There's another way to mitigate this, and it's ideologically difficult for a lot of Open Source people to accept... but you'll have to diverge from the tried and true path. AI makes this much easier: instead of using $popular_thing_everyone_uses, you use something else - either COTS or roll-your-own. Yes, it might be bugs, and yes, they might be security bugs, but unless they're painfully obvious issues where you didn't do your due diligence, it's going to be a more obscure target which will require more targeted attacks.

No, this doesn't solve anything and it's 100% "security through obscurity". Perhaps I'm just missing something, but it seems like sound practice.

So, basically what you could do in W95.

What you describe is basically cron + freebsd rc or classic linux init.d

Systemd over engineered everything to better support corner cases, which ultimately doesn't work as well at the core functionality and causes systemic stability and security problems.

No doubt Microsoft's agenda today is different from what it was 30 years ago, but it's still Microsoft's agenda. Microsoft can be relied upon to do what is good for Microsoft, and any dependency you form on their products can and will be used as leverage to extract money from you.

IIUC (I'm no specialist in the field!!):

No, but one of the possible meanings of "dark matter" is "black holes created during the big bang". It's tricky to make it work, and it requires some adjustment in how stable black holes are, but it's possible. The problem is that it would require that they evaporate more quickly and quietly than theory says that they should.

Note that these would be relatively small black holes. Possibly the larger ones became the nuclei around which the first generation of stars collected.

You say that, but then ignore the funding source and board of directors for the orgs that Lennart worked for... sure. Totally just a coincidence.

In other words, they've made largely superficial changes (except 9x -> NT) quite consistently which haven't added much in terms of value.

Because Lennart Poettering is basically the Linus Torvalds of fucking up Linux for Microsoft: systemd, avahi, pulseaudio, and associated shitware bloat which have made linux less stable, less secure, and increasingly difficult to diagnose or integrate.

He's always been a proponent of doing things on Linux the Microsoft way, seemingly as an agent of chaos.

Yeah, true - most of those systems are trash, bugzilla specifically.

They really should be built more like a CRM.

MBAs are "highly polished turds" because we've lost the ability (legally and culturally) to assess people on merit. You end up with a poor surrogate, which has become gameified to produce people who make the metric the measurement of work instead of basing metrics on the value of the outcome.

Where have you been? You couldn't be more wrong.

This entire culture has been bent around the idea of quarterly profits for decades. "Stocks are up!" Short term gain at the cost of long term employees and innovation. Ship faster!

While, yes, the trend to seek short term profits has slowed and even in some small ways reversed, we are a good number of years from being focused on incremental innovation and experience, again.

Too bad they couldn't both lose. OTOH, Musk is as big a liar as Altman, so neither of their testimonies should be believed. Which make it hard to come to a just decision.

"drone"? What year are you talking about?

While the entire world moved to bugtrackers, Linux seems to have stuck with the venerable yet antiquated mailing list for tracking its bugs.

Except, it's worse than that. It's not even the exclusive source, they also use bugzilla - one preferentially over the other, depending on preference of the maintainers (and presumably, the submitters).

That's not scalable. While it's nice for a small team, perhaps, to continue using email, particularly since it's been the convention for a long many years, it's clearly not working anymore.

The purpose of the system is what the system does. Email has largely fallen out of utility due to everything/everybody trying to use it for... everything.

The problem here isn't the AI generated content, it's the mechanism used for reporting bugs. They (the kernel maintainers) need to use a proper modern bug reporting and tracking system, and probably one at this point which runs automatic regression/integration tests + LLM/SLM evaluation (classification and categorization) of submitted materials. I'd wager a great number of the bugs found are indeed real, and now they're just noise.

This is a relatively dire situation, given the events of the past week: significant, frequent exploits require a more attentive approach to this than free form email can provide.

They weren't peaceful, but they were introverted. Now, as a matter of survival, they're doing their best to try to drag down everyone else.

So, yes, Damn Trump for provoking this.