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kwf

@kwf@social.afront.org

Engineer who converts solder, Ethernet cables, and firmware into entertainment.

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kwf, to random
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In case anyone was wondering, the top three metros on my wish list for the #MicroMirror project currently are Atlanta, GA, Phoenix, AZ, and Las Vegas, NV.

So if you know of an ISP or DC in those areas who have plenty of egress bandwidth and would be willing to plug in a managed appliance to support free software/linux, let us know: mirror@fcix.net

ozone89, to random
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Manjaro released @kde Plasma6... I'm sorry for @kwf's micromirros' load graphs

AkaSci, to random
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Incoming! A severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to arrive around 02:00 UTC Friday night / Saturday morning.

At least 5 Coronal Mass Ejections took place over the past 24 hours, directed towards Earth. These originated from a large and magnetically complex sunspot cluster (NOAA region 3664).

There is potential for disruption of communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.

And bright auroras as far south as Alabama!

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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kwf, to random
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Time for everyone to upgrade to Fedora 40. Go go go.

The sooner you download the new release, the more internet points you get for it.

hlindqvist,
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@kwf I suppose it is rather silly how everyone "needs" to download the new thing all at once.
That said, your micromirrors seem to hold up really well compared to some other big mirrors!
I needed two different images, cancelled two really slow/stalling downloads, on retry both files were served at good speed and in both cases from *.mm.fcix.net hosts.
Thank you for your work on that!

MLE_online, to random
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In the future there will be a Godzilla vs. King Kong movie in which the two monsters have angry sex.

MLE_online,
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Few will be courageous enough to like or boost this important post

collinsworth, to random
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I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

kwf, to random
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The fact that they make propane powered refrigerators has always bothered me.

stoneymonster,
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@kwf Thermodynamics is fake.

IPngNetworks, to random
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Micromirror came online over the weekend, and is slurping its way into service.

Thanks @andrewvieyra and @kwf for the work you do.

http://ipng.mm.fcix.net/

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kwf, (edited ) to linux
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I still wonder if people realize that Centos7 and Centos8-stream are both going end of life at the same time. #Linux

helenleigh, to SanFrancisco
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In SF or the Bay Area? I'll be hosting an Open Hardware Happy Hour at Studio 45 with @charlyn and @alexglow after work on Weds 6th March. Bring projects, stickers or just yourself!

More details and RSVP ⤵️

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hardware-happy-hour-tickets-819284180037

#sanfrancisco #openhardware #opensource #hardware #electronics

kwf, to random
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Getting my ass handed to me this afternoon trying to run EMT around one lousy corner.

kwf,
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Day three, and we are officially done! NEMA14-50 receptacle fully wired up and we're live.

Now if anyone comes by to visit driving an EV, we can plug them in; just BYOEVSE.

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trevorflowers, to retrocomputing
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If you've been putting off buying a smol retrocomputer then now might be a good time to look again. I'm clearing out most of my shop and everything is priced to move. In the name of space I don't plan to restock some of the items like the Micro Osborne Ones.
#restock #retrocomputing #miniatures
https://store.transmutable.com/

A photo of a miniature floppy organizer sized for micro SD cards.
A photo of a miniature version of a super computer from the 90s, the Connection Machine.

attie, to random
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Does anyone know what a realistic figure is for USB MSC transfer speeds over USB 1.1 / full-speed / 12 Mb/s?

attie,
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... and who picked a fastness adjective to name the links?

  • Low-Speed (fine I guess)
  • Full-Speed (not an antonym)
  • High-Speed (ah, there's the expected antonym)
  • SuperSpeed (bye bye dash)
  • SuperSpeed+ (yay plus!)
  • SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps (oh, not double-plus?)
  • USB4 40Gbps (ah, we've learnt?)
  • USB4 80Gbps (uh huh)
docpop, to Zines
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#TomSachs made a series of print-on-demand zines that were distributed via ATMs. For a $5 charge on your card, you'd receive a 12-foot-long receipt that could be folded and assembled into a cute little zine. Here's the video of the installation in action during Tom's "Space Program: Europa" show at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in 2017. #zines

video of an ATM that is installed in the YBCA. A card is inserted into the machine and the user is charged $5. Then a long receipt comes out with instructions on how to fold it. The final zine, in it's assembled form is shown at the end of the video.

jonathanspw, to opensource
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Today I submitted fixes for a regression that I identified and patched, to libvirt, Fedora, AlmaLinux, and CentOS Stream.

The process works!

#opensource @almalinux @fedora @centos

https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/577
https://git.almalinux.org/rpms/libvirt/pulls/1
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libvirt/pull-request/24
https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/libvirt/-/merge_requests/85

c_9, to random
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If someone tells you the last day of the year will be 123123 just unfollow them, you don’t need that unsortable ISO9201-negativity in your life.

Rajiv, to woodworking

Well hallo there #woodworking mastodonians. Whatcha find under the tree?
For me it was 1/8" Narex Richter chisel & Veritas skew block plane. Can't wait to try it out!

shantini, to random
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Mastodon users: everything should be federated!

Also Mastodon users: no not you

warthog9, to random
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Ok, Vger's MX is heading off to point to subspace on Thursday. Web services are staying put for now, so if you link to / use Vger it's staying put (possibly with a massive OS upgrade coming).

The fundamental infrastructure isn't going anywhere even if it has to change it's name, and should lists not want to head off to subspace, infradead, etc I've got https://vger.email up and running and capable of picking things up should anyone want to jump.

End of an era, Vger's been independent of kernel.org from it's start, but it's a non-trivial set of lists that literally keep the Linux kernel community moving, and has since it's inception. It's realistically needed an upgrade to deal with a plethora of problems, and frankly various large e-mail providers have made it nearly untenable to keep doing without it nearly being a full time job (at least at the scale that Vger's at)

StefanThinks, to random
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If you are still on Twitter, just keep in mind that Walmart is officially cooler than you now.

davep, to random

Have you heard about the corduroy pillows that are making headlines?

geekmomprojects, to random
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At I was checking continuity while soldering, but couldn't hear the beeps well. @maketvee found it quite amusing that I held the multimeter to my ear with my shoulder. His image and captions are pretty funny, but he may also have inadvertently launched my new career as an LED hotline operator!

shawnhymel, to random
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The views from the Coast Starlight along the California coast are amazing. Also, old telegraph poles! #HackerTrain

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shawnhymel, to random
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All aboard! 🚅 is leaving the station on the way to @hackaday . Many thanks to @kwf for organizing this!

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kwf, to random
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#HackerTrain let's gooooo

hackabax,

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