Oh no, Linus is yelling at me. I think that's a first.

Hi, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as:

З днем ​​незалежності, українці!

I lived long enough to see American troops roll out a red carpet for Putin on their knees. I’m definitely surviving out of spite as a veteran at this point.

Even if I had a time machine, and even if I could bring this picture back to 2015 — even then, I could not explain to anyone that in the future, a convicted felon would become president of the USA, and he would invite wanted war criminal Vladimir Putin to Alaska to debate the future for our ally Ukraine — WITHOUT Ukraine present.

A few might believe I was from the future, but NO ONE would believe the picture of these two criminals in front of Air Force One was real.

Womp womp.

A twice impeached convicted felon is meeting with a war criminal who usurped power and literally killed off opposition.

What a world to live in.

Happy Yebanina Day.

I give you the weirdest possible way to ask for a banana in Norwegian.

This thread is popcorn.gif, but not for the usual reasons that kernel mailing list threads are popcorn.gif:

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/47ef32d0-f87d-4788-b2bc-f61390717667@codethink.co.uk/T/

People raise many good points regarding the legality and implications of adding AI-sourced code into the kernel.

Hughes: LVFS Sustainability Plan

https://lwn.net/Articles/1033335/ #LWN

Gotta admit, ChatGPT 5 is a lot better about not putting in wordslop.

I swear, I get the weirdest sh*t at this email address sometimes.

(But it sounds like a song by Bob Dylan. Or his Slovak counterpart. Bob Dylanov?)

I'm marking two round dates this August.

I left Russia to move to the US in August 1995, 30 years ago this month.

I left the US to move to Canada in August 2005, 20 years ago this month.

In both cases, I only had personal reasons for the move, but looking back it feels like I was fleeing the countries that were slowly spiralling into becoming belligerent fascist dictatorships.

I'm pretty sure I can run Tesla into the ground for a lot less than $30 billion dollars. Let me know where I should send my CV.

Bruce Scheneier linked to a nice paper on the state of QC factorisation which contains this little nugget in the introduction:

New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities,
usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For
example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric
adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large
language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics
experiments have been touted as “quantum computers”. In order to avoid any confusion with actual computers like the VIC-20 with which they have nothing in common, we refer to them
here as “physics experiments”. Similarly, we refer to an abacus as “an abacus” rather than a
digital computer, despite the fact that it relies on digital manipulation to effect its computations.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/cheating-on-quantum-computing-benchmarks.html

Source: https://pridever.org

#code #programming #coding #release #releases #tool #tools #software #program #programme #funny #meme #memes #picture

I once again ask you to please stop using gmail for mailing lists.

Attached is a screenshot of *just one* of the 4 nodes delivering various kernel mailing list traffic with a deferred queue of 100,000+ messages, all for gmail.

We are currently sitting on about 500,000 deferred messages, all for gmail. I am very, very close to just banning gmail addresses from large lists.

Geez, Duo, I've already committed to continuing with Norsk even though my trip is now finished. You don't have to lay it on so thick, dude.

The death toll from the russian massive combined attack on Kyiv has risen to nine. Over 130 civilians, including 12 children, were injured. Do not look away.

Hello here's a writeup of what's really happening with the new secure boot certificates and how your computer is going to carry on working just fine: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html