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Star Wars fans when they realize the movies were based on the Vietnam war, and the empire was America.

I’ve been working on a "Linux Inside Out" series and wrote a post that might interest folks here who like low(ish)-level / OS internals.

The idea is to dissect the components of a Linux OS, layer by layer, and build a mental model of how everything fits together through experiments.

The first part is about the kernel, in the post I:

• take the same kernel image my distro boots from /boot
• boot it directly with QEMU (no distro, no init system)
• watch it panic
• write a tiny Go program and use it as PID 1
• build a minimal initramfs around it so the kernel can actually start our process

The goal isn’t to build a real distro, just to give a concrete mental model of:

• that the Linux kernel is just a compressed file, you can boot it
• without anything else
• what the kernel actually does at boot
• how it hands control to userspace
• what PID 1 / init is in practice
• what is kernel space vs user space

Link: https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/

I’m the author, would be happy to hear from other devs whether this way of explaining things makes sense, and what you’d add or change for future posts in the series.

Hope you find it useful.

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Windows 11’s Notepad continues to get Copilot-powered AI features – a handy addition to a tool whose main appeal has always been simplicity and minimalism. Not all users are happy, however, with some saying AI features are overkill.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54385668

Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation which will likely draw the U.S. government's ire.

Rival TikTok staved off a penalty with concessions.

The EU sanction against X followed a two-year-long investigation under the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content.

Seems to be over now.

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

Ab dem kommenden Jahr werden alle 18-Jährigen wieder auf ihre Tauglichkeit geprüft. Das hat der Bundestag mit der Wehrdienst-Reform beschlossen.