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Director of Linux Foundation IT. Currently in charge of kernel.org infra.

This account is for Linux/Kernel/FOSS topics in general: #linux, #kernel, #foss, #git, #sysadmin, #infrastructure.

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Went to an Irish pub in the middle of Tokyo for drinks and the first thing I see is a Quebec flag on the ceiling.
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Omg, finally here!
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This is probably the closest to Kamchatka I've ever been in my entire life.
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Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd01g2kwwo?utm_source=perplexity

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Bored on a super long flight. AMA.
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2 hours into the 14-hour flight my resolve to just listen to an audiobook and sleep has failed. Hello, inflight wifi.
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Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.

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Through brilliant feat of planning, I left the nitrokey with my ssh/pgp keys in my other pants before I left for the airport.
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#Russia Medvedev and Dmitriev ranting on Twitter/X about β€œEU limiting free speech” through a VPN because they Twitter is blocked in Russia is an epic level of absurdity πŸ˜‚

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If your company uses ProofPoint, I am judging you.

status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host mxa-0002e601.gslb.pphosted.com[148.163.154.28] refused to talk to me: 421 Deferred - see https://ipcheck.proofpoint.com/?ip=172.234.253.10)
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4.7.28 Gmail has detected this message exceeded its quota for sending messages with the same Message-ID. To best protect our users, the message has been temporarily rejected. For more information, go to https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 d9443c01a7336-29dbc983a28si15659175ad.168 - gsmtp

$ grep 'same Message-ID' /var/log/maillog | wc -l
146963

Gmail is the f*ng worst.
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Hey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to β€œtunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to focus on what's really important in life: adding value.

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In the early 2000s the ReactOS team paused development for years; to engage in a project wide audit, under accusations that a developer may have SEEN leaked windows sourcecode.

In the 2020s folks keep insisting it's cool for devs to use AI's trained on random other projects to generate code; when it is known that such AI assistants occasionally reproduce code verbatim, without regard to the original software license.

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The last 5.4.y kernel release has now happened: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025120319-blip-grime-93e8@gregkh/

Please don't use this branch anymore, it's really old, and pretty obsolete, and has over 1500 unfixed CVEs in it:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025120358-skating-outage-7c61@gregkh/

And if you are stuck with that kernel version for some reason, go ask your vendor to fix those 1500+ CVEs, otherwise you are paying for support that doesn't actually do anything for you...
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Not an endorsement of Duolingo in general -- it's not really how I learn languages, but it's a useful tool for me to refine and practice my language skills.
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Image restoration using AI
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I have a significant collection of old photos from my parents. The quality on them is pretty atrocious -- they were all developed and processed at home in our tiny bathroom and then in my dad's "office" with the windows blocked off and red light on. I still remember using a towel and hand rollers to put the photos onto the metal sheets and clip them onto the heater to give the photos that nice gloss. Anyway, they all had dust, odd exposure effects and other amateur photography damage.

I knew that some SD models are capable of image editing, so I spent a few evenings playing around with restoring damaged photos using ComfyUI and my Nvidia card (no cloud services were used). The results are not too bad, considering I used basic workflows and didn't even get too deep into image masks and targeted prompts. A lot of the charm of the old photos is naturally lost, but I think there's value in doing something like this while I can still tell a bad render, where the person looks nothing like their true self, from a pretty accurate approximation.

Of course, the models are still ethically dubious, because there is no accounting how they were sourced, but I don't feel too terrible when I use them to restore old damaged family photos.
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I don't particularly agree but this is a vastly more useful form of protest than, well, a lot of what passes for anti-AI-boycotting these days.
https://social.coop/@eb/115646613032814668

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Omg Linus Torvalds and Fake LTT Linus collab dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA
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Just be aware that the US media fanning the flames of 'Ukraine corruption scandal' is another page right out of the Russian information warfare playbook.

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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

I just found a perfect gift for anyone with trypophobia. Maybe arachnophobia, too.
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