@vbabka @mairacanal @lkundrak windows 8.1 sorted it all out anyway maira

Nice picture from yesterday at the local pond... antidote to drama - DUCKS

@mathieu @jann shit typing.

@liskin having said all that, we're shooting you out of a cannon

@liskin last time I did nobody seemed to give a shit and they all rather grandstand or listen to big mouths who have no fucking clue.

And I got abuse for not immediately joining a lynching party last time too.

So yeah, it's not really worth the effort + stress, people don't care about facts they just want easy black + white drama

@lkundrak @liskin sunday evening is a classic for that

@liskin @ljs i am also waiting for one of those evening serious lorenzo got fed up with shit toots

@liskin think my take is worth more than most given I'm actually an mm dev who saw it happen in real time (+ other stuff) rather than a rubbernecker ;) but anyway.

It's summarised by others better, so I retooted that...

You'd expect me to go on about this recent drama but I don't even.

@ptesarik @vegard @lkundrak sorry -ENOBRAIN

@lkundrak cc: @vegard

@lkundrak it's ok to drill a hole in your skull, extract your brain, pour pond water in and then a fish

cc @ljs *DRILL* *DRILL*

this is not a drill

*DRILL* 🧠🪓💻

@lkundrak @AaronDavid yes

Oh god no Mihai...

@jann I really hate some of this macro stuff to be honest, it is a bit of a bolted on horrible mess in the wild.

There's also the CLASS() stuff which I find kinda horrid.

And of course you then lose all the lifetime/borrow checker stuff.

I'd rather we keep doing expected C things in C...

Last year, for each of six Linux kernel releases - v6.7, v6.8 ... v6.12 - I was topping the list of most active contributors. This consistency led to a more interesting stat: I am one of the most active Linux kernel contributors for this period (and I don't count Kent here as he just dropped stuff out of tree... and then developed things to his own tree without review or mailing list collaboration) with 1339 commits upstream.

I am however more proud of another impact I made: I am one of the most active reviewers of the last one year of Linux kernel development. Reviewing takes a lot of time, a lot of iterations, a lot of patience, a lot of template answers and results with only "some" of reviewed-by credit going to Linux kernel git history. Yet here I am: ~1000 reviewed-by credits for last year v6.7 - v6.12 Linux kernel.

Source, LWN.net:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/997959/377cf2f076306247/

Struck me, walking through the woods today, peaceful and relaxed, how there are people fighting not so far away in very similar woods, getting shot at, shelled, having drones set on them by people who invaded their country without provocation.

Very, very sobering thing to think about.

And a reminder that, no matter how peaceful and safe things might seem today, anything can happen tomorrow.

Checking out the details of the #Russia attack on the #Czechia ammunition depot in Vrbětice in 2014, I read with some amusement the then Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s excuses of how “Russian agents were not attacking the Czech Republic, they were attacking the property of a Bulgarian company”, and then further excuses them that “the cargo was supposed to explode on the way, not in the Czech Republic”.

That was truly an awesome excuse! The Russians wanted the explosion to happen on the road in some town or on the highway, but it exploded on the spot - okay, time fuses are complicated, not their fault!

To put it bluntly, if then in 2014 there had been a determined EU and #NATO response to that attack of an absolutely belligerent and aggressive nature (people died) - such as in 2021-2022 i.e. sanctions and a determined expulsion of Russian personnel etc. - then probably the war in 2022 would not have broken out at all.

Instead, a few years later, NATO issued a lame statement about “expressing solidarity with the Czech people” - I wonder why, since according to Babiš it was not even the Czech Republic that was attacked? Or was it, after all?

And it only issued it because Bellingcat revealed the real perpetrators of the attack, which the Czech government had apparently been withholding all this time…. presumably so as “not to escalate the situation”!