After we're done with containerization of software, let's continue with banks? 🤔

Overheard at the lab: “I don’t understand why people do drugs when they could be doing operating systems research instead.”

64 bytes.

not kilobytes.

bytes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g9WXzZrSx0

New network equipment with a fancy gadget. 🥰

Erkenntnis....

#erkenntnis #weisheit

I don't know why and how, but it took me years to find this extremely useful trick:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/How_to_Build_an_application_with_your_own_custom_glibc

Seriously impressed with Victoria Logs.

We're replacing our ElasticSearch cluster (27 nodes, ~588 CPU Cores, with 4656gb RAM) with a single VL Node (8 CPU Cores, 64gb RAM).

We shipped 100m logs to VL in the last hour - box is basically idling with only a couple of GB of RAM used. Any random search query returns in a fraction of a second.

Seriously seriously impressive.

A picture of EPROM burner. That is how older generations used to get updates 🤓

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM

It's time! Registration & Call for Proposals are now open for #XDC2025 in Vienna, Austria! If you plan on attending, please make sure to register as early as possible! https://xdc2025.x.org #Mesa #Wayland #Linux #Graphics #OpenSource

Sometimes bugs are so funny that you don't know whether to cry or to laugh.
Today: Linux on a Raspberry Pi booted from U-Boot loads an initramfs, even though no initramfs address was explicitly configured in the booti command.

https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250529150213.27149-1-richard@nod.at/T/#u

Q: "Why have you suddenly been reworking coredumping, Christian?"
A: "Because I'm a clown and also I had it with all the CVEs because we provide a **** API for userspace."

So now that @torvalds merged the pidfs and initial coredump work things are already better but I have more work there.

In other news, there's two new CVEs in userpace that should be gone completely by installing a pidfd into the umh or by using the coredump socket.

[1]: https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt

[2]: https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2025/05/29/qualys-tru-discovers-two-local-information-disclosure-vulnerabilities-in-apport-and-systemd-coredump-cve-2025-5054-and-cve-2025-4598

Home made ramen

@linuxtage

Accordion to a recent survey, replacing words with the names of musical instruments in a sentence often goes undetected.

Psst... did you know, you can subscribe to the kernel releases calendar?

https://kernel.org/releases-calendar.ics

Know ahead of time when the next kernel is going to be released! Amaze your friends!

The IT-Syndikat is doing the party-thing again! Hack the planet, fuck the system, be excellent and don't forget to save the date! 🎉

software archeologists of 2050s searching for source code created pre 2025 since everything broke due to AI infestation and nobody remembers how to fix it.

'Impossible' to create a decent media library on my salary without copyrighted material, Angie says.

If some website asks for your birthday without really needing it, use month and date of a deceased relative you liked.

When the marketing birthday emails come, you’ll think of them instead of feeling exploited by a heartless company. And you can treat any voucher they send you as a gift from that relative. Like today, when Lidl gave me a free cake care of my grandma… #lifehack