Tim Foster

@timfoster
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I write build tooling these days and still enjoy making developer's lives easier. I spent 21 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc, working on and around Solaris, and then a while at Joyent.

I do miss the old days a bit, but rose-tinted glasses and all that... I now use FreeBSD on my personal systems where I can. I have many hobbies, one of which is keeping my old Series Land Rover running.

Co. Down, Northern Ireland

#nutanix #joyent #sun #LandRover searchable

Joined26 Apr 2022
bloghttps://timsfoster.wordpress.com
Series Land Rovershttps://timfoster.smugmug.com/Land-Rover
Tim Foster3h ago

Wrt. my last boost, and "shipping velocity," I'm assuming these AI morons don't understand what happens when you have too much velocity and not enough control.

#ai #morons

Tim Foster3h ago
Aaron Toponce ⚛️3d ago
Do you want a CVE? Because this is how you get a CVE.
Tim Foster7h ago

More skiing today. I'm not quite at For Your Eyes Only level, but I'm at least no longer a liability on the slopes (and Roger Moore had 4 years more years of practice when he did this...) I'm on day two.

#skiing #austria

Tim Foster1d ago

After a nightmare day of travel yesterday (couldn't land at Salzburg, diverted to Munich, bus got to hotel at 1am) today we did some skiing and saw a Unimog!

#WeirdCarMastodon #austria

Tim Foster6d ago
Club Lotus6d ago
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Chris Rea, aged 74.
Beyond his legendary music career, Chris was a true petrolhead who owned and raced several Lotus cars including a Mark VI, Elan 26R, and the ex-Jim Clark Lotus Cortina. A regular at Goodwood Revival and Silverstone Classic, fellow enthusiasts remember him as genuinely down-to-earth.
That he leaves us just days before Christmas makes this loss all the more poignant.
Rest in peace, Chris. 🏁
#ChrisRea #Lotus #ClubLotus
Tim FosterDec 17

"So timf, how are your Christmas holidays going?"

Me: "Uh..."

Show threadTim FosterDec 17
Now just to zfs send/recv my user data across...
Tim FosterDec 17

ZFS encrypted root on Ubuntu 25.10, installed from a fresh USB key works fine following the instructions at

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Ubuntu/Ubuntu%2022.04%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html

It's a shame they dropped native support from the installer. That was a lot of hoops to jump through.

One thing missing was needing to run

addgroup --system gnome-initial-setup

otherwise gdm3 wasn't coming up. I'm also not sure if swap is working properly, but that doesn't really matter for me.

#zfs #openzfs #ubuntu

Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS — OpenZFS documentation

Tim FosterDec 17

... and I know I shouldn't be configuring new work laptop when I'm on vacation, but here we are.

Modern Ubuntu not including a ZFS root option from the installer is a giant pain.

Tim FosterDec 17

What the fresh hell is this?! My replacemet work Thinkpad arrived yesterday, and it's got some god forsaken faux-metallic grey finish!

Thinkpads are supposed to be *black*

What on earth are you doing Lenovo?!

#thinkpad