We will be around in @fosdem to attend a great event and meet you and maybe find next speakers for Kernel Recipes 2025.

See you there!

Kohei Tokunaga's talk on Running QEMU Inside Browser at FOSDEM '25 intrigues me. WebAssembly lacks some of the low-level primitives QEMU depends on for threading and coroutines. Getting it to work must have been challenging:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6290-running-qemu-inside-browser/

LSFMM+BPF 2025 proposal deadline approaching

https://lwn.net/Articles/1005445/ #LWN

There’s a lot I disagree with Drew DeVault with, but I respect this a lot:

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

Cool project: "Nepenthes" is a tarpit to catch (AI) web crawlers.

"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

When NYC started congestion pricing last week, we knew the local mainstream press would be out talking to drivers who were against the toll. So we went out and heard from some people who weren’t driving, including advocates who fought for this historic program.

https://thewaroncars.org/2025/01/14/142-congestion-pricing-is-finally-here/

1. The Linux kernel
2. git
3. guitar pedals

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/linus_torvalds_guitar_pedal_offer/

Save the date: Kernel Recipes is back! 🎉
From September 22-24, 2025, we’re diving into 3 days of kernel discussions, talks and community fun.
Stay tuned!

The next Portland Linux Kernel meetup will be on Thursday, January 23rd from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM PST at Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St: https://www.meetup.com/portland-linux-kernel-meetup/events/305517704/ #Linux #LinuxKernel #Portland #PDX #PortlandPDX

Nvidia CEO says company has plans for desktop chip designed with MediaTek

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-ceo-says-mediatek-will-be-able-sell-nvidias-desktop-cpus-2025-01-07/

> "We're going to make that a mainstream product," Huang said. "We'll support it with all the things that we do to support professional and high-quality software, and the PC (manufacturers) will make it available to end users."

Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, in Central Square.
#MA_S45LCS

I will present Mirror Hall for the first time at #FOSDEM next month [1], and wrote a guide on how to develop similar home-grown desktop streamer solutions last month [2].

There's only a couple of weekends until then for small improvements to the app, so if you have any particular wishes let me know! 🪄

1. https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4527-mirror-hall-building-virtual-network-displays-to-bridge-mobile-and-desktop/

2. https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/

I’ve posted an end-of-year update for my GCC translation validation tool, smtgcc, to the GCC mailing list:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2024-December/245315.html

A small announcement from me that I am now officially able to spend a lot more of my time working on Linux kernel maintainer support duties. It's not a "change of hats," but I will be able to spend a lot more time wearing my maintainer support hat on this year!

https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/20241230-loyal-jumping-marmoset-0bde8f@lemur/T/#u

Everything Open 2025 program is now published.

Presentation “Enhancing spatial safety in the Linux kernel: Fixing thousands of -Wfamnae warnings” by Gustavo A. R. Silva

Program: https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/
Tickets: https://2025.everythingopen.au/attend/tickets/

#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource

How today started: "ah, time for the easy bit of this library, open a unix socket and talk with the codec I've written"

How today is going: posix spec open on one screen, manpages on another, linux kernel source code front and center. One of these three is lying, and by Jove I aim to discover which it is.

I generated a 12-character commit SHA prefix collision with the start of Linux's git history. It took about 6 hours on an RTX 3080 GPU:

https://people.kernel.org/kees/colliding-with-the-sha-prefix-of-linuxs-initial-git-commit

if you're interested in actually overthrowing Big Android (rather than living off Googles scraps) be sure to come by the #LinuxMobile assembly this congress. There's a revolution brewing :3

https://linmob.net/38c3/

#38c3 #MobileLinux #ccc #postmarketOS

in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine

i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them