Project Restoration - Part I
emerging from the coma — lost memories and restored images — reprogramming neural pathways to heal the mind
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On FOSS, OSS, and Give Me Money
Thoughts on the evolution of FOSS into $OSS, man pages, and the great un-learning
Forever Avoidance of UHC
UnitedHealthCare [1], somehow worse than United Fruit's "Nico death squads[2]"
Awakening any Sunday
An early morning log of conscious considerations upon waking up
Another World, Another Time, in the Age of Wonder
Is our memory illusory? Are the vector maps of neurotransmitter mixtures changing over time? .. Perhaps that malleability of memory is the most beautiful quality..
The World Bank's involvement with NASA, OSS, Ai, and LLMs
Ever wondered how The World Bank's open source software contributions have shaped global economics, financial markets, and generally been used for all manner of really quite fascinating insights into data science? How about the ways in which The World Bank's usage of Ai and LLMs have
🌐 Surprise! 18 Million Colones!
Sometimes there's a reminder, an initiator of memory and emotions, which occurs upon opening my passport booklet. "Oh look! It's millions of Colones!, and with such a uniquely beautiful design. Every time this occurs it provides an unexpected reminder of my favorite country, Costa Rica.
Episode 44: "Leaving ORD, minimalism yes please."
At airport gate, waiting. Originally, a dawn departure. Hilton at ORD decides that rooms do not need the usual bathroom items, and prefers the full plastic half-assed attempt at a capsule pod coffee maker. Substantial displeasure occurs, events transpire, and now we're rebooked on flight a few hours
Episode 42: "We're leaving. Take only what you need to survive!"
Goodbye Chicago, It was mostly Not.
Memories of a Younger Era — Tokyo Hiroshima Kyoto
Memories of Japan are easy to get lost in, the time period was often a blur. Capsule hotels, bullet trains, insomnia, and several neuro-cognitive mods offering symbiotic boosts to perception. Stimulated by a then-unknown cranial passenger, a surging PRL level resulted, HPG-axis thrown off course, thyroid blasting T3 in feedback-loop,
System Migration Complete, and Now it's Cherry Time
ZFS sync from box to box, impatience, performance, routines
Need more PCIe slots, not more lanes, but slots.
Staring at this board, mentally converting PCIe lane count to device requirements, only to consider that yet again... It's 2025. We're still using the PCIe slot standard for most motherboards, even on enterprise boards. Who's doing this right, at least marginally so? ASRack (brain,
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Women's Safety Online: Why I'm No Longer on LinkedIn or Twitter
The vast and varied subject of Women's Safety Online is a topic which impacts many facets of daily life, including emotional and physical well-being. This post is not a primer on the concepts, rather it offers a short timeline to explain why I am no longer on LinkedIn
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The demise of Fedora as a Developer Distro
The Q4-2024 through Q2-2025 cycle has been one of remarkable instability for Fedora kernels and systemd breaking-changes. F40 through F42 have offered more crashes, more kernel panics, and more core dumps than any triple-set of versions since its dawning into existence - and I've been running this distro
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🌐 Nvidia Ai Cluster for Traveling 🌐
A little travel cluster, all set for Ai engineering and development. * 1x Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX 16GB * 3x Nvidia Jetson Orin NX 16GB * 3x GoWin R86S 6005 + CX5 25G OCP 2.0 * Various network hardware Setup in a Pelican Air case, ready for the flight! #ai #engineering #development #nvidia #cluster
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🌐 Weekend Hardware Update 🌐
Some additional reorganization time this weekend, all busy with the process of preparing the HomeLab for another interstate relocation. Having decided to repurpose some hardware to create a new router, this one formerly hosted infra VMs several years ago, but now it's going to run a pair of
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🗑️ 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
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
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
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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
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
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💾 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
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⚒️ 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
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🌆 Sunday Coming to a Close 🌆
The RFC1918s are references to a set of domains which I've acquired over a number of years, specific to home-colo-startup lab architecture development. In standing with the concept of "Usage-Based Naming Convention"...