#Kernel

i challenge anyone to explain to me why it is not absolutely fucking insane for a video game to require its own kernel driver https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-null-anti-cheat-kernel-driver/ my brain expands to ginormous
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When configuring a new #kernel #schedutil(¹) is now the default #CPUFreq governor for x86 in #Linux mainline which might improve the processors performance & efficiency in some cases: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/ef05db16bbd81c0afc4e97806ab3
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#Linux #Kernel 5.7 will *not* contain the filesystem information retrieval patches (aka fsinfo), despite what a few news websites claim. Seems one wrote it's a feature of 5.7 only after
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How does linux boot? 1. The machine's boot firmware loads and runs a boot loader program. The bootloader finds the kernel image from the disk and loads it to main
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Welp. Fourth kernel panic in 24 hours. Never updating any version of macOS past whatever hotfix they're gonna push for this. It's like using a Windows computer jfc. First kernel
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Support for BPF functions + tail calls was merged last week! https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/commit/?id=e411901c0b775a3ae7f3e2505f8d2d90ac696178Even though that doesn't add a new BPF feature per se, it&#
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So NVIDIA "released" their kernel driver as open source. By which they mean, they moved most of it to firmware and made the open source driver call into it. There
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eBPF on Windows https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows One by one, MS Windows slowly converting into a Linux distro ;) I won't be surprised at some point MS-Windows will adopt many Linux kernel features
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A nixCraft tweet with IMHO quite misleading statics on #Linux #kernel development is making the rounds: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1390981308017414146 FWIW, if you want proper data, better look at what http://lwn.net  or the
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Last night I had a spicy take I didn't tweet because it was too spicy, so consider yourself warned:It takes a real mastery of your own game design to know
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@riotgames, who is owned by Tencent, has a kernel level anti-cheat system.This means that when you boot up your computer, this software is running, even if the game isn’t being
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Thread.Bumped into this response on Phoronix.Now most software developers will dismiss it as ignorant, but let's look a bit deeper at the lessons we can learn about #conspiracy thinking!https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux
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university of minnesota today coming out with groundbreaking research that the best C programmers in the world can't tell if you're giving them bad Cmaybe C is bad "actually c
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If You Struggle Handling Criticism, Read This: The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has developed what @nntaleb called Wittgenstein’s Ruler. "Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a
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Step 1 of porting https://FrauBSD.org/nfsdtop  to FreeBSD is identifying the DTrace equivalent of the Linux bpftrace hooks kprobe:nfsd_read and kprobe:nfsd_writeI think I found them by firing a specific round of
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Excited to share our work on Longformer, a scalable transformer model for long-document NLP tasks without chunking/truncation to fit the 512 limit.Work with @mattthemathman, @armancohanCode and pretrained model: http://github.com/allenai/longformerPa
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