A company that says "we can't change the email address associated with your account for security reasons" needs to be re-educated with a very large cluebat.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 20:23:10 JST Peter Tribble -
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 02:58:53 JST Peter Tribble With the UK a bit warm, not much of the Tribblix home lab is running right now.
The T4, at 400W, is out of the question. SPARC development tends to be a bit seasonal (they're great in winter). Even the Intel servers at 100W or 200W aren't going to be running. So just my desktop (where, actually, most of the power consumption is from the display rather than the box itself). Even there I just leave a build running and go sit somewhere cooler.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 22:08:47 JST Peter Tribble Legacy technology: the stuff that makes sure your staff get paid.
Cutting edge technology: the stuff that pads your suppliers' profits.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:11:05 JST Peter Tribble I've been bothered a while by an annoying bug in Tribblix - Python applications couldn't open https connections in non-blocking mode. Which hindered access to S3 and Backblaze, for example.
Finally worked it out yesterday. Openssl needed to be built with -D_REENTRANT in order to enable per-thread errno so it catches failures and handles them correctly. That ought to have been the case anyway, but something was dropping it, so I needed to be explicit.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 04:16:42 JST Peter Tribble @josephholsten @apicultor @q66 @wyatt8740 @Okanogen @dashdsrdash @jnpn @ariadne @bremner
One thing about SMF was that if you wanted to manage a service the old SysV way, then it still worked essentially as before. The one breaking change in SMF, really, was replacing inetd, and that part had a few rough edges early on.
(An area of unhappiness with SMF was using XML as a user interface.)
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 22:17:26 JST Peter Tribble "First impressions are honestly really really impressive"
Experiences with Tribblix M30 on a Sun Blade 150
https://www.reddit.com/r/illumos/comments/1dd5r6a/experiences_with_tribblix_m30_on_a_sun_blade_150/
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 04:12:25 JST Peter Tribble I've been messing about with some of these free AI image creation sites.
I asked one to create an image that demonstrates the power of Tribblix. I expected it to struggle, and it really did.
First image of the Power of Tribblix was a mushroom in a forest. The next one was a plate of salad. Slightly more tasty was a tray of brownies.
Think I'll give this a miss.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 22:03:29 JST Peter Tribble Normally, awk will do what you expect.
But consistent? Maybe not. Consider:
echo "a:🅱:c" | awk -F':' '{print $3}'
and
echo "a b c" | awk -F' ' '{print $3}'
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 01:25:37 JST Peter Tribble Stumbled across an unusual Solaris oddity this morning.
On Solaris 11, there's a /usr/bin/gstrip but not a /usr/gnu/bin/strip. All the other binutils commands are in /usr/gnu/bin with g-prefixed links in /usr/bin, but not strip, which is in /usr/gnu/bin/gstrip. Why is it the odd one out, I wonder?
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 23:43:08 JST Peter Tribble I could of course just add more storage, but it all costs real money, and there doesn't seem to be any great justification for a hobby project to fund some billionaire's yachts.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 23:43:08 JST Peter Tribble Disk space on the Tribblix repo server is starting to get a bit tight, so time to thin out the packages for some older releases. By old, I mean before m30, so there shouldn't be that many instances running that stuff.
Everything will still work, but only the latest version of a package will be available, not the whole version history.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 06:39:03 JST Peter Tribble There was even a Motif version. The fact that a 30-year old browser can still be coerced into building, linking, and running on a modern system is pretty remarkable.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 06:38:17 JST Peter Tribble With a little effort I was able to build viola, one of the very earliest graphical web browsers, on Tribblix. So old it doesn't send a Host header and certainly can't handle https. So the number of sites it can talk to is extremely limited.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 16:27:20 JST Peter Tribble The idea that Hashicorp is worth about the same as Oracle paid for Sun is truly a magical fantasy valuation.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 00:36:14 JST Peter Tribble In isolation, Natural Stupidity worries me a lot more than Artificial Intelligence.
The combination of the two takes things to a whole new level.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 18:23:00 JST Peter Tribble I suspect The Trainline's geoip detection is ever so slightly off
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 23:09:10 JST Peter Tribble I'm sure AI could be good for many things, but much of what I'm seeing is a lot more Automated Ignorance and a lot less Artificial Intelligence
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 17:11:37 JST Peter Tribble So the hay fever symptoms I've had for the past week might indeed be hay fever:
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/23/will-climate-change-make-the-effects-of-pollen-worse/
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 07:24:25 JST Peter Tribble I was starting to wonder if NetSurf was still under development, but after quite a long hiatus a new release came out at the end of last year.
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Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 23:23:38 JST Peter Tribble When something is advertised as cross-platform and written in Java: