Aaron A. Glenn @aag@bsd.network

I am incredibly serious when I say the most radical thing you can do right now is start building systems of care outside of capitalism and this is a really good start.

What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n

We have ASML at home. https://asmlstore.com/products/twinscan-exe-5000-lego-set

Every so often, someone in a retrocomputing chat will mention DB-9 only to be corrected that it is DE-9. In the ensuing discussion about shell sizes, I like to drop in this image. Never fails to get a reaction

#retrocomputing

thesis: numbers stations are a form of microblogging

Just realized: the campaign ends Sunday at 8PM EDT (or 00:00 UTC), so this is the last weekday Run Your Own Mail Server will be live.

Those of you who browse Kickstarter at your office job--when you come back Monday, the campaign will be over. Today is your last chance to get six Unixy books for $15!

I *hope* you browse Kickstarter and whatnot at work. I mean, it's not like you're paid enough to put up with all that crap.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server #ryoms #sysadmin #kickstarter #projectwelove

Please boost for reach: Open source project seeking technical writing contributors.

Ngscopeclient (https://www.ngscopeclient.org/) is looking for people to assist with end user documentation and, in the future, possibly developer oriented API documentation as well.

We welcome help from any interested parties, but are particularly hoping to find some familiar with electronics/embedded systems given the nature of the project. Documentation is LaTeX in Git.

As an open source project we have limited budget (at least until some of the in-progress products from companies using our software launch and start bringing in donations) so are hoping to find volunteer contributors, but I'm willing to throw some of my own funds into the pot if necessary. I can't afford to pay for a lot of hours at industry consulting rates but if you're willing to offer discounts for F/OSS then I'll try and work something out.

Oxide- efficiency you can hear! It's unreal how much quieter 32 Oxide sleds are vs just two commodity servers. All that noise is your power and cooling budget being burned up by tiny, screaming fans in inefficient legacy servers, let us show you a better way!

ur gonna do great today, u got this

Video recording of last nights presentation "A Brief Architectural History of Telephone Exchange Buildings" by Lisa Kinch has just been published by @telecomheritage at https://vimeo.com/922814546/20faf58338 #retronetworking #telephone #architecture

If you are following the README at the #OpenBSD port of #Nextcloud you should get an 'A+' here: https://scan.nextcloud.com/

Make me proud.

FPGA, anyone? @aag send help :)

We might be able to do an official #alpinelinux #riscv64 stable release if someone donates one or two of this machine:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/milk-v/milk-v-pioneer

hello fediverse, I bring you tidings of hot takes and shade

my new essay discusses why cybersecurity isn’t special (nor should it be): https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/cybersecurity-isnt-special/

I debunk the myths around #cybersecurity having unique concerns, explain why there’s more in common with #SRE and #PlatformEngineering than we think, and describe 8 opportunities for us to make our software security programs constructive vs. constrictive.

tl;dr #resilience ye merry gentlemortals, let nothing you delay

It's RetroNetCall time again: Join us at 20:00 CET tomorrow (December 6th, 2023) to chat about #retronetworking technologies and get a tour of "divf", the central office of the OCTOI network based on yate + dahdi-trunkdev https://osmocom.org/news/235