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K.C. Budd

@phreakmonkey@infosec.exchange

144 Followers

157 Following

475 Posts

Hacking, microcontollers, infosec, airplanes, skis, rollerblades, schnauzers. 🏳️‍🌈

South Lake Tahoe

Website

https://wiki.solace.net/

K.C. Budd 2d ago

Max Leibman 2d ago

Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.

Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.

K.C. Budd 2d ago

🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈Jun 6

Spotted in Mexico: A food cart made from the cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server

https://reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1l1ssoo/spotted_in_mexico_a_food_cart_made_from_the_cage/

K.C. Budd 3d ago

I 3D printed my dogs. 😂🐾 #dogs #dogsofmastodon

K.C. Budd 3d ago

*** Online shopping in 2010 ***

Me: Hello, UnderpantsEmporium.com? I’d like to buy underpants.

Underpants Emporium: Certainly, sir. Your underpants will arrive on Monday.

Me: Thanks.

*** Online shopping in 2025 ***

Me: Hello, UnderpantsEmporium.com? I’d like to buy underpants.

*ding* ShipPirate.biz: Your package is getting shipped!

Me: Wait, who are yo…

*phone vibrates* SMS from 21525: ORDER UPDATE: package is on the move.

*ding* UPS MyChoice: Your package is on the way.

*ding* Underpants Emporium: Your pants-ckage is en route from us to you.

Me: dudes…

*ding* Underpants Emporium: Be sure to review your underpants!

*ding* UPS MyChoice: Your package is out for delivery. Follow it on a live map.

*phone vibrates* SMS from 21525: ORDER UPDATE: package is out for delivery.

*phone vibrates* SMS from +252 3983929301: There was a problem with your shipment. Please claim your package at che4p-pi1lz.virus-basket.biz.ru.

*ding* Underpants Emporium: how’s that review coming along?

*phone vibrates* SMS from 21525: ORDER UPDATE: the eagle has landed.

*ding* Underpants Emporium: customers who bought underpants also bought

K.C. Budd 3d ago

Soldier of FORTRAN

Make sure you come to the PhreakMe contest at #defcon to get your PhreakTel calling card, valid for local and international calls, supplies are limited.

K.C. Budd 5d ago

OMG thank you Gotify Android app for making this selectable. I detest "relative time" format timestamps, and this goes double for temporally important things like alerts.

The rest of you should take notes.

#gotify #time #ui

K.C. Budd 5d ago

Chris Petrilli 5d ago

No notes.

K.C. Budd 5d ago

Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)5d ago

Just thinking aloud here.

Would you put a small "made by human" button on your website in an effort to stop AI crawlers?

Traffic from the button would be used to get more IP addresses and bad browser user agents.

If you vote, please boost so I can get some better data.

Yes

78.3%

No

21.7%

Poll ended at Jul 11 at 9:26pm.

K.C. Budd 5d ago

rail 🦊 (sysadmin puppy)Jun 27

We're here
We're queer
Connection reset by peer

K.C. Budd 5d ago

Wet Leg's new album "moisturizer" comes out today, people!

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🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈Jun 6

Spotted in Mexico: A food cart made from the cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server

https://reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1l1ssoo/spotted_in_mexico_a_food_cart_made_from_the_cage/

Josh Lepawsky Jun 6

@vantablack The street finds it's own uses for things.

Ian K Tindale Jun 6

@vantablack open sauce

@vantablack that's pretty cool, but the image's alt text is just a copy of the post title and doesn't actually explain what's going on at all. I was keen to boost this otherwise.

@timixretroplays @vantablack

What else is there to say? Someone is serving food, on a sidewalk, out of a metal box labeled SUN MICROSYSTEMS with wheels mounted to it.

@publius @vantablack well, you've just added 3 more clues - it's a metal box, it has wheels, and it says Sun Microsystems on it. "The cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server" won't mean much to anyone who hasn't worked in a data center.

I've just added a more complete alt text caption in another comment.

@vantablack #ALT4you a photo of a street food vendor, operating from a food cart made from a repurposed computer server rack. The rack is a long grey box lying on its side, has had wheels added for mobility, and says "Sun Microsystems" on the side. A pipe sticks out from one end, leading to a small gas bottle.

Reed Mideke Jun 7

@vantablack The computer is the <s>network</s> nacho stand

Tim Hergert Jun 7

@vantablack I wonder if they serve Java

Cursed Silicon Jun 7

@vantablack Circle of life

@CursedSilicon @vantablack I saw the foodcart picture before and I find it double- funny because when I was working on Solaris at Sun and then Oracle, some of our servers had a zone called “foodcart” which we used to provision other zones for testing.

Cursed Silicon Jun 7

@blami Was this where the "Happy Meal" and "Big Mac" NIC's came from?

@CursedSilicon No, not really. I remember we had a lot of food references in code and product names, likely stemming from “pizza box” workstation line. Big Mac was afaik just play on MAC. Naming of sbus cards went Lance 10Mbit then they built 100Mbit called Mace. I guess Mace inspired the next card to be Big Mac and Happy Meal came after. I am not sure if it was Happy Meal because it was full duplex, def not because it had 4 ports because there was Happy Meal with 1 too.

Cursed Silicon Jun 8

@blami I do miss that era. Feels like everything had so much more "personality" than nowadays

@CursedSilicon Yeah, pretty happy as someone born in 1985 who landed internship at Sun in 2005, worked on Solaris until 2017. Computers were much more fun in 90s. In 00s it went downhill with all the cloud craze, smartphones, webapps, SaaS and subscriptions.

Cursed Silicon Jun 8

@blami '92. Far too late. The best I can do is tread through history as a digital antiquarian

@CursedSilicon Naah, I think you still caught Ultima Online prime time!

Cursed Silicon Jun 8

@blami Oh fuck. That takes me back. I would've been like...eight??? I played it like once at a friend of my Dad's

All I remember is I pickpocketed the deed and keys to some dudes freshly purchased house

Then he showed up to get into "his" house and wanted to fight me to get the deed back because technically it was "my" house now

John Cortexiphan Jun 7

@vantablack @jsr I feel this is @rmi in an alternate universe

Rob Isaac Jun 7

@yakmoose @vantablack @jsr I wish I’d chosen that timeline

Alexander Dyas Jun 7

@vantablack One of the first Sun machines I had professional access to, at least a portion of it. It was the pride and joy of the department. I cut my php / Apache teeth on that.

Darryl Ramm Jun 7

Remember Silicon Graphics management stupidity enabled that food cart.

@vantablack Still love that logo.

@vantablack geez, what a fall from grace. sun went from being one of the best UNIX workstation vendors out there and making one of the most used programming languages, now they've downsized all the way down to a single street food cart. heartbreaking stuff.

Paolo Amoroso Jun 7

@vantablack Pinging @aka_pugs

Tom Lyon ✅Jun 7

@amoroso @vantablack A mobile server!

“The street finds its own uses for things.” - W. Gibson

wakest ⁂Jun 7

@vantablack I feel this should make an appearance in @prahou's Unix Surrealism

@liaizon @vantablack SUN appears a few times https://analognowhere.com/_/cnmags/

Please, get her out

sunons

wakest ⁂Jun 7

@prahou @vantablack l meant the sun cart, its so transportive

@vantablack It never served better 😆

Elias Mårtenson Jun 7

@vantablack the E10k was an amazing machine. Back when I worked for Sun, I attended the service training for it when it came out. It was very different from other Sun machines since it was based on a design from Cray. SGI bought most of Cray, but Sun got their SPARC based stuff.

The initial model had a maximum of 64 CPU's and 64 GB RAM, on 16 CPU boards.

You also had a way to electrically separate sets of CPU boards into domains that could run separate OS instances.

Martin Seeger Jun 7

@vantablack My personal E10K became an audio rack 😏