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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 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Used the maintainer features of @monsieuricon 's b4 for the first time and I'm still amazed just how convenient that tool is. It automatically collects the patches together with any tags from the mailing list and then even prepares "thank you" emails with lists of applied patches automatically!

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If you're curious, mirrors.kernel.org transfers about 1PiB of data weekly. At Equinix Metal's list price of $0.05 per GB, it would cost us roughly $200,000 a month to operate these systems once the credits go away.

So, yeah, definitely looking for a new home for them.
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George Takei verified 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

I may need this on my bumper.

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Temu's slogan is "shop like a billionaire" but I can't find "US president" for sale anywhere on their site.
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I'm considering dropping commercially backed distros from mirrors.kernel.org as part of the migration away from Equinix Metal: Fedora, Ubuntu, Opensuse. It would drop us from 35TB to 23TB and make a significant impact on our bandwidth requirements.
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I guess it's not any different than liquor stores dumping all US alcohol. I'll miss Bulleit Bourbon, but I'm happy to make a swift transition to Canadian Ryes.
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Hydroxychlorfascism: an economic model based on a belief that taking industrial doses of horse de-wormer is good for you.
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The "alien spaceship" display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum has a screen that's just a bunch of htop, ping sessions, and matrix screensavers and I'm legit curious if it's sourcing them from those "your vnc port is open" sites.
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The kind of red baseball hats I can get behind (or under).
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I think I might skip visiting the US for a while.
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Geez, don't send me a "friendly reminder" to fill out your voluntary customer survey. It's the business speak equivalent of ending your request with "or suffer the consequences."
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Good summary for what all developers should know about about sanction laws and software development in a global environment,

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regulations-and-open-source-us-ofac-sanctions
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Freedesktop looking for new home for its GitLab instance

https://lwn.net/Articles/1007032/

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I am so amused by the whining from the data scraping tech bros about (GASP) the data scraping being done by other people...
https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

Of course we'll go from vilification, to banning, to public subsidy of the domestic tech bros in order to protect our "lead" in... whatever it is that the current type of garbage GenAI is good for.

Oh, wait, we already jumped to the last part

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Somehow people think that when you switch from Linux to BSD, it makes us upset.

BSDs are nice! Totally go try them out! Monocultures are bad regardless of your platform of choice, so as long as we can still all interoperate on the network level, you're making the world a more resilient place.
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Tesla's gesture recognition is getting really good. If you do the nazi salute while autopilot is engaged, the car will automatically merge into the far right lane.
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How good is public-inbox? I just realized last weekend that I messed up after the last reinstall, so every lore node was running a single public-inbox-httpd worker (as opposed to 8 of them). The fact that it still worked and just occasionally got slow is really quite impressive, considering how much crawlers hit it.
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Me: "the Swedish Chef" is a parody. Scandinavian languages don't sound like that.
Duo: say "Vi liker ikke dyre smykker."
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Remember the old adage "It isn't true until the Kremlin officially denies it"? You now can safely replace "Kremlin" with "Trump administration" and you're still right, IMHO.

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