Circuit Rewind

ARM virtualization has been fun to play with. I was an early adopter into that ecosystem and ported open-vm-tools over to Aarch64. I still have my 16-core server here at home running the ESXi ARM Fling :)

I've been working on a GPS based Stratum-1 network time server lately.

WALP, why not add the GPS satellites and status itself to my monitoring dashboards !?

Still gotta add the PPS info here, and probably some jitter calculations too, so I can evaluates time-health-over-time.

TIME IS HARD, OKAY!?

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Anyone in Eugene want a warehouse full of old PCs?
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Dunno if you all know this or not...

But you can just like... Buy... Unfinished wafers? On places like eBay? They just exist?

No functionality at all in this state other being really freaggin cool wall artwork!

One of the neat things built into FreeBSD by default is the package repository auditing.

You can simply run "pkg audit" to see which installed package versions have known vulnerabilities.

I plugged this info into my CheckMK monitoring dashboard last night, and now its working great!

Finally got it!

Been trying to find a copy of Jasc Software Paint Shop Pro 5 for years, and just found this randomly a few days ago on eBay.

Ive been using this software for over 25 years and still use it to this day, so might as well have a boxed copy too!

Hey, so uhhh...

Anyone need to run some LLMs!? According to Task Manager, FireFox is using over 1TB GPU memory.

I can run some pretty damn slick AI training models with that much VRAM!

testing

I'm just gonna come out and say it, again.

Users are more important that developers.

Developers gotta drop their ego shit sometimes, and realize that yes, indeed, they do make architectural mistakes that make user's life's worse.

Being stubborn about it solves nothing.

We are excited to announce that we have not one, but two Seattle Community MeetUps next month.

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me, using a ATMega as a shift register ....

Fixed that for you ;)

Some notes:

Holycrap, ZFS doing 9:1 compression on disk cache in RAM!?

Also, look how absolutely freaggin clean that process list is. Fits on a small screen, and its very obvious what every single one is there for and doing.

Been working on "yet another project"

Turning a Raspberry Pi into a Stratum-1 time server.

BUT, doing it with FreeBSD instead of Linux!

Not only that, but using ZFS as the root file system.

And using pkgbase for the operating system files themselves.

Its all working as of last night!

I was thinking the same thing. Styles are WAY too similar, and why I shared lol

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Are you sure it wasn't the CD-i !?

I live in the #FreeBSD community a lot

I commit a LOT of one-liner readme changes in projects that simply add FreeBSD next to Windows/Linux/MacOS as a supported platform.

Why shouldn't it be listed? It works!

Documentation is important :)

It may not always feel like it from the inside with prior knowledge, but from the outside, little tidbits of documentation can save hours of frustration relearning simple lessons.

I've also added (usually removed, actually) a line of code in a TON of projects to enable compiling/running on ARM/Aarch64.

Simple yet super valuable and productive edits! :D

I added a one-liner to a "game engine" (ya, let's just call it that LMAO)

It added support for AMD Hybrid Graphics to use the dGPU instead if iGPU on laptops w/ both.

As you can imagine, MASSIVE performance increase.

But its still just a one-liner. ;)

A contribution is a contribution.

That's totally awesome :D

-shrug- maybe i'm biased :P

Capacitor sizes sure have changed in 45 years!

LOLOLOLOLOLOL Thanks for sharing! :D

How many times has this pic gone viral now!?

LOLOLOLOLOLOL Thanks for sharing! :D

How many times has this pic gone viral now!?

Oh hey @circuitrewind.com look what’s going around again hehhe

Hi, yes, it me, Vince. I took that photo LMFAO. Always fun to see it go viral again and again every few years :D