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Director of Linux Foundation IT. Currently in charge of kernel.org infra.

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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

OK, so this is working now after a bunch more bugfixes. I'm going to run it over the weekend, and then write a proposal for a proposed bugzilla replacement.

FYI, git-bug has a nice webui (this is running on localhost).

All of these bugs were tagged via the mailing list. See https://lore.kernel.org/tools/

It would be nice to write a bug viewer plugin for cgit, too, but this is for much, much later.
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If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.
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Spring Jo πŸ₯š v_enby πŸ€

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some time ago i (half) joked that the only job can replace outright is the CEO.

today i attended an earnings call where a synthetised voice of our CEO read multi-page long table of numbers from an official financial document, according to a script prepared by claude, over a single slide titled "company earnings 2025" - to a room full of employees who commuted to the office to watch it in person. there was no management present or even shown on the screen.

it was the most disturbed dystopian fucking thing i've experienced in my career of working for soul-crushing corporations.

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Got bugspray and git-bug integration working far enough that I'm able to create bugs and sync them via the remote.

This is my bugzilla murdering tool, but a lot more testing is required before I propose the plan.
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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061548/

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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

"b4 review" has grown by leaps and bounds. You should try it out if you haven't yet and give me feedback before I ship it!
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British Columbia passed a law that they're done with biennial DST changes starting next year and a bunch of people are fauxpset that they picked "permanent DST" as the solution instead of "permanent standard time."

As someone who, for a long time, was in charge of scheduling games for his local baseball association, let me tell you that "permanent standard time" would be a disaster for summer-time organized sports. All of your fields without lights would instantly become pretty much unusable if the sun sets at 7:30 instead of 8:30 in July.

Your circadian rhythms will be fine, you ninnies -- your young parents won't be if Jimmy can't play his favourite game any more because his local municipal budget doesn't have any money to install floodlights.
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June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a β€œwater intrusion event”

March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it β€œimpacted by objects”

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

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To: helpdesk@kernel.org
Subject: hi

Hi my name is Thomas I'm wanting to know if. There and Kail Linux That can go. Onto Toys r Us Motorola G4 If. You can let me know please and thank you
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

b4 review getting started documentation, with screencasts:

https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/reviewer/getting-started.html

Still requires unreleased master version -- I'm hoping for some initial tests before I release 0.15.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

b4 review landed in b4 master. I'll post a bunch of stuff tomorrow announcing it, but if you want to give it an early whirl, go ahead. The docs are a bit scant, but they should get you started.

You'll need python textual framework. To start, run "b4 review enroll" in a repo where you'll be reviewing code. Then run "b4 review tui". After that, you can run "b4 review track <msgid>" to pull in a series to review.

Please poke around and break things. I'm sure that won't be too hard.
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b4 review is very close to its first beta release!

Just putting in some important final touches.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Remember how computers in the Start Trek TOS speak in a flat, monotonous machine voice? I think we should retcon that to be a deliberate policy choice implemented as a result of mass psychological trauma experienced by humanity in early eras of AI. A kind of intentional design choice similar how North American outlets present as scary frowny faces.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Here's an asciinema recording of the current state of b4 review:

https://asciinema.org/a/795683

It shows patchwork integration, reviewing series, taking series, sending thank-you notes, etc.

It's still rough around the ages, but it's doing useful things. I hope to release it as "pre-alpha" soon.
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Reviewing b4 submissions with b4 review. \o/
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4 years of war in Ukraine
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Today begins year 5 of Russia's full scale aggression against Ukraine and it will soon be 12 years since Russia first started this war by illegally occupying and then annexing Crimea.

Fuck Putin, fuck everyone who supported this invasion then, and especially fuck those who through greed, cowardice, or direct allegiance maintain Putin in power today: Kim, Fico, Orban, Xi, Trump.

Ukraine is the only power directly opposing Putin today, which is why I will continue to support it until Putin is defeated, until Russia restores the borders in their 1991 configuration and commits to pay reparations for all the grievous damage it's done and continues to do. Glory to Ukrainians and everyone fighting on their side -- may we all have their resolve and courage when it's time to take arms to defend our homes against a large and bloodthirsty neighbour who comes to pillage and kill.
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When YouTube says 'this is not available in your country' it should also list the countries where it *is* available, so I know which one to set my VPN to.

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Gemini, please convert this response into a politely worded email:

Hi:

Your vulnerability report is stupid. You have no idea what you're talking about, or you're hoping that nobody actually checks your findings. Unfortunately for me, I did check your findings and I will never get these 20 minutes of my life back. Everyone is dumber as a result of your report. Please do not contact us again.
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New favourite word in Norwegian: ubeboelig
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