Links July 2026Links July 2026
Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote a disturbing and informative article about the use of AI by the US government [1]. Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about[...]
Month: July 2026
Systemd LingerSystemd Linger
Killing Processes One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too.[...]
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 AgainThinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 Again
My Current Thinkpad In 2018 I reviewed a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 that was assigned to me for work [1]. In April last year I wrote about the failings of[...]
ECC and DDR5ECC and DDR5
Hamming Codes ECC RAM corrects errors that occur in memory before it gets to the CPU. The most common form of ECC is the Hamming Code [1] which when it[...]
libproc-processtable-perl in Debianlibproc-processtable-perl in Debian
I’ve just filed a Debian bug report about libproc-processtable-perl giving bad errors when SE Linux denies access to files under /proc [1]. Ran into unknown state (hex char: 0) at[...]