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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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Here's another one: in Little Big League (1994) the protagonist's team wins by calling time, and then using a hidden ball trick to tag out the runner when the umpire calls "play" again. That's against the rules, because the play can only resume when the pitcher has the ball and re-engages with the rubber. The umpire would have never called "play" in the first place without seeing the ball return to the pitcher, and even if they did call "play" by mistake, the tag-out would have been immediately contested by the other team's manager and overturned. Sorry!
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I'll start with: is the baseball game that capt Sisko and the DS9 crew play against vulcans accurate? The answer is yes, for the most part, except Odo's positioning behind the plate is all wrong. He sets up on the other side of the catcher, in the area where he's much more likely to get hit by a foul ball off the batter's bat. Normally, you work the "slot" between the batter and the catcher. But the rules in the match are called accurately -- anyone physically touching the umpire gets tossed out and must leave the park. In fact, Sisko wouldn't have been allowed to sit in the bleachers, but we'll let that one slide.
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Little known fact about me: I'm a certified baseball umpire. I know it's an alien sport to most of you, so ask me anything you want to know about baseball rules and I'll do my best to explain why it is like that.
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drfyzziks@makervine.net

Dr. Fyzziks

Whenever I see a “rice my Arch w/hyprland” video, I’m like:

You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.

If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).

Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.

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Reply to @landley@mstdn.jp
@landley Equinix Metal is shutting down by mid-2026 and they are terminating all remaining sponsored infrastructure by end of December.
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Reply to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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@briankrebs yeah, well, they put Stalin's name on Lenin's mausoleum, too, and then quietly ripped it out when it was politically okay to do so.
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Saying our last goodbyes to Equinix servers. First as packet.net and then as Equinix Metal, they served kernel.org wonderfully over the past 7 years. With the deadline looming on Dec 31, we're powering them off today. They've been replaced by Akamai and servers.com, (though we had to downscale our mirrors service from 4 worldwide nodes to just two, one in NA and one in EU).
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Just as I was getting over jet lag, I come down with something. Flu, probably, judging by Canada-wide numbers. Both of my kids were sick with it as I came home, and the poor sleep definitely didn't help my immune system.
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kernellogger@hachyderm.io

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

Stephen Rothwell is "stepping down as -Next maintainer on Jan 16, 2026. Mark Brown [@broonie] has generously volunteered to take up the challenge.":

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20251218180721.20eb878e@canb.auug.org.au/T/#u

To quote: ""It seems a long time since I read Andrew Morton's "I have a dream" email and decided that I could help out there - little did I know what I was heading for.""

Many many thx Stephen for all your really hard work on this over all those years, it helped a tremendous lot!

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Christian Brauner 🦊🐺

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@monsieuricon worst Christmas post so far...

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Reply to @dme@toot.dme.org
@dme Keeping things distributed, for the most part. AKA "returning to the original ARPANet design goals."
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I won't lie, some of my infrastructure decisions are driven by the consideration that by 2030 large parts of the world will be in a hot war, with nation states specifically aiming to knock out each-other's energy and computing infrastructure for economic disruption.

I am, hopefully, completely off my rocker on this one.
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I know nobody asked me, but I do quite happily use Vivaldi.
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Me: 0, jetlag: 3
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Me: 0, Jet lag: 2

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I haven't seen my brother since I left Western Australia.

We were separated at Perth.

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Through the magic of timezones, I landed in Montreal and hour before I even left Tokyo.
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I enjoyed Tokyo, but will probably enjoy it more closer to spring. Till next time!
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Star Trek Minus Context

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