K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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The RAID6 array is rebuilding, but it will be a whiiiiiile. And, of course, there's always the chance that another drive will decide to give up the ghost while the rebuild is going ahead and we'll be up a creek.
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@luis_in_brief kernel.org is a charitable organization and mirrors.kernel.org is a community service that falls outside of the main scope of kernel.org duties.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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mirrors.kernel.org is down because it threw 2 disks in a RAID-6 array and then ground itself to a halt. I'm trying to resuscitate it. Please use mirrors.edge.kernel.org (it's pointing at our only remaining server that is now up, in Amsterdam).
We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).
If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).
If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
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LWN.net
lwn@fedi.lwn.net[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots — a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This h [...]
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Last minor version is always .19. Except for 4.20 -- but only because we were high and forgot.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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@ydroneaud The last Linux version will be called "Vista." This way we can say that we're doing it "hasta la Vista."
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It will be 7.0, then 10.0, then 11.0 with Copilot.
True story.
True story.
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Jonathan Corbet
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So let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that you were foolish enough to try to make a living by writing high-quality, well-researched, technical articles about Linux and free-software development. I know that's crazy, but bear with me. In such a scenario, how does one succeed in a world increasingly full of stuff like this?
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-7-0-looms-large-inside-the-landmark-kernel-release-that-could-reshape-open-source-computing/
(I'll post no more links to that site, I promise).
These folks appear to take the stuff we humans write, inject a bunch of errors, then slop it out to the world.
If you were to engage in the silly quest described above, you would find that what you do is increasingly buried in the flood of this kind of material. Does anybody have any bright ideas about how one might survive in such an environment?
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-7-0-looms-large-inside-the-landmark-kernel-release-that-could-reshape-open-source-computing/
(I'll post no more links to that site, I promise).
These folks appear to take the stuff we humans write, inject a bunch of errors, then slop it out to the world.
If you were to engage in the silly quest described above, you would find that what you do is increasingly buried in the flood of this kind of material. Does anybody have any bright ideas about how one might survive in such an environment?
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Stefan Eissing
icing@chaos.socialDo not travel to the USofA, part XXXIV:
- doing everything right is not enough
- white skin does not protect you
- detention may mean a cell shared with 70 people, fighting over food, without medical supplies
- your signature will get forged if you refuse
- judge orders for release on bail are ignored
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention
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Edited 3 months ago
My first two hypes collided. It was around early 2000 and I was crammed into a tiny office with my then-boss, a cranky guy with lots of firmly held opinions about late-90s technology. We were going to watch the Transmeta Crusoe unveiling and he was convinced that it was going to be a dedicated Java-native processor. I still remember when he said "what the f is VLIW? Who the f cares about that!" and turned it off just as Linus was getting to play a port of Doom... Or Quake? Don't recall.
Anyway, that was my first inoculation against tech hype.
Anyway, that was my first inoculation against tech hype.
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@ydroneaud Or, as I liked to call them, "your computer makes lots of noise, followed by a sad grey square" technology.
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@jmorris Yeah, this is a woefully incomplete list, but we IT people have been busy over the past 30 years.
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My first revolutionary IT hype was:
24%
VRML for everything
24%
ActiveX for everything
25%
XML for everything
11%
Semantic Web for everything
12%
blockchains for everything
0%
AI for everything
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@musicmatze oh, it can probably be made work via some kind of status_format setting in .muttrc, but mine already looks like line noise, so I'm not going to touch it. :)
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I need to change neomutt so that instead of showing the actual number of messages in my inbox, it shows "Fuuuuuuuu" with more and more "u"s being added for every 20 new messages.
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@jpab Are you allowed to fork it and make changes? Because I think we'd all like that.
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@musicmatze THIS. IS. CANADAAA.
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