Brief items

GDPR gives you a right to be forgotten; it does not impose an obligation to be remembered.

We are also certain that last year's Equifax breach set the high-water mark for cybercrime. Hence, there is simply no need for the White House, or America in general, to continue to worry about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure networks. We are pleased to think that the hardware intrusion problem no longer justifies national coordination, and we have unwavering confidence that the Department of Education is well-positioned to take the lead on cybersecurity education initiatives.

Likewise, our adversaries certainly will not interpret this as a signifier that the United States will be less capable of developing a strategy to respond to cyber threats.

Most importantly, we would never question whether folding the cyber czar's job into the role of another National Security Council member would lead to decreased attention to the functions of the cybersecurity coordinator at the highest level of the administration. Never.

I do not recommend e-mailing just LKML with no other lists or people. Sometimes you'll get a response but think of it more as writing to your blog that has 10 followers you've never met, 7 of which are bots.

Do not let guinea pigs near your ethernet.

Keep in mind that filesystems are persistent structures that have lifetimes of tens of years. We have to support users with old formats, regardless of the unfixable problems they may have. We do what we can to mitigate those issues for them and encourage users to upgrade their kernels and on-disk formats, but we can't just shut off access to the old formats in new kernels because a new fuzzer found an old problem we've known about for years.

With the upcoming list of bugs (skipped here) we don't want to fingerpoint at individual teams, instead I think we can only solve this if we as Debian decide we want to solve it for buster.

I think this is not happening because people believe things have been sorted out and we take care of them. But we are not, we can't do this alone.

Debian stretch

the 'reproducibly in theory but not in practice' release

Debian buster

the 'we should be reproducible but we are not' release?

Debian bullseye

the 'we are almost there but still haven't sorted out...' release???

I rather hope for:

Debian buster

the release is still far away and we haven't frozen yet! ;-)

As far as I am aware, inotify came out to address the needs of desktop search tools like the belated Beagle (11/10 good pupper just trying to get his pup on). Especially in the days of spinning metal, grovelling over the whole hard-drive was a real non-starter, especially if the search database should to be up-to-date.

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I dunno about you all but whenever I've had to document such an egregious uncorrectable failure mode as any of the ones in the inotify manual, I have rewritten the software instead. In that spirit, I hope that some day we shall send inotify to the pet cemetery, to rest in peace beside Beagle.

I don't see myself ever winning an argument with a robot who knows better, and is implemented in proprietary software that I cannot adjust.