Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social), page 2

@dalias oh I am with you on that. But however you cut it – whether these are reasonable, serious CVEs that mark serious bugs; or, CVE diarrhea orchestrated to push for AI slop in kernel – this does not make Linux developers look like serious people.

@dalias @jsbarretto

> Ring 0 drivers are a solvable problem in Linux.
> Not doing that is a choice.

Yes, that's another kind of a choice that I think stems from hubris I mentioned.

@dalias I think you know I am one of the more critical of AI bullshit folks around.

You might note that the link is to lore.kernel.org, not to some AI peddler press release.

And if you click through, you will note these are all vulnerabilities with assigned CVE numbers, and these are all mentioned as resolved.

In other words, at least it seems like kernel developers themselves thought these warranted actual CVEs and spent time actually fixing them.

I wonder ow many of those would have been prevented by using some kind of a modern compiled language that enforces at least some notion of memory safety. :thaenkin:

But it's difficult to have linked lists in such a hypothetical language so that's a no go.

Even though why would anyone use linked lists in this year of our kernel twenty twenty six?
https://arxiv.org/html/2306.06942v2

Look this is not about bashing Linux kernel developers specifically.

The point I am trying to make is: we all make mistakes, that's just the human condition.

But giving in to hubris, on the other hand, is a choice. And insisting that all is well and dandy and C is a "perfectly safe language as long as the developer knows what they're doing" is hubris.

Linux kernel developers:

We know what we're doing, we have loads of experience!

Also Linux kernel developers:

432 Linux Kernel CVEs in 24 hours:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/

*sigh*

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493

Mozilla also used to run a fedi instance, they killed it about 2 years ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/

Way to go leading the open web. 🤡

They keep being so worried about Firefox losing market share that they keep doing everything to lose more market share by losing support of their most dedicated, activist userbase.

Recent ones:
- pushing AI down Firefox users' throats (why I switched to LibreWolf myself)
- killing their fedi instance
- going back to Xitter

Older ones include embracing DRM/EME, following Chrome instead of leading with privacy-first functionalities, and so many more.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/116878691038594948

Also, what a lot of "I have nothing to hide" people miss is that stuff-that-needs-to-be-hidden depends on social and political climate at any given moment and changes with time.

Being pregnant while crossing the US border used to be a non-issue, nothing-to-hide type thing. Now US fascist lawmakers are pushing for pregnancy tests at the border.

This is just a very fresh example, there are endless others.

Once our data is out, we have no control over it. Will it be dangerous in 5-10 years? 👀

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116868811989829427

Oh, the deep, deep irony.

Important call:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-call-proposals-shape-safer-and-more-inclusive-social-media-platforms

> This €1.48 million pilot project will involve young people from different countries and backgrounds in the conceptualisation and development of new European social media platforms, focusing on user safety, mental health, privacy and ease of use.

> The core ambition of the project is the roll-out of at least one protocol-based service that is actively centred around the needs of young user audiences and is in line with European values (…)

#Fediverse

In case anyone was confused by @mullvadnet's corporate damage control copy-pasta.

#Mullvad #MullvadVPN

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100

This is immensely disappointing, @mullvadnet.

Your co-CEO is funding far-right authoritarians. Authoritarianism is not compatible with free speech – anyone who claims to be fighting for free speech has to be aware of this. In fact, the reason we need free speech is to fend of authoritarianism!

You used "free speech" to defend anti-free-speech views. This is the "paradox of tolerance". Only, it is not a paradox. Allowing intolerance erodes a tolerant society:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

#Mullvad

I think it would be good to hear from @mullvadnet about this? 👀

> The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.
https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

Edit: I am holding any judgement regarding Mullvad until there is a response.

Nearly a quarter of voters in Europe now back far-right parties
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/24/nearly-quarter-votes-europe-now-cast-far-right-parties

People are angry, and they have plenty of actual real reasons to be angry.

Obviously authoritarian right does not have any real solutions, but the center and center-left parties had wasted decades on "keeping the hot water running" politics, so no wonder people are answering the siren call of far-right.

I mean, look at UK. Labour won in a landslide! And then… milktoast, plus narrative drift to the right. 🤦♀️

Whenever you hear a center or left party talking how they need to drift to the right to "get the undecided voters", know that this is only enabling the far-right.

If anyone is an "undecided" voter – meaning, potentially considers voting for the far-right – why on Earth would they ever vote for the milktoast centrist fake, instead of the real fascist deal?

It allows the far-right to move the Overton window ever more right.

This is not how you defeat authoritarianism:
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/

Instead of making concessions on human rights (including trans rights), immigration and refugees, and sprinkling it with vague promises about how AI will change everything, etc., centre and left parties should maybe actually get serious about:

1. Solving the housing crisis (which is basically everywhere now).

2. Healthcare.

3. Taxing the rich.

You know, things that are actually making people miserable and angry! And incidentally, things that keep polling high on voters' priority lists.

> Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

> Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/israel-deliberately-targeting-gaza-children-to-commit-genocide-un-inquiry-finds

Israel is deliberately killing children. There is *nothing* that can ever justify this.

#Genocide #Palestine #Israel

Iceland is tiny, so a company letting 40 employees go makes national news. The company in question, Rapyd Europe, of course claimed "AI" as the reason for the layoffs.

So, I called them out on their bullshit – in my first piece for the Reykjavík Grapevine:
https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

#Iceland #AI #Labor

Also, final thought (and something I mentioned time and again):

Somehow if you're Brown and in the North, you're an "immigrant" or "economic migrant", but if you're white and in the South, you're an "expat". :thaenkin:

Start calling white folks in the South "economic migrants" and see what happens.