OK guys, sorry but I'm deleting my account.
It's been great and fun chatting to my 'cabal' of Slavs here and I'm going to miss it tremendously, especially @lkundrak
But sadly sometimes all it takes is one person choosing, out of the blue, to be deeply unpleasant to trigger a series of bad events...
It's ironic as I spent the week trying to do things for other people and trying to be nice... I avoided this Kent drama purposefully, but sometimes fate just wants to kick you in the arse.
Anyway, it is what it is. Will give it a little bit then hit the big red button.
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If I do decide to move away from social media, my contact details are on my website at https://ljs.io and book updates (when finally I am able to give some) are at https://linuxmemory.org/
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Considering giving up social media again on a permanent basis.
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Nice picture from yesterday at the local pond... antidote to drama - DUCKS
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You'd expect me to go on about this recent drama but I don't even.
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Oh god no Mihai...
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Struck me, walking through the woods today, peaceful and relaxed, how there are people fighting not so far away in very similar woods, getting shot at, shelled, having drones set on them by people who invaded their country without provocation.
Very, very sobering thing to think about.
And a reminder that, no matter how peaceful and safe things might seem today, anything can happen tomorrow.
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Amazing that Europe just let Russia attacking countries and here in the UK, FUCKING ASSASSINATE PEOPLE ON OUR FUCKING SOIL USING RADIOACTIVE AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS.
For years we just let them get away with outrages like this.
How fucking weak have we been.
Not as weak as the cowards on the US right or that weak as fuck capitulating dick Trump.
Now we see PRECISELY who would have given in to Hitler in the 30's. Peace in our time, indeed.
Cowards and traitors the lot.
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Lots of actually quite delightful stuff in the mm rust code I looked at... god almighty, to have actually strong types, to have guards and a sense of actual lifetimes of things...
Like being in the 21st century or something! ;)
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I got some shit for having a nuanced view of the rust kernel drama (to be clear - I thought what happened was terrible and deplore that the guy was treated like that at the lsf I was at, though not in that session) - that what Ted said was reasonable (though I think far too reactionary tbh and not self reflective/forward looking enough), but said in a really shit way.
However at LPC Ted was literally in the rust sessions and advocating for them and supportive, as are the top guys in the kernel so, any perception that rust is 'hated' in the kernel is fucking bullshit.
That some maintainers are still resistant, yes, that there are concerns, yes, but hate? Absolutely not.
I am a supporter of the efforts myself because I like the fact that a compiler helps you be less of a fucking idiot, I will take all the help I can get.
I realise it's not perfect and probably has a ton of issues (like literally all programming languages) and won't solve everything and it's incremental and maybe never will be part of the core of the kernel, but that's because this is real programming and that's what reality looks like :)
Incremental, my dear Watson.
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OK so I just spent quite some time going through my first mm rust patch, having written 800+ lines of documentation explicitly (in part) to help the rust people with VMA locking.
NOBODY can moan that I'm not trying to help rust in the linux kernel now :)*
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Working from home? More like being bullied by cats for food from home
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DRILL DRILL DRILL!!
This is not a drill!
DRILL!
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Car being used regularly...
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Went for a peaceful woodland walk today!
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Every time I look at linked in I want to vomit
I know I posted some cringey shit there but still
Vom
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I bought this cat house for Linus Clawvalds to sit in.
He has never sat in it.
Instead he does this.
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for avoidance of doubt I am also very much referring to my own dumb shit
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The more kernel code I work with in C the more I am sold on rust.
Having a compiler prevent you doing the dumb shit that is so easy in C is massive, and I keep seeing problems, including security problems, emerge from stuff a smarter compiler definitely could have identified.
I am sure rust has problems too, but this stuff is MASSIVE.
I already wrote a massive document on vma locking to try to help the rust folk (and us mm folk), now to see if I can help some more in other bits...
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@mairacanal (don't ask me why the fuck I'm being shown this by Zuckbot)
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