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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 🍁

Everyone talks about the Tooth Fairy, but nobody ever mentions her elderly aunt, the Root Canal Banshee.
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Believe it or not, there is still plenty of interesting and exciting work to talk about that doesn't involve LLMs.

Cryptographers contributing to the IETF is working to standardize FROST, a two-round threshold signature algorithm based on Schnorr proofs, which is backwards compatible with Ed25519.

This means it will soon be possible to generate Ed25519 signatures from, for example, 4-of-7 shares held by independent parties. And the verifier doesn't need to do anything different; it's just an Ed25519 signature to them.

That's cool as fuck.

There's little-to-no hype about it.

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

LOL, I think my fake "Flooring Inspector" title on LinkedIn is starting to confuse bots.

Except it's Guybrush, not Gregory, you fools.
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@takaswie Yes indeed, send that to helpdesk!
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@lkundrak I guess I could have copy-pasted that "Actually, what you call Linux" diatribe as response, but that would have been outright snarky.
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I know, I know, I'm trolling, but if call yourself a "Senior IT Security Engineer," you really shouldn't be emailing helpdesk with such questions.
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My attention has been drawn to this packaging design from HP, which presumably someone approved.

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@iro_miya You're really setting yourself up for Gimp jokes, eh?
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

My umpire wrist guard had too much velcro, so I got a patch to go on it.

Happy Pride!
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@SRAZKVT There are two wolves at the heart of this problem -- one is a quest to remain decentralized and resilient to single-points-of-failure, and another an effort to lower the barrier for entry. It is super difficult to get any sort of yin-yang balance here, unfortunately.

That said, have you looked at https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/overview.html ?
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

2 days into what was supposed to be a straightforward refactor to simplify "b4 trailers -u".
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Tired: This meeting could have been an email.

Wired: This startup could have been a spreadsheet.

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

fated encounter
feted encounter
fetid encounter

All sound roughly the same, but are all dramatically different kinds of encounters.
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@doti I almost wouldn't mind if they also didn't lock you out of your account. I don't want my access to a critical bit of infrastructure being dependent on email delivery problems.
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We investigated performance degradation due to excessive crawling of Codeberg.

We often trace back such things to company websites that proudly list their key investors - but don't actually explain what they are doing (or why they need to crawl Codeberg more excessively than the crawlers of the major search engines combined).

It's probably not a use case we believe in anyway, so we blocked several large IP ranges today.

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There is a twist to this story where the password reset email never arrives, so we are locked out of a critically important account.
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Vendor: "use a strong password and set up 2-factor auth to protect your account"
Me: "great, thank you"
Vendor: "your password has expired, we sent you a reset link by email"
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