Young folks: Please can we contribute using modern git-based workflow rather than email?
Old farts: No.
👶: OK, but can we at least use modern memory-safe languages?
👴: Also no.
👶: Perhaps we could modernise our language & attitudes to be more inclusive?
👴: LOL! No.
👶: Could we at least consider addressing some long-standing community issues?
👴: What part of "no" are you having trouble understanding?
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👴: Why aren't there any new people contributing to our project? Truly a mystery. 🙃
Trying to achieve 2 second boot time? Skip udev, manually specify necessary modules via systemd-modules-load (or build directly into kernel), mount via:
https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/rpms/util-linux-automotive/-/blob/main/mount-sysroot.c
this saves seconds on most hardware, querying hardware takes time #optimization #bootspeed #RHIVOS
Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
Gracias Delegacion del Gobierno en Valencia y Policía por golpearme mientras iba identificado como PRENSA con un brazalete de prensa y un casco con cámara.
No fue en una carga sino mientras seguía a un grupo de UIP de Galicia avanzar por una calle de Ciutat Vella. Y gracias por zarandearme del casco otro grupo.
Gracias también por golpear a numerosos periodistas más.
Y por disparar la bocacha a centímetros de otro periodista para asustarlo y obligar a que se moviese. https://www.publico.es/sociedad/colaborador-publico-fermin-grodira-herido-carga-policia-protestas-mazon-valencia.html
Randall Munroe, who draws the popular and erudite xkcd comic, endorses Kamala Harris, in his own unassuming way without any lengthy explanation.
The comic has also been displayed as the banner image on the main xkcd webpage at https://xkcd.com/
:mastodance:
#XKCD
1/n
@KeithAmmann I was once told by a man who imagined himself a mentor that there were two types of people in the world; wolves and sheep.
He went to prison shortly afterwards for unpaid taxes.
Heads up to Kia owners/potential buyers: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.
https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/
Long ago, when I knew absolutely nothing about US, I received a serious offer to relocate there. After some rather basic research, I decided that I would have much less rights (as a worker), health care was absolute hell (my wife is chronically ill, so USA is a big no) and my family and I, in general, would have a considerably worst life quality in comparison to what I had (which now is even better), so I kindly refused the offer.
I have never regretted this decision. Only the opposite.
Our zlib-rs project implements a memory-safe and performant drop-in replacement for zlib, a widely-used data compression library.
@folkertdev shares the status quo of zlib-rs, including the good news that performance for the highest compression level is on par with the zlib-ng fork of zlib.
Read the blog for all the details:
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/134/current-zlib-rs-performance
Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?
Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.
In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.
Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.
What the fuck is SBAT, why did it break your dual-boot setup, it's not strictly my fault but if you need a scapegoat whatever: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70348.html
Microsoft breaking a bunch of dual-boot systems by revoking insecure versions of grub during a standard Windows update is, uh, not great and was not supposed to happen, but it's worth mentioning that systems broken by this were running known insecure bootloaders and anyone running a distro that's actually on top of security updates was unaffected
(Edit to add: I wasn't terribly clear here. It's not the user's fault if their distro fails to deal with this, it's the distro's)
The improved #printk series "wire up write_atomic() printing" is now in -next again and thus slated for inclusion in #Linux 6.12. This is one of the last important bits for proper #REALTIME support with #PREEMPT_RT in mainline – but not the last, as this series does not include threaded printing or nbcon drivers, as those will come later: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZsWxpVG8uZ9Nq26h@pathway.suse.cz/
A earlier version of the patch set was supposed to go into #kernel 6.11, but Linus was unhappy: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whU_woFnFN-3Jv2hNCmwLg_fkrT42AWwxm-=Ha5BmNX4w@mail.gmail.com/
Q: is the CEO of an airline¹ which lost $500M and is very very upset according to this interview² going to fix the commercial software industry?
There is mention of 43'000 bricked servers (!!), of a lack of understanding of what a 24x7 operation is, etc.
I would like to politely point out to the CEO that nobody forced Delta, or anyone else, to move from stuff which works (i.e. mainframes, minicomputers) to Windows servers and that, most likely, it was done on the false premise of saving money.
The reason Microsoft and Clownstrike made and make money is because companies fell for their marketing, the alleged savings, etc. which, I am sure, existed until things went wrong. Then it was $500M in damages which they hope to recoup.
The interview is actually worth watching because it is a CEO having the epiphany that his operations have been based on a paper castle, not even cardboard.
The true gem is the CEO's face when the journalist points out that the licenses have exclusions for everything except "gross negligence" asking how he intends to recoup the money.
The "Evil Grin"™ is priceless.
:flan_molotov:
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¹ Delta.
² https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/31/delta-ceo-crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-cost-the-airline-500-million.html
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112637213238431183
A friend of mine joked when this came to light the other day that we should start the timer to see how long it would be before some SystemD person crawled out of the woodwork to say that was expected behavior and you're an idiot for using it wrong. And we laughed to ourselves, wouldn't that would be funny, that really is the reputation they have now isn't it.
Well, jokes on us, because that's the first fucking comment on the bug.
To use the Montreal subway, you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. But how does it work? And how can the ticket be so cheap that it's disposable? I opened up the tiny NFC chip inside to find out more... 1/15
David Tennant. Always supporting Pride and trans people. Just a wonderful human being ♥️
(photo by Georgia Tennant. posted on her insta)
"YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans"
No, listen, you just don't understand.
If Google pays taxes in a random country to cheat the system and save money, that's because "Globalism".
If you do it, you get banned though.
Introducing Honeykrisp: the world's first conformant Vulkan® 1.3 driver for Apple Silicon.
