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Notices by Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org), page 2

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 05:12:37 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    • LWN.net
    Should you be wondering why @LWN #LWN is occasionally sluggish... since the new year, the DDOS onslaughts from AI-scraper bots has picked up considerably. Only a small fraction of our traffic is serving actual human readers at this point. At times, some bot decides to hit us from hundreds of IP addresses at once, clogging the works. They don't identify themselves as bots, and robots.txt is the only thing they *don't* read off the site.

    This is beyond unsustainable. We are going to have to put time into deploying some sort of active defenses just to keep the site online. I think I'd even rather be writing about accounting systems than dealing with this crap. And it's not just us, of course; this behavior is going to wreck the net even more than it's already wrecked.

    Happy new year :)
    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 06:50:00 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    Best not to mess with the squirrels in Boulder... https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/douglass-elementary-secure-status-squirrel/73-95b14d37-bea5-4260-8594-c4db613d7cca
    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 07:23:17 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    So is there anybody out there who can explain this image?

    I bought this card in Korea some years ago after having seen this theme - a tiger and a rabbit seemingly getting stoned together - in a number of places. There must be a story behind it, but my meager search skills have never managed to turn it up. I do still love the image, though...
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 07:55:26 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • selje 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇮🇪
    @selje Enphase info is here:

    https://enphase.com/support/sunpower

    They informed me that a replacement system would be $700, seemingly including installation. It'll be a little while before I can generate enthusiasm for spending that money, certainly...

    Some new form of SunPower resurrecting the current hardware would be nice. I'd say that the chances of them making it work again without demanding more money are pretty small, though. Such is the world we live in - we only *think* we own that device...
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 07:39:49 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • selje 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇮🇪
    @selje For the most part, I followed these instructions here:

    https://starreveld.com/PVS6%20Access%20and%20API.pdf

    Rather than putting an rPi system in the box, though, I just ran the Ethernet cable to a system I had with both wireless and wired interfaces; the WiFi sits on the home net, while the wired interface does DHCP to get an address from the SunPower box, then polls it to get the data out.

    Once that was set up, getting it into Home Assistant was mostly a matter of installing the integration. Figuring out which power signals belonged to which panel took a while; if you don't have it yet, use the SunPower app to make a map of the serial number for each panel and its location.

    I'm debating whether to stick with this system, or to take up Enphase on its offer and swap out the SunPower box entirely. The Enphase monitor would be a supported product, and it seemingly has much better Home Assistant support.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:42:03 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • Jesse
    @Jesse That was yesterday's data. Just about the low point for the year (not counting the days when the panels are covered with snow, of course).
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:49:53 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    Two years ago, I installed solar panels on the roof, and was rewarded with enough power to run the house, charge the car, and even run the heat pump for much of the year.

    Another reward was the SunPower monitoring system that lets us track the performance of the system and see how each individual panel is working. Naturally, this system only delivers its data to some proprietary cloud system run by SunPower. Just as naturally, SunPower has gone bankrupt, and the monitoring system is now just a useless brick sitting on the wall.

    ...or at least it would be, had I not gone through the effort of integrating it with Home Assistant — a mildly difficult task involving hooking into a maintenance port on the device itself. So now I have the data out of the monitoring box stored on a local system, under my control, and I don't need to go scrambling for alternatives. I can obsess over my post-solstice data, waiting for production to reach decent levels again — that happens faster if I stare at it, I'm convinced.

    Maybe there's something to this free software idea after all.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 00:15:40 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • Neil Brown
    • Jani Nikula
    @jani @neil Indeed, we have been doing LWN's accounting locally with GnuCash for the last two years now, and I've never looked back. The OFX import is pretty good for bringing in data if you want to do that, but I've just written a set of Python scripts to import data directly and easily.

    I really can't imagine trusting such a critical function to somebody else's web platform, both for reliability reasons (as the Bench fiasco has so nicely illustrated) and for privacy reasons as well.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 08:20:08 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    Not having a cat, I'm not given to posting cat pictures ... but my daughter's cat is here for a visit, so here's my chance.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 05:37:02 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    I was digging through my bookshelves when I stumbled across this book, untouched for years.

    I picked up Anybody's Bike Book sometime around the mid 1970s, after having discovered the freedom that a good bike gives to a kid who needs to move around in northern Wyoming. It taught me that there was nothing in my bike that I couldn't fix myself — an empowering lesson to learn. With a mixture of plain language, clear descriptions, and sharp humor, it was perhaps my first example of what technical documentation can be.

    So, a belated "thank you" to Tom Cuthbertson for this outstanding book; there is no doubt it had a strong influence on all the words I have inflicted on the world.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 09:46:17 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • KasTas
    @KasTasMykolas You need to look at least long enough to know what names have been assigned to the form elements. It would take less than a minute, but you need to do it for every site you want to attack.

    Because I'm an obnoxious person, I changed the names of those elements today, conveniently bringing an end to all of those login failures. We'll see if they bother to update their script...
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 03:28:37 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    So here is a weird one ... the LWN site has been seeing a steady stream of login attempts, all using weird yahoo addresses as the username. By "weird" I mean things like lllbnwidgqeerdyi@yahoo.com and other equally unlikely strings.

    These do not correspond to LWN accounts, but somebody has looked at our login form for long enough to post the login attempts directly, without loading the form first. The attempts come from all over the Internet, suggesting that some sort of botnet is doing this.

    I don't suppose anybody else has seen this sort of pattern, or has any idea what it is that they may be trying to accomplish?
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 09:02:28 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    On the radar: file-based memory management

    https://lwn.net/ml/all/20241122203830.2381905-1-btabatabai@wisc.edu

    This looks like fairly wild stuff, haven't had a chance to figure out how it actually works yet.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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      [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for File Based Memory Management [LWN.net]
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:00:25 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
    • tante
    @larsmb @tante I think the point in question was highly visible enough.

    Had that conversation been allowed to continue, it would have gone on for hundreds of posts, and brought people out of the woodwork that you really would rather not know even exist. We've been there in the past, and it threatened to kill the site at one point. Thus our "no personal attacks" policy, which we had to enforce here.

    Should we, instead, have just pulled down the article, as some are saying? That would have "blocked the discussion" too, of course. We also try not to hide our mistakes.

    Things like this make me wish I'd made a career in JavaScript framework development or some such. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some kernel drama to somehow deal with.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 23:37:20 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    • David Gerard
    @davidgerard First, what "mask" do you think has come off?

    Second: if you look hard, you still will not find either of us "defending her honor". Please do not put words in our mouths.

    We did do our best to close down the conversation; what good comes from hundreds of posts of people throwing names at each other? There are enough posts criticizing the person involved for anybody to get the point; there are almost none in the other direction. Trust me that this would not have been the case had we let the conversation run. *That*, perhaps, indicates an editorial bias, but it is not the one you are accusing us of.

    Look, as I posted in the thread, had we known the backstory of the person involved, there is a good chance we would not have run that article. We are a small operation, we lack a biographical research unit, we will not have a background file on any of the hundreds of developers we write about over the course of a year.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 01:52:39 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • Jarkko Sakkinen
    • Krzysztof Kozlowski
    @krzk @jarkko I could certainly consider adding per-employer test and review stats. If so, they are likely to show up in KSDB (https://lwn.net/ksdb/) first; I need to get back into that code anyway...
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 09:26:30 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    Definitely a day best spent outdoors
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 05:17:50 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    Maybe these AI models are onto something after all? https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spreader/
    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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      Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X'
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      His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 23:58:58 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • Linus Torvalds
    • Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
    @kernellogger @torvalds I am almost certainly the person who wrote those words. Yes, they could be improved... but note that the text talks about failing to *respond* to the regression, not the revert. That was surely the intent there, and I think it remains true.
    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink
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    Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 01:27:05 JST Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet
    in reply to
    • Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
    • Jann Horn
    @kernellogger @jann It's not just "unusual" that a cycle takes longer than 70 days, it has only happened twice in the last 15 years: 3.1 (slowed by the kernel.org compromise) and 4.15 (the meltdown/spectre release). It takes an event of that magnitude to slow things down at this point.

    I'm not sure if we can realistically make the cycle shorter - some problems just take time to turn up and to be fixed.
    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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