@mcc Ok, so reading the article, it seems that some LLM software was using a kernel debugging interface (bind/unbind in sysfs) to change which driver was controlling a device out from under it. The kernel developers were tired of getting bug reports that were caused by this, so they made the kernel flag itself as tainted until the next reboot if this interface was ever used.

And then they discovered that that same interface is how VM GPU passthrough works and they had to revert it.

@mcc What is this supposed to mean? Was the headline generated by a Markov chain?

@mcc “oh yes, we don’t open that door anymore, after The Beast came…”

@mcc I was gonna ask if it has ribs in its mouth, but then I remembered most of y'all didn't grow up in actual cults and won't get the reference, and my childhood religion was the socialization injury that keeps on giving.

EDIT: in a moment that isn't at all shocking in hindsight, the ribaholic beast has SO much AI art of it in an image search these days, and I don't want to subject anyone to that, so have this old, low-res image with Comic Sans, which is comparatively innocent and charming in its naive, bygone aesthetic. I probably blocked out seeing this on my Facebook in like 2011.

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crazy beast?

@mcc Will we finally get the year or the FreeBSD desktop?

@mcc I couldn't find a "Crazy Beast" on itch.io or steam. Gamers, you know what to do.

@mcc you can download and install Crazy Beast from source or using Snap or Flatpak packages.