Engineering
On FOSS, OSS, and Give Me Money
Thoughts on the evolution of FOSS into $OSS, man pages, and the great un-learning
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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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💾 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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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.
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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.