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Director of Linux Foundation IT. Currently in charge of kernel.org infra.

This account is for Linux/Kernel/FOSS topics in general: #linux, #kernel, #foss, #git, #sysadmin, #infrastructure.

For my personal account, please follow @monsieuricon@castoranxieux.ca.

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New pet peeve -- when people treat email as text messages. I don't want to receive 4 messages from you, each one sentence long.
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N95Bias β“‹πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ

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I'm aware of Anubis and I'm afraid proof-of-work intermediaries are going to become the only way to deal with bots.

However, I don't like Anubis's general approach. I would prefer to have something built into varnish with some more logic that allows for more nuance. If there is a local cached page, allow the request. If there isn't, but the load/RAM usage is low, let the request through. If the load is high or if we're seeing lots of 503's, only then require proof-of-work.
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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Please boost for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies.

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

In good news, I figured out what needed to happen so we don't share the same /64 with all other Linode systems in the same datacentre, which gets @spamhaus off our back.
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

All Norwegian birds look fugl-y.
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I know I haven't been able to work on b4 and other tooling as much as I was hoping, but between the Equinix exodus, having to continuously mitigate against LLM bot DDoS'ing our infra, and just general geopolitical sh*t that lives rent-free in my head... it's been difficult. But I have high hopes and lots of good ideas -- that's got to count for something, right?
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Supply Chain Attacks on Linux distributions (Fenrisk)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014741/

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Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

"Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externalized directly into my fucking face. Do something productive for society or get the hell away from my servers"
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Donald Trump proudly demonstrates all the nothingburgers he got from Russia during his call.
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LLM crawlers are aggressively destroying important community infrastructures but sadly there is not an easy fix. Still: Blocking those crawlers should be high on your list of todos

(Original title: LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut)

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Other than FSF Europe, what other free software nonprofits are there that I can send people to if they don't want to contribute to a US-based entity?
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Help, I've been hacked by an offspring of Cthulhu and... the Orz from StarCon?
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

When Trump says that he can apply economic pressure on Putin, he's lying. He has very few levers that haven't already been pushed. Using his own analogy, Trump acts like he has an ace up his sleeve, but he only has a pair of jokers. The only sure way to apply pressure on Putin is to give Ukraine all they need to win on the battlefield.
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Oh, hey, my brevect friend is back.

Previously: https://social.kernel.org/notice/AmZyUesiGPEKbNCa00
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If really did attack , | think the only logical thing is for to sign a cease fire immediately, give them half of Twitter and make sure he says thank you.

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

I was $today years old when I learned that you can write long integers with underscores for readability in Python.

foo = 1_500_000
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Me: "man, i thought I was getting pretty good at Norsk, but I'm having trouble reading this random post online."
Me, after checking the author's profile: "ah, it's in Danish."
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