@notjustbikes This afternoon in parliament, this research https://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=2024D26259 “Crashes involving heavier vehicles; Empirical relationship between vehicle weight, drivetrain and crash frequency and severity”

"In collisions between passenger cars/delivery vehicles and vulnerable road users (i.e., cyclists and pedestrians) (…) as crash opponents, the severity for the crash opponent was on average higher (…)”

Summary on page 6 and 7 is already translated into English.

Not that I'm promising anything but I've just sent the final patch to fix building #Flang on #Gentoo:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/126387

#LLVM #Fortran

⚠️ ALL IS NOT LOST ⚠️

The news cycle is tremendously disheartening. Wildfires, the spread of climate disinformation in real time, genocides, the rise of the far right, removing fact checking and supports that protect vulnerable communities - it’s heavy.

We have a formidable amount of obstacles in our way.

But don’t lose sight of the fact that it isn’t too late.

Every fraction of action matters - and it’s not over yet.

#ClimateAction

QEMU is applying for Google Summer of Code again. Are you a QEMU contributor with a project idea you'd like to mentor this summer? Find out how to be a mentor this summer here:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAJSP0QVYE1Zcws=9hoO6+B+xB-hVWv38Dtu_LM8SysAmS4qRMw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

This whole DeepSeek thing, even if it ends up there's some smoke and mirrors, is very indicative of a trend which I expect to dominate for many years, and that's computational efficiency. We've had years of storage is cheap, compute is cheap, just build it so it works. But now neither of those things are cheap, not at the scale we use them at. The focus is going to move back to optimization, and this is the first high profile example.

I'm heading to #FOSDEM this weekend. If you want to meet up to talk about #QEMU, #EC2, #UEFI, #KHO or any other topic I'm a useful conversation partner for, please reach out so we can find each other in the torrent of people! #fosdem2025

We will be around in @fosdem to attend a great event and meet you and maybe find next speakers for Kernel Recipes 2025.

See you there!

Kohei Tokunaga's talk on Running QEMU Inside Browser at FOSDEM '25 intrigues me. WebAssembly lacks some of the low-level primitives QEMU depends on for threading and coroutines. Getting it to work must have been challenging:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6290-running-qemu-inside-browser/

LSFMM+BPF 2025 proposal deadline approaching

https://lwn.net/Articles/1005445/ #LWN

There’s a lot I disagree with Drew DeVault with, but I respect this a lot:

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

Cool project: "Nepenthes" is a tarpit to catch (AI) web crawlers.

"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

When NYC started congestion pricing last week, we knew the local mainstream press would be out talking to drivers who were against the toll. So we went out and heard from some people who weren’t driving, including advocates who fought for this historic program.

https://thewaroncars.org/2025/01/14/142-congestion-pricing-is-finally-here/

1. The Linux kernel
2. git
3. guitar pedals

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/linus_torvalds_guitar_pedal_offer/

Save the date: Kernel Recipes is back! 🎉
From September 22-24, 2025, we’re diving into 3 days of kernel discussions, talks and community fun.
Stay tuned!

The next Portland Linux Kernel meetup will be on Thursday, January 23rd from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM PST at Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St: https://www.meetup.com/portland-linux-kernel-meetup/events/305517704/ #Linux #LinuxKernel #Portland #PDX #PortlandPDX

Nvidia CEO says company has plans for desktop chip designed with MediaTek

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-ceo-says-mediatek-will-be-able-sell-nvidias-desktop-cpus-2025-01-07/

> "We're going to make that a mainstream product," Huang said. "We'll support it with all the things that we do to support professional and high-quality software, and the PC (manufacturers) will make it available to end users."

Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, in Central Square.
#MA_S45LCS

I will present Mirror Hall for the first time at #FOSDEM next month [1], and wrote a guide on how to develop similar home-grown desktop streamer solutions last month [2].

There's only a couple of weekends until then for small improvements to the app, so if you have any particular wishes let me know! 🪄

1. https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4527-mirror-hall-building-virtual-network-displays-to-bridge-mobile-and-desktop/

2. https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/

I’ve posted an end-of-year update for my GCC translation validation tool, smtgcc, to the GCC mailing list:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2024-December/245315.html