Want some Pi!? Check out Stratipi.com - my custom built NTP server! By the way, you don't actually need GPS to use this project! It will naturally fall back to a Stratum-2 server if no GPS is available. Give your network a single local time source today with Stratipi. :)

So far, the PSU swap on my Cisco AS5400 is working beautifully! !!! FINALLY !!! This thing has been sitting on my bench for about a month due to a number of "issues" I can go and re-rack this beast, which contains 384x 56k dial-up modems. Yes, you read that right. I'm a freaggin dial-up ISP LOL

oh hey, my face is on this post LMFAO

oh hey, my face is on this post LMFAO

FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available. The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the stable/14 branch. Download and release information: buff.ly/oGkE6ry Thank you to the Release Engineering Team and all contributors who make the release possible.

WALP, turns out my primary workstation... uuhhh... wont boot anymore? Thanks bad weather! I'm gonna be stuck using one of my multitude of laptops to get anything done for a while I guess.

I went to do a live demonstration of Startipi last night... And hit a rare race condition in the dashboard rendering for the first time! Because, of course I would...

I unno, people today keep mentioning that its Mar10 for some reason? Yeah, that's today I guess. Nothing too terribly special about it that I'm aware of. So anyways, here is an arbitrary entirely unrelated photo I took on this day 3 years ago!

Not quite the "weekend" as I had hoped, but the new Stratipi Dashboard is now public! All files for it are now in the repo, along with a fresh build ready to flash on a SD card and boot right up in a Raspberry Pi. github.com/circuitrewin...

Hiya! Anyone in the SF Bay Area/Remote need a cool programmer for your team? I've been messing with computers for over 30 years now, I can program anything with bits, and I've got a lot of experience with all sorts of different systems, environments, and languages. wiki.averlong.com/My_Resume

Maybe @discord.com should verify the age of their servers...?

Happy International Women's Day from my fav out of control Vulcan. 🖖 #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #lowerdecks #T'lyn

I think I'm going to release a new build tonight that boots directly into this dashboard I've been preparing! When I talk about "minimum viable product (MVP)" vs "polish", this is exactly what I'm talking about. At a glance, right from the console, everything you need!

#FreeBSD "VT" on the left vs what I've been working on the past few days on the right. No, I'm not using Xorg or any other graphical environment, this is still in the confines of the virtual terminal, but no longer limited to 8/16 colors. 378MB disk footprint for OS+Userland+Apps+Debug+THIS!

My latest favorite hobby is using KiCad to make a "PCB" design that I then send to my 3D Printer to make flat objects with for various purposes. This is my latest prototype, working on stuff for the Raspberry Pi... Yes, more stuff for stratipi.com ;)

I've got so many half-working projects on the table right now that have some major fault, it's legit giving me a migraine. Ever get in that mentality where all you need is a single "win" to feel better? So you jump to another project, just to get hit with more roadblocks!?

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

WALP That took 10c off the CPU I guess I'll call that a success!!

What if... now hear me out... When the Pi boots up, it boots directly into a TUI dashboard to monitor GPS/PPS and Time health !?

SO how is your evening going !?

WALP, I guess it's that time of year again!! :D I saw 115 the other day Yeah, the temperature inside my home makes absolutely ZERO SENSE with how much of a swing it has Dont worry, it goes from 100+ to 70s in a matter of literally a couple minutes. Daily.

I just came to the realization that I think unlicensed NES games are the single largest sub-collection of games that I physically own right now...

the wiggle test

According to internal files and interviews, Luigi has been part of Super Mario 64 for 85% of its development time. New insights from development data allow us to narrow down when exactly he was abandoned, being the two weeks between February 6, 1996 and February 20, 1996.

Swapping from an earlier "prototype" (with some hot patches) to the current "production" build in my primary NTP server here in my lab. Just looking at this clock stability graph, can you tell when that change took place!? I think I've nailed this config pretty damn well now!

Late night new-release drop for #Stratipi! Long story short, this is actually the first build I'm officially dog-fooding in production, thus ending the 7-month run of the hack-together time server which eventually turned into this project. github.com/circuitrewin...

The next experimental build of Stratipi is running stable on a Raspberry Pi 3 now! TONS of changes are coming for a hell of a lot better automatic hardware detection as well as better performance on the serial interface. (also, I officially hate RS232 on Raspberry Pi now, just sayin!)

I'm at the LAN Party I'm at the Seattle Home and Garden Show I'm at the combination LAN Party Home and Garden Show!! Here at Emerald City @lanfest.bsky.social !!!

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

We've got Classic Macintoshes for sale! They're all being sold AS-IS ranging from fully working to repair projects. We've got more coming soon, too.

This weekend, I converted a Family BASIC keyboard to be able to be used on a modern computer, including VIA support. It was a fun journey, and much of it was thanks to @circuitrewind.com's work to convert it using an RP2040. Blog: lucasleadbetter.com/blog/famikey/

How do you like the self-help guides for retro collectors that @amylherndon.bsky.social and I made for @vcfsocal.bsky.social?

I'm not a fan at all. Not excited in the least... Nope nope nope!!! :D :D :D

The Cisco 7965 is now on the phone network! And so is a SIP device (I have 8x more to add here this week) And there are already 48 POTS lines .... And the nearly 400 fully digital 56K dial-in modems!

the fact that there are so many CRT’s people actively don’t want/care about that they willingly have given to a local disposal facility… just sitting there.. right now. and i’m not allowed to go and take even one……… just another example of the unfair world we live in TT__TT

Don't mind me, just playin around w/ some toys today ;)

RAM is so expensive now, this is all I could afford!!

If you've ever wired an Ethernet straight-through or cross-over cable, well, I have news for you. T1 cross-over cables are absolutely CURSED!! As such, they get large red warning labels to let any potential future user (eg: ME) know that they are indeed NOT Ethernet cables!

Many MANY hours later, I've got the phone bank (Cisco 3845) talking to the digital modem bank (Cisco 5400), and have 56k Internet on Windows 95!

ANGRY MODEM NOISES

New build of Stratipi for Friday the 13th! Wait, today is Valentines day...? Whoops, guess I forgot to post about this yesterday! Fixed up a ton of race-condition bugs as well as subtle hardware misconfigurations. github.com/circuitrewin...

OH YEAH, I keep forgetting I've been a photographer for like 2 decades, because I hardly do it anymore !? Happy Seahawks to all who celebrate :)

🏈🏆 The champions change. So do their websites. From early HTML to modern redesigns, the #WaybackMachine preserves the digital playbook of #NFL champs, decades of archived team sites, including the Seattle Seahawks 🏟️ Run the archive ➡️ web.archive.org #webpreservation #Football #Seahawks #superbowl

SPORTSBALL weekend is over. MY LOCAL SPORTSBALL TEAM SPORTS MORE HARDER THAN THE OTHER TEAM!!! I used the Raspberry Pis from Stratipi development to build a video distribution network (which you can see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY9S...) Now they're back, so I'm back to work again :)

!!! SPORTSBALL IS TOMORROW !!! And I have a video distribution network READY TO GO! You too can have one, I show how to create a VLC setup in just minutes.

Did anyone ever play the X-Files game? 😉

!!! ITS SPORTSBALL WEEKEND !!! I wanted to nerd out and have a ton of screens in my home for friends/family, similar to a sports bar. So lets shove VLC between my screens and the HDHomeRun in order to get virtually unlimited "tuners"! youtu.be/XY9SjxnF-L4

Want to DIY a GPS based Network Time Server in your homelab or small business? Check this out, I show how to pair a @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social Pi4 with the @adafruit.com Ultimate GPS Hat, and provide a pre-made #FreeBSD disk image to make it all super simple! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqU...

Do I ...? Do I submit a proposal talk about everything I've done to re-engineer the release engineering image build process !?!? Oh wait, that's right, I'm just building a humble little NTP server :P Don't look behind the curtain at the larger picture of what I'm REALLY working on!

One of the greatest things ever is preordering a product, entirely forgetting about it, and then one day.... Getting a surprise package in the mail!! I now what the retro color theme 8bitdo controller :)