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Linus Torvalds 'Articles' That Turn Out to be Slop

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 22, 2024,
updated Oct 23, 2024

Is this a real article?

SEO Slop (Spam)

This seems to be plagiarism/permutation with some automation:

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, recently expressed his frustration about using barrier_nospec() within the copy_from_user() functionality.

Stuff such as this ruins the Web and lessens the incentive to write original articles. Some of them just get plagiarised by bots.

There's other blogspam about this. Torvalds already expressed frustration about it years ago, even in public, so this headline is misleading. Slashdot just links to Phoronix linkspam. Here's the original:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 16:11, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Until it's s/think/know/ can we please put something in place?

Honestly, I'm pretty damn fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical attacks that have never actually shown themselves to be used in practice. So I think this time we push back on the hardware people and tell them it's *THEIR* damn problem, and if they can't even be bothered to say yay-or-nay, we just sit tight. Because dammit, let's put the onus on where the blame lies, and not just take any random shit from bad hardware and say "oh, but it *might* be a problem".
Linus

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