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July 29, 2026

THIS MIGHT AS WELL BE SANSKRIT TO ME: Summary: there is an extremely subtle bug in the Linux kernel (not a security hole, just a bug) that was causing a rare segmentation fault in ripgrep. US AI models refused to help Daniel debugging it for “safety reasons”. Thus, he was forced to use Chinese open source models to find the problem — which he successfully tracked down given their help. A real shame that he couldn’t use American models to find the problem.

But it was sent by a tech friend, and I understand it’s news some of you can use.

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