Notices by Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)

At least maybe people will stop asking me why I moved from the US to the Netherlands?

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

@larsmb @robin there are very sound business reasons for going to FOSDEM but I am also regretting it already 😭

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

I HAVE BEEN WRITING THIS THREAD SINCE THE TWENTY FIFTH OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FOUR

AND THE DICKS KEEP GOING IN THE MOUSETRAPS

DESPITE ALL MY WARNINGS

@tibolalu @bikepunk @RichardMonvoisin the stuffed rats tucked into the striped shirts! The ubiquitous drawn-on mustaches!! I'm dying and I barely understand a tiny bit of Spanish

@robin @maarten I will be there and following the same protocol

@jessie man, the foreshadowing is heavy-handed

This shows how much VC is a monolithic group that isn't competing with each other but instead running a cartel to extract capital from the rest of society and put it in VC pockets

@depereo LITERALLY

It warms my little shriveled heart to see a software company that invested in optimizing their software and got a huge benefit from it, even if it is an AI company. It can at least write wrong things while consuming 100x fewer resources 🥰

I love optimizing software and it's annoying that current software company business theory won't let programmers do that to a first order approximation

@hfalcke @vicgrinberg sounds like a planet 🤔 maybe try a sky finder app to figure out which one? I hear Venus is really bright!!!!

@darkling I would say go ahead and apply when you are ready. I'm in favor of generalists but they are looking to replace a specific skill set so it might be a hard sell

@wynke @jonty I have a similar oven! It technically is also a microwave, but using it requires pushing so many buttons that I bought a separate microwave that has only two physical dials. Then I bought a separate toaster because even after I reprogrammed the oven to remove one button push, it still requires pushing three buttons AND turning a dial through four different electronically displayed options to toast some f'ing bread

@kf I had this problem, combo of core muscle issues and shoulder being slightly out of joint. But riding an upright bike fixes it too 😎

@darkling hm, interesting! Probably not enough for what they want right now but if decide to spend your fun coding time on btrfs maybe you will be qualified and interested by the time you have recovered from burn out :) file systems do weird stuff to your brains, be careful

@darkling hm, tell me more - what have you been doing with btrfs? And will you be at FOSDEM?

@darkling heavy use of 128 bit cmpxchg going on

Me: I can't implement that with signals because it is impossible to implement without bugs, so instead I will use this library

5 minutes later: this library is implemented with signals

@mdione @lindsey @byorgey it was enormously shocking to move to Amsterdam and learn that the giant cold case in the grocery store full of slightly different cheeses contains "hkhkgh-HOUW-duh." (It's "good-ah" in the US.)