If you run an operation that pays freelance authors for articles, you get a *lot* of people trying to sell you the output from their slop factory of choice. These pitches far exceed the legitimate ones at this point.

Today we got a pitch for an article about the load-balancing scheduler regression caused by the sched_ext framework in the 6.11 release. Somebody has clearly put a bit more than the usual amount of attention into the sort of topic that might appeal to @lwn. There is only one little problem... that regression had nothing to do with sched_ext, which was merged in 6.12. The pitch was a bunch of authoritative-sounding bullshit; the article would surely have been more of the same.

Sometimes I truly lose hope about humanity's ability to keep its head above the flood of this stuff.

I love how Apple will now be repeating every security mistake by writing their own container runtime. I thought we're past all that but hey, let's have some more path lookup CVEs. @cyphar

https://github.com/apple/containerization/pull/173

In the i686 discussion in #Fedora we currently hear quite a lot of voices in support for the Steam client, but not that much of other use cases.

If you have anything specific using i686 packages on Fedora, which is _not_ Steam, this is a good time to mention it, so that your use cases are not lost.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

And please do not panic, it is a discussion, nothing is decided yet :)

Hunting down bugs on embedded systems is not always fun. That one was.

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/06/deep-down-the-rabbit-hole-bash-overlayfs-and-a-30-year-old-surprise/

Mein Freund und Kollege Fefe lässt Grüße aus dem Krankenhaus ausrichten, wo er sich nach einem Schlaganfall auf dem Weg der Genesung befindet.

#fefe

Intel to replace their marketing people accenture and AI.
I guess if your ship is about to sink anyway you might as well pull the plug

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/06/intel-will-outsource-marketing-to-accenture-and-ai-laying-off-many-of-its-own-workers.html

#intel #ai

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-slack-workspace-changes-coming-on-friday-june-20/

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

@pluralistic

#enshittification

📢 🐧 🇪🇺 The schedule for Linux Security Summit Europe (LSS-EU) 2025 is now up:

🏰 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-europe/program/schedule/

LSS-EU will be co-located with OSS-EU in Amsterdam, NL, on 28-29 August 2025.

For more information, see:

🏤 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-europe/

#linux #security #linuxfoundation #linuxsecuritysummit

The missing translate caffe was great 😁

OH: “Wer keinen Enterprise-Architekt kennt: das sind Softwareentwickler, die sich sehr gerne selber reden hören”

JURASSIC PARK was released 32 years ago today. Also, Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale about how you compensate IT staff :P

Guckt mal! 👀
https://ruthe.de/shop

🥔🥔🥔

Like everybody else, LWN is affected by the current turbulence in the political and economic spheres; we expect to get through this period, but there will be some challenges.

To put it bluntly: starting around the beginning of March, we have observed a distinct drop in both new subscriptions and renewals. [...] #OpenSource #Linux #LWN

https://lwn.net/Articles/1019217/

Und jetzt alle zusammen einmal nachsprechen, damit wir es uns gut einprägen, weil es immer wieder Leute falsch machen:

*X11 ist nicht das gleiche wie Xorg*

So wie es in dieser Überschrift falsch ist, denn der Support für X11-Anwengungen geht noch lange nicht in Rente, Xwayland sei Dank; es geht nur um den Support zum Betrieb von Gnome mit Hilfe von Xorg[1].

https://www.heise.de/news/GNOME-49-schickt-X11-in-Rente-10437492.html

[1] der Server des X.org-Projekts (leicht zu verwechseln mit der X.org Foundation[2])

[2] https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/01/xorg-project-vs-xorg-foundation.html

Long and fun interview with me on the Wookash Podcast just got published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1-OjxPJZcs

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