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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 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Custom message-ids with mutt and coolname
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Message-ID's are used to identify and retrieve messages from the public-inbox archive on lore.kernel.org, so it's only natural to want to use memorable ones. Or maybe it's just me.

Regardless, here's what I do with neomutt and coolname:

  1. If coolname isn't yet packaged for your distro, you can install it with pip:

    pip install --user coolname
    
  2. Create this file as ~/bin/my-msgid.py:

    #!/usr/bin/python3
    import sys
    import random
    import string
    import datetime
    import platform
    
    from coolname import generate_slug
    
    parts = []
    parts.append(datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d'))
    parts.append(generate_slug(3))
    parts.append(''.join(random.choices(string.hexdigits, k=6)).lower())
    
    sys.stdout.write('-'.join(parts) + '@' + platform.node().split('.')[0])
    
  3. Create this file as ~/.mutt-fix-msgid:

    my_hdr Message-ID: <`/path/to/my/bin/my-msgid.py`>
    
  4. Add this to your .muttrc (works with mutt and neomutt):

    send-hook . "source ~/.mutt-fix-msgid"
    
  5. Enjoy funky message-id's like 20240227-flawless-capybara-of-drama-e09653@lemur. :)

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At first, I picked an angry thread to analyze. Probably not a good example... or maybe too good of an example? ;)

https://asciinema.org/a/643432
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Here's a quickie demonstration of using ChatGPT-4 to summarize email threads on LKML.

https://asciinema.org/a/643435
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It's a record high of +13°C in Montreal today. I'm enjoying it now, but I don't look forward to the forest fire season this summer. :(
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Is it me? Am getting too old?
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"This presentation was written by AI" is the modern day's version of "I'm seeing these slides for the first time."
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So we got @gregkh on the show to explain Linux Kernel security, both proactive and reactive, and why they sort of can't treat security bugs special (TL;DR: Linux is on everything, so a prenotification list to tell people secretly doesn't work when you tell thousands of people... and that's one of the easier problems), the whole thing and more on the with @joshbressers and @kurtseifried https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/02/25/episode-417-linux-kernel-security-with-greg-k-h/ TL;DR: just run an up to date stable Kernel, the era of trying to cherry-pick and backport security fixes is coming to an end.

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Happy to welcome two new orange mayhems into our home.

(This is Tater. His brother Wesley is roaming somewhere out of reach of the camera.)
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akkoma 2024.02 stable has been released!

https://meta.akkoma.dev/t/akkoma-stable-2024-02-background-followbacks/655

featuring such cool stuff as user background federation!
automatic followback approval!
and the hinted-at security fix!
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Le Castor Anxieux 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Posted with Akkoma 3.11 for Workgroups.

(Not sure anyone at Akkoma is actually old enough to get this joke.)
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Fascinating to see the Times slowly trying to come to grips with the way they’ve been played by Moscow.

It takes them seven paragraphs to get to the fact that the allegations against Biden were (passive voice) “made up.”

Not till paragraph twelve does the real protagonist appear: Russian intelligence. It’s a Russian disinformation operation. Let’s see if we can say that out loud. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/111984017335877297

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Two years ago, Putin started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Some predicted that it would fall in a matter of days.

Instead, the Ukrainian people have proven the power of fighting for something.

Putin made a mistake because he cannot understand what drives a human spirit when it is free to think and dream.

He cannot understand that if you give people a choice, they choose liberty. 

Ukraine chose to fight for its freedom and a better future.

And Europe will be with you.

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North Korea has been supplying Putin with missiles to attack Ukraine. But when wreckage from one of those North Korean missiles was examined, investigators discovered it had been built primarily from smuggled American parts:

"75 percent of the components documented were linked to U.S. companies, with 16 percent linked to European ones, and nine percent connected with companies based in Asia."

https://www.twz.com/news-features/north-korean-missile-used-in-ukraine-was-packed-full-of-u-s-parts

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this is how changelogs are going to look like from now on

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So, this is fun, but it really chews through your ChatGPT credits. :`)

I'm working on b4 "code review" mode (grab a series, apply it to your tree, review every patch, send all your acked-by's, reviewed-by's, and individual comments as a one lump batch at the end of your review). The reason I'm playing with this is to see if we can plug in some AI pre-analysis and discussion summaries before the reviewer starts their work.
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I look forward to not having to spend a chunk of my day adding spam instances to the MRF policy. ಠ_ಠ
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MASSIVE - Hunter Biden “star witness” admitted to DOJ that he was getting information from the Kremlin and serving as a conduit for Russian disinfo.

That’s right.

Looks like the whole Hunter Biden “scandal” was a Russian psy-op — straight from Putin.

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When a site forces you to register, and then tries to spam you, lovingly addressing you by that username you picked in the heat of the moment.
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