Another swing and a miss?
Following yesterday’s Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel’s WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam.
The WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM option has for many years been part of the Linux kernel and enabling it will provide a warning whenever there is a use of unseeded randomness within the kernel. To help spot situations of random number generation use prior to being able to securely use RNG on the system, this option was added long ago to help spot such uses of unseeded randomness by kernel code. But due to caveats on some CPUs around a fully-seeded CRNG, the WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM can become like an endless stream of spam. After encountering a bug report where much of the kernel log were just messages about unseeded randomness and in turn losing some of the initial boot log, Torvalds had enough and gutted out this option.
The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time tracing. That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway. See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.
The solution for developers that care, if they exist.
That’s 2 points to Brennan
No no. he cannot win!
Not really.
Gup.pe groups were genuine ActivityPub Groups, like Lemmy communities, whereas these ‘FediGroup’ things are just Mastodon bots. They’re a ‘Service’, aka the automated version of a ‘Person’, so they’re no use to anyone on platforms (like Lemmy) that can only follow Groups.
The most similar recent thing to gup.pe is https://ovo.st/
Compare:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse | jq -r .type
=> Group
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://ovo.st/club/askfedi | jq -r .type
=> Group
with
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction | jq -r .type
=> Service
Ah. That’s disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though.
Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features.
Linux 7.0 is packing a lot of changes and new features. Making this kernel all the more interesting beyond the changes and big version number is that it’s also expected to be the default kernel for the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 for making this an extra special release. Linux 7.0 brings more enablement work for Intel Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids processors, more AMD Zen 6 enablement too, and a lot of new hardware driver support throughout – including for non-AMD/Intel platforms like more Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 upstreaming work. On the graphics side is also new AMD graphics hardware support for upcoming products.
I, for one, welcome our vigesimal BDFL.
I honestly think it would be much cooler if linux used semantic versioning instead of random versioning, but Linus bumping majors just because he feels like it is also funny and cool.
I like the idea of X forwarding, but it doesn’t work in real world anymore. As far as I know, it has to do many round-trips for everything. Launching something like LibreOffice Writer is funny, it will be loading bit by bit, icon by icon for several minutes. It was only usable for me on < 1ms network.
Unlike say VNC, it opens windows locally.
And now there’s Waypipe which does the same thing, but for Wayland. And it actually works! Even better than VNC.
BUT, it doesn’t work for X programs. It can somewhat work with rootful Xwayland… but that’s basically a desktop for X-only programs.
https://lemy.lol/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fapi%2Fv3%2Fimage_proxy%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ffiles.catbox.moe%252Fqybbb5.pngWelp, I just wanted to check something on the remote desktop, so I launched VNC, and WOAH, I didn’t expect to get XFCE invasion.
I didn’t know XFCE can do Wayland now.Anyway, this cursed thing does actually work pretty fine.
xfce4-sessionworks with Waypipe, good to know.
OC by @user224@lemmy.sdf.org
this is actually still very useful for vms, containers, etc. even over LAN it’s quite usable for ~gtk2 programs.
@cm0002@lemy.lol Could you at least cross-post like a normal person or link to OP? Hard to reply like this.
If only I had friends I would’ve bought two!
It works with the a Scottish accent too!
Talk about scorched earth.
