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Colin Ian King

@colinianking.bsky.social
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kernel bug fixer, Open Source advocate, C64 and Lego fanatic, hobbyist artist. Author of stress-ng.

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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 19h
Some news about stress-ng: www.linuxfoundation.org/press/elisa-...
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ELISA Expands Open Source Ecosystem for Safety-Critical Software
The ELISA (Enabling Linux In Safety Applications) Fund, an umbrella organization focused on enabling the use of Linux and other open source software in safety-critical applications, today announced th...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just completed this 1/72nd scale RAF Red Arrows Hawk.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
stress-ng V0.22.01 "capable computer crasher" has been released! New repository location github.com/stress-ng/st... - new bpf stressor and various bug fixes too
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump way, "do as I say or die"
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
kicking off some regression testing on stress-ng for a point release next week
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
...and sponsorship for this work is appreciated too! github.com/sponsors/Col...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
stress-ng 0.22.00 "premday processes pressurizer" has been released! 5 new stressors, 12 new options, improved porting and lots of bug fixes. Release notes: github.com/ColinIanKing...
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Release Premday Process Pressurizer · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
New stressors dentrycache - negative dentries dentry cache stressor epollmany - many nested epoll file descriptors stressor fp-subnormal - float/double/long double subnormal stressor hugepage - hu...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
stress-ng V0.21.04 has been released! This release includes 4 new stressors, new options for selecting stressors by use of features, system calls and libraries as well as I/O and also buddy allocator stats. Release notes here: github.com/ColinIanKing...
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Release stress-ng V0.21.04 "Exasperating electron exerciser" · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
New stressors gamma - lgamma and tgamma libm function stessors ovpn - exercise the ovpn Linux kernel driver and its netlink API. pagescatter - scattered virtual address page mapping stressor sigst...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You can't silence truth.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Folk are realizing that Trump is a weak bully, when people stand up against him he backs down.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Completed a 1/72nd scale Mirage F.1C (Hasagwa Hobby Kits). Each of the 6 roundels is comprised of 3 layers of circular transfers, so I had to use some precision decal positioning!
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Folk who say such things are basically incapable of surviving on their own without mummy's help.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
such a weak small minded pathetic petty bullying excuse of a president. He makes the US look ridiculous to the rest of the world.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
stress-ng V0.21.02 "proficient process pulverizer" has been released, includes new ethernet packet sniffer stressor a bunch of new options and some minor bug fixes github.com/ColinIanKing...
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Release stress-ng V0.21.02 "proficient process pulverizer" · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
New stressors eth-sniff - simple ethernet packet sniffer stressor Notable Bug fixes stress-rofs: fix Cygwin SIGSEGV issue stress-str: fix index underflow on strncmp stress-ng: fix ionice-level u...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I'm presenting a talk on stress-ng at the ELISA Project Workshop in June. Looking forward to it.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Trump sues everybody over everything, comedians, critics, networks, anyone who bruises his ego. But notice who he never seems eager to sue: the women accusing him, or the people saying far worse things about him. IMO, he knows he would not survive discovery.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Starting wars and not finishing them (especially over oil) is a very American thing to do. Just saying.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New release of V0.21.01 stress-ng "mayday machine masher" - includes new tlb-numa, rofs (read-only file system) and fp-misc (floating point miscellaneous) stressors. github.com/ColinIanKing...
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Release stress-ng V0.21.01 "mayday machine masher" · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
New stressors fp-misc - exercise trivial floating point libm macros tlb-numa - NUMA aware TLB shootdown stressor rofs - read-only file system stressor Bugfixes stress-flock: remove erroneous flo...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Readers a leaders, unless you are Trump
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Rescue hedgehog having a good shake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcX...
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Rescue hedgehog having a good shake, Wednesday 29th April 2026
YouTube video by The Hedgehog Garden
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Phoronix @phoronix-poster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements - www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Rele…
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GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements
GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Yesterday, we adopted a rescue hedgehog from the local hedgehog hospital. We placed it in a hedgehog hibernation box. Later that evening, it emerged and did some exploring! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otw7...
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Rescue hedgehog venturing out of hogbox and exploring garden for the first time
YouTube video by The Hedgehog Garden
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"record profits" are actually unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Solaris is dying. Well done Oracle. You killed SPARC and now Solaris. Technology is not safe in your hands.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump verbally abusing the Pope is peak Trump. No class, no clue, no humanity, just a shell of a being.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Itchy hog: youtu.be/7tL-5Op6D7g
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Foraging and itchy hedgehog, Friday Morning 10th April 2026
YouTube video by The Hedgehog Garden
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
If Trump withdraws from NATO then we can assume he's owned by Putin.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Truly a moronic move.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hedgehog feeding at 4 am this morning! youtu.be/Plp-L6qOSz4
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Hedgehog feeding, 4am Thursday 9th April 2026
YouTube video by The Hedgehog Garden
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The garden hedgehog is now out of hibernation! youtu.be/ye8s13L5M7M
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Hedgehog late night feeding, Tuesday 7th April 2026
YouTube video by The Hedgehog Garden
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Music next generation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQI4...
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Angine de Poitrine - Sherpa (chiptune / commodore 64 cover - SID6581)
YouTube video by Gabriel Champagne
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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I am currently at 185 species out of 1000 for the year, which is good, but I am behind schedule by 78. The year is still long, and I am yet to get any dragonflies, or do moth trapping. I have been focusing on ground beetles which means lots of log flipping! #PSL @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Beetle in a bug pot
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
stress-ng 0.21.00 has been released! Two new stressors, a bunch of improvements and bugfixes. Release notes github.com/ColinIanKing...
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Release stress-ng V0.21.00 "systemic system smasher" · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
New stressors filehole - exercise randomized file holes/extents crc - cyclic redundancy check using gcc builtins and non-gcc CRC builtin alternatives New options --schedpolicy-cpumix - move shed...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Negotiation by bombing people into oblivion is bullying and not a skill. Just sayin'
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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
You've only got a few days left to object to Brighton Marina's application to dump dredged sediment on a rare chalk reek, in a marine protected area. Join thousands of people and send your objection email today. f.mtr.cool/haazgdbxpx
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Surely he's just putting his hand up for a handkerchief while trying to stop a sneeze? :-)
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Another maintenance nightmare that will have to be carried by Ubuntu until they give up on it.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hypocrit in chief.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Uncouth trump strikes again.
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Phoronix @phoronix-poster.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Snapd-…
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Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Last week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a "high" rated vulnerability for Ubuntu's Snap daemon has been revealed...
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
You don't start an illegal war and then ask NATO to help finish it. NATO is there to protect fellow members who are attacked. If you can't grok that you shouldn't be a leader.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
You don't start an illegal war and then ask NATO to help finish it. NATO is there to protect fellow members who are attacked. If you can't grok that you shouldn't be a leader.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Trump is being a hostile toddler-like idiot towards the UK, it's time to call it quits on the "special relationship" and cancel all state visits for US presidents to the UK until things improve.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They have the gear, but no idea.
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
time for BIOS vendors to ensure they run the Firmware Test Suite to make sure such issues don't occur!
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Colin Ian King @colinianking.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
First hedgehog of the year spotted in the back garden! youtu.be/pR1_cLB5BEI?...
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First hedgehog of 2026! Tuesday 24th February 2026
YouTube video by The Hedgehog Garden
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