Hello you fine Internet folks

Today's article is on a Mainframe. A system that has seemingly dethroned the king of the mainframe, IBM.
Today, we are looking at Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600, the fastest mainframe available today!

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/01/inside-control-data-corporations-cdc-6600/

"Scotland's new hate crime law has come into force, with JK Rowling and Elon Musk among its critics."

First line of the article and I'm already a big fan of the new law.

"In 2022, cars killed 7,508 pedestrians, the equivalent of 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashing with zero survivors. That means a pedestrian died roughly every 70 minutes, with no breaks in the tide of fatalities for weekends or holidays."

https://www.motor1.com/features/713936/pedestrian-deaths-emergency/

La la la. No this doesn't sound sketch.

Telegram is offering a new way to earn a premium subscription free of charge: all you have to do is volunteer your phone number to relay one-time passwords (OTP) to other users. This, in fact, sounds like an awful idea — particularly for a messaging service based around privacy.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111818/telegram-peer-to-peer-login-otp-two-factor-volunteer

knowing where you are in git

https://wizardzines.com/comics/knowing-where-you-are-in-git/

We got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.

Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. 😊

@liskin @oleksandr having everyone introduce themselves with the distro they use sounds about like the right kind of silly to me ;)

Ever played factorio and thought "I wish my factory had a risc-v core"?

Introducing Factorio Yosys!

This is a project of a friend of mine not on mastodon, so all credit to him. He built a full @yosyshq backend for #factorio that can now compile a #riscv core.

The core runs at 1.82 Hz at 60 FPS, and much faster with uncapped framerate.

Source code here https://git.sr.ht/~acqrel/factorio-yosys

I had a great time visiting Tenstorrent's Santa Clara office this week. @olofj surprised us with the unexpected delight of Semla! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla

Surely someone who's worked on Chromecasts at some point follows me, so why am I getting this:

curl 'http://192.168.87.229:8008/setup/eureka_info?params=setup.setup_state' | jq

{
"setup": {
"setup_state": 52
}
}

which does not appear to be an expected value, and attempting to trigger a stream results in it immediately closing the connection help I don't know what I'm doing

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!