The most insane proposal in regard to the Linux kernel development

In 2016, Artem S. Tashkinov made a proposal on lkml. The proposal: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/2/76 Basically, proposed a sane idea to get newer hardwares working on old kernel. Al Viro replies in a disgraceful manner. The reply: https://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.0/02006.html Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel dev replies to control the situation. KH Greg reply: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/6/646 To which Artem replies …

Even Linux kernel devs know they have created a mess for companies looking to create drivers.

I am quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman So, if you have a Linux kernel driver that is not in the main kernel tree, what are you, a developer, supposed to do? Releasing a binary driver for every different kernel version for every distribution is a nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface …

Achievement unlocked

So, in this sub people were discussing how costly the games are in India. I shared the secret message and got banned.

God of the gaps fallacy

I think logical fallacies should be mandatory subject in schools. A lot of theists make illogical arguments that ultimately rely god of the gaps fallacy. A notable example of this is how Sir Isaac Newton used the "God of the gaps" reasoning in his explanations. Newton devised a mathematical equation for the force of gravity …

GitHub Student Developer Pack: Namecheap crazy permissions

As a part of GitHub Student Developer Pack, NameCheap provides a free domain for 1 year. I thought why not try it out. When I started to access the free domain, it literally asked full access to my Github account. It is like selling your kidneys to buy an iPhone.

Trial by fire: the limit is 15000

How to install Alacritty on X11 without building from source

So I want to install a terminal emulator called Alacritty on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Their github release page is mostly showing wayland based versions. I found two options. I found a PPA to install Alacritty. The only problem is that there is no mention of the PPA in their readme or in the installation instruction. …

Pycharm automatically import all SSH connections for remote development.

I know this was already asked 2 years ago. Does Pycharm professional has added a function to connect to remote server over proxyjump without manual port forward? I mean in VS code, it automatically gives me a list of all connections (normal + proxyjump) in my ssh config. EDIT: Ahh I figure it out. Not …

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50Mb Windows 7.

So, I found an old video showing a heavily stripped version of Windows with the Windows 7 sp1 kernel. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkU_CVdhwU ISO: https://archive.org/details/windows-7-pesuper-lite-50-mb