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   Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 18:55:35 JST Valerie Aurora

   At FOSDEM, my co-worker Zach Brown will be presenting ngnfs, the cool new distributed file system he designed and I am helping to implement!

   10am in the Kernel devroom on Sunday:

   https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5471-ngnfs-a-distributed-file-system-using-block-granular-consistency/

   I'll be there too, wearing a mask and elbow-bumping instead of shaking hands

   #FOSDEM

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 19:17:47 JST Valerie Aurora

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     I'm enjoying working on ngnfs and there's more work on it than I can do, but I also really like having a variety of short-term systems and software contracts—especially weird bugs no one can fix even after months of trying.

     That's why I'm offering 3 hours of free consulting in the areas of networking, file systems, or systems. You can read about cool things I've programmed or debugged here:

     https://bowshock.nl/

     No obligation, no NDAs, restrictions apply, etc.

     #GetFediHired

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     mattia (blmt@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 23:17:09 JST mattia

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     @vaurora Out of curiosity: why in the kernel room instead of in the software defined storage one? I would have totally missed that talk!

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 23:17:09 JST Valerie Aurora

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     • mattia

     @blmt 😂 because I didn't realize the software defined storage track existed until after the submission deadline had passed. Fortunately they are on different days so I plan to go to both

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 22:22:00 JST Valerie Aurora

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     Just in time for FOSDEM, I put my latest fun systems debugging story up. This one is about a mysterious performance problem in a relay server for a popular VPN service:

     https://bowshock.nl/stories/high_load_network_relay/

     While have plenty of work with my ngnfs contract, I always enjoy new challenges. If you have a systems problem you need solved, I offer free consultations:

     https://bowshock.nl/#free-consultation

     Do you have any fun debugging stories? Reply and I will boost. And come say hi if you're at FOSDEM!

     #FOSDEM #systems

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 04:35:54 JST Valerie Aurora

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     While have plenty of work with my ngnfs contract, I always enjoy new challenges. If you have a systems problem you need solved, I offer free consultations:

     https://bowshock.nl/#free-consultation

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:18:49 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     not sure about fun, but... I've written about debugging adventures, such as:
     https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2021-02-20-longest-debugging-session
     https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2020-08-19-phantom-breakin
     
     have a great FOSDEM