Something to be proud of I’m sure!

tl;dr:

If, for whatever reason, progress on the torvalds/linux.git repository is affected, someone has to get things moving within 72 hours. This person could either be the one who organized the most recent Maintainer Summit or the chair of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

They will be tasked with pulling together the people who were invited to the last summit, along with members of the TAB.

It gets more complicated after that, but essentially that’s it.

Oh, and I’m pretty sure there already is more than one top maintainers for the kernel code anyhow.

Depends on the beholder’s POV I guess; but yeah, even to a middle-aged fart like me 2018 is not “recent” anymore.

I never understood why people would say JSON is superior, and why XML seemed to be getting rarer, but the author explains it:

XML was not abandoned because it was inadequate; it was abandoned because JavaScript won.

I’ve been using it ever since I started using Linux because my favorite window manager uses it, and because of a long-running pet project that is almost just as old: first I used XML tools to parse web pages, later I switched to dedicated data providers that offered both XML and JSON formats, and stuck to what I knew.

I’m guessing that another reason devs - especially web devs - prefer JSON over XML is that the latter uses more bytes to transport the same amount of raw data. One XML file will be somewhat larger than one JSON file with the same content. That advantage is of course dwarved by all the other media and helper scripts - nay, frameworks, devs use to develop websites.

BTW, XML is very readable with syntax highlighting and easily editable if your code editor has some very basic completion for it. And it has comments!

Yes. Arguably, HTML is a form of XML. Also, the ML means the same in both. XML tools can often also be used to query HTML documents.

Does this mean Terminal is installed but one can only use it when one is logged into the store?

Or maybe I don’t understand Windows logic; it’s been over a decade for me.

We’re all just beta testers.

🎶 Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999 🎶

What does it do? AFAICS the code is the java(pardon,type)script framework for the webpage itself?

Of course, that too can change. From the current README:

What Can Be Changed

Everything. Including these rules.

Top PRs:

BMW I use

This is O’Rly, not O’Reilly. Somebody posted them here a while ago, had me laugh-scrolling for a long while.

Just in case it slipped your eyes when you saw “Torvalds”: this is not about the Linux kernel.

As I said in private elsewhere, I do not want any kernel development documentation to be some AI statement. We have enough people on both sides of the “sky is falling” and “it’s going to revolutionize software engineering”, I don’t want some kernel development docs to take either stance.

It’s why I strongly want this to be that “just a tool” statement.

And the AI slop issue is NOT going to be solved with documentation, and anybody who thinks it is either just naive, or wants to “make a statement”.

Neither of which is a good reason for documentation.

It’s Schrödinger’s satire.

Lunduke is mentioned 10s into the video and Linux Sucks is his series of videos.

… “The end of Linux has already happened”, and he’s serious about it, complaining about pretty much everything.

He’s definitely anti-woke in all its colorful facets, self-confesssed “conservative” and hides behind constant “I’m not political” statements to continue pushing clearly political opinion.

He is the Alex Jones of the Linux community.

All this becomes very clear in the first 10 min of the video.

As soon as I saw the name Lunduke - the Linux community’s Alex Jones for at least a decade - just not sure how much parody and how much trolling this is.

That last sentence. I admit, I thought they were serious. Now imagine how many people thought it was also the truth.

It’s the bitcoin bubble all over again.

That’s on AMD hardware, mind.

How is wayland on (older) intel CPUs/GPUs nowadays?

During the hireing process they talked about green transformation, democratization, automation, stuff like that. Turns out they use these tools to squeeze truck drivers into working for as little money as possible.

I don’t work in IT, but this is so familiar.

That’s “I wrote my first shell script” type of bad. I remember Ubuntu+GNOME used to be full of such crap in their early days. There are still some helper scripts around from those days (the naughts), you can still catch a whiff of it.