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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 🇨🇦🇺🇦
I shudder to think how many mindless site crawlers $500 billion can fund.
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Kudos to the photographer who captured this shot.

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Grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling, grevling
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What can I enshittify today?
- Elon Musk, visionary

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Jonathan Corbet

A followup for folks who are curious about the whole AI botswarm problem...

Some of these bots are clearly running on a bunch of machines on the same net. I have been able to reduce the traffic significantly by treating everything as a class-C net and doing subnet-level throttling. That and simply blocking a couple of them.

But that leaves a lot of traffic with an interesting characteristic: there are millions of obvious bot hits (following a pattern through the site, for example) that all come from a different IP. An access log with 9M lines as over 1M IP addresses, and few of them appear more than about three times.

So these things are running on widely distributed botnets, likely on compromised computers, and they are doing their best to evade any sort of recognition or throttling. I don't think that any sort of throttling or database of known-bot IPs is going to help here...not quite sure what to do about it.

What a world we have made for ourselves...
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Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (By the art activist collective Led By Donkeys).

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When you want to do a salute, be this guy.
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Volkswagen: "yeah, we know, we were literally founded by Hitler."
Tesla: "Hold our beer."
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Å nei, jeg fikk endelig boken jeg bestilte fra Norge, bare for å oppdage at den er på nynorsk. Jeg kan lese den, men det kommer til å ødelegge rettskrivningen min. :/
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Heh, so many things going on with this email message.
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Hm, is this you, @gregkh ?

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To: helpdesk@kernel.org
Subject: Hi help needed

I need to set an environments of Linux kernel developer and cve vulnerability repair, basically tell me the steps to set my laptop 💻 for it.

Enviado desde Proton Mail para Android
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To: helpdesk@kernel.org
Subject: Suggestion

You could make the scroll bar a bit broader.

Regards,
Paul
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I look forward to Trump's meeting with Putin and I'm sure that the outcome will be just as fruitful as that time when Trump met with Kim Jong Un and brought resolution and lasting peace to the Korean peninsula.
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I want Chrystia Freeland as my prime minister.
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The biggest danger of learning North Germanic languages like Norsk is realizing that Ikea furniture names are actually pretty dull. Like, did you know that "blåhaj" is literally just "blue shark?"
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The year is 2025 and I can listen to pretty much any song ever recorded by even the most obscure artist, but I still can't do something as simple as legally buy a book by an award winning Norwegian author ("Tonje Glimmerdal" by Maria Parr). Why is this so messed up?
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Instead of saying "I'm available to hire", say "my worksona is adoptable"

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A small announcement from me that I am now officially able to spend a lot more of my time working on Linux kernel maintainer support duties. It's not a "change of hats," but I will be able to spend a lot more time wearing my maintainer support hat on this year!

https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/20241230-loyal-jumping-marmoset-0bde8f@lemur/T/#u
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Cook: Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit

https://lwn.net/Articles/1003797/

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