@yosh if it helps any, I bought a Rabbit Air Minus A2 and I really like it. I just bought it based on a recommendation from a friend who had done some efficiency testing and said it was the best, but I it quotes some good numbers and it's very quiet on the low settings. Mine's measuring 42dbA at arm's length on medium (not sure what the airflow is, though, as I don't have tools for that).

Remember that blog post "How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution" where a maintainer slightly rewrote a patch and took credit for it? Well, I decided to do something about it.

I co-authored a guide with Maria Matějka and some other folks on documenting how your project gives credit and otherwise handles contributions. If your project's policy is to lightly rewrite contributions and take credit for them, say so! Subscriber link (free) to the LWN article:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/971817/ae5fbbbc8cd1cf18/

I'll be co-presenting tomorrow evening on our Bike Bus, including last week's ride with the brass band. If you're in the area, Somerville's Aeronaut Brewery, 6-7:30PM, come say hi! https://www.facebook.com/events/453905903669468

@LWN launched kernel source database! This is cool! Another reason to subscribe to LWN! https://lwn.net/ksdb/

Seems like that "crime prevention analysis" should be an easy one...

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/popular-sacramento-bike-trail-has-turned-into-expressway-for-cars-neighbors-say/

Interested to learn more? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXN6zhH9dkISgsvGsgHH53k_zN3EdOgxQc8JHPTwpHUUbPaQ/viewform

Now you might wonder: how often does this actually happen? The common wisdom on this topic is that hardware failures are so rare that software bugs will always dwarf them. As I found out this is demonstrably false.

While investigating Firefox crashes I've come to the conclusion that several of the most common issues we were dealing with were likely caused by flaky hardware. This led me to come up with a simple heuristic to detect crashes potentially caused by bit-flips. 10/17

@gabrielesvelto IIRC the design point failure rate for consumer storage/memory was that it just had to be reliable enough that customers assumed it was Windows crashing and not the HW being broken.

@trini @lapis I've found washing soda is really good at getting some flavors of grime off, it's super good for tea/coffee residue. PBW is a mix of that and TSP, which is a super strong combo but isn't so good for the environment so I try and start with just the washing soda.

Hey Mastodon friends, it's Bike Month so we're running a discount in our official store. 10% off on everything, including apparel and stickers.

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We rely on listener support to keep the podcast going and this is another way we keep the lights on.

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#thewaroncars #podcast

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@pdp7 @tommythorn IIUC they're building their own cores, there's two I've seen references to so far.

@palmer Nono, I meant that my question from my last post was probably rhetorical.

@gmarkall @conor yes

@conor at this point I don't even think the questions are rhetorical, that would involve some sort of thought. I actually think we've just all been duped by some AI thing...

@conor I guess it's not so bad if Jim fell for it too ;)

I guess this is a bit embarrassing, but I finally fell for a May Fools joke...

https://lists.riscv.org/g/apps-tools-software/topic/risc_v_tech_unprivileged/105892640

I buy cars at 200k miles...

https://jalopnik.com/americans-are-driving-their-cars-to-death-in-order-to-s-1851450846

When someone moved your cheese 20 years ago. :)

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218796

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/manta-an-open-on-fpga-debug-interface/

Mentioned this in passing, but want to publicly thank Dell for sponsoring a big test box. Tons of storage, tons of bandwidth, and now 100G connected in my little lab for great io_uring networking testing as well. They even stopped by my office for a day to rack mount it!