Results of the 2024 TAB (the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board) election:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/87y13bc05z.fsf@trenco.lwn.net/

"'There were 934 eligible voters in this year's TAB election; 229 of them cast ballots. The results were (with the top five winning seats):

1 Kees Cook
2 Dan Williams
3 Miguel Ojeda
4 Dave Hansen
5 Shuah Khan
[...]

Thanks to everybody who participated.'"

#Linux #kernel #LinuxKernel

#BPF #kernel changes up to now normally came as part of the big -net pull. Seems for #Linux 6.12 the involved developers try something new, as Alexei send the changes straight to Linus this time:

https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/440b65232829fad69947b8de983c13a525cc8871

#LinuxKernel #eBPF

What happened to Greta Thunberg?
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As Greta’s politics have grown and evolved, they reached a point where they now make billionaire media owners, milquetoast executives of major non-profits, and more than a few politicians a little uncomfortable. All she’s done is follow the science, but over time the science has led her to see that the climate crisis doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are massive monetary incentives to destroy the planet in this capitalist system.

ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP made over $100 billion in profits in 2023 alone. In following the science, Greta had to start examining the capitalist system if she wanted to get down to the root of the climate crisis.

But Greta kept going. When she published The Climate Book in 2022, the then 19-year-old activist had some words for the entire system we live under today:

"We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the Global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”

That was two years ago, and it’s no surprise she hasn’t been given the spotlight nearly as often since. In fact, in the wake of that book launch, she’s been the subject of countless hit pieces, and her Palestine solidarity activism has been denigrated as well.

Greta went from a cute kid saying that climate change is bad to a young adult rightly charging global systems with not only fueling the climate crisis but also being oppressive and grossly harmful to life in numerous other ways. And, perhaps most importantly, she sees these systems as interconnected and knows that radical change is necessary for the future of life on this planet.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.jphilll.com/p/gretas-growth

#Politics #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Last night at the real-time celebration, Thomas Gleixner handed Linus Torvalds his official pull request of the real-time patch on paper "wrapped in gold with a ribbon around it''

2/ It's done! 🥳

A few minutes ago #PREEMPT_RT (aka: #realtime support) support landed in #Linux mainline, as Linus honored the PR that Tglx handed him yesterday in person (see first toot in thread): https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/baeb9a7d8b60b021d907127509c44507539c15e5

Congrats and thx to everyone who was involved in this 20 year long journey!

#Kernel #LinuxKernel

It worked! Made it successfully to Vienna, and only ~5 hours later than originally planned! 😃

"It is not the case that “AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.” The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit."

"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated."

https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/

Read the whole thing!

The Elbe definitely shows the aftermath of the rains - good thing the railway is a few metres above it! Very pretty morning here, though! 🤩

@vbabka
Thanks!

Ohh, seems this may actually work out! 😃🤞🚂

Darth Vader in a kilt, on a unicycle, playing bagpipes.

It's good to be alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdjY6oy4Y2c

@wagi
Right, I did look at flights from Copenhagen this morning, despaired at how cheap they were, and then decided to stubbornly carry on with the trains. We'll see how well that turns out...

@jpelckolsen
Thanks! It's the weather: All trains between Vienna and Linz are cancelled due to the flooding, and the trains from Germany are either cancelled completely, or terminate in Passau. And since it's been raining all day today as well, I don't really trust that this will clear up during day tomorrow. So now I'm trying to go the other way around, since the Czech railways say their trains are still going in the west of the country...

Looks like the eastern route through the Czech Republic has the highest chance of success tomorrow, so decided to continue on to Berlin and spend the night there, then get an early train tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed that said train will actually be going... 😅

Started the first leg of the journey to #LinuxPlumbers2024 with the train to Hamburg. The night train I was supposed to catch from there tonight has been cancelled, so I'll be spending the night and taking a day train tomorrow morning. Which may end up stranding me in Passau, but at least that's only a few hours from Vienna for when the tracks clear. Exciting!

@anarqueer

Alt-texted version:

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"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc... and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
~ Douglas Adams

@kernellogger
Thanks! I'm not a fancy enough maintainer to go to summits about it, so I have a whole day of slack to paddle through masses of water should the need arise 😅

But yeah, did do a double take when I got an email from DB advising against traveling during the weekend. Feel like I got lucky with the timing in that sense!

In any case, have a nice trip and see you in Vienna (🤞)

@kernellogger
Haha, I'm booked on the night train from Hamburg to Vienna tomorrow evening. Will let you know how it goes! 😅

I love this article about the US debate.

If you're American or British and it rubs you the wrong way, please note that this is how your press writes about us.

H/T to @meena for bringing it to my attention.

#USPol

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community