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Avg engagement / post
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Engagement vs followers
May 2025
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This took a few months to actually get all the straggler commits landed, but now the Pull Request to Linus has landed, and strncpy is officially gone from the Linux kernel (visible with the v7.2 release in 2 months):
https://git.kernel.org…
Is Coverity Scan dead? Their service has been down for a month now: https://scan.coverity.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20260517054520/https://scan.coverity.com/
Not that their tooling could build Linux any more:
https://community.black…
RE: https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/116410584558165723
The cycles we're seeing now are this interesting "2 steps forward, 1 step back" where LLMs gain competence, new things becomes possible, and then they get wielded beyond their utility…
We can remove strncpy() from the Linux kernel finally! I did the last 6 instances, and dropped all the implementations:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=dev/v7.0-rc2/strncpy
Over the last 6 years workin…
RE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116239303710146388
And when you make changes to 20,000 kmalloc calls, you start getting CCed on a LOT of patches since you touched "neighboring code" recently. 😭
The Coverity scanning for Linux has been broken for the last month. I tracked down the root cause, and it looks like scanning will be offline for the forseeable future. Coverity doesn't appear to support transparent struct members, which L…
Please donate to @conservancy if you can! They're doing great work keeping free software available to everyone.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/nov/26/2025-fundraiser-launched-with-largest-match-yet/
Today is also the 10 year anniversary of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project. https://kspp.github.io/
I'm proud that we've gotten A LOT done in the last decade to harden Linux against security flaws.
I posted this before, but here's a…
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Happy 70th birthday to the Flux Capacitor!
My Rose City Comic Con mascot
I should point out that half of those 5000 lines are tests. :P
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Happy 70th birthday to the Flux Capacitor!
My Rose City Comic Con mascot
I should point out that half of those 5000 lines are tests. :P
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hachyderm.io
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On Mastodon since
May 2025
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2025 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 128 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
90/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~5.8% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
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