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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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Geez, everyone is dumping on PGP these days.

(Okay, fine, so PGP here stands for "Parents and Grandparents Program.)
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Reply to @chergert@my.devsuite.app
@chergert my father's Volga German lineage was a surprise to him, but it's not really surprising -- he was born mid-1940's when mentioning any German origins of your relatives to your children was unsafe.
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Reply to @dank@jorts.horse
@dank @catsalad Yes, that's exactly how it worked, thank you for finding this documentary evidence.
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Reply to @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
@JessTheUnstill sat cross-legged for too long.
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Reply to @ac@bsd.network
@ac Gee willikers?
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Reply to @catsalad@infosec.exchange
@catsalad Little known fact, the "turbo" button turned on a special fan that injected gasoline directly into your CPU for added speed.
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My dad, who never cursed around us when we were kids, used a funny German phrase instead when he felt like saying something spicy in a polite company: "donner wetter." I always thought it was something that he made up or read in a book (he'd studied German when he was in school).

However, now that I know that there's a definite Volga German lineage in our DNA, I'm actually curious if he'd heard it himself as a kid, as a kind of linguistic family heirloom.

Is "donner wetter" a real thing Germans say, or is it just some kind of "gosh darn" equivalent of a heftier swear?
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The crawler that pretended to be b4 is now pretending to be curl. This is a little trickier, but we can still deal with it.

If you have a legitimate tool that is now suddenly returning 403s, please reach out to me.
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Reply to @monsieuricon
and if you want to feed lore to your shitty AI learning system, JUST CLONE THE DAMN GIT REPOS. IT'S NOT LIKE WE DON'T MAKE IT ALL EASY TO MIRROR.
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So, the aggressive crawler that pretends to be b4 in the user-agent is back hitting lore full force, this time hitting EU instead of APAC.

Thankfully, knowing a thing or two about b4, I can easily tell fake b4 traffic from real b4 traffic. Enjoy a ton of 404's, jerk.
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Reply to @monsieuricon
@ljs unless, of course, you're on one of those 300 subnets. :)
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Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs I just banned 300 subnets that an aggressive crawler was using to hit us with a fake b4 user-agent. Hopefully, that improves things for you.
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Reply to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
@skinnylatte cat-head eagle, no?
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Sir, yessir.
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Reply to @trini@floss.social
@trini I saw your message on the list. I'd like to understand better where things are breaking, so I will follow up on the list.
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Happy my birthday to those who celebrate.
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Edited 6 days ago
See, kids, if you have nuclear weapons, you get invited to Alaska for a handshake and a red carpet treatment. If you don't, you get kidnapped in the night.

Don't draw any wrong conclusions.
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Reply to @monsieuricon
But also, we're so f*cked if this thing is ever used without oversight.
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Is this GenAI's version of "damn, I'm still writing 2025 on all my cheques?"

Probably the best proof I've seen of it becoming more and more human.
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