Last minor version is always .19. Except for 4.20 -- but only because we were high and forgot.

It will be 7.0, then 10.0, then 11.0 with Copilot.

True story.

So let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that you were foolish enough to try to make a living by writing high-quality, well-researched, technical articles about Linux and free-software development. I know that's crazy, but bear with me. In such a scenario, how does one succeed in a world increasingly full of stuff like this?

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-7-0-looms-large-inside-the-landmark-kernel-release-that-could-reshape-open-source-computing/

(I'll post no more links to that site, I promise).

These folks appear to take the stuff we humans write, inject a bunch of errors, then slop it out to the world.

If you were to engage in the silly quest described above, you would find that what you do is increasingly buried in the flood of this kind of material. Does anybody have any bright ideas about how one might survive in such an environment?

Do not travel to the USofA, part XXXIV:

- doing everything right is not enough
- white skin does not protect you
- detention may mean a cell shared with 70 people, fighting over food, without medical supplies
- your signature will get forged if you refuse
- judge orders for release on bail are ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

My first two hypes collided. It was around early 2000 and I was crammed into a tiny office with my then-boss, a cranky guy with lots of firmly held opinions about late-90s technology. We were going to watch the Transmeta Crusoe unveiling and he was convinced that it was going to be a dedicated Java-native processor. I still remember when he said "what the f is VLIW? Who the f cares about that!" and turned it off just as Linus was getting to play a port of Doom... Or Quake? Don't recall.

Anyway, that was my first inoculation against tech hype.

My first revolutionary IT hype was:

I need to change neomutt so that instead of showing the actual number of messages in my inbox, it shows "Fuuuuuuuu" with more and more "u"s being added for every 20 new messages.

Just came back last night from winter camping with a bunch of scouts. We ran the usual challenge of building snow shelters and sleeping in them, which was particularly tough as it was -25°C overnight. Out of 14 scouts who went out to sleep in the cold, only 4 came in to the heated cabin and 10 others stayed out till morning, which was a new high number. When it was similarly cold two years ago, only 3 scouts out of 15 stayed the night. I like to think it's due to better preparedness and better guidance from us scouters and not just due to better gear. 💪

#scouts

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

@arstechnica Thank god, these are awful in winter. The number of times I had to bang on the door to get that exact handle unstuck! Teslas were obviously designed in California.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116007427102518234

My inbox is a disaster. Sorry! I'll try to answer all waiting requests tomorrow.

Because a LOT of people are missing the point:

No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".

But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.

Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.

So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.

First actual agent-assisted review with "b4 review tui":

https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20260201-sceptical-resolute-curassow-43ab98@lemur/T/#t

Screencast of the whole process, using issues identified by "claude code" and rolling them into the TUI:

https://asciinema.org/a/777545

(Lots of refinements still needed, but it's doing useful things, at least.)

Trying out the review TUI on arbitrary patches in LKML. ;)

`b4 review tui` reviewing a patch series for b4 itself. Note the displayed comments provided by "Claude Opus 4.5 (CO4)" assisting with the review.

Here's a prototype of "b4 review" with a nicer textual ui. What do you think?

https://asciinema.org/a/776900

The Prize for Excellence in Open Source … goes to…

Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow at the The #Linux Foundation!

We could think of no one more deserving of this Award than Greg - who has ensured through maintaining of different kernel subsystems and the Linux kernel stable releases that thousands of devices function seamlessly and securely.

The Prize for Excellence was presented by the European Open Source Academy, @bagder

https://awards.europeanopensource.academy/

Managed to work on `b4 review` today. It's almost usable now, just not sure the git-rebase like interface is all that user-friendly.

But it should make it possible to quickly review patch series, send trailers, and even annotate code.

https://asciinema.org/a/RdNsrMSRFy3wT1cH

My most common experience with gnome shell extensions. *sigh*

Poor Norwegian children drink juice with meat in it.

(Oh no? Then why is there kjøtt in your fruktkjøtt?)