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Posts by Tommy McCormick

An Oxide ubuntu VM instance showing "running" status

An Oxide ubuntu VM instance showing "running" status

An Oxide serial console showing a prompt for an "ubuntu" user login

An Oxide serial console showing a prompt for an "ubuntu" user login

Needed a `pkg update` to fix propolis/bhyve since this was a few months old Helios installation, but there was eventual success!

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Yeah you've basically nailed it. -

I adjusted the configs to have just 3 U.2 vdevs, expanded those vdevs from the 20GiB default to 60, reduced the control plane storage buffer from 250GiB to 1 for all, and modified the fleet policy code's `<SERVICE>_REDUNDANCY`constants to have single replicas.

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The oxide control plane software showing an ubuntu VM disk image successfully uploaded.

The oxide control plane software showing an ubuntu VM disk image successfully uploaded.

A instance in Oxide showing it is in "starting" status, showing full configuration including 2 vCPUs, 4GB memory, and a local IP.

A instance in Oxide showing it is in "starting" status, showing full configuration including 2 vCPUs, 4GB memory, and a local IP.

Took quite a while, with a few retries, but got the image uploaded and a VM creating... will be shocked if the thing actually boots

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GitHub - oxidecomputer/helios-engvm: Tools for creating and using Helios images on i86pc (classic PC) physical and virtual machines Tools for creating and using Helios images on i86pc (classic PC) physical and virtual machines - GitHub - oxidecomputer/helios-engvm: Tools for creating and using Helios images on i86pc (classic P...

Cosplaying an Oxide engineer by following @jclulow.bsky.social's steps here got it booted pretty easily github.com/oxidecompute...

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The Oxide control plane software "images" page showing an ubuntu vm image upload in progress

The Oxide control plane software "images" page showing an ubuntu vm image upload in progress

A bit of pain on this machine (32Gib / 1TB HDD) but fought through some issues with too many service replicas (causing OOMs), slow file-backed vdevs, and resizing zpools to fit everything, but I think we're off

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GitHub - oxidecomputer/omicron: Omicron: Oxide control plane Omicron: Oxide control plane. Contribute to oxidecomputer/omicron development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just github.com/oxidecompute... built locally on a server running Helios!

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The inventory page of the Oxide control plane software UI, showing a single machine connected and a URL of "localhost:8080".

The inventory page of the Oxide control plane software UI, showing a single machine connected and a URL of "localhost:8080".

Had an old gaming laptop lying around and managed to get @oxide.computer's platform booted up on it

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jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj

2 months ago 101 12 3 3
screenshot of the Gas Town token price, which spiked on Jan 16 and collapsed days later

screenshot of the Gas Town token price, which spiked on Jan 16 and collapsed days later

lol, lmao, etc

2 months ago 120 14 9 16

Definitely calling this one the "sig-seven" vulnerability. 🫴 🫴

3 months ago 3 0 0 0

i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring

the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily

3 months ago 457 65 41 18

It’s good practice for when you encounter the occasional human.

3 months ago 3 0 1 0
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RSA test vector crowdsourcing instructions

Do you have an idle cluster? Can you spare a couple core-years?

Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases!

Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.

3 months ago 109 33 14 3

The reason the Eagles didn’t just fly the ring into Mordor is that Kevin Patullo was coordinating their offense

4 months ago 144 33 5 1
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Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."

“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

5 months ago 307 188 12 38

If you're coming into Atlanta for Kubecon next week and looking to explore outside the conference, reach out!

I'm nearby in East Atlanta and happy to recommend some local favorites and/or catch up over a meal or a beverage.

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Introducing ChatGPT Atlas Last year OpenAI hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher, which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline. Today it arrived. ChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser …

Wrote up my first impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's new browser - I remain unconvinced by the entire category of "browser agents", the security and privacy challenges still feel insurmountable to me simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/...

5 months ago 125 19 8 4

if the presence of hype makes you completely unable to think about reality independent of the hype, that is not resisting hype, it is surrendering to it totally

8 months ago 63 14 3 4

It's not you, cloudflare, npm, firebase, and google cloud are all having issues. If you are affected, go touch grass. There's nothing you can do about it.

10 months ago 235 49 9 15
Google Cloud Service Health

Lots of services in all regions now reporting impact due to an IAM issue:
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

Also seeing issues in us-central1

10 months ago 3 1 0 0
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status.cloud.google.com/regional/ame...

No incidents reported, yet...

10 months ago 2 0 2 0

Is the GCP console and us-east1 acting up?

10 months ago 3 1 2 0

I’ve been saying these tools help me “follow the dopamine” when starting large tasks or new projects.

LLMs have been huge to help me keep momentum and maximize time in deep work on the things that actually matter.

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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

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screencap of the scene in The Matrix where Cypher is talking to Neo alone, captioned: "Little piece of advice... You see an error, you do what we do: clone. You clone your ass off."

screencap of the scene in The Matrix where Cypher is talking to Neo alone, captioned: "Little piece of advice... You see an error, you do what we do: clone. You clone your ass off."

learning #rust from experienced devs

1 year ago 12 2 1 1
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Go Scheduler ↑ ↓

Found this tonight and it's a really solid read on the Go runtime. Definitely a long post but it's got a lot of useful info in it.

Learned a lot about things that I haven't really dug into before from it.

nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/g...

10 months ago 197 28 8 6
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Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community When a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…

This is *exactly* why the @cncf.io was created. A safe space for community and companies to come together with longitudinal guarantees of stability and fair ground rules.

There are no backsies. @synadia.bsky.social? @derekcollison.bsky.social? This is not ok.

www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04...

11 months ago 169 28 9 7

I’ve been using it at work with pretty great success. Self hosting on k8s or docker compose is pretty straightforward. Everything integrates pretty nicely, especially if you’re already using otel.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0