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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 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Periodic reminder of a few facts:

1. Ukraine was a nuclear power after the dissolution of the USSR. It had nuclear weapons under its full control.
2. The USA convinced Ukraine to transfer their nuclear weapons to Russia. In exchange, the USA signed a treaty *guaranteeing* Ukraine's territorial sovereignty if Ukraine gives up its nuclear weapons.
3. In 2014, when Russia invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, the US under Barack Obama defaulted on their guarantee.
4. We cannot seriously discuss any other treaties with Russia if we continue to ignore the fact, that such treaties were repeatedly broken by Russia, with the powerful nations offering security guarantees looking the other way.
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It's insane to me that we now have reports of North Korea intervening in Russia's invasion of and the response is so timid.

That's now two — or three, if you count Iran — autocratic states engaged in military conquest to quell a burgeoning liberal-democracy, with the rest of the world too paralysed by fear to prevent it.

This is a glimpse of how future decades are going to look. It's the great moral and liberal issue of our time. We'll be judged harshly for our failures now.

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My registrar just reminded me that I own fauxpas.guru, which I registered just for the purpose of having a social.fauxpas.guru fedi instance. But I never actually set that up, because sometimes a joke doesn't actually seem that funny the next day. :)
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A SOY VANILLA LATTE IS ACTUALLY A TYPE OF THREE BEAN SOUP

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Realmente, um plano sem desvantagens.
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I spent the last week converting wikis to RTD. Plz send beer.
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AI farms can just up and die, please. Add overscraping to the long list of public resources being ruined by commercial greed -- to join overfishing, overlogging, and overgrazing.
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OpenAI is the new Napster.
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Trying to kill the 3 remaining wikis that we host. Wikis were a nice idea back in 2000's, but these days it's a constant struggle against spammers and AI farms that descend on your sites like locust and consume all resources until the system falls over.
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When Donald says "jump," Elon says "how high?"

Truly, a thought leader.
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Brevect like "brexit" but you actually evict them.
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Bro, do you even brevect?
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I am having an amusing and/or deranged conversation with someone who is trying to gaslight me into being ashamed for not knowing what a "brevect" is. (Also, their preferred mechanism for quoting emails in replies appears to be to cut-and-paste screenshots.)

So, what *is* a "brevect" about which the "kernel staff' should totally know? Let your imagination run wild, I'm curious.
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The existence of "dream catchers" suggests that there are also "dream throwers."
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[$] The WordPress mess

WordPress is the world's most popular open‑source blogging and content‑management platform. In its 20‑plus years of existence, WordPress has been something of a p [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/991906/

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X.Org Developer's Conference

Two weeks to go before kicks off in Montréal! The full schedule of talks is now live at http://xdc2024.x.org

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Life goals: die mischievously, leave no will.
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Gotta say, if an unknown new printer shows up in my print dialog, my first thought won't be "cool, let's try printing to it."
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Today's lesson: If a new printer shows up out of nowhere, don't print on it. 🥱

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