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1. drfloyd51 · 1790903371 · focus · HN ↗

   Is it possible that some of these bugs were already exploited by governments? And AI might help use close of that kind of thing? (And expose other kinds of things , in a kind of AI arms race?)

   1. sippingabonedry · 1790903984 · focus · HN ↗

      Will everyone chill the F out for a minute?

      These get released every few weeks. Tons of CVEs. If a kernel developer farts in the forest, does anyone hear it?

      August saw separate Debian kernel updates released four days apart. Does anyone even reboot that often?

      I have three kernels installed over the last 45 days or so and I probably missed a few.

      1. nightfly · 1790904427 · focus · HN ↗

         I've been doing Linux sys-admin work for 10+ years. Used to be I could read the full report on what ever vulnerabilities came out and triage which servers needed to be updated now and which could wait. A few years ago notifications started having so many it would take more time/effort to read everything than it would to patch everything. With this notification there's even ten times more...

         1. sippingabonedry · 1790904845 · focus · HN ↗

            The amount of updates on Debian "stable" has become ridiculous, it's a daily rolling release of backports at this point.

            Microsoft kinda got this right by doing it once a month, unless it's something horribly bad, you can plan your maintenance around a predictable calendar.

            1. vortext · 1790905620 · focus · HN ↗

               You can choose to only install updates that require a restart once a month on Debian, then it's the same.

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