K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Director of Linux Foundation IT. Currently in charge of kernel.org infra.

This account is for Linux/Kernel/FOSS topics in general: #linux, #kernel, #foss, #git, #sysadmin, #infrastructure.

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2026-04-16 19:16:45 UTC

Whoever called it "ipv8" missed a golden opportunity to call it "ipv6-7".

2026-04-16 13:57:21 UTC

EU traffic to lore.kernel.org is now served by two OVH-hosted nodes, one in Strasbourg, another in Warsaw.
Huge thanks to OVH for their support!

2026-03-31 17:45:45 UTC

git-bug view in cgit, wat?
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/a916dbec7158e536bb508b956d51b0757474c3c252b1c882cf1f26e765cd6f3a.png
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/d456b9224abf13532b573c9c8c798923797630dddb0081e3ff8ecced435d3dd0.png

2026-03-27 19:55:46 UTC

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@nprofile…mcwl git-bug can actually bridge to github and some other forges, so you can have a github view of your bugs as well.

2026-03-27 19:44:43 UTC

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@nprofile…mcwl What's github? :blobcatdab:

2026-03-27 19:31:25 UTC

"b4 bugs tui" is a textual tui wrapper around git-bug that bridges mailing lists and git-bug for a local-first bug tracking experience.
Coming soon to the b4 master branch near you.
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/0131f35655a88626298dc9356d60d14cf21cc89b7213cb546ddffd4cc9a3b626.png
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/df6e37bd0648b82c64e5821ac8d557451fe6b058115bd3c86bdcb81403ae009e.png

2026-03-06 18:20:18 UTC

If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.

2026-02-28 20:26:36 UTC

To: helpdesk@kernel.org
Subject: hi
Hi my name is Thomas I'm wanting to know if. There and Kail Linux That can go. Onto Toys r Us Motorola G4 If. You can let me know please and thank you

2026-02-25 13:18:38 UTC

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@nprofile…mcwl you have to deliberately enable them.

2026-02-24 20:14:07 UTC

Here's an asciinema recording of the current state of b4 review:
https://asciinema.org/a/795683
It shows patchwork integration, reviewing series, taking series, sending thank-you notes, etc.
It's still rough around the ages, but it's doing useful things. I hope to release it as "pre-alpha" soon.

2026-02-12 19:12:13 UTC

mirrors.kernel.org is down because it threw 2 disks in a RAID-6 array and then ground itself to a halt. I'm trying to resuscitate it. Please use mirrors.edge.kernel.org (it's pointing at our only remaining server that is now up, in Amsterdam).
We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).
If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.

2026-02-09 18:24:03 UTC

I need to change neomutt so that instead of showing the actual number of messages in my inbox, it shows "Fuuuuuuuu" with more and more "u"s being added for every 20 new messages.

2026-02-09 14:30:43 UTC

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@nprofile…mcwl THIS. IS. CANADAAA.

2026-02-09 14:20:08 UTC

Just came back last night from winter camping with a bunch of scouts. We ran the usual challenge of building snow shelters and sleeping in them, which was particularly tough as it was -25°C overnight. Out of 14 scouts who went out to sleep in the cold, only 4 came in to the heated cabin and 10 others stayed out till morning, which was a new high number. When it was similarly cold two years ago, only 3 scouts out of 15 stayed the night. I like to think it's due to better preparedness and better guidance from us scouters and not just due to better gear. 💪
#scouts

2026-01-30 22:01:36 UTC

`b4 review tui` reviewing a patch series for b4 itself. Note the displayed comments provided by "Claude Opus 4.5 (CO4)" assisting with the review.
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/fa8c564ff88105d8c3f640cf51e4d9e87530731a4f42a493250a5f7af327267a.png

2026-01-24 23:17:51 UTC

The Open Source Summit North America is in May this year, in the lovely Minneapolis, where nothing is happening. Nosiree, nothing that would want a bunch of people think twice about attending.

2026-01-20 21:52:35 UTC

Yeah, but I run telnetd *ironically*.

2026-01-08 20:25:38 UTC

So, the aggressive crawler that pretends to be b4 in the user-agent is back hitting lore full force, this time hitting EU instead of APAC.
Thankfully, knowing a thing or two about b4, I can easily tell fake b4 traffic from real b4 traffic. Enjoy a ton of 404's, jerk.

2025-12-19 17:28:47 UTC

Saying our last goodbyes to Equinix servers. First as packet.net and then as Equinix Metal, they served kernel.org wonderfully over the past 7 years. With the deadline looming on Dec 31, we're powering them off today. They've been replaced by Akamai and servers.com, (though we had to downscale our mirrors service from 4 worldwide nodes to just two, one in NA and one in EU).

2025-10-07 12:26:05 UTC

"This makes me 20% more productive!"
"So does cocaine."

2025-08-01 16:14:50 UTC

I once again ask you to please stop using gmail for mailing lists.
Attached is a screenshot of *just one* of the 4 nodes delivering various kernel mailing list traffic with a deferred queue of 100,000+ messages, all for gmail.
We are currently sitting on about 500,000 deferred messages, all for gmail. I am very, very close to just banning gmail addresses from large lists.
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/2ea93f754368d98e15b4715f396f2457e59f7f70b5b476a1f76941c44caa828f.png

2025-07-28 18:09:48 UTC

If you're looking for an official document proving that you're 18+, I know a guy.
Glory to Arstotzka.
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/e868c3d13f3c7714a9ea16601d21f3693ee934fc5039ab14520b6c7e35e4d8b4.png

2025-07-24 19:54:33 UTC

My prediction for 2026: a lot more open-source projects switch to email-based patch workflows as the only reliable way to avoid drive-by slopsplatter.
/nsrs

2025-07-21 14:24:46 UTC

I hate everything about this:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/VI1PR02MB4271E311313F60FB07359BB0B352A@VI1PR02MB4271.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com/T/#u

2025-06-18 14:18:41 UTC

$ echo '.TH "" "WELL ACTUALLY..."' > .local/share/man/man5/splain.5
$ man splain

2025-05-27 17:31:14 UTC

Когда сорвался в крик душой,
вполне могу тебя понять.
Но вот не двину и рукой
из-за ошибки в слове "бл..."
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/0f2f6ddc3466f099c1fd1dc0940a51584d14be5aec7a70c2621e1468375baada.png

2025-05-26 19:09:35 UTC

Psst... did you know, you can subscribe to the kernel releases calendar?
https://kernel.org/releases-calendar.ics
Know ahead of time when the next kernel is going to be released! Amaze your friends!

2025-04-18 15:08:21 UTC

Me: "I just want to open the calculator pretty quick..." (hits "Super", types "calc" and hits enter without watching)
LibreOffice Calc: "YOU SUMMON ME, MORTAL?"
Me: "Oh, sweet Jesus, NO."

2025-04-09 13:42:02 UTC

Hey, do you like reviewing code written by someone with zero interest in your project, who ignores all of your carefully established styles and conventions, and who routinely sends in asinine suggestions?
- Github Copilot

2025-04-06 15:08:04 UTC

Тимофій, 3 роки.
Радислав, 7 років.
Аріна, 7 років.
Герман, 9 років.
Данило, 15 років.
Микита, 15 років.
Аліна, 15 років.
Костянтин, 16 років.
Нікіта, 17 років.
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/36b43b5cb619e3464ac9a7cc85638a6a0968ddfa5a82aba3a65d6df1bc9e9b8d.jpg

2025-04-03 18:38:44 UTC

git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org now require proof of work. Big thanks to Anubis developers for filling this important need.

2025-04-03 18:12:05 UTC

Users of w3m and lynx browsers will be asked to identify and fix a bug in the mm subsystem before they are allowed to access git kernel.org.

2025-04-03 12:33:17 UTC

I worry that we're mere weeks or months away from free software being declared unamerican in the US.

2025-04-02 21:09:33 UTC

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You can see it in action on this recently decommissioned system I'm using for testing purposes: https://ams.source.kernel.org/

2025-04-02 21:05:38 UTC

I'm sad to say that we're following the lead of many others and putting in proof-of-work proxies into place to protect ourselves against "AI" crawler bots. Yes, I hate this as much as you, but all other options are currently worse (such as locking us into specific vendors).
We'll be rolling it out on lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org in the next week or so.

2025-04-01 21:03:06 UTC

Sigh... I got anubis proof-of-work bot working in pre-production. I can't express how much I hate this.

2025-03-25 19:01:28 UTC

"WTF... oh, they saw /crypto/ in the URL."
https://media.social.kernel.org/media/3434464547a2ad317eaf5fd31b2eef57ef61ad85222543f66d07a4276d33c5dc.png

2025-03-23 15:48:58 UTC

Oh, man. So tempting.
https://gear.bethesda.net/products/fallout-series-pip-boy-die-cast-replica

2025-03-19 15:01:06 UTC

I know I haven't been able to work on b4 and other tooling as much as I was hoping, but between the Equinix exodus, having to continuously mitigate against LLM bot DDoS'ing our infra, and just general geopolitical sh*t that lives rent-free in my head... it's been difficult. But I have high hopes and lots of good ideas -- that's got to count for something, right?

2025-03-17 02:52:37 UTC

Other than FSF Europe, what other free software nonprofits are there that I can send people to if they don't want to contribute to a US-based entity?

2025-03-10 14:24:24 UTC

I was $today years old when I learned that you can write long integers with underscores for readability in Python.
foo = 1_500_000

2025-03-07 15:21:47 UTC

PSA: please don't use git.kernel.org directly for your CI needs. It is not viable for us to provide enough capacity to withstand dozens of CI nodes all trying to clone linux.git at the same time for multiple CI farms. You *will* get ip-blocked. Please set up a local mirror and hit that instead.

2025-03-02 21:28:33 UTC

Do you know someone at OVH who I can reach out to for hosting EU kernel.org frontends? We have a solution, but it doesn't hurt to diversify.

2025-02-28 18:14:11 UTC

I hope I ever get to be even *one hundredth* as brave as Zelenskyy when it comes to standing up to powerful bullies. 🇺🇦🇨🇦

2025-02-26 21:06:00 UTC

When I first watched that Star Wars scene where the bartender tells c3po that they don't serve their kinds there, I thought the guy was just being rude for no reason. However, I now know that he was totally right. F*cking bots. Get out and stay out.

2025-02-26 20:19:35 UTC

The git.kernel.org -> web.git.kernel.org change is now in place. See full announcement here:
https://msgid.link/20250226-cheerful-delicate-partridge-33280c@lemur/

2025-02-24 17:34:30 UTC

days since I broke kernel.org: 0

2025-02-14 18:00:12 UTC

I wasn't particularly fond of Greta Thunberg, but I like Apartheid Karen even less.

2023-09-03 13:05:55 UTC

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@npub17eh…94rr mostly recovered, thank you! Still not testing negative, though, so keeping myself isolated when I can.

2023-09-01 11:54:00 UTC

The first of each month works as a regular reminder of how many mailman-2 servers there still are out there.

2023-08-28 20:17:50 UTC

PSA: don't get COVID. It sucks.

2023-07-13 13:55:55 UTC

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@npub19zq…u4m5 I'm not saying they can't, just that the process is certainly not straightforward or fast.

2023-07-13 13:48:15 UTC

It's now been half a month since I asked Red Hat for their "free RHEL subscriptions for Open Source Infrastructure." I still don't have them, so even if this program is legitimate, it's certainly not a quick process.

2023-04-28 13:52:53 UTC

This is a regular reminder that Russian military is still dropping high-yield explosives onto Ukrainian homes, killing women and children.
This is not f'n okay.

2023-03-17 01:39:15 UTC

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#[0] yes

2023-03-16 18:08:03 UTC

I picked Akkoma because it looked more fun. No other reason.

2023-02-14 13:16:39 UTC

I have a niggling feeling that some people complaining about toxic development communities are actually merely annoyed that they are *differently* toxic from the way they like it.