and by "just" I mean January and I only noticed today; I'll see if I can hit the 520MB limit on my machine this evening

the exceptional bbraun has just released a new fix for large memory crashes on macs with djmemc memory controllers (like my centris 650) www.synack.net/~bbraun/djme...

just noticed the french guy on an adjacent team at work (retired now) added a uboot command to play claire de lune

obviously doesn't matter, but why do we use one over the other?

saw something and did an idle github search:

"rm -rf" 10.6M results
"rm -fr" 0.4M results

Scanned hand-drawn diagram of the eWorld starting screen: "WELCOME SCREEN (1)" "TOP" FIRST!! WELCOME SCREEN" "SEPT 25 '93" A sketch of a Mac window with stylized little buildings, labelled like "Mail Center", "Library", "Entertainment Hall"

the designer (Cleo Huggins) of Apple's 1994 eWorld has a neat page with design docs and proposals about it cleohuggins.com/eworld/

very amusing that ubuntu's connectivity check web server is down

"what is this, just some random IBM blade?"

no, it's a QS20, which has dual Cell processors, yes those Cell processors

a real freak could set up a single BladeCenter system with blades containing Cell, Power7, Sparc T2, and Intel/AMD processors

weird computer on ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/12743737...

haven't bought a weird computer in 8 months and I'm jonesing real bad over some sun netras

a zip tie wrapped around a corner such that the triangle shape is squished a bit to hold a steel weight wedged in place

spotted a cute trick to wedge a weight in place with a little cushioning

a quick post about my feelings (on AI and my personal projects) www.cy384.com/blog/an-ai-u...

updated some stuff on my site, including the limoncello speedrun and a quick post about my Power9 server www.cy384.com/blog/power9....

not going to make a stink about it, but seeing claude do a commit replacing the project name inspired a lot of feelings

frustrating canyon between "selling 50 arduino boards in blissful ignorance" and "have your electrical engineering team contact us with your compliance needs for a quote"

not really a big deal but

A) I want to know how because I have some hardware projects it would be neat to sell

B) selling an uncertified mains powered device with radio comms for normal consumers? I thought the FCC had SWAT teams for this kind of stuff

"the incredible journey of how I crowdfunded and manufactured my first HW product!"

oh neat, how did you handle FCC/CE/UL testing?

"*conspicuous silence*"

many such cases

linux has USB/IP to share usb devices over the network, will we see a generic open source PCIe over IP soon?

GitHub - cakehonolulu/pciem: A Linux framework to enable userspace-defined "Virtual" PCIe card shims to enable in-host PCIe card driver development. A Linux framework to enable userspace-defined "Virtual" PCIe card shims to enable in-host PCIe card driver development. - cakehonolulu/pciem

neat project for linux to emulate pcie devices in userspace github.com/cakehonolulu...

my dumb conspiracy theory is that only one company (synopsys) designs every single pcie thing that exists and they require the NDAs

I think about this comic regularly bsky.app/profile/wint...

an edit of the XKCD comic "Dependency", originally about how open source is critical but undersupported, now edited to show cloudflare as an octopus reaching into every layer

saw a bad edit of the xkcd comic about cloudflare and got mad about it, made my own

you invited the mitm octopus into your house!

there are very few models that seem likely to me, the 43P-150 is probably the most common one worth trying

drop in a suitable Mac PCI graphics card and maybe???

extremely (extremely!) tempted to buy one of the IBM CHRP machines just to try running these CDs

you could make a hardware virtual nvme over nvmeof device in a u.2 form factor if you wanted to

a surprising number of ARM chips like the RK3588 support PCIe endpoint mode

please excuse me for one curmudgeon vaguepost: if you don't hotplug it into a backplane that provides (at least) power and networking, it's not a blade, even if you make a custom enclosure a bunch of them fit in

Photo of two ethernet ports, top is labelled "BITS OUT", bottom is labelled "BITS IN"

BITS OUT / BITS IN

spotted on an OSA 5410