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2024-07-25 22:17:21

The amount of LWN traffic that is just AI bots downloading the same stuff over and over again is staggering; it's increasingly hard to see any sort of human signal in there at all. Something is going to give here at some point...
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/

2024-07-19 00:08:06

Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.

2024-06-27 21:19:23

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira passed away a few days ago at far too young an age. Some of his associates have just asked us to publish their memories of him:
https://lwn.net/Articles/979912/
What an incredible loss.

2024-06-11 16:19:13

On the radar: using a large-language model to insert thousands of automatically generated "security checks" into the OpenBSD kernel:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171810103406609&w=2
I'm sure that will be received well...

2024-05-31 16:07:26

On the radar: a new (WIP) document describing future incompatible changes in Git:
https://lwn.net/ml/git/[email protected]/
Included therein is the switch to sha256 to hash objects, seemingly planned for Git 3.0.

2024-05-08 20:23:29

Xcel Energy just sent me a survey asking about my "recent outage experience". Not sure what to say... "Five stars — would definitely do again"?

2024-03-30 14:32:34

I'm on a holiday and only happened to look at my emails and it seems to be a major mess.
— Lasse Collin

2024-03-29 22:17:18

Also if you're on F41 and/or think you might have installed the vulnerable xz anywhere, note that the exploit has not been fully analyzed and no one really knows what it could do. I'm currently reinstalling a couple of machines from scratch and have regenerated my SSH keys.
— Richard W.M. Jones

2023-11-07 15:38:20

On the radar: what is the linux-kernel mailing list for? @npub1jfd…s8ga is suggesting that many or most patch postings be redirected to a separate list:
https://lwn.net/ml/ksummit-discuss/20231106-venomous-raccoon-of-wealth-acc57c@nitro/
I've not jumped into the conversation because I'm still trying to figure out what I think about it. I'm one of those people who actually reads over that list; the broad view it provides is helpful in both the LWN and documentation-maintainer roles. But it *is* painful to keep up with.
LKML has traditionally been the place you post patches to get them reviewed. If that's not its role anymore, what is it for?