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Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by digiou »

MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #2

I remember when this was originally posted, but I voted it up again because I think it's such an excellent story, and excellent programming. We need more people and companies like this, who are willing to go beyond "oh it fails randomly sometimes" and track down the underlying issues. => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26102241 Previous Discussion (497 points - 41 comments)

For the record, this is one of the top Greek employers. This is Greece's Amazon essentially. The C-team are intact since day-1 and AFAIK still writing (some) code.

It is not unheard of to have 4-day weeks and developer-first mindset at that place.

Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by sneak »

> These snapshots are updated daily through a pipeline that involves taking an LVM snapshot of production data, anonymizing the dataset by stripping all personal data, and transferring it via rsync to the development database servers.

I don’t know what sort of data these people process, but most datasets about people are not anonymized by simply removing the PII.

Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by justin_oaks »

I love when you're using open source software and can find the bug yourself, even if it's deep down the stack.

Imagine if this bug were somewhere in closed source software. You'd have to reach out to the software's customer support team. Every time I reach out to customer support I expect to have an unpleasant experience. It is rarely otherwise.

Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by beachy »

sneak wrote: post #42

> These snapshots are updated daily through a pipeline that involves taking an LVM snapshot of production data, anonymizing the dataset by stripping all personal data, and transferring it via rsync to the development database servers. I don’t know what sort of data these people process, but most datasets about people are not anonymized by simply removing the PII.

Yes they are. Any information that can be used to identify a person by definition is PII.

Once all the PII is removed, by definition the dataset is anonymized.

Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by [deleted] »

justin_oaks wrote: post #44

I love when you're using open source software and can find the bug yourself, even if it's deep down the stack. Imagine if this bug were somewhere in closed source software. You'd have to reach out to the software's customer support team. Every time I reach out to customer support I expect to have an unpleasant experience. It is rarely otherwise.

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Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by dang »

thow232329 wrote: post #32

"This setup has worked rather well for the better part of a decade and has managed to scale from 15 developers to 150" LOL

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Also, could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or snarky and/or flamebait comments? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by dang »

itismetheidiot wrote: post #17

how odd to see a write up from skroutz.gr blog being at the first page of HN...

Also these!

Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775297 - Aug 2019 (24 comments)

The infrastructure behind one of the most popular sites in Greece - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982361 - July 2015 (5 comments)

Working with the ELK stack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008119 - Feb 2015 (35 comments)

Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by NKosmatos »

itismetheidiot wrote: post #17

how odd to see a write up from skroutz.gr blog being at the first page of HN...

Yeap, it's a bit strange, but the post was very well written, with a nice breakdown and easily understandable steps that can be followed by most software engineers.

There have been some sporadic posts from Skroutz in the past, but nothing that gained so much attention.

For those that don't know it, Skroutz is the biggest Greek online price aggregator/e-commerce market/price comparison site.

Re: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)

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Post by perth »

justin_oaks wrote: post #44

I love when you're using open source software and can find the bug yourself, even if it's deep down the stack. Imagine if this bug were somewhere in closed source software. You'd have to reach out to the software's customer support team. Every time I reach out to customer support I expect to have an unpleasant experience. It is rarely otherwise.

And even if you did reach out to customer support, it would rarely ever get dev attention unless most people have the issue. Even in that case, it sometimes still gets a fat wontfix, like the famous OneDrive file corruption bug.
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