Notices by Linus Torvalds (torvalds@social.kernel.org), page 2

@axboe shouldn’t we do that for import_single_range() and for import_iovec() too, and turn those into ITER_UBUF rather than ITER_IOVEC?

Maybe I’m missing something.

@rook it’s easy and probably largely pointless to criticize the consciousness of AI models. You’re inevitably just making stuff up, since you control the very definition of what “consciousness” is to you.

That’s kind of my point. I suspect that ChatGPT could write a decent paper on this very thing.

The much more interesting thing is to see what those models tell us about ourselves, using hard data from AI models. But I suspect there’s a lot of people who are very invested in discussions about qualia and experiences who really don’t want to go there.

@missingno you probably say that jokingly, but I think that’s actually the real underlying truth.

It’s obviously true of ChatGPT.

But I really do think the much more interesting truth is that it’s probably true of us too.

@Inginsub that’s not what I claim. I claim that the people talking about “understanding” do not themselves have the very understanding that they are taking about.

They are literally just doing the same thing they talk about ChatGPT doing: putting likely words into sentences that sound good.

Smarter people than me and you have gone down crazy rabbit holes in this area for centuries.

Please also tell me all about “the quantum mind” or how the machine does not have a “soul”.

Pet peeve of the day: all the people talking about how ChatGPT is not “conscious” and how it does not “understand” what it is saying, but just putting likely-sounding words together into likely-sounding sentences.

Extra bonus points for using an example of a math problem as a way to show how these AI chat-bots talk about things they don’t really understand.

The irony. The lack of self-awareness. It burns.

It’s Sunday, which means no more cat pictures, and instead just the usual -rc release.

Prize for odd bug this week goes to an otherwise harmless off-by-one buglet that then in turn confused clang sufficiently to generate bogus code that our ‘objtool’ checks then (correctly) complained about it.

This is the kind of exciting lives that us kernel developers lead.

@twizzay the vet claimed the peeing in the corners was due to kidney failure. But that face says “payback time”. You be the judge

It’s Caturday.

Minky is no longer with us, but this is probably my favorite picture of her.

Replying to all the random individuals that seem to think that I’m “endorsing” one of the Fediverse products over any other, and seem to be making a big deal over #akkoma vs #mastodon etc.

That’s not the case. I’m actually a horrible MIS person, and I would never want to maintain my own server. I’m a programmer for chrissake!

The same way you should fear me if I hold a soldering iron, you should be very very nervous if I were to do any server management.

So all credit (or blame) for the choice of Fediverse platform goes to @monsieuricon, who maintains kernel.org and just made it really easy for me to try this out.

… and on a similar note: not only am I not much of a MIS person, I’m also not much of a social networking person.

I foresee a lot of disappointment in the future of any followers of this account ?.

Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.

Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.