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Jonathan Corbet
Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
Brewster Kahle

@corbet

Archive.org is up for helping...

The original URL shorteners thought about this, and archived their links with archive.org .

archive.org/details/301works?t

I hope google joins now, and gives us the host domain so we can make them continue to work (redirect into the wayback machine that would archive the redirect).

please.

Jonathan Corbet
On the radar: using a large-language model to insert thousands of automatically generated "security checks" into the OpenBSD kernel:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171810103406609&w=2

I'm sure that will be received well...
Jonathan Corbet

> I'm on a holiday and only happened to look at my emails and it seems to be a major mess.

Lasse Collin
Jonathan Corbet
One of the things I have been doing to approve my language skills is reading science fiction in Italian. It's surprisingly hard to find books by Italian SF authors (even though there are many of them) rather than yet another Tolkien translation; this is especially true in Italian bookstores, sadly. Ebooks fill in nicely, though, once you discover who you're looking for.

I recently read WOHPE by Salvatore Sanfilippo. The story, which deals with fears of the AI apocalypse, was a fun read, and it was clear that the author actually had a clue about how systems like language models actually work. I definitely enjoyed it.

Meanwhile, I'm a kernel person, relatively ignorant of areas like databases. So as I was reviewing an upcoming article by another LWN author about the Redis mess, I learned a lot. One thing I picked up was that one of the creators of Redis was ... a certain Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka @antirez) Some searching establishes that it's indeed the same person; no wonder the book was as clueful as it was.

Small world...and people say hackers can't write :)
One of the things I have been doing to approve my language skills is reading science fiction in Italian. It's surprisingly hard to find books by Italian SF authors (even though there are many of them) rather than yet another Tolkien translation; this is especially true in Italian bookstores, sadly. Ebooks fill in nicely, though, once you discover who you're looking for.
Jonathan Corbet
On the radar: Debian is launching into its 64-bit-time transition:

https://lwn.net/ml/debian-devel-announce/Zb0WpSukajgythGe@homer.dodds.net/

"By my reckoning, this is the largest cross-archive ABI transition we've ever
had in Debian".
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