As someone who named his project "b4" -- a name that is really hard to search online, I totally commiserate with someone who named their project "age".

While the screams and roars of the "plz no more #gnupg" crowd can be heard, do consider viable ways for the Linux community to replace it.

It's very easy to point at minisign/ssh and similar projects and go "use that". But it misses the convenience of binding an identity to a key, along with having a key distribution mechanism.

I think standardizing `.well-known/public-key` for lookups, and explore a path where we can jam a tlog into it would be interesting.

https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/issues/192

Instance moderator's life.

(It wasn't all that bad, actually...)

I believe this falls under "dem's are fighting words," quite literally.

The comparison is not favorable.

Oh by the way.
Everyone knows "Carol of the bells", right?

You may not know but the roots of this song are in a pretty famous here Ukrainian folk song Shchedryk.

Source of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmSdYUYNoqs

Do people in Norway/Denmark make "prompe ingeniør" jokes?

Me: (finishes explaining something basic about computers)
A very self-sure 6-year-old beaver scout: "Buddy... Buddy, that's not how any of it works."

There is no shortage of #AI criticism here, but not all of it is actually well backed by facts. Here is a pretty chilling account on why #OpenAI is not just bad for us, it's actively evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg

Congrats to Julia Lawall for making it to the LF Technical Advisory Board!

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/20251221125206.99296-1-ojeda@kernel.org/

This is the most country thing you'll hear today, except it's in Norwegian. You're welcome.

https://youtu.be/Kkk0J99Fsnc?si=J3kjEb0lSyBKdLZS

Jorf

Little known fact about me: I'm a certified baseball umpire. I know it's an alien sport to most of you, so ask me anything you want to know about baseball rules and I'll do my best to explain why it is like that.

Whenever I see a “rice my Arch #Linux w/hyprland” video, I’m like:

You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.

If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).

Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.

Saying our last goodbyes to Equinix servers. First as packet.net and then as Equinix Metal, they served kernel.org wonderfully over the past 7 years. With the deadline looming on Dec 31, we're powering them off today. They've been replaced by Akamai and servers.com, (though we had to downscale our mirrors service from 4 worldwide nodes to just two, one in NA and one in EU).

Just as I was getting over jet lag, I come down with something. Flu, probably, judging by Canada-wide numbers. Both of my kids were sick with it as I came home, and the poor sleep definitely didn't help my immune system.

Stephen Rothwell is "stepping down as #Linux-Next maintainer on Jan 16, 2026. Mark Brown [@broonie] has generously volunteered to take up the challenge.":

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20251218180721.20eb878e@canb.auug.org.au/T/#u

To quote: ""It seems a long time since I read Andrew Morton's "I have a dream" email and decided that I could help out there - little did I know what I was heading for.""

Many many thx Stephen for all your really hard work on this over all those years, it helped a tremendous lot!

#LinuxKernel #kernel