Linux 7.1(lore.kernel.org) |
Moving really old and unused code out of the kernel just to get less AI-assisted bug reports is IMO one of the best consequence ever of AI.
I love it.
We should start trimming the fat out of everything.
I have 10 year old servers I'm still using because they run fine with linux.
It's naturally de-ossifying and forces uptake of new methods and practices.
It gives you an opportunity to question assumptions and do things greenfield again.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
One of my buddies was infamous for a while for being the "I deleted X lines of code today" guy.
I, too, am a fan of RFC 1925.
Everyone is afraid of breaking users until Torvalds says it’s ok.
Obviously, the parent is /s, but when I read this, I thought Linux was removing exploit paths that exercise rarely-used features.
On phone OSes at least, quirky rare formats and features are (were?) a common source of exploitable bugs.
There’s presumably plenty of code bloat in the kernel, and while no human would ever scan for bugs in a corner of the kernel that hasn’t been used or touched in decades, AI 100% will. And while those bug reports might be useless as bug reports, they seem promising as “why is this code even here?” flags.
I guess end users can not upgrade but a definition of obsolete would be nice.
To me, every HP printer ever is obsolete. But I assume someone else has an equally valid and different opinion. How does that go with computer hardware?
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/711a9c018ad252b2807...
Hope it gets to Fedora soon!
https://lore.kernel.org/all/99Mv9QEceyPrQhSP52MtAVmz0_kWJmzq...
Looking at kernel commits, it looks like the driver may have been fixed since, but I'm scared to use it after it had such major brokenness in that version.
Personally: I used NTFS3 and it was alright. If anything the biggest thing I got hit by was an issue where the udisks2 mount call from Dolphin would result in NTFS-3g specific flags getting sent to it, causing the mount to fail. But in actual usage it actually worked just fine for me.
I think users moved on when they saw no real harm in continuing to use it.
Looking forward to 7.1 rolling out soon.
The other day I tried to install fedora 44 on a friend's computer. He wanted kde so we set that up and whoops, no way to start programs on the discrete video card. I hacked around it by starting xorg, setting an alias and environment variables, but it was a bit embarrassing to see that things have regressed.
blog post (pretty sure I've seen it on HN before) on the topic:
! Title: Hide Anubis Image
*/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image
Did I miss something about this or is it just another number?
So, a number.
But 7.1 new features can still be exciting.
Exciting and risky things are always under flags, so if you really care you just build, configure, and bench your own kernel+system.
You can throw it up on your own website and simply grep the logs if you don't trust it, or look for the analysis reports from people who have done exactly that.
Like the other commenter said, why would linux.org deploy and leave deployed a technology that did nothing? Do they just enjoy trolling users? I doubt it.
This is one of the main examples of drivers that were removed.
I'm actually kind of curious what the actual device is.
And it's Luckfox Pico Mini. I guess everything computer related got 100% more expensive during the last year.
Also curious what your use case is? They seem highly catered towards video applications versus more generic IoT like esp*
I like it.
I think I remember that thread. IIRC, it went something very, very roughly like this:
Future banned user: It weirds me out a bit how young the mascot looks. I've never been comfortable with cutesy, underage-looking mascots.
The dogpile: How dare you insinuate that the dev a pedophile? Don't you know how anti-trans that dogwhistle is?
I'll also note that you chipped in with
> It's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman.
when -AFAICT- noone in this subthread expressed anything more heated than "dislike of kawaii". But perhaps you were speaking more generally, and weren't inspired by any conversation that happened in this subthread.
It's moreso only a loose indicator the user is between the ages of 14-30, if anything.