winterschon

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, 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 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

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 random

sunday 🌻
morning 😴
sugar 🍪
server rack selfies 💖

winterschon, 2 months ago to random

today is the type of day where it's easy to forget about the ongoing treatment; the morning is calm and peaceful, mind and body feeling rested. refreshed.

ooh but then with minimal warning, enough time to hurry.... ok, that's everything ejected from the stomach including expensive irreplaceable medication... fine totally fine.

so that's one reason why I don't leave the house without sufficient planning.

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

winterschon, 2 months ago to random

In the mid-2000s people told me that virtualization would never take off, despite my early adoption and all of the clear and present facts 🙄

In the mid-2010s people told me how cloud computing was the savior of the internet, yep those same people 🙄

In the mid-2020s people told me that Ai was completely useless and absolutely going to lead to the extinction of humanity 🙄

…but sure sure visionary boys, tell me again how my compass is wrong 🙄

#womenInSTEM

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 random

Whoever said that waking up at 7am was productive? Feels like missing the most productive hours of the day entirely.

Business hours are too susceptible to flow-disruption comms:

• Slack equiv desk walk-ups
• adhoc zoom invites
• email notes and webhook pings
• random laggy RTT, oh it's just packet loss
• cursing the sky-gods for recurring frustrations: "where tf is that fuckincablegoddamnusbstandardseverythingshouldbetunderboltffs… nothing works and I hate(love) these stupidstupid computers!"

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, 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

Impossible_PhD, 3 months ago to random

Okay, so a few days ago, I made several posts about how I was pretty upset about Mastodon and the way a good chunk of the Fedi culture convulses from time to time.

Anyway, I'm dorking around on Bluesky this morning waiting for the caffeine to come online and I stumble across a post--now a fucking website--full of signs made as a direct response to the culture on the Fediverse I was talking about.

And they're absolutely damning.

https://files.selfawaresoup.com/need-not-reply/

An information message to be used to manage replies. It reads: DO NOT REPLY TO DENY MY LIVED EXPERIENCE. ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT, UM MEINE ERLEBNISSE ZU VERLEUGNEN. NO RESPONDER PARA NEGAR MI EXPERIENCIA VIVIDA NE PAS RÉPONDRE POUR NIER MON EXPÉRIENCE VÉCU
An informational message to manage replies. It reads: DO NOT REPLY TO TELL ME WHY A THING I LIKE IS BAD ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT, UM MIR ZU SAGEN, WARUM EINE SACHE, DIE ICH GEFÄLLT, SCHLECHT IST. NO RESPONDAN PARA DECIRME PORQUE ALGO QUE ME GUSTA ES MALO. NE RÉPONDEZ PAS POUR ME DIRE POURQUOI UNE CHOSE QUE J'AIME EST MAUVAISE.

maugendre, 4 months ago to iPhone

It has already been possible to change an #iPhone's default web browser through the "Settings" app since iOS 14.

#Apple has a March 6 legal deadline to introduce app sideloading in the European Union in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act #DMA, and iOS 17.4 will add support for this. #Sideloading will allow Apple users to download apps outside of the App Store, but the change will be limited to customers in the EU.

Now is an opportunity to improve your web experience… and your safety…

winterschon, 4 months ago to FreeBSD

One of the greatest joys in life is waking up to new hardware deliveries, particularly when they have an aesthetically pleasing industrial design. Even better when the hardware uses FreeBSD!

Also, yes these are pink pajamas with pink and red hearts, because what would my world be without everyday expressions of love and affection for the hours spent alive, breathing, feeling, and appreciating the gift of post-coma consciousness. 💖

#Juniper #FreeBSD #Networking #Homelab #Engineering #Pink

kellogh, 4 months ago to random

i find the AI criticisms of Emily Bender & friends to be valuable, but they’re misquoted frequently to support arguments that AI is worthless. the papers themselves essentially just argue that the terms researchers use to talk about AI are misconstrued by the general public — basically that AI went big too soon. they acknowledge in just about every paper that AI is quite valuable

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, 5 months ago to tech

#CurrentMood #Datacenter #Barbie #Tech

zombierustpunk, 5 months ago to random

My earliest experiences with sqlite were on ios, where it would frequently corrupt data, and android, where the slowness and api’s hostility to threading made everything painful. So I have sort of a visceral negative reaction to sqlite.

But when I look around at formats for storing sequences of structured data on disk without running a separate service, it seems like it’s the clear choice. Should I give sqlite another chance?

kevinctofel, 5 months ago to random

One hour in to #RebelMoon and…. it feels like a high school script with a big budget and average special effects / CGI.

Maybe it’s just me?

winterschon, 5 months ago to aiart

💞 Oberstprinzessin der Hardwaretechnik 💞

One of these seems more fitting than the other, though I can't quite decide which.

#Dalle3 #AiArt #Princess #WomenSTEM #Engineering #RetroWave #HowlMovingCastle

Dalle3 generated art, using a prompt description with string "Oberstprinzessin der Hardwaretechnik", defined by "Howl's Moving Castle" stylistic choice.

maegul, 5 months ago to bluesky

The true achievement of #bluesky has been missed by everybody and will be thrown away.

Many really enjoy and even need a closed, gated/invite-only, private, no-ads, no-algorithm, positivity/fun inclined social media space.

I suspect that much of the quality of the #fediverse for many is accidentally building the equivalent through relative obscurity but without any necessary design/tech guarantees.

There’s probably something to be learnt there, especially amongst all the #threads angst.

lilithsaintcrow, 5 months ago to random

“These men collectively have more than half a trillion dollars to spend on their quest to realize inventions culled from the science fiction and fantasy stories that they read in their teens. But this is tremendously bad news because the past century’s science fiction and fantasy works widely come loaded with dangerous assumptions." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/

Strandjunker, 5 months ago to random

Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.