Daily Archives: 2024-07-20

How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux)

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Ooohh. That's an immediately obviously useful feature.
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CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed

Source: Hacker News

Article note: LOL, they had a similar fuckup with their less-widely-used Linux client a while back that they managed to keep quiet. Bolt-on security liability shifting bullshit being bullshit is a decades-old story. Late stage capitalism min-maxing reaching the "reap" stage (or the "find out" stage in the modern formulation) is dominating the news. Random loosely-affiliated groups making software that is better in almost every way than the products of billion-dollar companies is becoming a refrain. What an era.
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