Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason. One among hundreds in the area, but this is the one that took out *our* power and Internet.

PGE (Portland General Electric) claims we should get power back by 10pm today, but the ice storm arrives today, so we'll see.

Edit: well, it looks like PGE fixed the outage by just removing me from the outage database, not by actually reconnecting power. That was the second time that happened, so I re-re-reported the outage. Not that I was hugely optimistic about the 10pm timeframe, but it looks even less likely now.

I'm excited to announce I've joined @olofj's RISC-V Software team at Tenstorrent! If you aren't familiar with Tenstorrent, then check this recent talk from CEO Jim Keller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPX1H3jW8ZQ

I'm against capital punishment in general, but I might be convinced to keep it on the books for product designers who put the screws under glued-on rubber feet

"In #RHEL 9, we upgraded the ISA baseline to the x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level. For RHEL 10, we are exploring whether we can go a step further, to the x86-64-v3 level."

From Florian Weimer: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/01/02/exploring-x86-64-v3-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10

Did you know:

There is a single misplaced pixel in Toad's spritesheet. This error is across all versions, including prototypes as far back as April 1992. That shade of red doesn't appear on any Toad head sprites, and is too out of place on his head to be part of the ovals.

the picture on the right is circling the sprites that are at the same scale to show a full rotation, showing that the pixel is actually an error.

Sneaky lil guy has been hiding for over 30 years!

This one trick to do sqr() and cube() in C: https://godbolt.org/z/7qeanM

#programming

vger mail transfer is complete and working well.

Please send your kind regards and words of thanks to @warthog9 for his work managing vger over the past several years, after having taken over its maintenance from DaveM.

@monsieuricon I didn’t want to spam the lists as I think I just still don’t know how email works, but IIUC saying “we will switch the MX record for vger to point to the new location (subspace.kernel.org)” means that I do not need to do something like this?

diff --git a/.mailrc b/.mailrc
index 89c8e56..10fc4ee 100644
--- a/.mailrc
+++ b/.mailrc
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ alias libc-alpha          libc-alpha@sourceware.org
 alias glibc-patches       libc-alpha@sourceware.org
 alias gcc-patches         gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
 alias binutils-patches    binutils@sourceware.org
-alias linux-kernel        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+alias linux-kernel        linux-kernel@subspace.kernel.org
 alias linux-riscv         linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
 alias linux-patches       linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
 alias linux-arch          linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

User’s group meetup 004!

Today 7th December at 18:00 CET. Use this link to join: https://meet.jit.si/yosys-users-group

We'll start with a welcome and news, followed by a discussion on the Yosys plugin system.

We’ll have 2 demos by Martin Povišer & Gabriel Gouvine.

Afterwards we'll have time for your questions and suggestions.

See the agenda and minutes of our previous meetups here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13e8hERQ_eqLQrdtH1WXnGUXDtgyQ8oa_zZWXPHJCiN0/edit#heading=h.acuv9rigd4pt

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Accepted stands for FOSDEM 2024 https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-accepted-stands-fosdem-2024/

Any embedded Linux software engineers looking for a well paid job?

Louis Rossmann is hiring.

#Linux #TexasInstruments #EmbeddedLinux #Programmers #Engineers #Work

Putting software in containers is cruel and unnatural.

Programs should be allowed to roam and graze freely on computer systems. Forcibly isolating and constraining them will lead only undue suffering.

Use of technologies such as Docker in systems administration must be ended immediately, there is no ethical justification for inflicting trauma like this in an enlightened society.

In this "free range software manifesto" I will -

Well, TIL that b4 shazam has some other handy flags like -H and I can use that instead of make a branch, apply, merge, drop in cover letter.

CFP for the containers devroom at #fosdem2024 is now out!
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/fosdem-2024-containers-devroom-call-for-papers/18253

With the HDR OLED Steam Deck announced today, it's the ideal time to check out a recent blog post (and the linked XDC talk) on exposing AMD color management features to Linux userspace from my @igalia colleague @melissa https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2023/11/07/amd-steamdeck-colors-p2

Linaro successfully enables upstream Linux support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform - the latest addition to the Snapdragon family.
Learn more about:
- Effortless upstream Linux integration
- Powerful performance optimization
- Running AOSP with Mainline
- Continued collaboration
Read the Blog Post Here https://www.linaro.org/blog/upstream-linux-support-now-available-for-the-the-qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-3-mobile-platform/
#Qualcomm #LinuxSupport #Snapdragon #Technology #Innovation"

A talk for fresh Kernel Maintainers and anyone looking to optimize their workflow @linuxplumbersconf with @krzk
1. Get improvements to email workflow: b4, useful simple hooks for verifying commits (because checkpatch is not enough).
2. Get yourself in linux-next and get tested by community Continuous Integration/Testing.
3. Add yourself to kernel.org keyring, sign your tags and pushes (for transparency log).
4. Dump the mailing lists: use lei and lore
https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1498/

We'll be holding a BBB Training session for remote presenters and attendees on Thursday (8 November) at:

7am PST, 10am EST, 3pm UTC, 4pm CET, 8:30pm IST, 12am Friday JST

This will be recorded so that you can watch it later.

This session is highly recommend for those that are presenting remotely

To join, you will need to log in to: https://meet.lpc.events

After logging in, to join the meeting, click the Hackroom entry in the leftnav then select the join button of Hackroom 1.