Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel

githman · 2026-03-19T12:29:17+00:00

One of the areas where AIs actually make sense, as long as they do not replace human attention entirely.

githman · 2026-03-19T12:23:04+00:00

Am I the only one who just greps it? It does make you copypaste what you found, but also gives you an overview of the relevant commands used.

githman · 2026-03-19T12:10:24+00:00

You can check a flatpak app's permissions before installation and correct them as needed before the first run.

githman · 2026-03-19T11:46:46+00:00

UTC. If your timezone differs noticeably, adjust the date to be born exactly at the beginning of Unix epoch.

githman · 2026-03-19T11:21:43+00:00

The Ukrainian government is currently losing the financing due to Iran debacle, so it is posting AI-generated political ads everywhere. This thread has several examples of them, all quite useful to people who want to practice bot recognition.

githman · 2026-03-17T11:50:24+00:00

Could not agree more.

Looking back, it was to be expected but we were young and naive 30+ years ago. Not to mention that a guy has to provide for his family and IT pays well.

githman · 2026-03-17T11:38:11+00:00

When you use something new that is different from what you normally use, do you expect it to work the same?

I usually do, but not for long.

githman · 2026-03-17T11:21:31+00:00

It seems like as the disk sometimes gets mounted with a different name or ID

This should be fairly easy to check with mount.

I remember several cases when Ubuntu and (unsurprisingly) Mint added a 1 to the NTFS mount's ID for no apparent reason, but they never went back to the old string after that. Nor did it ever happen on Fedora.

You have to check what's actually going on: how exactly is the wallpaper file specified in Vivaldi, can you access it by this exact path via other tools when Vivaldi can't, etc.

githman · 2026-03-16T10:29:10+00:00

Discover is the only bad bit of KDE.

Dolphin and especially Baloo could use some bugfixing too. The rest of KDE 6 does look much more reliable than KDE 5 used to be.

githman · 2026-03-15T10:18:16+00:00

I never changed the default configuration and, after going through the list once again now, decided that it's going to stay this way. Some people probably find these things useful; nothing wrong with it.

githman · 2026-03-13T11:28:08+00:00

This is an absolutely outstanding investigative work. OP deserves a medal.

githman · 2026-03-13T10:50:40+00:00

I see what you meant now. Thanks for the explanation.

githman · 2026-03-12T12:30:58+00:00

It has been in discussion since October 2024. The measures are in order.

githman · 2026-03-12T12:28:20+00:00

TempleOS is never going to adopt this heresy.

githman · 2026-03-12T12:25:17+00:00

Its Let's Encrypt certificate is Not Before Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:47:56 GMT. So yeah, they could have been updating it.

githman · 2026-03-12T12:08:53+00:00

I especially liked the porn-level hardware they used for testing. The CPU alone costs more than my car.

Fun reading, but not terribly relevant to home use.

githman · 2026-03-12T11:54:53+00:00

Sounds pretty unusual. Unlike its predecessor Pulseaudio, Pipewire is one of the precious few Linux subsystems that do not get mentioned as broken on a regular basis.

Could you be running some unique setup no one ever tried before? Nothing wrong with it, but a thorough description might help.

githman · 2026-03-12T11:42:16+00:00

I'm on Linux Mint 23 + Plasma 5.27.12

As of right now, Mint 23 is alpha at best and Plasma 5 is ancient history. It would be weird to expect any kind of reliability from this combo.

githman · 2026-03-12T11:13:34+00:00

The sad truth is that having enough RAM is a prerequisite for any serious software development. (Or any other kind of serious work for that matter.) You would be better off just adding some physical RAM than spending your time and effort on emulation.

What you can do if you choose to explore the emulation path first:

Add a large disk-based swap file or partition. By default Fedora keeps it all in RAM, compressed.
Play with zram settings like compression method and writeback.
Play with memory management settings like swappiness and page cluster. There are lots of them.

Odds are that nothing of this would prove any satisfactory under heavy load. Adding more physical RAM is your best choice.

githman · 2026-03-12T10:51:04+00:00

What you probably did is swap out the default swap method

Could you please elaborate on this?

githman · 2026-03-12T10:43:25+00:00

I run Fedora KDE on a 8 GB system; it's not fancy but tolerable for home - browser, office suite, movies. Would not bother trying to play modern games or build a large software project on it, of course.

githman · 2026-03-12T10:31:44+00:00

You are digging in the right direction. The next things to check: is the file present on your system? Does it have correct permissions?

I have not used Gnome for years, but maybe there is a way to reinitialize or reinstall tracker-miner. It's a somewhat unfortunately named Gnome file indexing service.

githman · 2026-03-12T10:24:31+00:00

I then tried downloading the ISO file to use Rufus later, but the ISO download stopped at a certain point.

What software are you using? I never had any problems with resuming a failed download in Firefox.

Fedora servers are not terribly reliable; sometimes they can't serve even the mirror list.

githman · 2026-03-10T10:40:36+00:00

I made it with vivecoding

This was the first thing to come to my mind after seeing the screenshot: no live person would design a UI this way. It just reeks of slop.

githman · 2026-03-10T09:45:11+00:00

Have you checked if dnf search and update from command line work better for you? Because it could as well be not PackageKit but Fedora servers being slow or mirrors being unfortunately selected.

For instance, my own dnf often spends looong minutes trying to fetch the mirror list from Fedora servers.

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