Final October Slashdot reported on René Rebe’s discovery of a random unlawful instruction hypothesis bug on AMD Ryzen 7000-series and Epyc Zen 4 CPUs — which Rebe mentioned on his YouTube channel.
However this week’s YouTube episode had a unique ending, reviews Tom’s {Hardware}…
Two days in the past, tech streamer and host of Code Remedy René Rebe was streaming certainly one of many T2 Linux (his personal customized distribution) growth classes from his workplace in Germany when he abruptly needed to take away his microphone and stroll off digicam as a result of arrival of law enforcement officials. The officers subsequently cuffed him and took him to the station for an hour of questioning, a span of time throughout which the stream continued to run till he made it again…
[T]he police seemingly do not know who did it and acted based mostly on a tip despatched with an electronic mail. Discovering the perpetrators might take some time, and choices can be pretty restricted if they do not additionally stay in Germany. Rebe has been contributing to Linux “since as early as 1998,” in keeping with the article, “and began his personal T2 SD3 Embedded Linux distribution in 2004, as nicely.” (And he is additionally a contributor to many different main open supply initiatives.)
The article factors out that Linux and different communities “are compelled by little-to-no revenue motive, so in essence, René has been offering unpaid software program growth for the larger good for the previous twenty years.”