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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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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Why are top three of my feed posts about something called "disposable barbecues?" Do I even want to know?
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Edited 3 days ago
Hey, this instrumental blues channel on youtube is a nice background for work... I wonder who's the artis... oh... oh no...
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@cadey @srtcd424 sure, I wasn't implying that you should completely abandon wget -- I was just noting that for a quickie "grab this file and save it" I've switched to using curl.
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@cadey I gave up on wget and finally switched to curl.
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@gnomon I think that's what I'll go with for the moment.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Edited 4 days ago
@ukleinek if I change my last name to just "Prime" then, technically, our children will be the product of two primes.
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@toast will take a look, thanks!
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Fellow Canadians, what is your go-to source for laptops these days? Both of my (very much grown up now) kids need one for their school and I'm past the point of getting them Chromebooks, because they are short-lived jank that upload everything to the mothership.

I've been buying System76 for work, but their laptops are expensive and I have to pay high import fees -- plus they are US-based.

My current thinking is some basic Lenovo stuff, but maybe I'm missing something great.

Please, no need to mention Framework -- not interested.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

I just found out about "ujust toggle-tpm2" to set up luks and tpm2 integration on boot.

Clearly, we live in the future.
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Flip_Switch πŸ‡³πŸ‡±πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

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Edited 7 days ago
I don't mean like personally attacking them, but wasting their time and potentially making them feel stupid. Like, today someone called me trying to sell some junk that runs Windows apps in the cloud. I pretended not to speak English well, got faux-irate with them for not speaking French ("I'm in Quebec, 'stie, you have to speak French to me by law!" -- not really but it gets them every time). That sort of thing.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Making life hard for cold callers trying to sell you snake oil:
90% Fair Game, f*ck 'em!
10% Come on, they probably already hate their life
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

I've dropped anubis difficulty back to 5 and added more mitigations to compensate. Let's see if this helps.
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@Teaceratops it existed pre-Covid as well. It used to be even more wild -- we'd all be told to go to a single small store in Vaudreuil and get all the supplies in person if we wanted to get the exact right things and get a 15% discount.
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@qyliss everything is a workaround, but running tor adds a significantly high barrier (both for bots and legitimate users, unfortunately).
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

TCP: request_sock_TCPv6: Possible SYN flooding on port [::]:443. Sending cookies.

It's not the cookies I want to send...
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

If bot attacks get bad enough, is setting up a fallback tor-only node reasonable?
41% Yes, and I like the idea
32% Fine, but I hate the idea
23% No, this is just going to be wasted effort
2% What is TOR?
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

In-between tweaking sysctl entries for tcp and restarting nginx, I've released b4 v0.16.0:

https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20260805-alluring-arrogant-grouse-ece17a@meerkat/T/#u

If you've tried "b4 review" in its first release and found that it annoyed you too much, it may be worth trying it again, as there was a lot of churn based on everyone's feedback.

I also added the initial "b4 bugs" support that integrates git-bug and distributed bug tracking. It's not ready to go fully yet to replace bugzilla, but we're hopefully getting there once the web submission frontend is ready to go.

E.g. b4's own bug tracking is here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/bugs/

(but you'll have to stare at the Anubis screen for a good minute to see it, sigh)
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