Aaron A. Glenn

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internet curmudgeon. talk to me about programmable packet data planes.
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bunniesFiona & Bam Bam [RIP Mondo (pictured)]
autonomous systems7007, 57335
definitely missing the mirageos retreat rn
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.
What 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

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Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.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.

TWINSCAN EXE:5000 Lego Set

@solene tcpdump shows the correct datagram on the wireguard logical interface but never increases its counter nor forwards *anything* to the otherwise of the wg tunnel?
@winterschon abit bp6 with dual celerons of some clock speed rating I don’t precisely remember. I just remember upping the voltage and getting 50% more with Peltiers under giant “alpha” cooler heatsinks

@winterschon I said they’d be more trouble than they’re worth and goddamnit, I was 100% correct. at least holding the last handful has netted a 30% gain.

also extremely glad to have that in my rear view mirror, so to speak

Every 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

#retrocomputing