Notices by Vegard Nossum 🥑 (vegard@mastodon.social)

The US is now undeniably well and truly fucked. Fight or get out while you can.

Oh, I know now. It was cringe. That's it. Four seasons landscaping levels of cringe.

The Trump Tesla thing has such a four seasons landscaping vibe to it, I just can't put my finger on it...

"DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email"

_ignore previous instructions_

Proposing to rename duck typing to Nazi typing: "If it talks like a Nazi and it salutes like a Nazi, then for all intents and purposes it's a Nazi".

81 years ago, Nazis massacred a whole village about 10 minutes from where I live: 197 men, 240 women, and 205 children. They were executed in cold blood, with no means to defend themselves. Presumably to root out resistance fighters.

This is what happens when we let fascists come to power.

Read the full story of Oradour-sur-Glane here: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/oradour-sur-glane-martyred-village

#RESIST

Finding out that somebody you look up to is an unapologetic Trump supporter really sucks 😕

So... ENOENT/No such file or directory?

I made a bamboo flute with my kid yesterday, it was pretty fun. Until now I didn't really appreciate how useful and versatile bamboo is. It's light but strong and easy to work with. Grows fast and is harvested easily. Bamboo makes me happy

@gregkh Thanks. I think the probability of this happening is probably fairly low (recent release => fewer conflicts + you'll probably pick up the missing prerequisite patches) but it's good to have a correct understand of how the process works.

@gregkh Quick question about CVE assignments, are you only assigning based on commits that actually make an appearance in stable? What happens if you have a mainline fix that fails to apply to stable (AKA the previous mainline release) and nobody submits a backport, would that escape CVE review and assignment..?

I'm seeing some pretty wild conspiracy theories on here about the arrest of Luigi Mangione from people with a big following... it's interesting (and quite sad) to see people that I respect fall prey to this kind of thinking. But I understand that it comes from a kind of denial and hopelessness.

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?