My role has recently been shifted as my team has deprioritised upstream linux kernel development and I am looking for a new role as a result.

Over the past couple of years I have been the top contributor to core memory management by patch count and lines of code changed, and the 2nd-top reviewer.

I also wrote a 1,300 page textbook on the linux kernel memory management subsystem - https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager

See https://ljs.io/kernel for a detailed list of what I've done, and https://ljs.io/cv.pdf for my up-to-date CV.

I have been heavily involved in the community, where I established the memory management maintainership model, and have given talks at Linux Plumbers, Kernel Recipes and the key memory management conference LSF/MM/BPF.

I have a proven track record of working very effectively upstream and can really help any company who has needs in this area.

If you are interested or know of any opportunities around linux kernel memory management, please reach out!

#fedihire

Today in Labor History, April 16, 1943: Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD on this day. And forever after, working-class people could afford to take inexpensive trips without ever leaving their homes. Hoffman, who was a chemist at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, first synthesized LSD in1938. He set the drug aside for five years, before accidentally ingesting some on this date in 1943. Three days later, April 19, he deliberately ingested 250 micrograms of LSD, believing this tiny dosage would be barely, if at all, noticeable. Turns out, this is a pretty strong dose. He watched people morph into weird creatures, office furniture become “alive,” and he felt like he was possessed by otherworldly forces. He tried to ride his bicycle home, to safety, but things just got weirder. April 19 is now known as “Bicycle Day,” in commemoration of the first deliberate LSD trip.

He also named and synthesized the principal psychedelic chemicals psilocybin and psilocin, found in psilocybin mushrooms. And in 1929 he discovered the structure of chitin, the polysaccharide found in the cell walls of fungi, and in the shells of arthropods, like shrimp, crabs, spiders and insects, and in the beaks and radula of mollusks, like snails and octopi. He wrote over 100 scientific articles in his lifetime, and the book: LSD: Mein Sorgenkind (LSD: My Problem Child). In 1962, he traveled to Mexico to obtain samples of Salvia divinorum, but was never able to isolate the psychoactive alkaloids. He also discovered a close relative of LSD in Morning Glory seeds. In an interview just before his 100th birthday, Hofmann called LSD "medicine for the soul." Angered by its worldwide legal bans, he said argued that it had been used successfully for ten years in psychoanalysis prior to its U.S. prohibition. He also criticized its “misuse” by the counterculture of the 1960s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #LSD #psychedelic #AlbertHoffman #chemistry #mushrooms #psilocybin #sandoz #salvia

Well this is truly bad. US national level OS-level age verification bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

The text of it isn't out yet.

EDIT: Well the text is now out and it's as bad as you could imagine. It's not even just that you need to verify your age to access a website... operating systems must verify your age to let you *use a computer at all*

EDIT EDIT: Thanks to @Andres4NY for pointing out that it also holds responsible anyone who has any software shipped on the operating system of a computer, meaning FOSS developers eveywhere