@SwiftOnSecurity #programming is #creative and #intellectual labour.

Measuring a programmer's efficiency or value with easy #metrics like #LinesOfCode (#IBM) or #Commits (#Huawei) doesn't work.

In fact the latter ones did that #LyingWithNumbers for #KPI so hard on the @linux / #Linux #Kernel that they were close to getting #banned from the #LKML and #git.

Instead they got called out that their "code cleanup" commits are not appreciated as code #readability is being a priority in #Linux!

Um, actually I was just reading a thread on #LKML where Linus is being Linus (brutally honest, these days it is illegal for anyone but Linus to be) and #bcachefs doesn't look ready for me to try. So my excuses for getting a #FrameworkLaptop are one fewer.

@theregister And I only heard of Loongson and their CPU yesterday or so, having resubscribed to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, after some absence. (Have pity on me!)

#LKML

After a long absence yesterday I resubscribed to #LKML. The web page warned "Volume is VERY high, 200-300 messages per day!"

My computer was hibernating overnight, I woke it less than 24-hours later and there are over 1400 new messages LKML waiting for me to carefully read.

Um, even if I delete thread after thread based on a mere glance at the subject…this might not work out.

Hmmm.

Ted 'tytso' on #lkml:

```
What people seem to forget is that free software does not mean that people will fix your software for your use case for free. It means that *you* are free to fix the software, or to pay someone to fix the software in question.
```

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230622173913.GA34229@mit.edu/ #Linux #kernel #LinuxKernel

Now that's a cover letter! 📚
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230414225551.858160935@linutronix.de/
#linux #linuxkernel #lkml

#LKML #QOTD from @torvalds:

```Case insensitivity is a subject near and dear to my heart.

And when I say "near and dear to my heart", I obviously mean "I despise it, and I have spent _decades_ ranting against it and trying to explain why it's a problem".```

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi2c0ezx_OR50h3R6%2B9%2BECu3yDkrEuL34EobZ1b8pWnzQ@mail.gmail.com/

In the same thread:

```But then at some point, we failed at life, and started filling in the upper bit cases too.

Looking around, it was at Linux-2.0.1[…]```

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiTyTeHpn-zDkKmd2Cq53p=M3OVOJVbh-3AJd-nuAGyjA@mail.gmail.com/

@gregkh yesterday on #LKML:

```
> How's your effort to get device vendors/oems to use
> newer (major) kernels on their devices going?

Actually really well, with the new EU regulations and the reduced amount of support time for LTS kernels[1], new devices will soon be forced to update to move to newer kernel versions during the lifetime of the device. […]
```

https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZBtalAJ1z4sUiJWO@kroah.com/

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/109823912774264275 #Linux #kernel #LinuxKernel

@torvalds today on #lkml:

"I actually think we should look (again) at just making the compiler choice (and the prefix) be a Kconfig option.

That would simplify *so* many use cases.

It used to be that gcc was "THE compiler" and anything else was just an odd toy special case, but that's clearly not true any more.

So it would be lovely to make the kernel choice a Kconfig choice - so you'd set it only at config time […]"

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3DwhdrvCkSWh%3DBRrwZwNo3%3DyLBXXM88NGx8VEpP1VTgmkyQ@mail.gmail.com/ #Linux #kernel #LinuxKernel

#LKML #Qotd from Linus:

```[I think] #quilt should probably just learn the git world order about file modes, because let's face it, git _has_ taken over the world. Mwhahahhahahaahaaa!

Linus```

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3DwhCG1zudvDsqdFo89pHARvDv4%3Dr6vaZ8GWc_Q9amxBM6Q@mail.gmail.com/ #Linux #kernel #LinuxKernel #GIT

#LKML #QOTD from @gregkh:

So you are letting an opaque US government agency, and random third party companies, dictate your company's internal engineering policies and resource allocations? That feels very very odd and ripe for abuse.

#linux #kernel #LinuxKernel #CVE #security

https://home.social/@nst/109751834244232400

Fun fact: One of the reasons why I quit maintainership of "my" drivers back then was the utterly long delay of any response on patches or any other request, resulting in a feeling of simply being ignored - absolutely no fun for someone who prefers to "get work done" to have room for new tasks. Actually, it looks like things didn't change over the last five years 🙄 And "my" drivers somewhat deserve some love by now...

#linux #kernel #lkml #linuxdvb

#LKML #QOTD from #Linus:

"[…] at least as long as we are limiting ourselves to regular US-ASCII, we really only have 17576 TLA's to go around. […]"

That's a quote from https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi%3DTY3Kte5Z1_nvfcsEh%2Brcz86pYnzeASw%3DpbG9QtpJEQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u , where he complains about the naming of Intel's Linear Address Masking (LAM) (see: https://lwn.net/Articles/902094/ ) submitted for #Linux #Kernel 6.2 and asks:

```Is it too late to ask Intel to call this "Top-Bits-Ignore", and instead of adding another crazy TLA, we'd just all agree to call this "TBI"?```

This is not new for me, BTW.

The first time a joined a “smaller, private” newsgroup in the auld days of lore, the first thing I did was make a horrible impression by reading the ENTIRE backlog (and replying to some very old posts without realizing how old they were ... but I digress).

I used to read every single post of the #LKML. I actually opted for unsubscribing altogether when I couldn't keep up any more.

I did on Twitter's Latest timeline, and now here.

RT @kernellogger@twitter.com

#Linus today on #LKML: "We got rid of i386 support [in the #Linux #kernel] back in 2012. Maybe it's time to get rid of i486 support in 2022?"

But from Matthew's feedback it looks like a year ago a similar idea got a bit of pushback: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y1IUMDJFScAMrCS5@casper.infradead.org/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kernellogger/status/1583321881033441282

#Linus #Torvalds being very frank about #COVID19 #vaccination:

"Yes, all those vaccinated people around you will protect you too, but if there is another wave, possibly due to a more transmissible version - you and your family will be at _much_ higher risk than those vaccinated people because of your ignorance and mis-information.

Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957

#Linux #lkml

Can *YOU* blow a PC speaker using only a Linux kernel driver? - Can you help? There's a hidden meaning here, and it's time to find it! https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/06/18/can-you-blow-a-pc-speaker-using-only-a-linux-kernel-driver/ #kerneldriver #pcspeaker #linux #lkml

Кстати, по поводу CoVID-19.

Линуса вчера порвало от какого-то антиваксера в LKML:

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/CAHk-=wiB6FJknDC5PMfpkg4gZrbSuC3d391VyReM4Wb0+JYXXA@mail.gmail.com/

#Linux #LKML #covid #fun #mail

Linus Torvalds könpft sich einen deutschen Impfgegner auf der Linux Kernel Mailing List vor.

Ich muss aber sagen das Linux wirklich sehr ruhig und sachlich bleibt. Vor ein paar Jahren wäre das noch anders gewesen.

Naja er hat dem Herrn Enrico Weigelt jedoch hoffentlich sehr schön klar gemacht das Impfen eine gute Idee ist:

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/CAHk-=wiB6FJknDC5PMfpkg4gZrbSuC3d391VyReM4Wb0+JYXXA@mail.gmail.com/

#linux #torvalds #lkml #Impfgegner

An emergency re-review of kernel commits authored by members of the
University of Minnesota, due to the Hypocrite Commits research paper.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook/

#lkml #linuxkernel