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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 🇨🇦🇺🇦
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Hey, do you like reviewing code written by someone with zero interest in your project, who ignores all of your carefully established styles and conventions, and who routinely sends in asinine suggestions?

- Github Copilot
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Me, every damn time I give Arlen Glass Marlene's holotape. #fo4
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Terri K O 🍁

Ugh, Python got over 500 applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.

So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.

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Hey, remember the "Tide Pod Challenge," when people purposefully ingested harmful chemicals on a dare and were then seriously sick? Didn't know they made those things in orange.

Anyway, will someone please hold America's head while it vomits?
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Jesse 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 versia

“Introducing Linux as a “Unix-like” operating system in 2025 is like describing modern cars as “horseless carriage-like””

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Jonathan Corbet

20 Years ago: the BitKeeper license changed, making it unavailable for kernel development.

https://lwn.net/Articles/130746/

It drove home the perils of relying on proprietary software and spurred the creation of Git - a significant event, overall.
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git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org now require proof of work. Big thanks to Anubis developers for filling this important need.
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Users of w3m and lynx browsers will be asked to identify and fix a bug in the mm subsystem before they are allowed to access git kernel.org.
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I worry that we're mere weeks or months away from free software being declared unamerican in the US.
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I'm sad to say that we're following the lead of many others and putting in proof-of-work proxies into place to protect ourselves against "AI" crawler bots. Yes, I hate this as much as you, but all other options are currently worse (such as locking us into specific vendors).

We'll be rolling it out on lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org in the next week or so.
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Julia Evans

spotted this van today

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(No, I don't intend to leave it at difficulty=6, it's just so I could take the screenshot.)
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Sigh... I got anubis proof-of-work bot working in pre-production. I can't express how much I hate this.
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April 1st was funnier when deliberately publishing fake things online hasn't been the norm.
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Rasta

Happy day to all who celebrate

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Dgar

It happened again.

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Jonathan Corbet

Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data. He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem. Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".

After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.

But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".
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JA Westenberg

If Elon Musk actually leaves DOGE in May, don’t celebrate. And don't let up. Escaping accountability is his whole game. He’s a Nazi, propping up fascism, wrecking lives, and laundering cruelty. Keep the pressure on. Torch his brand. Shatter his legacy. Make sure history spits on his name.

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Oh, the humility of being a Tesla driver on a Tesla Takedown day.

(Preordered it in 2019 -- back when Musk's true fascist nature wasn't yet revealed.)
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