Hopefully it won’t matter too much in practical terms. More distributions have lately started using very new kernel versions and substantial numbers of people might therefore be hit by it. But the volume of patches to amdgpu is so high that I have no idea if whatever the problem might be was fixed already by someone. If it was as obvious to others as it seemed to me then it should very likely be fixed for 7.2.1.

You appear to have misunderstood what I said there. It was not in rc7.

If you have a patch to fix it the lkml or whichever related list is devoted to amdgpu would probably like to hear from you, otherwise I’m not sure — possibly the freedesktop issues page would be appropriate.

I’m still not yet sure if people other than me are affected, but I guess so? If it’s still there in a couple of weeks maybe I’ll find the strength to do some more testing.

rc7 was the final release candidate build for 7.2, the seventh in the usual series of them. They’re meant to fix bugs, not introduce new ones. I often run them, for fun and testing. One expects bugs like this — assuming it is a bug — in the rc builds but normally they’re meant to be fixed before the final release which happened this week.

Switching back to a working kernel is what I did for today, yeah. I have no particular reason to need 7.2 right now and don’t have time to try and track down the bug.

Search built for the AI era

I would really prefer search that takes you back to the era when search engines did a good job. It wasn’t that long ago.

There’s no doubt that a vegan diet can do people a lot of good but normally one doesn’t want to go too far in the direction of “you might not believe this, little fella, but it’ll cure your Asthma too!”

If you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.

$800,000 to install cooling measures in parks during stretches of extreme heat

I know the idea is to generate talking points to make it sound as if you’re doing something about climate change, not to actually do anything about climate change but if it’s literally installing sprinklers in city parks to cool people down on hot days — although that’s nice — I wonder if it might be just a little too obvious that it’s not really accomplishing much relative to the size of the problem of climate change.

Poilievre did a great job keeping the Conservatives out of power for a while. It was just bad luck for Canada that he did such a good job of it that the Liberals got a majority.

The monthly active users count there is not down compared to last year at this time, although it’s not up by as much as even the small amount that it was a couple months ago. Holding steady is a departure from the trend, the best it’s done in a long time.

Previously I noticed that Firefox user count had stopped declining for the first time in many years. Only later did I realise that it was probably due to all the fuss about Chrome dropping MV2, not anything Mozilla themselves had done. Hopefully this will keep the trend line going up a little further. Who knows, maybe Mozilla will miraculously come to its senses before it resumes the long slow decline.

Not everyone interested in piracy acquires all of their games that way, and even those who do sometimes buy them on Steam anyway — for example to support the publisher. Not that Gog isn’t better, but Steam obviously has most of the market.

This is a piracy-oriented community, so …

So there tend to be a fair number of gamers around.

Edit: The “join today” included in all the user’s posts almost certainly means that this is spam.

But to call them ignorant would be naive.

I used to believe that sort of thing, in my callow youth. They’re rich and powerful, they must know what they’re doing. It’s hard to imagine how anyone paying attention to the news these past ten years could still believe it. There’s no mysterious logic behind their nonsensical decisions. There’s no more than luck involved in any success those decisions have brought them. When they behave like clueless twits it’s because they’re clueless twits.

It seems like I’ve completely quit because all the smoking didn’t make me crave a cigarette even once. Back in E1 I did feel a slight nostalgia for the inexpressible feeling of crawling around in the gutter looking for butts and finding a good one, a feeling made much better by the knowledge that I’ll never go through it again.

I guess when you’ve preemptively announced that you’re not going to retaliate against the illegal tariffs in any way that would get their attention, such as putting export duties on petroleum products, you end up with little choice other than to give them whatever they want.

He wasn’t exactly sphynx-like in the speech I was thinking of. He spoke with eloquence, but directly and plainly. It did indeed seem clear that he sincerely believes that the existing banking system — which he had a hand in running for so long — operates in service of the public good.

When it was announced that Mr. Carney would run for office, the first thing I did to find out about him was to watch a video of one of his recent speeches to a big business audience. There is no way he would think of MMT as acceptable. He’s a huge fan of the way things are, so we will keep spending a significant percentage of the government budget directly on satisfying the greed of the rentiers.

Of those, defence needs mentioning as it is the biggest by a large margin.

You mean we could afford it now, or we could afford it if some form of MMT were adopted? I think readers might benefit from it being noted that there is a difference.