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Eva Winterschön

Eva Winterschön

Photography

🗑️ Import Your Failures! 🗑️

While using Soundcloud the other day, prompted by a little helper fellow which states: > "Import your Spotify Playlists!" ok, sure. I'd like to use a single app for music if possible, and I prefer Soundcloud to Spotify in general. So, I click ok and authorize

20 May 2025

Musings

Memories of Harmonic Distortion, Descending Carson Pass

While training for The Death Ride one year, so many years ago, I had quite a surprise on Highway 88 while descending Carson Pass in the Sierra Nevada. This was in the late season, the last week of October, a last minute plan with a best friend to get one

19 May 2025

Musings

💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻

Thunderbird, wtf are you doing where you need 83% CPU plus ~50GB (virt) and 20G (res) of RAM allocated? The entire mailbox isn't even 1GB in total size. Yet here it is, cranking out all of this nebulous processing 24/7... literally 24/7 it's running

14 May 2025

Photography

4am Dev Box - GPU & RDMA Hardware Shuffle

Some photos from a bit of 4am dev box maintenance earlier this morning, focused on hardware reallocation and consolidation to maximize PCIe lane utilization. This box will host one VM using full PCIe passthrough on the GPUs and 50% NPAR for the NIC ports, and four smaller VMs. Storage for

13 May 2025

The non-Controversial Controversy of BTRFS

Some clarifications on some points here about the history of BTRFS as it relates to Oracle, Sun Microsystems, RedHat, ZFS, and a DARPA funded filesystem research project which concluded with a ghastly murder. > Oracle bought Sun to get the ZFS file system. They have been porting ZFS features into

11 May 2025

Industry

💾 Updates on Remote Access to POWER9 💾

Some quick progress notes for a few FreeBSD and OpenZFS devs, which will be accessing one of my POWER9 systems. See photos for visual reference. * Separate L1 and L2 domain for all network access, zero-shared DMZ, unconnected to the rest of the RFC99 lab lack * Mikrotik router has been temporarily

24 Apr 2025

Industry

⚒️ Linux Kollektivs - Oh Please ⚒️

I love a lot about the linux world, and there's a lot of positive aspects to the kernel itself, which has brought a lot of joy over the years, with kernel module development, debugging, tuning, analyzing... specifically for my career, but also on a personal level. For one

21 Apr 2025
🩷 Good Morning Stormy Spring Weather

Photography

🩷 Good Morning Stormy Spring Weather

#chicago #morning #photos #stormy #sleepy

02 Apr 2025

Neurology

🤯 "Hyper-Focal Pre-Optimization" 🤯

Coders from all over likely already know of this quote, or would certainly would benefit from perma-copying this quote to the front of their brain-stem/visual-cortex knowledge queue: > “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” > ― Donald Ervin Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms

01 Apr 2025

Industry

FreeBSD Articles 2025 Q1 [projektierung]

These are the topics that I've been spending time with, on no specific schedule, with no intended intention, often for debugging or optimization, sometimes purely for curiosity, and often in-between other tasks throughout the day and night, so they might as well get some blog posts for discussion.

03 Jan 2025

Musings

💖 Siren Song of the UltraSparc 💖

02:42, awoken to first-morning, 4hrs sleep 02:55, at home office standing desk 02:58, navigate to eBay once more 02:59, search Sparc M7 T7-2 chassis 03:08, begin writing silly poem 03:12, resume eBay search 03:16, distracted by dtrace for tcshrc 03:20, distracted by

31 Dec 2024

Industry

A Minor Commentary on SED/Opal Encryption

Data-At-Rest Encryption is a common topic, but one which is often misunderstood. Having led engineering and architectural efforts involved with hardware standards for encryption compliance, including detailed analysis of performance impacts while operating in accordance to service level agreements, here are some bits of discussion on the SED/Opal implementation.

16 Nov 2024
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