definitely missing the mirageos retreat rn
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Aaron A. Glenn
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internet curmudgeon. talk to me about programmable packet data planes.
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I am incredibly serious when I say the most radical thing you can do right now is start building systems of care outside of capitalism and this is a really good start.
Ken ShirriffWhat is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n
sorry for that last outage. we’re moving hardware and providers soon-ish
Chris Gioran 💔The year is 2030.
Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.
All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.
Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.
Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.
Trammell HudsonWe have ASML at home. https://asmlstore.com/products/twinscan-exe-5000-lego-set
Rick AltherrEvery so often, someone in a retrocomputing chat will mention DB-9 only to be corrected that it is DE-9. In the ensuing discussion about shell sizes, I like to drop in this image. Never fails to get a reaction
✧✦Catherine✦✧thesis: numbers stations are a form of microblogging
I’m no longer actively working at Equinix. exploring all opportunities for 2025. hit me if you can think of a spot that I should chat with 🙂
EvaThis quote accurately summarizes my feelings and experience in the BSD & Linux & UNIX worlds over the past quarter-century of usage for work and adventurous daily driving.
> BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC.
> Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.
(Encountered somewhere online recently... attribution unknown.)