Notices by Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora: (spot@social.afront.org)

Anyone have any thought _why_ Fedora kernels (39 - 43) would not boot on this laptop (after firmware update) when OpenSUSE and Ubuntu kernels will?

@cwebber someone should write up a CVE for the CVE.

@badnetmask @hughsie I sure would love any hints on what to try to change in order to fix this. :(

Alienware (Dell) pushed a BIOS update (1.10.0) to my M16 R2 laptop and now Fedora won't boot. Not just the local install, but also a USB live. Same problem with 1.11.0, and neither version will let me downgrade to 1.9.0 or older.

To be clear, grub comes up, but selecting an item just results in a black screen and the system freezes after a few seconds.

This is really screwing me over. Is there anything else I can try?

@hughsie No, I booted into Windows 11 (my first mistake) and it said "Apply security updates?" and I clicked yes (my second mistake).

I know it's a small thing, but I intentionally don't correct people at work when they say "Yum repo" instead of "DNF repo". I like that skvidal's legacy lives on.

At the beginning of the year, my employer deployed a piece of software called Highspot. In this software, everything is some kind of "spot", and at the end of creating your "spot" content, there is a button to share your "spot", and lots and lots of people press this button.
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When they press it, it asks them who they want to share it with, and somehow, a staggering number of them choose my username (spotaws). I'm not sure why, but I think they've seen so many spots in this tool that they think they have to do this? Oh, and I was forced to take training for this tool.
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Anyways, I see lots of content that I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to see, so thanks?
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"To customize your web spot, click on the spot, then click spot settings, then click web spot, then make changes to your web spot, then click save spot." I'm used to a certain amount of namespace collision in this life simulation, but this is ridiculous.
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In their initial testing, they found Linux to be...too reliable. They didn't want customers to assume that every text message would go through, because they weren't willing to guarantee that, so they asked me if we would make them a custom kernel module.
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A little story from the "old days of open source": when I was a solutions architect for Red Hat, we visited a large telecommunications company, who wanted to consider moving their SMS infrastructure from UNIX to Linux, but they had a problem.
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It feels weird to say this, but my team at AWS (Open Source Strategy & Marketing) is hiring for a PM role!

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2429652/program-manager-for-open-source-community-outreach-and-engagement-aws-open-source-strategy-and-marketing

TLDR: This is an Program Manager III (L6) role. Key responsibilities are event management, content and training development, and open source foundation & community engagement work.

Plus: you get to work with me... wait come back, that's a good thing.

Biggest downside: You gotta work from Seattle or Portland (in the office), but there is relocation assistance.

If this is interesting to you, and we know each other, hit me up for a referral. If we don't know each other, apply directly!

Reshare appreciated.

#opensource #hiring #jobs

@amye you are not wrong. I lodged my complaint. It was noted but it did not change anything.

Here's a high quality shot of the "Proprietary Software Disclaimer" from my #FOSSY presentation slides:

https://spot.fedorapeople.org/FOSSY-Open_Source_Anti-Patterns.odp

Note: I did not list all of the software that AWS (my employer) uses, I just listed the software that _I_ use and mentioned my employer also uses a mix of Proprietary and FOSS software.

Omissions from this list:
* Networking specifics beyond my laptop (no offense, but I don't want you folks crawling around my network)
* Firmware for my monitors (forgot them)

@mattl their claim was that they wanted to align to the calendar year, along with a bunch of marketing fluff.

@mattl I think they skipped from S10 to S20.

A brief rant on packaging: I despise dynamic packaging which is no longer easily legible by humans. I like not having an giant abstraction layer between the recipe and the dish. I like knowing that a thing happened because a command string I wrote down was run, not because that whole section of the spec was evaluated from a single %macro.

But some of your spec files are long!

Yup. And the reader can understand every line without a conversion tool.

Now get off my lawn, its time for my old man nap.