Posts by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
(DIR) Post #AoRAkx5RoIuq2bif2m by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-11-25T22:06:08Z
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🐚 TCSH, a shell for Fortune & Glory 🐚Relevant blog post @ OpenSource.com> "Why I still love tcsh after all these years. Bash may be more popular, but tcsh has advantages that make it more appealing..."- https://opensource.com/article/20/8/tcshHow about dot-files for my tcsh config, sure...- https://codeberg.org/winterschon/dot-files/src/branch/main/.tcshrc#freebsd #linux #sysadmin #engineering #terminal #shells #bash #tcsh #csh #modernSolutionsForModernProblems
(DIR) Post #AqTKenEDcHdIyWKeUy by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-26T11:10:01Z
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@twylo correct, the Cloud Generation seems to have forgotten their computing history or is too young to have experienced virtual machines on an IBM mainframe or even heard of OpenVMS at all. "oh looky containers, they're so new and Ubuntuy! btw I use arch and everything is new to me and therefore the most bestest ever memememe!" 😬 Yes, I'm old and get off my lawn. 😊
(DIR) Post #AqeAvbzJnbfWEZIqBc by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-29T02:23:24Z
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🎁 Happy New Juniper Switch Day 🎁tl;dr it's a Juniper EX4300-MP, with 24x 1G + 24x 1/2.5/5/10G + 4x 40G for redundant stacking, and quite a hefty PoE stat.the new homelab network needed a new switch. I've had my eyes on this specific sku for about two years now, so when a corporate decom hit the secondary market with twenty or so units I was ready with an offer 15% lower than asking. I'd love to have a few more than one, but having one at all is pretty great #homelab #juniper #networking #freebsd #switch #neteng
(DIR) Post #AqeAvdpSxCyZwai06i by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-29T03:32:01Z
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@emory most of my homelab hardware is from eBay. lots of good sellers, some that have been in business since my first homelab build back in college (turn of the millennium). this particular switch typically goes for $800-1400, which is on the high side for my network gear, second only to a pair of 32 port 100G Arista switches (DCS-7060CX-32S), which are running the majority of my networks in the colo racks. But I've also acquired plenty of different specs over the years, lots of managed 1G and 10G, various DIN rail industrial switches, even some super old ones from the 90s to satiate my interests in 20th century Big Iron.I can recommend some options if you have a budget and base specs in mind.
(DIR) Post #AqeAvf7w81LRyAMGXI by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-30T23:38:12Z
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@emory ooh the one I've been looking for is now available ... these are wonderful switches. full L2/L3 capability and also 10GBASE-T (so no SFP+ to RJ45 adapters needed) plus some 40G uplinks (or can deploy them as 4x10G breakouts).- Arista DCS-7050TX-64-R 48x RJ45 1/10GBASE-T 4x QSFP+- https://www.ebay.com/itm/324980278268- $226 and free shipping
(DIR) Post #AqeAvgky4OA11Vcx0q by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-31T10:17:54Z
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@emory happy to help! On the short list of things I've been good at since the dot-com bubble, it's always been my ability to "find good deals" on enterprise server/networking hardware on ebay. sometimes it's a gift, sometimes a compulsion, sometimes an emotional salve and outlet, but most of the time it's just fun!Also worth noting that my career would not be what it has been without the many homelabs I've build over those years, the industry people I've met through doing so, and the learning opportunities there-in provided. Love eBay!
(DIR) Post #AqgCvukUdQpQe0Yo1A by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-02-01T16:03:00Z
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💻 HomeLab Chanukah 💻Ok not really, but every HomeLab hardware weekend feels like a wonderful gift! 🎁 Today I'll be setting up a new 25U rack, and then mostly recuperating. I'm also working on the FreeBSD port of this OSS KVM: https://www.crowdsupply.com/techxartisan/openterface-mini-kvm .. couple of Qt6 bugs with serial usb handling but otherwise can get video just fine. It arrived yesterday, so of course the first thing to do is de-pack the Debian package and start reviewing repo source. Love it.Disregard the boxes and living room clutter in these photos, we're still unpacking from the move. #homelab #linux #freebsd #kvm #saturday
(DIR) Post #ArBSoDUTfIaq0ldQn2 by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-02-14T11:26:53Z
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I don't enjoy having to be so fundamentally at odds with the ways in which Apple has so thoroughly ruined OSX over the years, puking out the Nanny State hand-holding anti-superuser abomination which now goes by MacOS. Every single minute of my life spent using a MacOS system is an additional minute of displeasure, dejection, and de-productive (negative productivity, inhibitory), and gross inefficiency for which I really don't have any buffer of patience or space-time lifespan to dedicate. It's only at present occurring due to external "policy requirements", because the far worse alternative is windows.. just pull the cord already.
(DIR) Post #AtLj7cDUWs5WJn2UUa by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-04-22T11:28:26Z
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🌇 Guten Morgen Chicago 🌇Another beautiful sunrise from the shores of Lake Michigan, which seems more like one of the Great Inland Seas. Every morning, watching these sunrises the likes of which I've not seen since childhood on the Eastern Seaboard, feels like being at the Atlantic ocean.How about some science curiosity...> During the middle Pleistocene era, the area now submerged under the Great Lakes had been a lowland river system. As glaciers advanced and retreated they carved these areas into the Great Lakes and filled them as they melted.> The preservation of fossils in Michigan resumed when the last glaciers withdrew from the state. Between 17,000 and 13,000 years ago, much of Michigan's icy covering had disappeared. > After the glaciers melted much of the state was covered in large lakes made of glacial meltwater. By 10,000 years ago many of these lakes had dried. Forests of spruce and fir grew on the newly exposed terrain.> - The Pleistocene (plaɪstəˌsiːn), referred to colloquially as the Ice Age, is the geological epoch that lasted from c. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. >> - The Cenozoic Era (siːnəˈzoʊ.ɪk, lit. 'new life') is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66 million years of Earth's history. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology_in_Michigan- https://legacy.igws.indiana.edu/FossilsAndTime/LakeMichigan#chicago #sunrise #morning #photography #paleontology #lakeMichigan
(DIR) Post #Atzcu4dvjZrzFB9cwK by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-05-11T02:50:03Z
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👋🏻 hello cuda friends 👋🏻a relaxing Saturday today, a bit of home office reorganization, a few more Turing architecture Nvidia GPUs. overall a nice day to add an additional 48GB of vRAM and 11,776 CUDA cores to one of the dev clusters. tomorrow will be installation, some validation tests, and finishing a quick blog post with more details.- Tesla T40 24GB: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/tesla-t40-24-gb.c3942- Tesla T10 16GB: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/tesla-t10-16-gb.c4036#engineering #nvidia #gpu #ai #machinelearning #linux #servers
(DIR) Post #Au0zLiqQlXRztZYAaW by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-05-12T03:10:49Z
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💾 Data Processing Existentialism 💾there's a certain feeling which occurs, when calmly scripting an EXIF metadata analysis function, and a sanity-test loop returns an array with one photo's 'date_created' field set all the way back in 2016, and you suddenly think...holy fuckin hell it's been nearly a decade?! nine years and nine pounds, no more straightening my hair, no more size four, but that's life. getting older is never anything new, and I felt similarly the prior decade before. all throughout there's rarely been a dull moment, but nine years ago was just before the neuro-endocrine functions changed, before Tokyo, Fiji, Costa Rica, Victoria, and so very many places in-between.I shared an introduction on social media, twitter and mastodon a few months apart in 2022, discussing whether I'd make it to this year, whether my diagnosis would find resolve. I really didn't know how any of it would turn out, didn't live with expectations or engage with hope; and so this year when treatment finally completed — after all of the trials and scans and tests — it's done. finally, finally done.I don't have to worry about those things anymore, which is a beautiful thing, and an entirely new spectrum of emotion that's impossible to convey. now life can return to normal, however that's defined going forward. 💝
(DIR) Post #Au5Qx52IhDOSpWyotc by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-05-14T12:55:46Z
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💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/14/mozilla-thunderbird-the-failure-of.htmlThunderbird, wtf are you doing where you need 83% CPU plus ~50GB (virt) and 20G (res) of RAM allocated? You’re an email client. You handle IMAP. This has become absurd, the slow death of a once great product.
(DIR) Post #AuVq69B3MBpZzUugAi by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-05-27T01:40:05Z
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less than two weeks to go until another relocation, another return. this time I'll have been gone for 366 days. It's been an interesting interlude, one of many extended adventures away from California. nationally or internationally, try as I might, over all of those decades somehow life just keeps pulling me back. perhaps one of these years I'll just stick around.
(DIR) Post #AujBxz4fE0WENH6Pbc by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-01T13:08:45Z
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Women's Safety Online: Why I'm No Longer on LinkedIn or Twitter: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/29/womens-safety-online-why-im.htmlThe 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 or Twitter social networks for reasons of personal safety and privacy.
(DIR) Post #Auo97SlkrQIN0Qsyp6 by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-05T02:42:55Z
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@emory Tailscale is terrible. This one sounds similar to ZeroTier, except that it only runs its gateways on linux and is therefore inferior, and the pricing is a rip off. Plus, no full tunnel routing on the free version is predatory to the cost model.
(DIR) Post #AvCDJVM1X8cFvabstU by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-16T15:00:52Z
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CVE-2025-5689 😂🙃Fire up your "anyone we don't know gets root!" account SSH sessions to gain unmitigated control over Ubuntu systems running "Systemd AuthD"Clown shoes over there, ffs how is this even a real CVE 🤦🏼♀️- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5689- https://github.com/ubuntu/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-g8qw-mgjx-rwjr#systemd #uhuhuhubuntu #ubuntu #infosec #cve #noreally #linux #authd
(DIR) Post #AvKMDRwNlXF0SIU2Fc by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-20T16:29:59Z
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Wanted: OSS life apps, subscription or self-hosted all good 💯 opinions are requested 💝- Prefer group of OSS apps, but "Best in Class" list also good - Requires cross-platform via either web-based, but ideally Android and Linux/BSD native apps - Prefer not using NextCloud (due to PHP) but open to compromising if necessary - Terminal access / TUI also yes wonderful - Examples: reminders, notes, caldav, webdav, docs, etcTired of google services, tired of mozilla products, can't do apple anymore, burnt out on enshittification.#oss #foss #development #linux #freebsd
(DIR) Post #Ax9WnRGZIULWGfIdKC by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-08-13T23:46:42Z
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🚯 No More Markdown 🚯Well, it's certainly not going away any time soon, but it doesn't have to be the default. While it's easily a majority of the docs formats that I have to use, it's not my favorite. Perhaps in an ideal world it would be AsciiDoc or LaTeX _All The Time_, but we don't live in that world, oh well 💋 In the interim, here's someone who wrote about the topic which seems worth sharing. Interesting points, ja?- Why You Shouldn’t Use “Markdown” for Documentation: https://ericholscher.com/blog/2016/mar/15/dont-use-markdown-for-technical-docs/#engineering #software #oss #foss #markdown #documentation
(DIR) Post #AxX3TblSJyyA9tydEG by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-08-25T14:58:42Z
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monday morning starts off with the sentiment, "at least it feels better than yesterday", a subjective statement when there's a fever involved and still no vocal cord control. I don't want another day of bed rest, very tired of bed, tired of downtime. stupid covid.#covid #healthcare #medical #nimbus
(DIR) Post #AxbY5iZxCxFxYSWcAy by winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-08-27T01:33:55Z
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@bkuhn @bkuhn I mostly agree, however I've used Codeberg for a long enough time to have four teams, several hundred repos... and Codeberg has been having service delivery issues well before the current Ai situation. they've been hacked, their infra does not always work as intended seemingly at random (not ddos).. access gets messes up, internal wikis fail to load their cache, etc. I have no intention of leaving Codeberg, but they need to take some serious responsibility here, lest thousands of users get another email message full of racist blather from hackers. Guess who they blamed? those nebulous far-right hackers — fast forward to August and now it's big bad ai. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025393Please everyone, scraping bots have been around since the 1990s, they are not new, and the Ai corps aren't doing anything different from early years of Google or Yahoo or homegrown scraping-spiders that I used to build for similar reasons. We have clearly entered into the era of, "just blame all C-Suite failures and negligent engineering on... Ai? yeah, scapegoat Ai, that will solve everything." 🥱