My story about how telematics data from people's cars unexpectedly raised their insurance rates is on the front page today...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b00.DzhQ.GXkvg-kgWebx&smid=url-share

... and this is where it started: me lurking on car forums and seeing comments like this.

If this story doesn't convince lawmakers we need a strong federal privacy law, I'm not sure what will.

The next Linux Kernel Debugging Tools monthly meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, February 28th at 11:30 AM Pacific time. See the linux-debuggers mailing list for the agenda: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-debuggers/Zd5FF1aTvhHWcHhY@telecaster/ and let me know if you'd like an invite.

@vitaut But is it the punchline or the setup? Like is it:

*Knock knock*

Who's there?

ISO!

ISO who?

I so regret C++ standardization.

@broonie @monsieuricon @vbabka The problem on my end is that I don't always follow the previous versions of patch sets, particularly when a patch set touches multiple trees. So I try to go poke around the history to make sure nothing got missed, but that's a manual process and I tend to screw stuff like that up.

@monsieuricon @broonie @vbabka IMO it's worth trying. One of my big issues is when someone keeps submitting patches, ignores core review feedback, and then just tires people out. Even just having a "this guy said your patch is totally broken and you ignored it 10 revisions ago to tire them out" blast when merging something would be awesome.

So it's not like I'd expect GPT to get everything, just to get ahead of the bad actors.

So, this is fun, but it really chews through your ChatGPT credits. :`)

I'm working on b4 "code review" mode (grab a series, apply it to your tree, review every patch, send all your acked-by's, reviewed-by's, and individual comments as a one lump batch at the end of your review). The reason I'm playing with this is to see if we can plug in some AI pre-analysis and discussion summaries before the reviewer starts their work.

We had a lot of #linaro hackers wondering around at #fosdem this year it seems: https://www.linaro.org/blog/linaro-fosdem-2024/

The #Linux Security Summit, April 18 & 19, in Seattle, has published the schedule:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/program/schedule/
Come join us!

@vathpela @TheWarOnCars maybe less progress than I thought -- there were 7 illegally parked cars today, and when I called the police the guy said he didn't even want descriptions because he was sure they'd be gone by the time the police got there.

@vathpela @TheWarOnCars ya, clearly vandalism is the way to get stuff done in San Carlos ;)

@TheWarOnCars so that seems to be the way to go around here: after calling the police to report the cars for at least the third time last night, the lady on the phone asked if there was anything else. So rather than just saying "no" like the last times, I said "hey, I don't mind just smashing the cars up for you -- no reason to make you guys drive all the way down here, it's pretty easy to just knock some mirrors off". She seemed pretty shocked, but I guess that was enough to get them to come down and ticket these guys!

@TheWarOnCars so I guess we have a partial success: the first guy seems to have had his mirror smashed off, so he (and his neighbor) have stopped parking on the sidewalk. Unfortunately the guy a bit down the street didn't get the message, and one of his neighbors has also started parking on the sidewalk.

Linux is now a CNA: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2024/02/13/linux-is-a-cna/

This has taken a long time, I'd like to thank all the groups that helped, and especially the CVE group themselves. Our application was a bit different than other groups, but they understood that this is important for security overall.

One-line fix, you say? Meh. Here's a zero-line fix!

1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/27573/diffs?commit_id=d8e4a4e44b3e3bb493535f87c14123e4dbbe1209

@TheWarOnCars and now that whole side of the street has started parking on the sidewalk. I guess the figure if one guy can get away with it, then just go for it?

@itaru I'm not actually sure what it's called, I just press Fn+H and that makes it stop throttling so hard.

Wondering if that might be something the #Linux #kernel development community could use to motivate a few people to improve the #LinuxKernel's docs:

"'"Google Season of Docs provides direct grants to open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source."'"

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/announcing-google-season-of-docs-2024.html

When I got started with Linux kernel debugging, one of the most opaque topics was core dumps. What's inside them? What formats are there? How do they get created? How can you fix them if they're broken?

I've learned a lot over the past several years, and I wrote a guide based on my experience. It's a very long article, and surely not complete. I hope if you're interested in kernel debugging, you might read it and find it useful!

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/whats-inside-a-linux-kernel-core-dump

@paulmckrcu @TheWarOnCars ya, I guess I could put some big wheels on the jack and just drag it around everywhere I go...

@raito Ha that's getting into NDA territory