Stefan Lasiewski

I love Linux.

* Data storage: "flushing" typically means syncing in-memory data to permanent storage, like disk
* Data caching: "flushing" usually means clearing the cache
* Lunux Host Firewall (iptables, netfilter), "flushing" means deleting all the rules & exposing your host to the internet

A preview of some discussions during November conferences:

#KubeCon: I CAN’T BELIEVE PEOPLE STILL USE NFS!
#SC25 #Supercomputing: WOW! NFS is still AWESOME. Vast is THE BOMB! NFS Azure file shares works great!

Felt earthquake in Berkeley.

The sign is gone, but it's one of my historical favorites.

You'll be pleased to know that Tightwad Hill is just below Berkeley Lab & NERSC.

Thread from @gwensmith.com with photos

Thanks for confirming.

Note that fighter jets usually cannot be seen with Flightradar, but ADSB Exchange tends to show them. I'm not fluent enough in that world to know enough though.

And at least two of them.

Probably related to Cal game. Jet was dilly-dallying to the east and then did a pretty straight line near the Cal Stadium

Some sorta fighter jet flew over Berkeley. I didn't see what direction it went, but I think this might be it? Maybe 3 jets.

globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=~2b0c2f

Some SF BART stations has elevators with windows so you can watch the train depart as your elevator slowly moves up to the station level.

Every interaction with AI:
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Me: Hello AI Agent, what is my favorite color?
AI: Your favorite color is green
Me: No actually, my favorite color is blue
AI: Perfect! Please continue with blue. Green grass is lovely.
Me: What? No, I said blue.
AI: YOU ARE CORRECT. Thanks for pointing out my mistake

Just FYI for folks, the transbay tunnel is completely closed and ALL trans bay service has been canceled.

The whole train just emptied. I decided to ride down to bayfair station instead of San Francisco + ride my bike home.

San Francisco Bart tunnel is SHUT DOWN. No transbay service at all.

Berkeley cyclist here- use new Bancroft cycletrack weekly. Wrote to city about westbound light @ Bancroft/Shattuck not detecting bikes. City uses AI system called NoTraffic w/ these cameras & is working on bugs. Will be interesting when it works
🚴‍♀️ I believe these are the cameras.

notraffic.com

Sounds like one of the passengers fled, and there was a second car (a white BMW) that fled away down MLK.

Ironic: As I sat down to write this, I realized that I had pizza in the oven. 20 minutes ago I asked Google Home to set an alarm To check on the pizza. It didn't go off.

Google Home says: "I have no alarms." What are you talking about, crazy human.

5 minute later, the alarm goes off.

One oddity in the AI experience is the inconsistency in the experience. Gemini on my phone fails ~20% of the time, claiming it can't do something that is clearly within it's scope.

Today, I tried to set an alarm. Two tries, back to back, two different answers.

Ubuntu users like to make fun of the Blue Screen of Death in Windows. But hey, Ubuntu has it's own White Screen of Death.

I have two identical machines. One Windows 10 & other Ubuntu 24.04. Ubuntu crashes more

Linux on servers: Awesome- I run hundreds of them
Linux on desktop: Not quite as awesome

Missing the old #Berkeley Emergency Twitter. A scanner & some information sharing & we had some good insights.

First helicopter left, news helicopter from KTVU showed up.

Sure thing Andi! I do the same thing.

I'm not going to provide a play by play on this event. Just providing a post about "why are there helicopters over Berkeley".

Helicopters over Berkeley near Ohlone Park (Deleware/Hearst & MLK)

Police chase, medical emergency, several suspects running.

FYI @berkeleyscanner.com

TOML == ye*T* an*O*ther Markup Language

Using OpenSSH for open ssh

I like to say "but my name *is* an encryption key"