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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.

For my personal account, please follow @monsieuricon@castoranxieux.ca.

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Sticky snow + wind = no power for me
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Lauren Weinstein

Generative AI seems to now be a bigger creator of disinformation than the Republican party.

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gwire@mastodon.social

gwire

Closed source software doesn’t have backdoors.

It does have “undocumented administrative features” and “development tools mistakenly enabled in production”, but not backdoors.

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Yes, it is possible to backdoor the upstream kernel. No, I'm not the right guy to ask. I literally have a talk about this.

https://youtu.be/K3SVt1WCheY
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AndresFreundTec@mastodon.social

AndresFreundTec

I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.

If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

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Pavel Machek

Backdoor in xz. Wow. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
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Reply to @monsieuricon
Also, as far as error messages go, this is pretty terrible. How can a message exceed a quota? Did it mean node? Recipient?
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GMail hits new levels of being unusable for kernel work:

(host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.200.26] said: 421-4.7.28 Gmail has detected this message exceeded its quota for sending 421-4.7.28 messages with the same Message-ID. To best protect our users, the 421-4.7.28 message has been temporarily rejected. For more information, go to 421 4.7.28 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 me13-20020a170902fc4d00b001e0cd7403a1si1415673plb.79 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command))

Needless to say, this affects delivery of messages sent to multiple mailing lists if the recipient is subscribed to several of them.
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Edited 1 year ago
True story.

https://www.savagechickens.com/2024/03/easter-tradition.html
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danielbowen@mastodon.social

Daniel Bowen

From a tweet of mine from 2011, but evergreen:

I DEMAND TO KNOW WHY YOUR GROUP OF OVERWORKED VOLUNTEERS, WHICH I AM NOT A MEMBER OF, IS NOT PURSUING MY PERSONAL GRIEVANCE.

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Techmeme

Sources: the US and UK are reviewing $20B+ in Tether transactions through Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex, as part of a crackdown on sanctions evasions (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/crypto-transfers-to-russian-exchange-worth-20-billion-probed-by-us-uk
http://www.techmeme.com/240328/p21#a240328p21

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

"Live honourably and die on a good day to die."

The story of Vulcan kids raised by Klingons needs to be told!
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Reply to @krzk
@krzk @sam_ravnborg the web relay rewrites the From and puts the original From: header into the patch body, same as git-send-email would do when the committer is different from sender.
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Reply to @jarkko
@jarkko If you click "plain" it should render in your browser:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/plain/graphs/3AB05486C7752FE1.svg
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It worked after I put in "503-555-1212". SMH.
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Reply to @jarkko
@jarkko oh, that wot render is ancient. I should just redirect that to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/tree/graphs
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

If your company uses proofpoint, you should question how well that money is spent.
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Reply to @krzk
@krzk you can use the b4 web relay. :)
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Reply to @jarkko
@jarkko ultimately, there is no difference. However, if someone asks you to sign their key, you'd have to reimport your [C] key into your keyring, or create a temporary keyring just for this purpose. This is a lot harder to do than to just mount an encrypted storage and set GNUPGHOME.

If you don't do a lot of key signing, this is no big deal, but if you do, then this significantly simplifies the whole process and saves a ton of time.
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Reply to @jarkko
@jarkko it's for the purpose of convenience if you do a lot of cross-signing of other people's keys. It's less common these days, but still done often enough.
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