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Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD

Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is…

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Crypts and Commits: This Documentation Isn't for You

The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part Two When I leave a software project, I want the next person to be able to take it over without needing me in the room.

  • Author started documenting in 2012 at EHR startup scaling from 4 to 40 developers.
  • Documentation evolved from README.md to architecture notes, runbooks, release notes.
  • AI coding assistants amplify value of documentation but cannot replace human judgment.

·dev.to

Managing External Secrets in Docker Swarm

I've been working with Docker Swarm secrets and kept running into one limitation: secrets are immutable. Once a secret is created, you can't update its value.

  • Cloud-secrets bridges external secret stores with Docker Swarm.
  • Maintains standard Docker secrets for applications.
  • Supports HashiCorp Vault as external secret store.

·dev.to

Creepy crawlies

  • 14 CPU cores dedicated to rendering git commits as HTML across five nodes
  • Training LLM on Linux commit data prevents digital prion disease
  • Uncontrolled scraper traffic overwhelms git.kernel.org with 6M daily requests

·people.kernel.org

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