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by corbet 14d ago
We can't email a PDF now, but it wouldn't be that hard of a feature to add; I've put it onto the list.
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by corbet 14d ago
Nobody has ever asked us to do that; I take it you would prefer a larger line spacing? If nothing else, we can easily add a customization option for that.
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by corbet 14d ago
If we can grow the number of subscribers, we don't need to raise prices for the ones that have supported us all this time; I would find that preferable. Besides, who doesn't want a broader reach?
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by corbet 2mo ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/1080822/ Do you really want to be a part of the scraper problem?
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by corbet 2mo ago
I doubt it. The scraper botnets aren't going to bother with niceties like APIs, they just come in over HTTPS and grab anything they can.
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by corbet 2mo ago
I am hard put to defend reddit and a lot of the things they do ... but I can attest, from personal experience, that scrapers are a huge problem for anybody trying to keep a complex site working. Withholding the display of the comments will
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by corbet 2mo ago
Very little of it. When you see a million IPs systematically working their way through your URL space, it's pretty clear that there's a central control node behind it all.
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by corbet 3mo ago
It's an experiment. Compared to the text-obscuring popovers that are prevalent elsewhere on the net, it seems pretty low-key; as far as I know, this is the first complaint I've seen. I don't know if we will continue experim
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by corbet 3mo ago
The kernel does not copy every page, but it does have to copy all of the VMAs. Setting memory to COW (which can involve changing a lot of page-table-entries) is not free either. I guess I could have mentioned copy-on-write explicitly, but
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by corbet 5mo ago
Meeting minutes: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
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by corbet 5mo ago
I hate to blow our own horn, but I'm gonna...if you are interested in seeing this kind of kernel-development data mining, fully human-written, LWN posts it every development cycle. The 6.17 version ( https://lwn.net/Art
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by corbet 6mo ago
Being used to validate stolen card numbers has long been a problem; we've had to put in a number of defenses to fight our way off whatever list of "easy sites" these folks maintain. I hadn't thought about the "chan
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by corbet 6mo ago
I'm not sure what you're reading; there is a distinct lack of GPL advocates in that conversation.
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Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD(lwn.net)
77 points by corbet 6mo ago|81 comments
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by corbet 9mo ago
I feel obligated to mention LWN - https://lwn.net/ - since that is exactly what we aspire to.
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by corbet 11mo ago
Something broke down somewhere ... I got emails a while back about the acquisition and giving options about whether to go along with the move or not. Since Gusto is our payroll provider, I didn't see a reason not to do that... hopefull
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by corbet 11mo ago
The "compliance officer" at Bright Data, instead, offered me a special deal to protect my site from their bots ... they run a protection racket along with all the rest of their nastiness.
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by corbet 11mo ago
My heat pump, in Colorado, kept the house warm at -18°F last winter. Without firing up the backup resistance heating strip. I think it works. (It is more expensive to operate than the natural-gas furnace was, though).
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by corbet 11mo ago
We do try to spell things out and/or link them in LWN articles to make the context available, but some things we just have to assume. Additionally, spelling out "Berkeley Packet Filter" is not going to help any readers here;
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by corbet 11mo ago
See, for example, the binder driver merged for 6.18. It's out there, and will land when it's ready.
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by corbet 1y ago
The occasional sharing of subscriber links in this way only does us good. If you enjoy the content, please subscribe and help ensure that there will be more of it!
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by corbet 1y ago
Ossification does not come about from the decisions of "Linux maintainers". You need to look at the people who design, sell, and deploy middleboxes for that.
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by corbet 1y ago
Many years ago I worked in a Safeway grocery store. We would have occasional power failures that would leave the entire store dark; we would all be given flashlights to help customers find their way out. The cash registers, though, had bac
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by corbet 1y ago
For a more detailed look at this change: https://lwn.net/Articles/1008399/
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by corbet 2y ago
Look up the Peerstreet bankruptcy for a variant of this story. "FDIC insurance" didn't help there either. That's all the fintech experience I ever intend to have...
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The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669(lwn.net)
53 points by corbet 2y ago|10 comments
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by corbet 2y ago
I think there are a thousand wannabe companies all trying to suck up as much data as they can; not a sustainable situation in any way.
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Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira(lwn.net)
6 points by corbet 2y ago|0 comments
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How kernel CVE numbers are assigned(lwn.net)
15 points by corbet 2y ago|4 comments
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P4TC Hits a Brick Wall(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 2y ago|0 comments

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