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🧠 Awakening Again to the Dream 🧠In a continuation of the daily amalgam, the "surprise, this is reality, really-really it...

🧠 Awakening Again to the Dream 🧠

In a continuation of the daily amalgam, the "surprise, this is reality, really-really it is!", another substantial change of pace and place has arrived in due-time.

Returning to California, after one year and two states in-between, could only be induced by accepting an offer from Cerebras Systems - the supercomputing company.

The role is quite nice, as I'll be the first hired "Storage Architect, SMTS", focused on research and design of integrated solutions for Ai/HPC Cluster Infrastructure. Super fun stuff! It's really quite a dream job, and I'm very excited about all of it - more so than any other job I've had in the past twenty five years.

Perhaps not widely known outside of the sector, Cerebras powers research at CERN, Los Alamos, Sandia, Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, DoE, Mayo Clinic, AstraZenica, GSK, Nference, Aleph Alpha, and many others.

More on the science aspects here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebras#Deployments

🌞 Today, Hello Again 🌞Today is one of those mornings, a patterned type which embodies the beginning of the end-stage in structured...

🌞 Today, Hello Again 🌞

Today is one of those mornings, a patterned type which embodies the beginning of the end-stage in structured goal setting and achievement.

All of the thrust and velocity keeping everything together for so many months is finally being allowed to a rest.

Resting is never easy here, it's the most foreign state of being, and maybe that's because it reminds me of being in the coma. There are simply too many wonderful ways to spend time, projects to focus on, concepts to explore.

Perhaps several days of this reduced state and then I'm back at it again.. Getting everything ready for the move.

Hilariously, but not in the funny way, during that time period of resource load it turns out that not only was Thunderbird functioning...

Hilariously, but not in the funny way, during that time period of resource load it turns out that not only was Thunderbird functioning poorly, it was also DOS'ing (not distributed) the email service provider's connection pool, which caused them to port+IP block my CGNAT address. 😶

💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻:...

💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/14/mozilla-thunderbird-the-failure-of.html

Thunderbird, 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.

4am Dev Box - GPU & RDMA Hardware Shuffle: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/13/am-dev-box-gpu-rdma.html

4am Dev Box - GPU & RDMA Hardware Shuffle: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/13/am-dev-box-gpu-rdma.html

Well, the GPU is dead. Goodbye Radeon Pro W7500. Tired of debugging poorly made hardware this year.

Well, the GPU is dead. Goodbye Radeon Pro W7500. Tired of debugging poorly made hardware this year.

🌇 A New and Beautiful Monday 🌇1. Wake up at 5:042. Stretch and stumble3. Prepare coffee and 4. Obtain photo of sunrise5. Load...

🌇 A New and Beautiful Monday 🌇

1. Wake up at 5:04
2. Stretch and stumble
3. Prepare coffee and
4. Obtain photo of sunrise
5. Load playlist, fast-forward
6. Screenshot playlist and photo

Track: Ozora Stage, 2024
Artist: Sonic Species
Playlist: Resting the SubConscious

Streaming: https://soundcloud.com/ozora-festival/sonic-species-ozora-2024-ozora-stage
Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/winterschon/sets/resting-the-subconscious?si=c24fdaad7e7448d19145f76d51610e3d

#psytrance #morning #monday #music #streaming #trance #chemlab #coffee #SumIsMoreThanTheConstituentParts

💾 Data Processing Existentialism 💾there's a certain feeling which occurs, when calmly scripting an EXIF metadata analysis...

💾 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. 💝

The non-Controversial Controversy of BTRFS: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/11/the-noncontroversial-controversy-of-btrfs.htmlSome...

The non-Controversial Controversy of BTRFS: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/11/the-noncontroversial-controversy-of-btrfs.html

Some clarifications on some points here about the history of BTRFS as it relates to Oracle, Sun Microsystems, RedHat, ZFS, and a DARPA funded filesystem research project which concluded with a ghastly murder.

👋🏻 hello cuda friends 👋🏻a relaxing Saturday today, a bit of home office reorganization, a few more Turing architecture Nvidia...

👋🏻 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

🌇 Guten Morgen aus Chicago 🌇 Nach Osten der Sonne entgegendie Ufer des Michiganseesgrüßen den Morgen#goodmorning #sunrise...

🌇 Guten Morgen aus Chicago 🌇

Nach Osten der Sonne entgegen
die Ufer des Michigansees
grüßen den Morgen

#goodmorning #sunrise #photography #saturday #morning #chicago

If anyone asks, just remember that there's no shame in knowing the technical requirements that determine the use of 6-micron or...

If anyone asks, just remember that there's no shame in knowing the technical requirements that determine the use of 6-micron or 50-micron keystone jack couplers, and whether to source cat6a shielded poe++ patch panel deployments with color-coded port/cable requirements.

Because, when you overhear someone say, "fuck it, they're all going to be UTP 50mic and if there's cross-talk then the next asshole can deal with it." ... that's when you know you've not found a new friend.

#networking #homelab

This past weekend... "I need to swap NICs and change L2, re-logic the L3, clean up the patch panels, install PoE++, etc......

This past weekend... "I need to swap NICs and change L2, re-logic the L3, clean up the patch panels, install PoE++, etc... shouldn't take long."

Three days later, mostly done.. no. Everything else got in the way, hastily cabled basic bare minimum in-place. Maybe I'll finish it up on Saturday.

#homelab #freebsd #linux #networking

@dexter well this is nice to see again, home sweet home in the Talos II bootloader - with a FreeBSD ISO installer ...Left: OpenBMC interface...

@dexter well this is nice to see again, home sweet home in the Talos II bootloader - with a FreeBSD ISO installer ...

Left: OpenBMC interface w/ iKVM
Right: standard term via SSH to BMC and "obmc-console-client"

14.2 is installing now, no surprises. tomorrow, more fun!

#freebsd #talos #openbmc #power #openpower #ibm

💻 HomeLab & Mikrotik RB5009 💻Do you really need the missing serial console for remote out-of-band managemnt, like most of their...

💻 HomeLab & Mikrotik RB5009 💻

Do you really need the missing serial console for remote out-of-band managemnt, like most of their devices?

Well, I had one and then returned it for that reason. I've been considering it again, but not without the serial connection... so a little digging around and I found some PCB images and quick info on the OpenWRT site.

Then decided to add those bits to a fork for personal tracking... for those interested in the PCB photos and quick-doc:

- https://github.com/em-winterschon/openwrt-rb5009/pull/1/files

Clearly still a WIP, and would need to re-purchase the device to test it out... so perhaps in the next few months that will happen.

Some light discussion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/add-support-for-mikrotik-rb5009ug/104391/3

#mikrotik #networking #homelab #soldering #serial #linux

💾 Vintage Obsession 💾I've been in love with this one for months, years, decades. Perhaps one day, when the moons align, I'll...

💾 Vintage Obsession 💾

I've been in love with this one for months, years, decades. Perhaps one day, when the moons align, I'll grab four Pentium Pro "Black Edition" CPUs and as much RAM as its mezzanine cards can handle, and ... well, you know how the rest of the vintage hardware story goes. Beautiful. The only concern is, "wtf is it doing on the EMI static-charged carpet for the photos?"

#vintagecomputing #pentiumpro #pentium #eisa #hardware #oldtech #servers #ebay

on being reminded that we're one day away from May, what happened to April?! the data implications... the transfers will surely not...

on being reminded that we're one day away from May, what happened to April?!

the data implications... the transfers will surely not finish in time... still ~20TB on a zfs-send to Zurich still remaining...

another morning begins with a nap

another morning begins with a nap

💾 Updates on Remote Access to POWER9 💾: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/04/24/updates-on-remote-access-to.html

💾 Updates on Remote Access to POWER9 💾: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/04/24/updates-on-remote-access-to.html

🌠 Andor Season Two 🌠Cassian Andor continues leading the rebel fray, blasting into immediate action and full of inspiration. Despite...

🌠 Andor Season Two 🌠

Cassian Andor continues leading the rebel fray, blasting into immediate action and full of inspiration. Despite carrying the weight of his "questionable actions", as some opinions express, he's the leader we needed; even if Director Krennic's ultimate goal may be morally correct in the short term.

Now in the middle of hour one of twelve... it's going to be a fun month of weekly shows! 🌟

#starwars #andor #andorseason2 #scifi #streaming #disney #dateNight #dinnerMovie