Mark Brookfield

As bad as British Airways are, at least their check-in works.

Unlike American. Embarrassing.

Nearly 2am. I'm creating images in ChatGPT and seeing how easy it is to foil AI detectors.

I need healthier sleep patterns.

I've just fixed an issue in the lab that has bugged me for twelve months.

I am in equal parts elated and narked at the ease at which I solved it.

I could have sworn I've seen this season of Jack Ryan before... #Venezuela

I refuse to do diagrams in PowerPoint.

It's Visio, OmniGraffle or GTFO.

I just changed my ChatGPT trait to a brutally honest and challenging one, and now I need to go sit in a dark room and cry.

T-1000s are on their way. I know it.

Let's get off on the right foot, shall we @anthropic.com? 😂

Clearly, four months ago, the lab was pi**ing me off 😂

ChatGPT’s a proper flirt 😍

YouTube video by VMware Cloud Foundation VCF - A Modern Private Cloud

"I'll just catch-up on some VCF stuffs".

Opens YouTube link. Hears wife's voice 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvts...

Why is a bottle of Macallan 12 in North Carolina the equivalent of £61, but in Scotland, WHERE THEY MAKE IT, is £84!!

Make it make sense :-O

100 bucks to reserve a seat on American Airlines.

And I thought British Airways were thieving tykes. Lordy.

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This saddens him

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$AVGO

Channel 4 is essentially free, so charging a little on top for "no ads" makes sense.

But charging twice? Bollocks.

So I gotta pay for Amazon Prime Video, and then have to pay for ads on top of that?

Are you on crack?

This morning's job is wrestling with partitions on Aria Suite Lifecycle :-(

Interesting article on El Reg with Yves Sandfort about #VMware, but I'll sum up the comments section for you:

"He drank the koolaid"
"I know lots of customers who are leaving"
"I've been tasked with getting off VMware"
"Licensing is up 1,000,000%"

😂😂😂
forums.theregister.com/forum/all/20...

I'm seriously missing @VMware Explore this year. The announcements, the tech, the people.

It's clearly still number 1 in its field, and despite all the negative talk... it will continue to be so for quite some time.

LinkedIn somehow knows I'm watching #F1...

30 seconds of #YouTube ads before you can see a video is INSANE.

I appreciate they want subscriptions but that is a tad much.

My PostgreSQL in Kubernetes is still running like an absolute Beast 🔥

And when I say "Kubernetes", I mean the leading Private Cloud distribution, VKS 😉

#kubernetes #k8s #vks #vmware #broadcom #homelab #IsItReallyAHomelabThough

NetBSD 11 prepares for launch with 57 supported platforms : New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one

25 years later and I've still got three Cobalt Qube 2s running NetBSD. A 200MHz processor and 256Mb of RAM. These things will survive the apocalypse with ease.

Can't wait to upgrade to 11!

www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/n...

RIP Dame Stella Rimmington. The real-life inspiration for "M" and a talented woman who rose above in a man's World.

Thank you for your service.

I just saw the price of an NVIDIA H100 GPU.... and now I need to lie down 😳

1am on Monday morning and I'm compiling fresh packages manually using pkgsrc for a new NetBSD 10.1 host.

I need to spend some time on this and bring VCF Automation and a pipeline tool into the mix to automate this. This ain't 2004.

airBaltic.
Superfast broadband courtesy of #Starlink.
For free.

Legacy carriers... get your sh** together.

Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins : Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away

So everyone who trash-talked VMware/Broadcom... do you want your humble pie on a plate or in a bowl?

"It's too soon!!! I know 300 gazillion customers migrating away to <insert competitor here> whaaaaaa"

Cool story bro. www.theregister.com/2025/06/06/b...

Hurtling towards Warsaw and using the time to catch-up from an expert ;-)

#vcf #vmware #vks #lubernetes #k8s

I have a bit of time on my hands, so I’m off to Tallinn, Estonia.

From London. By train.

But first, a little afternoon tea at Raffles.