Aaron A. Glenn @aag@bsd.network

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

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Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.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.

We have ASML at home. https://asmlstore.com/products/twinscan-exe-5000-lego-set

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

thesis: numbers stations are a form of microblogging

This 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.)

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #UNIX #Solaris #HPUX #Engineering

@dexter Here's the AMD w/ CUDA support/library/api/shim/translation/thing that came up the other day:

> ZLUDA is a drop-in replacement for CUDA on non-NVIDIA GPU. ZLUDA allows to run unmodified CUDA applications using non-NVIDIA GPUs with near-native performance.

- https://vosen.github.io/ZLUDA/blog/zludas-third-life/
- https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

#forDiscussion #gpu #ai #cuda #amd #nvidia #zluda #opencl #machineLearning

Just realized: the campaign ends Sunday at 8PM EDT (or 00:00 UTC), so this is the last weekday Run Your Own Mail Server will be live.

Those of you who browse Kickstarter at your office job--when you come back Monday, the campaign will be over. Today is your last chance to get six Unixy books for $15!

I *hope* you browse Kickstarter and whatnot at work. I mean, it's not like you're paid enough to put up with all that crap.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server #ryoms #sysadmin #kickstarter #projectwelove

Please boost for reach: Open source project seeking technical writing contributors.

Ngscopeclient (https://www.ngscopeclient.org/) is looking for people to assist with end user documentation and, in the future, possibly developer oriented API documentation as well.

We welcome help from any interested parties, but are particularly hoping to find some familiar with electronics/embedded systems given the nature of the project. Documentation is LaTeX in Git.

As an open source project we have limited budget (at least until some of the in-progress products from companies using our software launch and start bringing in donations) so are hoping to find volunteer contributors, but I'm willing to throw some of my own funds into the pot if necessary. I can't afford to pay for a lot of hours at industry consulting rates but if you're willing to offer discounts for F/OSS then I'll try and work something out.

Oxide- efficiency you can hear! It's unreal how much quieter 32 Oxide sleds are vs just two commodity servers. All that noise is your power and cooling budget being burned up by tiny, screaming fans in inefficient legacy servers, let us show you a better way!

ur gonna do great today, u got this

Video recording of last nights presentation "A Brief Architectural History of Telephone Exchange Buildings" by Lisa Kinch has just been published by @telecomheritage at https://vimeo.com/922814546/20faf58338 #retronetworking #telephone #architecture

If you are following the README at the #OpenBSD port of #Nextcloud you should get an 'A+' here: https://scan.nextcloud.com/

Make me proud.

FPGA, anyone? @aag send help :)

We might be able to do an official #alpinelinux #riscv64 stable release if someone donates one or two of this machine:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/milk-v/milk-v-pioneer