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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.

Montréal, Québec, Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦
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A funny case study of the 21st “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

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AUSTRALOPITHECUS 🇺🇦🇨🇿

breaking: city of hague offers to host the meeting of putin and trump

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Ben & Jerry's needs a "Punking ICE" flavour this fall.
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Reply to @voice@magicalmirro.red
@voice a war drone hits a datacentre. When the fire is put out and it is retrieved from the wreckage, its analysis proves fruitless. It's made out of cheap components made in EU, Taiwan, China, and US. The Houtis claim it was them, but so do half the other shady terrorist orgs. Who do you bomb back and will it prevent the next drone attack?
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Asshat service of the day: spfbl.net

Not only do they have asinine requirements that privacy protection is removed from the DNS record, they want $2 for each delisting request.

Do not use.
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Jonathan Corbet

"The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection."

https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/

...and people wonder why I resist having that kind of stuff in my home...
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Just imagine how badly our IT infrastructure will fail when datacentres start being *deliberately* attacked by drones.
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A war criminal and a convicted felon plan to meet and discuss law and order. They will meet in Budapest, the birthplace of the Budapest memorandum, which both sides have violated.
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Kristian Kiehling

Not only did a permanent member of the UN security council attack a clearly marked UN humanitarian convoy with FPV Drones, they also proceed to proudly share the footage of their appalling crime on the internet.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166099

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Reply to @jani@floss.social
@jani That's why we have https://www.kernel.org/releases-calendar.ics, though I do understand that not everyone wants to view it in their calendar.
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Reply to @jani@floss.social
@jani

Yes, but...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git/tree/mainline-when.py

:)
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@monsieuricon WAZZUUUP?
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New akkoma, who dis?
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/me ignoring email threads on Thanksgiving

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If "Audio format not available in my region," then maybe you shouldn't let me register and pay in my region, since you know for a fact that it's not going to do me any good?
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Reply to @catsalad@infosec.exchange
@catsalad

Honey 🍯
Htwoy 🍯🍯
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Edited 1 month ago
le make oldconfig && le make

Bienvenue.
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Officiated my last baseball game of the season. You probably have never felt the depth of self-loathing that I did tonight for having to call a start-and-stop balk on a poor 12-year-old pitcher to walk in the winning run of the game. 😮‍💨

Hanging up my umpire face mask until May 2026.
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0H N03Z, 1'V3 B33N H4X0R3D!
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"This makes me 20% more productive!"
"So does cocaine."
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