A decade ago, Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter, an experience that I described in my 2017 GOTO Chicago talk, "Debugging Under Fire":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE

On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl we will be joined by folks who were at Joyent a decade ago, both to recall the fateful outage and to reflect on its ramifications, both at Joyent and beyond. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/dqUCRwsx?event=1243638578484088842

Graceful shutdown in Kubernetes

https://learnk8s.io/graceful-shutdown

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://learnk8s.io/graceful-shutdown

#devops #kubernetes

Zilog Z80, 1976 – 2024.

https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf

Over its 48 year life, the Z80 found its way into inumerable devices.

It's perhaps most famous for being the CPU used in the ZX Spectrum, but could also be found as a sound co-processor in the Sega Mega Drive and SNK's Neo Geo arcade boards, among others.

I remember finding one inside my first HP inkjet printer back in the late 90's, and my parent's Sony Trinitron CRT, handling the on-screen menus (and teletext).

R.I.P. 💀

#z80 #retrocomputing

Short summary from Lasse Collin.

https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/

#xz

We got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.

Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. 😊

I commented "laptops don't get slow, software does" on a video on upgrading your laptop and WOW was I taken aback by some of the response.

People actually believe degrading thermal paste is to blame for a messenger app taking half a gig of RAM?

That the Epic games launcher takes ages to launch because it has so many features?

That a news website is downloading and interpreting a small operating system worth of code for-what-reason-exactly is the march of progress?

#performance #software

Everyone: “Kubernetes divorces node failures from the applications running on top of them.”

Me: *builds a kubernete, rips the power cable out of a worker node*

Kubernetes: “Ach! Mein Leben!”

Pods: *endlessly stuck in Terminating state*

k8s has played us for absolute fools.

Wake up asshole; you're the pod scheduler now.

> Dropbox web interface
>> account icon in top right
>>> Settings
>>>> Third-party AI
>>>>> Off

(You do you! But this is how to opt out.)

ETA: They're mid-rollout and I don't think they've said which regions and tiers will eventually be affected, YMMV