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Busy Day Today

I'm giving this talk at 4pm Eastern today. The longer I work on it, the more audacious it seems.

In November?

There's a thunderstorm going on. Bright flashes, deep booms. And it's just 44° out there.

Just a question

If we Thank God It's Friday, should we Blame Satan It's Monday?

Version 2.52.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. Changes include a new last-modified command to find the closest ancestor commit that touched one or more paths, a couple of git refs improvements, a new git repo command for obtaining information about the repository itself, and more. See…

For better or for worse, the NUMA node is the abstraction used by the kernel to keep track of different types of memory. How that abstraction is used, though, is still an active area of development. Two patch sets focused on this problem are currently under review; one addresses the…

Debian developer Simon Josefsson has announced the Debian Libre Live Images project, to allow installing Debian without any non-free software:

Since the 2022 decision on non-free firmware, the official images for bookworm and trixie contains non-free software.

The Debian Libre Live Images project provides Live ISO images for Intel/AMD-compatible…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, lasso, and thunderbird), Fedora (bind9-next, chromium, containerd, fvwm3, luksmeta, opentofu, python-pdfminer, python-uv-build, ruff, rust-get-size-derive2, rust-get-size2, rust-regex, rust-regex-automata, rust-reqsign, rust-reqsign-aws-v4, rust-reqsign-command-execute-tokio, rust-reqsign-core, rust-reqsign-file-read-tokio, rust-reqsign-http-send-reqwest, suricata, uv, and xmedcon), Mageia (apache-commons-beanutils, apache-commons-fileupload, apache-commons-lang, botan2, python-django, spdlog, stardict, webkit2, and yelp-xsl), Slackware (xpdf), and SUSE

Linus has released 6.18-rc6 for testing. "So we have a slightly larger rc6 than usual, but I think it's just the random noise and a result of pull request timings rather than due to any issues with the release. But I guess we have a couple of weeks remaining…

Dawn in Southern Indiana, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. An Hoosiers football remains amazing.

Cluetrain is in an Epstein file, as are the names of its authors, mine misspelled.

Apple launches Digital ID, a way to carry your passport on your phone for use at TSA checkpoints.

A case against AI panic.

Orthodox journalism has a problem with the heterodox kind.

The AM-FM radio business is being discussed in a mailing list I’m on, but my mail server has a spam sphincter that won’t allow linky emails to go out, no matter how non-spammy they might be. So I’m posting some of what I’m trying to say here, so I can…