice their absolute contempt for us.
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Lorenzo Stoakes

In a time where very obvious scammers like Elon Musk can openly fail at everything, lie through their teeth and commit (alleged) fraud and get away with it, why is anybody surprised that pond scum like Sam Altman (+ credulous minions) can openly and demonstrably lie about LLMs to enrich themselves and have people believe it?

It truly is a post-truth era, and we get what we deserve.
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kernellogger@fosstodon.org

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

9.0.0 is out:

https://www.qemu.org/2024/04/23/qemu-9-0-0/

https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.0

"'block: virtio-blk now supports multiqueue where different queues of a single disk can be processed by different I/O threads

migration: support for “mapped-ram” capability allowing for more efficient VM snapshots, improved support for zero-page detection, and checkpoint-restart support for VFIO

ARM: architectural feature support for ECV, NV, and NV2

ARM: board support for […] raspi4b (Raspberry Pi 4 Model B)"'

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Alan Coopersmith

As the maintainer of the xf86-input-mouse driver for Xorg, I promise to never add any LLM/AI prompt generator code to our mouse driver.
https://mstdn.social/@osnews/112322994452930780

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vitaut@mastodon.social

vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦

meanwhile on xitter

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Jarkko Sakkinen

#LWN #subscription renewed for the next annual period!
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Lorenzo Stoakes

Looks like I should be able to make it to lsf after all :>)
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Lorenzo Stoakes

I will rewrite mm in rust*


*deleted rust files are the same as deleted C files
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Lorenzo Stoakes

Not often you see this in the UK, and no this isn't an embassy or anything like that!
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Lorenzo Stoakes

Extending my @LWN membership, you should too. Incredible resource.
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Lorenzo Stoakes

Should complete the oom killer chapter very soon!
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K. Ryabitsev

Mistyped "b4 prep" as "b4 oreo" and now I want to find an excuse to create that command.
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Lorenzo Stoakes

Lunchtime walk today
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@vbabka @oleksandr @ptesarik @pavel @liskin @lkundrak

While we're on the topic of history, I saw this in my local military graveyard... (good place to walk!)
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Vlastimil Babka

Why am I going to Ostrava? To cause @ljs some massive FOMO, of course!
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lkundrak@metalhead.club

HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦

transitioned from bro to brno

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bagder@mastodon.social

daniel:// stenberg://

is just the hobby

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22/curl-is-just-the-hobby/

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zeenix@toot.cat

Zeeshan Ali Khan rust 🇺🇦

My 13 year old told me that most kids in his class are pro-nuclear power and think that it was a stupid decision to shut down working reactors to be replaced by coal.

This gives me hope for the future of this country even though it'll be way too late by the time this generation is running things.

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