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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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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Reply to @kkarhan@infosec.space
@kkarhan I'm happy that it works in your head, but in my head linkname is not destination, it's a shortcut *to* the destination.
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Reply to @monsieuricon
Edited 1 year ago
I appreciate people saying that it's like `cp` or `mount`, but in my head the natural order of thinking about this operation is reversed: it's "create a link to this file" not "make this file also known as this link." Hence two competing "gut feelings" about which should come first. It also doesn't help that commands like "alias" work the opposite direction ("make a new command that is actually this another command").

Anyway, it was really just an observation that I confuse this all the time, and I'm not the greenest Linux admin around. :)
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I've been admining Linux systems for 25 years, and I still have to check which one it is every time.
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pravda@mstdn.social

Ukrainska Pravda

Norway's Foreign Minister: "We should all be honest and say: Nobody does enough for Ukraine"

https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/interview/2024/04/5/7183136/

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prefetcher@miku.place

prefetcher flashverified

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kardinal691@mastodon.online

Putin's IBS

🦾 12-year-old will run in the Marathon with prosthetics

The girl who lost both legs during a rocket attack on the railway station in will take part in the marathon on April 13.

Her goal at the event is charitable . This is a collection for a sports prosthesis for the seriously injured defender , a patient of the "" centre, who lost his right leg in the war.

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Finally got power back at home. Thinking of people in Kharkiv who have been without power for days and who still don't know if and when they will get it back.
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Reply to @Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com
@Ertain vehicle-to-grid is becoming more common, thankfully. Our next car purchase will take that into consideration for sure.
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Periodic lamentation about how stupid it is to have 80kWh sitting in my driveway and no way to use it for the rest of the house in emergencies.
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Reply to @kernellogger@fosstodon.org
@kernellogger because today is 4.04 :)

(Greg didn't tag the change, which is why it didn't trigger a rebuild. It should be updated shortly.)
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Sticky snow + wind = no power for me
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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

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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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

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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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

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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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

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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