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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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Ok, I thought someone was just pulling my leg with that last message to helpdesk, but there's now a follow-up from the same person, and it's clear that they genuinely need medical attention -- the kind I'm most certainly not qualified to offer. :(
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Me: I wonder why I don't work from the couch that often.
Me, 5 minutes later: Oh. Right.
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"Connect to wifi to download an update" is such a frustratingly stupid feature in a vehicle. It's a car, dammit. It's parked outside. I'm not going to buy a wifi repeater just so my in-house wifi is reachable from the driveway. Just use your own connection -- pretty sure I download more data monthly via streaming radio than the size of that software update.
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Dream: "I want to learn many languages so I can read books as written by their authors."
Reality: Without wanting to, is able to understand 96% of spam in his inbox.
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Submitted a CfP to the @LinuxSecSummit in Vancouver titled "How to backdoor the Linux Kernel (and fail?)".

Hopefully, see you there? :)
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Edited 2 years ago
Please consider supporting Akkoma by sponsoring their developers!

See https://akkoma.social/ for more details.
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social.kernel.org should be now up and running on Akkoma. It may take a little bit for things posted during the downtime to show up, but they should all make it there eventually.
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Testing, testing, 1-2-3.
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I've decided to migrate social.k.o to Akkoma (a fork of Pleroma). There will be some visual changes to the site, but any of the apps that are currently working for you should continue to work just fine.

The tentative migration date is Monday, Jan 30.
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There will be a quick downtime on social.k.o due to me poking at the backend to increase some timeouts.
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Me: I feel like sitting on the couch to do work this morning, let me just grab my laptop.

flatpak-system-helper: here, let me warm your lap for you.

flatpak-system-helper, 15 minutes later: hope you didn't need 20% of your battery for anything else.
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Guys, we've tried fascism before. It doesn't work any better than liberal democracy and when it fails, it fails really really badly.
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b4 0.12.0 is available

Everyone using "b4 send" must upgrade to stop hitting Python email module bugs.

https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20230120165712.rznwonw6nbfhc7fo@meerkat.local/
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Sure, I guess I'm not doing anything important next week. Can't be that hard.
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https://lore.kernel.org/git/39dd1a00-786b-acf5-8a40-2425f7dab6cc@selasky.org/

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Oh, look, another bad bug in Python's email module.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/100991

I'm starting to think nobody actually tried sending mail with Python until now.
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Ugh, I spent way too much time and effort in the past two days working around bugs in the Python email module. The parsing routines are great, but the number of bugs in message generation code is just wild.

I really shouldn't have to write my own to_bytes() serialization code, and yet this is exactly what I have to do, as bugs are just piling up and sitting in the tracker unaddressed.
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Grrr. Another bug in python's email module.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/100900
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b4 v0.11.2 is out with some hotfixes. Everyone using v0.10 and v0.11 versions must upgrade. Especially those who like to send and receive 1000+ patch series.
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Franck Leroy

Edited 2 years ago

Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.

Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts (more than Belgium or Chile) to process less than 7 transactions per second :

Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.

This could be a joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dollars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.

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