Nothing like a trillion dollar company asking if your volunteer run project can fix a problem quicker.

@fosdem is starting: @LPI has nice #stickers and #discounts on #LPI exams. Just watch out for the people with the yellow shirts an #sayhi to get yours.

Looking forward to meet you!
#fosdem #lpi #linux #opensource #brussels

They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true.
Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.

#AI

Hot take: SystemD is actually pretty good. #systemd #linux

Hätte in Wien wer ein Gästezimmer frei von Samstag 30. Mai oder Montag 1. Juni bis Sonntag 7. Juni? Ich bin mit meiner Liebsten bei der Österreichischen Rollerderby Meisterschaft. Auch gerne nur einen Teil der Zeit, dann planen wir entsprechend. Auch gerne für Tipps für günstige Zimmer. :)

The Google alert I have for "kernel.org" in the news is becoming less and less useful as the web is now knee-deep in slop articles regurgitated for clicks.

However, I was amused by the illustration on this one. Sure, this is that social.kernel.org looks like. A whole stack of blades in a half-rack. Not, you know, something as banal as a t3.large.

Also, you know, that's exactly how you arrange racks in your datacentre. Just stick a random half-rack in the middle of the floor, blowing exhaust down your cold aisle.

My business partner, David Gstir, wrote a blog post on common pitfalls when using a TPM on embedded systems.

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/01/tpm-on-embedded-systems-pitfalls-and-caveats/

After being let go from Microsoft, Clippy fell on hard times

The crawler that pretended to be b4 is now pretending to be curl. This is a little trickier, but we can still deal with it.

If you have a legitimate tool that is now suddenly returning 403s, please reach out to me.

Schönes Zitat: "Ich brauche Privatsphäre. Nicht weil meine Handlungen fragwürdig sind, sondern weil euer Urteilsvermögen und eure Absichten fragwürdig sind." #privacy

Sir, yessir.

#IwantMyMTV
Wenn @Exilsarahl und ich über MTV reminiszieren, meinen wir das gute, alte Musik MTV, von dem es jetzt eine Online-Version gibt:
https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/ #LWN

@phoenix I'm not against having samba_share_t. I'm against applying the context automatically. Only the sysadmin should trigger this for folders he really wants to share.

@phoenix How can samba khow what the right security contexts are? Especially when exporting something non-trivial.
To me this solution feels more like a "Just make it work" approach.

@phoenix Really? Sounds more like a (mis?)feature of your NAS.

Buffer overflow in /bin/su from UNIX v4

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/05/10

🎉 Neujahrsvorsatz 2026?
Reiche einen Workshop, Vortrag oder Infostand für #GLT26 ein!

👉 https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt26/cfp

Recently I had fun with the rediscovered UNIX v4. While browsing the code I found a bug in the su(1) utility and decided to fix it like it is 1973.
https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/

@trashheap The “argument” by the SFC is complete garbage, and always has been. There has been no question about the license, and I have made it very clear over the years. And the SFC knows that.

So when they argue their incorrect reading of the GPLv2 in court, they are absolutely not doing GPLv2 enforcement. They are trying to further an agenda that is invalid, and always has been, and is explicitly against the wishes of the actual copyright holders.

So the SFC is just pure trash.

If they want to “protect” some project, let them protect a project that asks for it - not one that is known to not want their kind of protection.

Because what they are doing is a racket, plain and simple.