theme this week:
The future belongs to those who build value, not those who extract it.
Cpanel continues to be a vibe-coded dumpster fire
Kernel Read File
Three ah ah ah stable kernels:
Siomon keeps picking up steam yay:
SR-IOV update:
nginx exploit
USBc 10gbps
bitlocker
Talent Pipeline maybe
arxiv code of conduct
AI as teacher:
also fun project, ai local
also, for the lols
I am certain that AI as going to displace bad management. The future belongs to those who build value, not those who extract it. The age of managerial aristocracy will end if we, the people, recognize our opportunity and seize upon it.
Executives extract margins. Builders create futures. It’s never been clearer to me than the context of the OpenAI trial.
Hey Wendell, in the review for that Razer laptop allows enrolling keys for secure boot? I have an older blade that does not expose it in the firmware but otherwise I have enjoyed.
secure boot is in the efi and toggleable. I was able to enroll ventoy’s secureboot key AND enable custom signed kernels from linux. Or disable entirely.
Thank you for talking about the value creation vs extraction. I’ve been getting incredibly jaded about that lately, especially working for the current company. Frankly, there are days where I want to quit and work in open source, but I know it won’t pay the bills (yet), so I just pitch in where I can.
I think the value creation vs extraction actually meshes really well with the whole open source vibe. There is no value to be extracted from open source, because it’s free. Which means that you have two archetypes of effort; helpful and malicious.
Germany giving KDE 1.3 million euro is HUGE. KDE has been between 350k and 500k annually, so in that donation alone, Germany has funded KDE for at least 2.5 years. Or, hear me out, KDE could hire a couple people to polish up some of the rough around the edges bits? Huh? Whadda ya think?!
As for the OpenAI tomfoolery, the sooner this LLM hysteria dies down, the sooner we can get back to life as normal. I get a very Y2K feeling from this, where we are throwing unfathomable amounts of money at this potential reality that really isn’t any closer to materializing than it was two years ago, when GPT first went mainstream.
I think LLMs are cool, and even quite capable, but the way they exist today, they won’t get us to the promises the major players are making.