[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 1, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Mailman 2 vulnerabilities; AI in Debian; __nonstring__; Cache-aware scheduling; Freezing filesystems; Socket-level storage; Debugging information; LWN in 2025.

• Briefs: Debian election; Kali Linux key; OpenBSD 7.7; Firefox 138.0; GCC 15.1; Meson 1.8.0; Valgrind 3.25.0; FSF review; OSI retrospective; Mastodon; Quotes; …

• [Announcements](https://lwn.net/Arti … ⌘ Read more

OSI publishes election retrospective
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published
“takeaways” from its internal retrospective on the recent board
of directors election as an update
to the March blog\
post that announced the new members of the board. The election was
controversial, in part, due to poor communication and OSI changing the
election rules and disqualifying sever … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2024 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/29/review-2024.html #retrospective #newyear

On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2023 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/31/review-2023.html #retrospective #newyear

How we work: inclusive retrospectives for the GitHub Accessibility leadership team
Learn about tools and processes the GitHub Accessibility leadership team uses for retrospectives that fully engage every team member. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/25/review-2022.html #retrospective #newyear

in retrospect, i do remember expecting some message about “yes, you passed the test, you were actually living in a lie”, but i think that died when nobody gave me a bad grade for taking too long to become vegetarian. maybe veganism…

beat Tales of the Abyss - great game. wrote a blog post containing retrospective and final boss fight video

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

If Subject contains the full twt, then you can skim over conversations just by reading those lines in mutt’s index pager

Yes, I do the same, true.

So I decided: Okay, let’s have mutt do it.

And Mutt does it well. I agree it was/is a good idea.

The subject lines are already “compressed”

I noticed, yes.

I am not sure why I asked to begin with; in retrospect, in was a silly request. Perhaps the OCD in me got triggered while viewing rich headers, on a specific twt, when I saw the huge subject line that is, otherwise, always hidden.

Anyway, don’t mind me, move along. 😂

On the blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2020 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/12/27/year.html #retrospective #newyear

It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.

A Retrospective on PAIP http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html

Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/