Paying maintainers who accept monetary donations is a good start, but the real critical thing people need to do is stop abusing maintainers. Stop abusing random people on the internet in general. Seriously.

I know we've all got capitalism brain worms, but sometimes the only thing that is accomplished by throwing money at a project is creating a customer entitlement dynamic that pointlessly increases the stress placed on volunteers.

Ask maintainers what kind of support they need.

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. 😊

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.

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!

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

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