Enjoying a talk by @krzk about b4. :)

Big sites want more complex passwords & for each log-in want a texted code & and they give ID tests. Jumping through hoops. But every year or two they're like, "Someone broke into our server and got everyone's name and SSN and activities." So f*ck the hoops? Grrr.

YUL ✈️ LGA ✈️ RIC

5 women on a panel will only ever be asked to talk about being women.

5 men on a panel will be asked about everything from game of thrones to the future of humanity.

And that’s the damn truth.

Well, TIL that b4 shazam has some other handy flags like -H and I can use that instead of make a branch, apply, merge, drop in cover letter.

Whenever you read a negative story about renewable energy, electric vehicles or heat pumps in the media ask yourself:

Could it be that vested interest groups funded and placed the story?

Rarely exposed but this stuff goes on all the time.

https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/20/revealed-media-blitz-against-heat-pumps-funded-by-gas-lobby-group/

Finally, my dream of modeling Gucci bags is coming true. Look out for hot new content right underneath the current releases table.

RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

In which I brazenly suggest that we should stop sending all patches to the LKML and send them to a different list with moderated subscription.

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/20231106-venomous-raccoon-of-wealth-acc57c@nitro/

According to my back-of-napkin calculations (looking at the number of archived messages in the past month, averaging it per day, and multiplying by number of subscribers):

- vger.kernel.org delivers about 4.5 million messages per day
- 70% of that is linux-kernel@vger, with about 3.2 million messages delivered per day
- a very remote second is netdev@vger (300,000 messages delivered per day)
- even a more remote third is kvm@vger (133,000 messages delivered per day)

Current migration stats:

Out of the total of 203 public vger lists:

- 48 lists will be sunset (due to obsolescence/inactivity)
- 40 lists are already migrated to new infra
- 115 still reside on legacy infra

The 40 migrated lists are about 788,000 messages daily, or ~20% of all traffic, so 80% of all mail traffic is still going through the legacy infra.

I hope to complete all migrations by this holiday season.

So many truths are hidden,
So many facts untold,
Queries left unbidden,
Concealed below the fold.

My head droops to the table,
But I must remain informed:
"Is the kernel stable?"
"How is babby formed?"

Geordi,

No one has been receiving my emails for many months. This is a significant security risk and it must be fixed.

Worf

confusing git terminology https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/01/confusing-git-terminology/

Some day soon I will be done with list migrations and infra reshuffles and will be able to hack on workflow tools again.

Help wanted at LWN https://lwn.net/Articles/949461/ #LWN

What do you mean "nice costume"? This is what I wear most nights between May and October.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

> Socket error on imap.gmail.com (x.x.x.x:993): timeout.

Google's IMAP has been increasingly unusable for me in the past couple of weeks. Anyone else having the same problem?

what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc

(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)

TFW being called out by name at the LF member summit. Thank you, @corbet !

Everything I Know About the Tech Industry I Learned From Baseball

by me!
We find wisdom wherever we encounter it. And since I’m at the ballpark a lot of the time, that’s where I get my tech business lessons.
https://www.tomshardware.com/opinion/everything-i-know-about-the-tech-industry-i-learned-from-baseball