681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.

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Web Boost • — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerLongtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes AwayLinux 7.2 Kernel NewbiesCache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUsLinux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions[REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XTreduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock • — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex. Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ PatchesSpecially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 DriverThe beginning of the 7.3 merge windowLinux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time PerformanceLinux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & MoreLinux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive WorkloadsSched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x WinsLinux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution EnvironmentsLinux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systemsLinux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMsTwo Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3Syncthing • — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes Syncthing GitHubRclone • — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces. LocalComet • — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex. A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkitMCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS • — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names. dataiku/kiji-proxy • — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests Rockbox - Free Music Player FirmwarePick: ssh-clipboard • — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.