Notices by Kenneth Finnegan (kwf@social.afront.org)

Me: "Hey, we're seeing a lot of download traffic for LibreOffice. Can we interest you in hosting it on a dozen of our additional mirrors across four continents?"

The Document Foundation: "Nah"

Imagine you're working on a product with an RS-232 user interface.

Try and come up with as many different ways to render a backspace as possible. Go.

It's a reproduction, but still absolutely my kind of decor energy. Thanks kind gifter of gift! 😍

Useless fun fact about Arista switches: The fan trays use the same mechanical connector as SFP optical transceivers.

The pinout is obviously completely different, since it has 12V on it and only needs tachometer, speed control, and a few direction identification solder jumpers, but why not reuse the same blind mate connector?

I've been working in Arista TAC for more than 4 years, so I've seen a lot of customer network configs, and you know, exactly once have I looked at a customer's QoS config and thought "yes, these people understand the concept of QoS and this configuration makes even a tiny bit of sense with respect to improving their quality of service without opening them up to a plethora of other, more painful, issues"

Just buy more bandwidth.

Friendly reminder that if you download software updates for Fedora or AlmaLinux from London, there's good odds that your software updates are coming from an HP thin client sitting in a road box in Surrey.

This is perfectly fine, and how free software / the Internet actually works.

#MicroMirror #Fedora #AlmaLinux #Linux #FOSS

Phrases uttered this morning: "Thankfully, it looks like BOTH CloudFlare and ISC played fast and loose with that RFC"

@MLE_online Gotta juice up those engagement interaction numbers somehow, and we're not getting people to just send more emails

When my parents bought their house, they took Boysenberry cuttings from my grandparents house to start berries all along the back of their house. Growing up I've always enjoyed the jams and pies resulting from those berries.

As a house warming gift, my mom gave me several cuttings of their berry vibes to propagate to my new house. And now I'm about to get my first berries from it. 🥰

Funny how CCing in the company owner solves so many support issues so rapidly.

Everyone losing their minds over #Threads implementing an open standard is just so delicious.

It's a single domain name folks. The block domain button is right there.

Customer: "How unusual is it that we experienced an outage because of our turning the BGP timers down to something lower than the default?"

Me: "Well... let me put it this way; we have a sign in the TAC for "It Has Been ____ Days Since A Customer Shot Themselves In The Foot With BGP Timers"

Customer: "Ah, ok, yeah, then we probably shouldn't have done that."

I want to build a geoIP database, but instead of wasting my time with metrics like GPS coordinate or zip code or country, I want to build it based on connectivity.

I don't care which country an IP address is in, I care how well connected / far apart it is from other IP addresses. Give me the actual topology of the Internet, not the political topology of RIRs.

It doesn't photograph well at all out in sunlight, but a video of it gives you the general idea for what the 1100RPM fan makes the tachometer look like.

For his recent talk on the #MicroMirror project, @warthog9 was kind enough to go run the numbers and plot ALL of the traffic we're logged from these servers.

We have served, to this date, over the last 18 months, 18.6 FREAKING PETABYTES of Linux and free software updates.

All from a fleet of tiny servers funded by cash donations and ISPs which are willing to plug these silly things in for us.

https://liberapay.com/phirephly/

One thing I own which is cool as hell is a vibrating reed based tachometer.

Lots and lots of tiny reeds, each tuned for a specific frequency. Place it on a piece of equipment, and the reeds start to vibrate if they're the same frequency as the equipment.

This is... going as expected. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues

@N3VEM I'm a big fan of nginx for serving static files with no CGI. It just works out of the box and doesn't need a bunch of performance tuning like Apache does

#JohnMastodon really isn't getting the level of appreciation that he deserves, if we're all being honest with ourselves.

Anyone else remember that article where a guy ran an online gaming website and his users wanted "real" dice rolls for the game RNG, so he built a giant dice tower with thousands of dice and an elevator and computer vision to capture and store each dice roll?

Edit: @w8emv found it! Behold, in all of its glory!

http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic