I know, rationally, that this is a long haul, and that to maintain my ability to function over time I have to measure my outrage and despair at news like this. But I'm having trouble doing that here.

Lol, I was asked to give feedback on a delivery so I did, then they asked me to give feedback on the experience of giving feedback 🤪

A momentous occasion for the project: seedling 666 has been added to the tree database! 😈 www.drymifolia.org/profile.php?...

Breizh cola = woke coke

thinking about the xz backdoor again...

Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says. This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops. Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and […]

@JessTheUnstill there's better:

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

But most people are really just avoiding cognitive dissonance. And now, if your favorite politician dropkicks a toddler, you can race to the Internet and someone has already built a long explanation for why it was not only necessary, but the right action.

"war ravaged Portland" lol wtf

The rise of the em-dash in Linux kernel changelogs $ git log --format=%ad --date=format:%Y --grep — origin/master | sort -g | uniq -c 1 2008 1 2009 1 2010 1 2011 10 2012 2 2013 5 2014 12 2015 5 2016 2 2017 6 2018 2 2019 10 2020 8 2021 6 2022 8 2023 14 2024 36 2025

There's a certain kind of bullet list in changelogs that's a dead giveaway for an AI-generated or AI-assisted patch; you can't unsee it once you're aware of it. Does anybody know which tool specifically does this?

I fixed the toilet flushing mechanism by myself (the actuator rod had jumped out of the lever cradle), am I good or what?

IKEA sent my mom some Christmas ad campaign stuff last week. Dude, it's September... please

wow https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900 we all see what's going on here, right?

Anybody else sing "I want to break free" while they vacuum?

I'm probably going to miss Kernel Recipes for the second year in a row after having bought tickets and booked travel 😔

New meme..?

Holy guacamole. #avocado #jurassicfruit

Found out that one of my #avocado seedlings of Hass has anise-scented leaves today. That's a marker for Mexican genetics, which might include increased cold hardiness 🤞Honestly it kind of made my day as it's the first time I discover anise-scented leaves in a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This is a good series of essays, I highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9esV2rACZWgIbPRVkZWCiTZz07yW5mo9

nothing screams neo-nazi like a reference to valhalla in a mystical extreme-right christianity context

[nsfw] Let's not get distracted

President Zelensky 10.9.25 #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #zelensky #War

The future is AI in absolutely everything and there's nothing I can do to stop it.

git.kernel.org bot verification is getting stuck in a loop, anybody else see it too?

Re the npm thing ... the "we are so lucky all they wanted was crypto mining" chatter feels a touch ... naive? Everybody realizes that pretending to be incompetent is great cover, right?

How the stable sausage is made: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025090635-charger-grader-8fdf@gregkh/

So yesterday I submitted my biggest patchset ever to the kernel and then promptly went to the hospital in an ambulance.... coincidence !?? I'm more or less good now, 'twas but a little allergic reaction. (But I like to think it was the patches.) Be careful with your uncooked sugar snaps, people.

TIL Surfin' USA and Fun, Fun, Fun are ripoffs of Chuck Berry songs.

creduce <3 Once again turning 50k+loc of preprocessed inline assembly soup into a nice manageable 16 lines of code to debug.

Couldn't not do this

This will surely be well received. $ git rev-list --count v6.17-rc2.. 98 $ git diff --shortstat v6.17-rc2.. 218 files changed, 3818 insertions(+), 1232 deletions(-) 😔

Lol, what a weird hash $ git rev-parse --short HEAD aa1dbddeeccc0

...and that's the fifth fighter jet flying overhead today, just waiting for something to show up on the news at this point 😩

We have a big old pear tree in our village, probably over a hundred years old. The street and and a part of the village is even named after it. Unfortunately the trunk is rotten, so it's probably going to have to come down soon for safety reasons. I think they'll try coppicing/pollarding but in […]

We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸

The things you can contribute to these days. Kind of love this tbh though, it seems only fair that if I use their free service I should (be able to) contribute back when I notice errors.

I grew a tomato plant this year and I just ate the first tomato, it was delicious. I recommend it. I grew it in a container, just kept it watered. It's not that hard. Give it a try.

My new website was scraped by several different bots, including OpenAI's GPTBot, within just a few hours of registering the domain. There are no links to it. Amazing.

Updated photos of all my seedling avocado trees: https://ahuacat.fr/en/trees/ #avocado #biodiversity #arboriculture #france

The drought and heat waves have made the trees in the park drop their leaves early and make it look like we're already in autumn. It's about two months early. #climatechange

What are the current guidelines around large-ish patch series (80+ patches) on LKML? Acceptable or not? Should I link to a branch instead?

Current mood

[Putin] Is this how Putin looks these days? I know about the body double theories and I'm not really one to lean into conspiracies but he looks a bit.... weird. No?

Today I sat in the shade of a tree I germinated from seed 5 years ago.

Man it's so fricken hot, we "only" had 35°C today and I'm basically melting, 37°C tomorrow and no rain forecast until Tuesday, we haven't had significant rain for like 3 or 4 months, trees around here are dying back from lack of water. The only thought swirling around my head is "the coldest […]

It's not the first time oracle has had layoffs but I have to admit this one hits close to home. Too close for comfort

My parents have a wooden cabin in the mountains in Norway that was built by my grandfather in the 1960s. This year it's been so dry and there was so little snow and rain that their freshwater spring has run dry for the first time in over half a decade. The creeks and streams are dry and the fish […]

How do I follow what's going on in DC online? Is there a live stream, a news channel, a person live tooting that I should be following?