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by corbet 4y ago
For the curious, I took a fairly detailed look at GnuCash for business accounting a while back: https://lwn.net/Articles/731126/
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by corbet 4y ago
...and if you're merging commits from a developer who, unknown to either of you, had their laptop compromised and their repo corrupted? Remember that the compromise of kernel.org happened via a developer's laptop, and it was only
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by corbet 4y ago
It's nice to see LWN on HN for the second time in one day, but please remember: it is only LWN subscribers that make this kind of writing possible. If you are enjoying it, please consider becoming a subscriber yourself — or, even bett
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Processor MMIO stale-data vulnerabilities(lwn.net)
2 points by corbet 4y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 4y ago
Hey cool somebody has reimplemented finger!
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by corbet 4y ago
LWN.net | Technical journalist | Colorado / REMOTE LWN.net has been covering Linux and the free-software development community since 1998. We are currently looking for a technical journalist/editor to carry that coverage forward
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by corbet 4y ago
I've seen similar things. Messing with /proc/acpi/wakeup ( https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/698185/laptop-wakes... ) made the problem go away for me. I've been meaning to try to bi
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by corbet 4y ago
It might come to that at some point; it would be a nice thing to offer to our reader community! But we'd have to maintain it and would have another thing to moderate and ... For now we're just getting our toes wet.
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by corbet 4y ago
Salary range is available on request — but we're still figuring out what it is...
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by corbet 5y ago
I recently did close looks at both RawTherapee ( https://lwn.net/Articles/883599/ ) and darktable ( https://lwn.net/Articles/881853/ ) for anybody interested in a comparison. One point wort
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Today's Spectre variant: branch history injection(lwn.net)
3 points by corbet 5y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 5y ago
You can sign up for a notification email when the weekly edition is posted, yes. We don't currently have an option to receive the whole thing in email, but that has been on the list for a while...
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by corbet 5y ago
Thanks for your nice words... Being a somewhat private person I don't normally talk about health stuff. Also, being a cancer patient, I know better than to say I'm "cured". That said, things have been looking good for
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by corbet 5y ago
Addressing just that last point: all of our content is CC-BY 4.0 now, with the sole exception of the handful of articles behind the paywall at any given time. Thanks for the kind words!
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by corbet 5y ago
Thanks for the nice words, Ben. The curious can have a look at his articles at https://lwn.net/Archives/GuestIndex/#Hoyt_Ben . When's the next one coming? :) Meanwhile, I'm not going anywhere quite yet
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by corbet 5y ago
It looks interesting and a great gift idea, but the pricing seems insane. At that cost I will have to decline.
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by corbet 5y ago
Kernel Maintainers Summit discussion on merging Rust support (September): https://lwn.net/Articles/870555/
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by corbet 5y ago
When one of your headline feature additions is "increased font size in Help" you know you're having to reach a bit...
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by corbet 5y ago
FWIW, the Internet Printing Protocol (and IPP Everywhere in particular) make printer setup in CUPS far, far easier, but distributors seem reluctant to encourage it. I wrote about my experiences with IPP back in June ( https://lwn
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GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement(lwn.net)
255 points by corbet 5y ago|242 comments
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The Linux Foundation Tab Report on the UMN Affair(lwn.net)
4 points by corbet 5y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 5y ago
See https://lwn.net/Articles/823513/ for a look at both the old and proposed new futex interfaces.
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by corbet 5y ago
The weird part is that IBM employees contribute to the kernel with personal email addresses all the time. I think this was one confused mid-level manager rather than company policy at work unless things have changed quite recently.
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ACLU says it shares user data with Facebook(axios.com)
1 points by corbet 6y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 6y ago
The I/O bandwidth controller would appear to be the droid you are looking for.
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by corbet 6y ago
Tracking priority in that way would almost certainly be an expensive thing to do. Nowadays, control groups can contain that backup job pretty nicely.
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by corbet 6y ago
I'm sorry, but if I see "high security" followed by instructions to do "curl|sh", I have a hard time taking anything else seriously...
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by corbet 6y ago
That was a while ago at this point, back when the download site was still a significant part of what they did. The acquisition was at the end of the dotcom boom, and we had several options to choose from. We ended up with Tucows for a numb
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by corbet 6y ago
I would love to find better metrics than changesets and lines of codes — I agree that both are awful ways of measuring actual software-development work. I have yet to find something better, though; suggestions welcome.
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The new rules for Perl governance(lwn.net)
2 points by corbet 6y ago|0 comments

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