Joshua M. Clulow

Engineer. UNIX person. Australian-American. Member of illumos core team. Building a new machine at Oxide Computer Company!

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2025-01-13 20:24:06

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@nprofile…9kkg RTO policy implementation

2025-01-12 19:23:20

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@nprofile…y0zq I honestly don't know in that case -- what kind of CPU is it?

2025-01-12 19:20:12

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@nprofile…y0zq I think the PiDP-11 has been built around pretty tiny Raspberry Pis the whole time, and I'm sure it's not fully consumed by SIMH. Floppy drives seems like more of a challenge: do you mean a legitimately contemporary drive from the ancient times?

2025-01-09 22:13:00

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If you've been afflicted by this, you should leave feedback for the Mozilla people: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-release-channel-experimentation/td-p/78966
It's also super gross that this is an A/B testing thing; TIL Mozilla are pretty serious about this kind of user hostility: https://experimenter.info/

2025-01-09 19:22:54

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@nprofile…pf0n Oh my god yes. Pretty tired of any mention of improvements resulting in the descent of a mob shouting "OH LOOK A TECHBRO". I don't like tech bros either, but I do like software that works for users and this is sadly not it.

2025-01-09 03:53:24

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@nprofile…9kkg this is the most plausible post I have read today on any subject

2025-01-07 17:21:10

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@nprofile…23g9 You should let @nprofile…784c know about it! I had a pretty frank discussion about the state of things with them on lobste.rs recently after the December blog post, and I definitely feel like the feedback from actual users about the death by a thousand cuts in the (especially Android?) clients is not always making it through.

2025-01-07 04:42:26

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@nprofile…0qlm It kind of sounds like they want you to share in the trends
Like a potluck

2025-01-07 01:25:25

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@nprofile…fn6s Lemon it's only the sixth of January

2025-01-06 09:44:41

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@nprofile…2hju @nprofile…vklh Not just Europe but almost everywhere else including China, India, Australia, etc! Also 50hz instead of 60hz, which I feel like might be even more of a problem for ancient computing equipment.

2025-01-05 04:37:15

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@nprofile…9kkg I think you mean your browser cash, the piggy bank just above the power supply in the back of the workstation

2025-01-05 04:25:37

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@nprofile…v3rx Pages like this are super helpful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_butlers
I like to pick names that are both reasonably phonetic in spelling, and with a unique first letter within the group; e.g., alfred, cadbury, duckworth, edgar, ferguson, jeeves, lurch, niles, standish, etc

2025-01-05 04:21:42

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@nprofile…v3rx I'm a big fan of naming machines! We name ships, so, why not computers! I try to pick schemes for grouping related systems.
Off the top of my head:
- manufacturing line control systems: Muppets!
- lab equipment control systems: Fictional Butlers!
- switches: Crayola Crayon colours
- one batch of dev systems were characters from Fringe, one of my favourite TV shows
- our primary large shared build system is "atrium"
- our lab firewall is "centrum"
- a pair of CI workers: sock & buskin

2025-01-04 03:06:37

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@nprofile…23g9 I don't believe they do, they hand out KVM guests on one.

2025-01-03 23:10:50

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@nprofile…52qc I gather the NSA employs a whole floor of people playing for just this reason

2025-01-03 22:44:54

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@nprofile…g98g I think this is true in earlier thin client platforms as well, like NeWS which is somewhat browser shaped -- albeit with Postscript instead of JavaScript.

2025-01-03 00:00:45

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@nprofile…23g9 Ah. FWIW, I believe the tool you usually use to edit users just uses the API. You can install it anywhere that can access the API via HTTPS; it doesn't need to run on the server. But a lack of a comprehensive web management UI is definitely a missing feature as far as I can tell yeah.

2025-01-02 23:50:50

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@nprofile…23g9 What about it didn't end up meeting your requirements?

2025-01-02 23:48:31

Why would I need an LLM for home automation, we solved this already
https://m.unix.house/system/media_attachments/files/113/761/431/744/075/303/original/681cf6f3e9339f3d.jpeg

2025-01-02 12:12:08

Have done about 100X more driving this week within Cyberpunk 2077 than in the real car. Definitely had to take a moment to adjust mental processes on the way to Safeway.

2025-01-02 11:52:26

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@nprofile…23g9 I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but have you seen kanidm?

2025-01-01 23:44:00

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@nprofile…y0zq I'm too tired to interpret the diagram but I believe the behaviour you're describing is called a "delay slot" and was something with which SPARC (amongst presumably other RISC architectures) was afflicted.

2025-01-01 08:23:08

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@nprofile…0qlm I have found through extensive trials that it's possible to become burnt out even when only Achieving Things that I Want To Do

2025-01-01 08:19:10

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@nprofile…0qlm They won't play themselves

2025-01-01 08:18:44

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@nprofile…0qlm But why

2025-01-01 03:40:03

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@nprofile…qvjw I feel like SVR4 systems were fully packaged well in advance of Red Hat 5.2

2024-12-31 22:29:18

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@nprofile…rdje I will say that I have redone quite a lot of shell programs as Rust programs with a similar amount of forking children to do things, but in those instances I'm the one writing the Rust it's not a framework per se. Also it's nice to be able to do the HTTP stuff from a library with a more expressive error handling plane than the curl CLI.
That said, the CI system I wrote at Oxide literally just runs bash programs so you can kick off whatever you want with it!

2023-12-05 04:06:20

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@npub1upk…tcwy @npub10nl…0klm From what I recall, there is no representation of directories in Git, right? But there is a tree object that covers the whole commit and includes a list of blobs and their paths or something? Could you encode (tree{20}, offset{24}, blob{20}) maybe, where offset is the position of the particular instance of the blob in the tree?

2023-12-05 03:58:02

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@npub1upk…tcwy @npub10nl…0klm If it's a git repository you're serving, presumably you could use the blob ID for the file handle? A SHA-1 hash is only 20 bytes in its binary form.