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Probably some RISC-V stuff, but hopefully other things too ;)

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/

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"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.

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"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/

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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

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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. 😊

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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 that can now compile a 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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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Kees Cook (old account)

The 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!

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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.
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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

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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

Wondering if that might be something the development community could use to motivate a few people to improve the '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

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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

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