Sarah Connor watching you use Al for everything

CFP for LPC 2026 is open!

Important dates:
Thursday, April 23, 2026: Deadline to submit proposals to host a microconference
Sunday, June 28, 2026: Deadline to submit LPC Refereed Track Presentations Proposals and Kernel Summit Presentations Proposals.

Please use the following to access the full CFP and submit your proposal!

https://lpc.events/event/20/abstracts/

So, *this* is what it feels like to be boosted by jwz. ;)

About a cm of ice on everything, not 3. Still have power, but may change overnight if winds pick up.

Montreal is about to be hit by a bad ice storm -- 2-3 cm of ice on everything forecasted. I hope they got it wrong, but if not, I may lose power for a few days.

May be time to invest into an ecoflow home battery and a vehicle that can do v2h.

Happy International Women's Day! Being a woman in any male dominated field (which, let's face it, is most) is hard, and that certainly includes Technology.

Don't feel discouraged! You are a part of the change, and we're here to support you 💪♀️🌎

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.

If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.

some time ago i (half) joked that the only job #llm 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.

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.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061548/ #LWN #Linux #security

"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!

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.

June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water 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 “impacted by objects”

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

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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.

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.

b4 review is very close to its first beta release!

Just putting in some important final touches.

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.