Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Linux 7.1

lore.kernel.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 137 posts

Re: Linux 7.1

#61

Post by fn-mote »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #34

> Linux 7.1 is also notable for its code removals. Driven by AI-assisted bug reporting, ISDN and other old network driver code was removed to avoid that influx of bug reporting against those very rarely touched or used drivers for obsolete hardware. 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 tri…

> Moving really old and unused code out of the kernel just to get less AI-assisted bug reports

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.

Re: Linux 7.1

#62

Post by p_l »

saltamimi wrote: post #49
HeckFeck wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw, but what have you against kawaii?

For me, it's a personal preference and in my opinion, it's less professional.

Places that want to use Anubis but find the logo not professional enough are free to pay the author, IIRC it was major "professional support" benefit :D

Re: Linux 7.1

#63

Post by fn-mote »

anonymous908213 wrote: post #58
lukeify wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.

It's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman. In a lobsters thread about Anubis, a community member of 12 years got themselves permanently banned because they were frothing at the mouth with accusations of pedophilia against the developer and refused to apologise when given an opportunity by moderators. Telling on themselves, perhaps? It's funn…

[flagged]

Re: Linux 7.1

#64

Post by fn-mote »

irishcoffee wrote: post #22
juujian wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know it's a bit of a meme but I'm on Debian Stable and I am running the backport kernel, which is on version 6.19. So only one minor version away from the current 7.0. I wish more people would consider Debian for their devices. It is a very stable system, which I appreciate, and, unlike Ubuntu, it was really an "it just works" experience, without any of the friction points that smaller distros have. I installed Deb…

I’ll never understand why people like Ubuntu. It’s a really hard toss up for me if I’d rather be stuck with Ubuntu or windows.

Come on - at least make one substantive criticism in your post putting down Ubuntu.

I came to Ubuntu because Wine worked on it with no effort. Yes, this was a long time ago. I have certainly cursed some of their changes since then, but I don’t want to spend my time doing yet another sysadmin job, so the less I change the better.

Re: Linux 7.1

#65

Post by [deleted] »

fn-mote wrote: post #63
anonymous908213 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman. In a lobsters thread about Anubis, a community member of 12 years got themselves permanently banned because they were frothing at the mouth with accusations of pedophilia against the developer and refused to apologise when given an opportunity by moderators. Telling on themselves, perhaps? It's funn…

[flagged]

[deleted]

Re: Linux 7.1

#66

Post by fn-mote »

fhdkweig wrote: post #53
irishcoffee wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll never understand why people like Ubuntu. It’s a really hard toss up for me if I’d rather be stuck with Ubuntu or windows.

I'm of the belief that the more popular an OS is, the more maintainers it will have (and thus less bugs). The only thing about Ubuntu that I hated was its choice of windowing manager. That's why there are so many variants like KUbuntu, XUbuntu, etc. Are there other reasons to not like Ubuntu other than the windowing manager?

> Are there other reasons to not like Ubuntu other than the windowing manager?

Snap applications are still not “equal enough” to installed apps.

They have gotten better, but it’s not seamless and when you get burned it’s 2 hours debugging. Each time.

An app I use/help maintain regularly gets bug reports about sandboxed behavior. It’s understandable but the easiest fix is to install an unsandboxed version.

I personally have some extra steps in my workflow for printing from a snap application because it doesn’t just work and I don’t want to spend the hours needed to debug it.

Re: Linux 7.1

#67

Post by yunwal »

anonymous908213 wrote: post #35
konart wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis blog post (pretty sure I've seen it on HN before) on the topic: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

But not a very accurate blogpost. "Here's why this literally cannot work (in theory)" to denigrate a system that actually works (in practice). Their goal is to convince people to stop using it because it personally inconveniences them, but they never provide an alternative solution that actually solves the problem (in practice) that Anubis actually solves (in practice). If leaving the problem unsolved (in practice) w…

I'm totally out of the loop here, where's the evidence that this works in practice?

Re: Linux 7.1

#68

Post by knorker »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #34

> Linux 7.1 is also notable for its code removals. Driven by AI-assisted bug reporting, ISDN and other old network driver code was removed to avoid that influx of bug reporting against those very rarely touched or used drivers for obsolete hardware. 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 tri…

Code is liability. AI just made it harder to ignore.

Re: Linux 7.1

#70

Post by bombcar »

imoverclocked wrote: post #2

Breaking: Linus is on travel. Did I miss something about this or is it just another number?

Surprised nobody will spring for the inflight WiFi for Linus. Has to be some of the best return per dollar that could be spent!
Post reply on HN