Ebpf 101: Your First Step Into Kernel Programming
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The post introduces eBPF, a Linux kernel technology, and sparks a discussion about the use of AI-generated images and the similarities between eBPF and GPU programming.
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elcapitan
4 months ago
2 repliesOT, but these types of AI-generated header images are beginning to kill my willingness to read the following content, independently of whether the actual content is original or AI generated as well, simply because it feels like everything is fake then. I wish people would stop using them. It's like badly photoshopped magazine images in the 90s.
opello
4 months ago
Firefox's reader view mitigates it sometimes, and does so in this case.
wpm
4 months ago
It’s such an unforced error too. Having the generated picture harms the article, but not having a picture would have probably no measurable effect at all. Like, save yourself the tokens.
nromiun
4 months ago
1 replyThis is cool. Very similar to GPU programming. Write a kernel and pipe data from it.
R41Author
4 months ago
Got inspired to explore it from recent defcon talk. Will make an effort to try out gpu programming.
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