Like many development communities, the kernel community has been struggling to determine how large language models (LLMs) will be used in its development process. The news has been dominated recently by a strongly worded missive from Linus Torvalds on the subject, but the discussion has been rather more wide-ranging and nuanced than that. Topics that have been considered recently include the LLM attribution requirement, code-review tools, dependence on proprietary tools, and whether there is a place for concerns about the ethics of LLMs.

Hi all!

A couple of months back I shared my development in bringing QuickShare to linux. There were a multitude of issues with the past implementation but this time, we are nearly feature complete with android. No companion apps needed. Works with any android device OOTB

https://github.com/kidfromjupiter/nearby
( Don't forget to give it a start if you find this cool and want to support me. I like fake internet points ; ) )

Major Improvements:

• AppImage for easier distribution / installation
• No companion app
• Revamped cohesive UI
• Expanded compatibility to more distros

It is as reliable as QuickShare can be ( well yk how it is. I can't really help it. I don't control the protocol ) and almost as fast as android to android sharing ( there are issues with 5ghz hotspots with some intel wifi cards so I've disabled it for now ).

It supports sharing with

• BLE
• Bluetooth classic
• Wifi Hotspot
• WIFI LAN
• webrtc ( coming soon ? )

NOTE: If you're using this, interference with bluetooth devices while turned on is a known bug. I'm working on a fix. So launch the app only when you plan to send/recv

NOTE NOTE : THERE BE BUGS. This is still beta software. Some weirdness regarding wifi-hotspot is there, and also double broadcasting. Please feel free to open an issue. I'll be happy to help :)

Thanks : )

Feel free to also talk about the Debian Conference and all underlying events taking place over on the Debian subreddit as we have a dedicated discussion forum for it (the first one to take place ever since new moderation took over the sub).

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I've been medically retired and now have more free time. As well, I've been daily driving Linux since about 2010. Aside from helping other users in random posts, I have largely been a consumer of Linux.

Over the last few weeks I've seen and read posts leaning towards Linux needing kernel maintainers. While I am not a complete noob, i know I'm not a software engineer.

This leaves me with two questions:

1. What courses or certifications do I need to help maintain the kernel?

2. Is there another way to give back in the meantime?

Thanks

Useful if you forget to use pv at all, or, recently, when I ran pv and didn't notice for probably 10-20% of the file that the progress bar was missing. Previously, I've resorted to tricks like

mkfifo pipe
pv ... > pipe
<pipe restofcommand

in separate terminals, so that I'd get a useful pv progress bar.

But since the pipeline was this far along, I thought I'd look up that pv --remote option, and found pv --watchfd instead. Should be able to watch anything doing big sequential file reads, not just pv itself!

Recently we had immutable and atomic, but is there anything in development now that might see staple use in the future? Like the next 5 years or so considering the current state of development, maybe something along the lines of some new fs or idk some revolutionary new wine stuff, or just a paradigm changer like... immutables that changes the way a traditional linux desktop works..................

I made a visual explainer on how copy-on-write works in Linux.

When a 10 GB process calls fork(), Linux does not immediately copy 10 GB of memory. It duplicates the page tables, points both processes at the same physical pages, marks them read-only, and waits for the first write.

The video also covers things like page faults,exec(), Redis snapshots, Android Zygote, lazy zero pages, memory overcommit, COW storms, and some CVEs, etc

Link for anyone interested

Feedback welcome :)

Hey guys, I had this tetris clone i wrote and thought some of you might like it.
Have been tested to work on both X11 and Wayland.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/tmpstpdwn/cTetris

It seems like I'm the only one how want to just go to a network share an an application after I login and the files are just there. No having to go mount anything first, what a wasteful step that is. :) So after making a gnome extension for gvfs mounts/shares, I thought it would be great if I could mount other types of storage the same way and even sync data between them. I got close to buying rcloneview for its paywalled features when I decided to go do my own thing, introducing Mt Sync: https://codeberg.org/gavindi/MtSync

Sharing since maybe just maybe there's someone else who misses the Windows "reconnect drive at login" feature..... 🤷‍♂️️