Notices by Vegard Nossum (vegard@mastodon.social)

Just in case you were wondering who profited from this election

they're not going to play around in the second term. We know what happens next, because it happened in Germany. the supreme court has been corrupt for a while but now it will get worse. that shitstain Musk is now officially an oligarch. cronies will be pardoned, political opponents will be struck down. the presidential term will be extended and presidential powers will be expanded. brace yourselves

depressing

Nothing to see here, move along

We don't have enough kernel memes on here, just doing my part

@dotstdy @LWN No, you misunderstand, I don't think this is a personal vendetta. I think it's cowardly to stuff this in a char-misc pull request and not give any reasonable explanation. It's unfair to the maintainers involved and it's unfair to everybody who now sees this and wonders if they are next. To be clear, it's the process I'm objecting to. Being forcibly removed as a maintainer is humiliating and damages people's reputations.

Hiding stuff in unrelated pull requests is never a good look. Illusion of trust completely shattered.

Sent out an RFC doc on assessing security impact of Linux patches: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240311150054.2945210-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com/

Rendered page: https://vegard.github.io/linux/2024-03-11/security-assessment.html

Bingo card:
☐ security theater
☐ circus
☐ meaningless
☐ idiotic
...what did I miss?

@cengiz_io No... as people have pointed out, CVSS doesn't map that well to kernel bugs, for various reasons. I wanted to have a second go at making this a useful doc but so far haven't found the time 😔

Taking a branch, sticking it in the sand, and calling it a tree is something a 3-year old might do, right? But that's a thing, you can actually clone trees that way. Getting your first cutting to root feels like a superpower, by the way... I love getting roots.

Un-favorited and un-boosted the last boost because it comes from what is ostensibly a pro-Russian propaganda account and I can't stand for that.

However, I absolutely hate it when they are right: The Lebanon attacks are terrorism and Western media and governments have a double standard to not call this out.

This is a "mask off" moment to me, and I hate it.

@joe This program detects optimization level: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/G956WzrrE

Last year I collected some giant sequoia (AKA giant redwood) pine cones here in France, I've just extracted the seeds (must be on the order of 500...) and put some in water. These are notoriously hard to germinate but let's see!

It is said that you can offset a lifetime of CO2 emissions by growing a single one of these trees, since they are the largest trees in the world, but that's an oversimplification. Still pretty cool though.

Baby giant sequoia is definitely getting lots of needles now, but I'm a bit worried about the stem being still so thin.

#gardening #growyourown

Update: baby giant redwood's first needles

Update: of the 100 or so giant sequoia/redwood seeds I sowed at the end of April, this little guy was the only one that sprang up... hang in there!

Aaaand it's dead. Almost. The top part has wilted. Several needles have dried out. Not sure if it was the change in weather, the wind, the sun, or what. I've put it on life support but I don't have much hope.

It's ok, we'll try again in spring.

@corbet Proposing NAKs-per-day as a core community health metric

Got an unfortunate visitor this morning... this might be a European Robin? He crashed into a window and seems stunned so I put him in a shoe box with breathing holes and a lid with water. Hoping for recovery 🤞

edit: it flew away

@lanodan Yeah. You can also do _MAKE := $(MAKE) and then use $(_MAKE) in your recipes (or +$(_MAKE) if you really want). I'm mostly just shaking my head at that obscure footgun. Why not just require people to use + in the first place?