winterschon

foone, 1 month ago to random

I wonder if anyone has proposed a PNG/EXIF extension to let you embed an image description in an image file. It'd live with the image so as you upload it to different sites, the description stays with it

winterschon, 1 month ago to FreeBSD

common linux-user FUD on FreeBSD forums:

> "modern wifi doesn't work!"
> "it won't run a desktop"

reality: user doesn't want to read docs/man/apropos

here's a Thinkpad X1 Nano:

• KDE Plasma6 on FreeBSD 14.0R-p6
• Intel AX201 wifi (basic wpa-supplicant params)
• external travel monitor: plug-n-play, it just works

time required: 20 minutes of relaxed leisurely morning coffee sipping

#freebsd #KDE #plasma6 #thinkpad #linux #foss #FreeBSD14

winterschon, 2 months ago to homelab

Progress for one of the Honeycombs and a return to dual-nodes in service. Now both nodes have:

• cpu fan: 40mm Everflow PWM slim (12v 0.18a vs 12v 0.08a orig)
• heatsink: Enzotech SLF-40 copper
• noctua pwm controller linking chassis and cpu fans
• improved cable management
• more storage: 2TB gen3 NVMe

#homelab #honeycomblx2 #arm #server

a dual node 1U server chassis, with red faceplate showing the SolidRun logo, with Honeymoon LX2160a being slotted into place. The vertical clearance is too tight for a standard 40x20mm fan, so the upgraded model was chosen in part because of its enhanced performance and its low profile dimensions.
A top down view of a SolidRun Honeycomb LX2160a - cpu fan: 40mm Everflow PWM slim (12v 0.18a vs 12v 0.08a orig) - heatsink: Enzotech SLF-40 copper - noctua pwm controller linking chassis and cpu fans - a 2TB gen3 NVMe - 64GB DDR4, using 2x32GB ECC SO-DIMMs

winterschon, 2 months ago to embedded

ohhhh gosh… more RISC-V for FreeBSD!

💘 more cores 💘 more ram 💘 more ports 💘 more more more 💘

going to validate whether this SO-DIMM format will work in my TuringPi2, but generally underlying all technical plans, a vast majority of my home-lab acquisitions are solely because I want it and it's fun!

💖👩🏼‍💻💁🏼‍♀️🤩😌

#riscv #embedded #freebsd #lichee #engineering #homelab #happiness #hardware #oss #womeninstem #toomanyhashtags

Lichee Pi 4A - front of retail box
Lichee Pi 4A - SoM and carrier board
Lichee Pi 4A - system layout

winterschon, 2 months ago to DaftPunk

5:35am and it's time for MegaDrive's Active Denial System

https://soundcloud.com/megadrivemusic/active-denial-system

the cover art brings to mind scenes from Akira :ablobfoxbongo:

#edm #megadrive #5am #music #coding

winterschon, 2 months ago to random

a recurring question arises re: selfies ~ why?

for most of my life I've loved photography, esp nature and portraiture. my first real job was in the field, refurbishing old Hasselblad, Leica… but I never wanted my picture taken, never wanted to see the reflection of my eyes — still holding the trauma of that day in November 1990 when everything changed.

I never told anyone except my twin, and when they died so did I - very nearly. waking up in the ICU, kept alive by life support machines…

1/n

winterschon, 24 days ago to mentalhealth

💔 Daily Early Morning Worry 💔

one of my clinical anxiety syndromes [1] manifests a binary symptom, which I've termed “impaired focal-state partial blindness upon waking”.

Let's play "Choose Your Own Adventure" this morning!

1. Non-Critical: temporary medication effect (multi-rx additive symptoms)

2. Critical: direct effect of hypophysis-cerebri tumor growth, ocular-nerve compression inducing eyesight loss (partial/full) 🧠

#anxiety #neurology #mentalhealth #womenInSTEM

[1] ICD-10 F41.1

winterschon, 2 months ago to random

Armada Music, Greece 2000
a Dj set by Sasha, summer 1999, San Francisco...

and suddenly it all comes rushing back as eyes calmly close, the mind replaying sensations from
that near-perfect afternoon so many summers ago...

https://soundcloud.com/three-drives/three-drives-on-a-845302160

winterschon, 1 month ago to Trance

💓 PsyTrance für Freitag! 💓

Noga - High Frequency

• https://soundcloud.com/nogaofficial/noga-high-frequency-demo

#psytrance #trance #friday #freitag #edm #music #goodmorning #insomnia #earlymorning #gettingCloseToNapTime

winterschon, 3 months ago to linux

Nice posts here about running a Milk RISC-V compute module in a TuringPi-2 cluster board.

• https://feldspaten.org/2023/10/27/RISC-V-in-a-Turing-Pi-2/
• https://feldspaten.org/2023/11/20/MilkV-CM/

#riscv #TuringPi2 #linux #cluster

winterschon, 2 months ago to random

Canonical experience of #WomenInSTEM

• woman observes and identifies problem
• woman solves root cause analysis
• woman designs proof-of-concept
• woman provides report showing benefits
• concept and proof ignored by boy's club
• time passes, more time passes
• boys club decides they have an amazing idea
• boys club talks big game, misses core concept
• boys club decides they are deploying copycat
• woman remains ignored and uncredited

winterschon, 2 months ago to music

Good 💗 Morning 💗 PsyTrance 💗

Great track from a great mix!

Galactic Riders

• https://www.beatport.com/track/galactic-riders/10583807

Goa vol 66

• https://www.beatport.com/release/goa-vol-66/2289735

#music #trance #psytrance #morning #focus #bim #goa

mikeymikey, 1 month ago to random

holy hell Github - this is bad

heads up repo maintainers on Github - you may want to disable interactions for now

The last thing any OSS maintainer needs is their project getting a strike because some bad actor chose their repo 😤

https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/112303968938875475

winterschon, 2 months ago to IBM

Here's an IBM s/360 at the Computer History Museum, from some months ago; it was so very fun to see how data storage has evolved!

ok ok, it's true that my lab no longer has a LTO drive of any generation, but I still want one… LTO5 should be sufficient to backup a couple hundred terabytes right?

#happiness #computerhistory #ibm #homelab #storage #engineering #tape

video/mp4

winterschon, 2 months ago to music

💞 happy 💕monday 💕 morning 💕 psytrance 💞

brain uuuuhhh... neurotransmitters let's go! norepinephrine wake up! needs more tyrosine...

Bim & Drunkvelder, "Here Today Gone Tomorrow, Push It (original mix)"

• https://open.spotify.com/track/6XbxBLWxmrhwcPO3DL7A75

#monday #morning #music #psytrance #sleepy #happiness #edm

winterschon, 2 months ago to architecture

another on-premise bare-metal cluster build for 2024!

greater than five but fewer than ten Ampere Altra Q80-30 servers will be combined with Xeon based hosts of mostly-equivalent specs (dual-socket 8280 and E5-2697v4 hosts), 768GB - 1TB of RAM per each, and NICs w/ multiple 10, 25, and 100GbE ports depending on system role. switches are all Arista.

should be an enjoyable deployment!

#systems #architecture #cloud #onprem #baremetal #linux #arm #intel #networking #nerdstuff #womeninstem

winterschon, 2 months ago to food

the solution to many problems is very simple: MORE BERRIES! 🍓💁🏼‍♀️

the solution to today's noonday conundrums: ingest MORE BERRIES! 🍓❤️

#lunch #organic #strawberry #freshfruit #yumyum #omgosh #lovely

winterschon, 17 days ago to random

new news to me, though seems not new news in general, is a satirical fundraiser hashtag #onlyFeet 🏖️

sure. here's one from the pool, not right now because it's freezing, but back when it wasn't freezing.

yum yum coconut suntan oil! tastes like vacation 🥥🍍

winterschon, 2 months ago to infosec

we're all aware of the xz issue, but systemd and CVEs are intertwined. linux distros choose insecurity + instability by using systemd.

it's brought to you by:

• a dev who despises POSIX
• a dev who eschews security, ethics, and foundations of UNIX
• a dev explicitly aligned to microsoft propaganda
• a dev who is anti-FOSS
• a dev fiscally compensation by the closed-source juggernaut

never forget: https://pwnies.com/systemd-bugs/

#systemd #cve #infosec #microsoft #posix #bsd #linux #pottering #lol

winterschon, 2 months ago to random

15:22,00 "sure, I'll just look at the ebay cart and check the SKU..."

16:24,00 (two browsers open split-screen with ~25+ tabs open to different listings)

"dammit ebay! I don't need to buy any more test-lab hardware... except a new three channel power supply, and maybe a new o-scope and maybe a function generator..."

ok ok that aside, check out this scumbag move from a seller:

• price is decent ($599)
• equipment in good condition
• shipping is $8,000 🖕

winterschon, 4 months ago to linux

This comes up periodically, and is worth mentioning as often as necessary:

The claim that #systemd has superior features for service templating, eg has named variables and is self-documenting, is nothing more than an uninformed red-herring.

Sometimes #Linux people wade into #FreeBSD areas and ask about replacing the RC system because they think it lacks similar variables and so on... if/when that arises a simple answer is to point them at the 'rc.subr' manpage:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr

winterschon, 2 months ago to llm

#silentsunday #llama #easter #llm #cute #animals #bunny #orIsItAnAlpaca #photography

winterschon, 2 months ago to SanFrancisco

🤍 Good 🩷 Morning 🤍 Hearts 🩷

Coffee first, oh Coffee again
then Work Work Work, and all the while
a HomeLab server rack calls out
attention now! its lovely pulse
persists, sine waves sigh
its wares and wires
newly coming
into focus

#morning #heart #sanfrancisco #homelab

winterschon, 2 months ago to music

it's time for a calm afternoon track, suitable for automation service programming and occasional daydreaming...

• https://open.spotify.com/track/6kxLMWXnmaqALUNsNeXtSc
• https://nervoustestpilot.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-code

#music #edm #relax #daydream #happiness