What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

"Congratulations on having your first Pull Request (PR) merged into the LLVM Project!"

It's over for me

I can't believe we replaced blogs and RSS with people emailing their posts to you. just a really obviously stupid step backwards

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-prepares-new-future-software-defined-vehicles-upcoming-general-availability-red-hat-vehicle-operating-system ... "Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System has achieved functional safety certification as a Safety Element out-of-Context (SEooC) against the ISO 26262 Edition 2, 2018- Level ASIL-B standard." Built on top of the GNU Toolchain as a system compiler, with glibc and libstdc++ as the core C and C++ libraries. @gnutools

'"[…] Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. […] That means that the code that powers WSL is now available on GitHub at Microsoft/WSL and open sourced to the community! You can download WSL and build it from source, add new fixes and features and participate in WSL’s active development."'

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/

Air pollution in Paris before and after they added bike lanes and put restrictions on cars.

I will never understand people needing to drive cars in large cities like Paris.

We found an Apple Silicon CPU issue with FJCVTZS, the "JS-compatible double-to-int32 conversion" instruction that was added to ARMv8.3.

If the Flush-to-Zero flag is set in the FPCR register and FJCVTZS is used with a denormal, my M1 sets the Zero flag to 1 and M2-M4 CPUs set it to 0. This flag indicates whether the conversion was exact. I believe M1 is correct?

Test case: https://gist.github.com/jandem/e6b5660975f145b85d533b97ad054f08

Earlier today I released libpwm 1.0-rc1. If you’re working on a PWM Linux driver or you want to control a PWM from userspace, that’s what you should look into.

As part of a time-limited trial, yesterday we removed the www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com robots.txt "block" on *one* GenAI crawler.

Here's a graph of total daily requests from that 1 GenAI crawler by content-type. You'll note, they've retrieved ~460k web pages in ~16 hours, so a mean of ~28,750 web pages per hour. They'll likely pull ~690k pages today, ~32GB egress.

Whilst this is a drop in the ocean versus our other traffic, I can easily see how this could sink a smaller website.

#GenAI #WebDev

Linux Plumbers Refereed track and Microconference proposals are now open for submission! https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2025/05/14/submission-time-for-linux-plumbers-2025/

Came across this guy in the Prato della Valle in Padova today and wish I'd known who he was at the time. He's apparently 87 and holds several cycling records. Most of all: he's ridden down the Stelvio, at night, with no handlebars, lights, or brakes. #Italy25

Thanks to your amazing support, our team is funded for the next year. This is a huge relief and lets us focus on building a truly self-sustaining OSL.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future-update/

Somebody replied to a post of mine with "lol microsoft security" and... Look, we laugh because we remember the old days, but: log4shell, Heartbleed, Shellshock, the Valgrind randomization bug, every firewall traversal bug with "../../" in it and Linux access permissions are a child's toy left over from the 70s. None of those are Microsoft problems.

Time was, yes, sure. Fine. Today, we have to get our own glass house in order before we call in that shipment from the quarry.

We're 2.5 years into this gold rush, and I still haven't seen any gold. I've seen people selling picks & shovels. I've seen "gold experts" selling maps to the gold. I've seen CEOs announce they're going "gold-first". I've seen people selling land where they claim there's gold. But no actual gold.

How to Bike Across the Country (that being the USA)

https://www.brooks.team/posts/how-to-bike-across-the-country/

Be like Dolly.

Just, y’know, a plot of all objects in the universe...🤯