Public service announcement. It’s not called “ClawTail” (Yet)

Our good friend /usr/bin/kat is doing the big lift. 👇

File this one under “Alston Christmas” and way too many weird things this here ex pat Brit has seen over the last two decades plus. Boston. You will have questions.

Just finished another round of clean up. Yesterday, the snow was higher than the blower. So glad we have electric, torque matters folks. Freddy went through it like butter. 🧈 🤣

Can we build and ship an entire operating system that is just systemd yet? Asking for a friend… #hpc #cloud #ai

This. Is forbidden unix. 🤣 (/cc @bmann.ca • @jay.bsky.team)

Ice cream is served!

Confession time. I’ve been using a PlayStation2 SCPH-10240 wired USB keyboard as my main daily driver for YEARS, it’s epic ❤️ I need a replacement, what’s the skinny on anything that’s anywhere near as good as this here absolute legend? /cc @usrbinkat.io @kelseyhightower.com @jeffgeerling.com

More absolute ridiculousness. Follow James, (not this one) for more details. #ai #hpc #cloud #pricegouging

For @lproven.bsky.social there are so many stories here. None are fun to write…

The challenge the folks at Freedom Box have is the exact same challenge that any one who has ever run a home lab encounters... It all gets way to wicked complicated, way to wicked fast. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Slides below 👇 🤣

Winter in Massachusetts… Inside. Outside.

We took a trip on the train out to the big city today to see Mr Winslow Homer, and Mr John Copley. A little 🧵 of some snaps I took with @micheleclamp.com 👇 #painting #museum #art

Scientific proof that the fastest route from Shrewsbury Massachusetts, to Shrewsbury Massachusetts is always via Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. For @bielleogy.bsky.social

When I’m not tinkering with unnatural acts of HPC, I dabble in the kind of cross over sound system meets shipping fiasco (channeling @alex.zenla.io) Feel free to read the whole thread, it’s a doozey — also if anyone has any ideas we would appreciate it! github.com/owntone/ownt...

If anyone has Thunderbolt 5 on OSX I'd be interested to see what you see with this simple back to back two node setup. For me I was moderately happy with what I got out of a TB4 wire. It's a bit like 2013 Infiniband for seventy bucks hehe. #hpc github.com/DrCuff/hpc/b...

This is wicked cool and useful. I’m up to my eyeballs trying to convince spack to carry out an unnatural acts with alpine and musl. Caught in a system gmake definitely exists, but packages.yaml showdown which isn’t helped with an unrelated buggy gmake getenv() stdlib.h issue. Fun and games 🤣 #hpc

Neat new little SLURM plug-in is this from the folks over at @rackslab.io github.com/rackslab/slu... #hpc #ai #cloud

Wicked psyched to see that #garmin expects we can (only if we live our best life, hashtag blessed, hashtag life goals, hashtag crushing it! etc) now get to live to over 300 years old! Way to go! #running #crushingit #hahahah #lifegoals 🤣

How the @forbiddenunix.com does the eBay. 🤣

Sure there is stress in life, but nothing is more stressful than watching an attempt to pull off The Full Puff, when there’s only enough time for the rough puff. (Can’t watch!!) #baking #soggybottoms

I’m shall be mostly live skeeting chapters of my “origin book” over the next year. Thanks John! I am inside you.

The nog bottle is drained, and the sausage rolls are no longer with us. We thank them both for their service.

Make a Bond movie academic Dr. No: An In-depth Longitudinal Study of Latent Success Criteria from a Cohort of 2,000 Cross validated Viva Results in Bioinformatics.

Magic and Chroma are extremely happy right now. Happy Christmas to everyone.

Real talk: @micheleclamp.com: Cuff did you see it? @forbiddenunix.com: nah, what? @micheleclamp.com: the open houses? @forbiddenunix.com: was it on the socials? @micheleclamp.com: no it was on REDFIN!!! (End)

the new Azure #hpc enterprise cloud manager interface really does go kinda wicked hard…

The forbidden unix, posting about the lost unix. Another Liam banger for the holidays. 👇 #unix #tape

more TB4 / TB5 rdma shenanigans. The kext isn't signed, never gets to the kext cache, or has been omitted. All the extracted rdma .dylibs point to this kext. Has anyone got the output from "kextstat | grep -I rdma" on a box with TB5 that could help me show it's loaded? That would be aces!

Down, down deeper and down. Coffin meet nail. Ohai nail! ‘ello coffin, what’s occurin’? Not much. Same ol’ same ol’ really. Say, weren’t you a big deal back in the summer? Yeah. But that didn’t last, bit like my 18A fab, which is now pretty much not fab. Not at all. #hpc #ai #cloud

Ever since we arrived in the USA, we’ve been huge supporters of the Bostoo Yook Yarters. Our good friend @phylogenomics.bsky.social said that the Bostoo Yook Yarters were the team to support if you like the beep ball bloot. #baseball #gosox

to save any of y'all trying the new @jeffgeerling.com super rdma jaccl magic and you only have the thunderbolt 4? don't bother, you need thunderbolt 5. however you can still use ring mode though, which as you can see isn't so shabby at 37.9 Gbit/s of old fashioned TCP over thunderbolt 4! #hpc #ai

Just missed out on the perfect domain name! #unix

Ooof my aching back. #windows #licensekey

Calling out the epic once in a lifetime go to holiday destinations of Garstang *and* Poulton-le-Fylde right on the box, and not a peep from the @yorkshiretea.bsky.social socials? Priceless! 🇬🇧

Mostly for @jefflayton.bsky.social and @micheleclamp.com. I think I’ve finally found out how they do the purple ones. Heh. 🤣

Rather than contemptuous ridicule, events like these should be given awards. At a legit ceremony, with celebrities handing out little gold painted trophies and stuff. Remote, unauthenticated and hooked into all the OBM and mngt switches? Ding ding ding! We have ourselves a world record winner!

As an washed up ex academic HPC manager, I am 100% in love with this. Epic. High speed RDMA over the thunderbolts? Yep, all the itches scratched. Well played as always Jeff. #hpc #ai bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Current joy, finding who to follow all of the @chromamagic.com tech people since I moved to my new nerd account months ago. I should write a python for this, or something. With apologies in advance to @bielleogy.bsky.social and @soniacuff.com Computer is hard.

Those newspaper quizzes are about to get super wicked mean… (and you thought the purple clues were hard) 🤣

Doug did a real tidy reality check, and quality deep dive job on this one. Particularly love the slot machine analogy. Excellent. #hpc #cloud #ai

Is anyone old enough to remember the olden times when NVIDIA bought their first HPC scheduler through the Bright Computing acquisition? Youngsters might remember Run:AI also. But sure why not go buy yet another one, just to make triple sure. 👍 ALL THE SCHEDULE ARE BELONG TO US! #hpc #cloud #ai

All, Please take this as the absolute final word on the subject. No further discussion required. ⚠️ There is well written, sensible actual science in this article! #hpc #cloud #ai

Required basic science chapter reading for all of the “yay! let’s do the #gou and the #hpc in space!” drama that’s currently being bounced around… A H200 card is not a datacenter, Mr Simpson. #cloud #space #heat #datacenter www.nasa.gov/smallsat-ins...

There's nothing quite like a hyperscaler staffer's blog where the targeted #hpc leadership flex is "your computer be like $100 grand just too small for our big credits" "- Experience from world’s largest AI supercomputers down to $100k HPC systems" Quite. 🤣

I’ve been on the internet for a very long time, and I’ve just done something so naive, and utterly embarrassing I’m still in shock, and so terribly ashamed of myself. I read comments on a @forbes.com post.

So, @micheleclamp.com does very occasional 1:1 private art lessons. She records her videos to send back to her personal clients. Checkout who was larking about like an absolute clown in the background of her studio! It’s. The Magic Puss. Pure magic. #magicpuss #art #cats #catsofbluesky #painting

Breaking news: The ultimate @oxide.computer development terminal released! (Hehe. Sorry @bcantrill.bsky.social couldn’t resist 🤣) Jokes aside, some links in the comments by yours truly about the design. Super interesting! @kelseyhightower.com level design. Minimal. #linux #design #minimal

I’m also going to play the long game on this theory. The strategy clearly also worked for @bmann.ca and @bcantrill.bsky.social Here’s the thing. The forbidden unix? There is only one. 🤣