Just had a thought: Are we going to be dealing with AI gaslighting for the rest of our darned lives? Are we going to dealing with those 👍 & 👎 buttons forever? I mean I've been correcting people on the Internet for half my life already... xkcd.com/386/

My friends, some Gen-zers were listening to some classic 1980s punk and referred to it as "Screemo"

Google's Gemini 3 is apparently causing a fair amount of load on the Google infrastructure. Folks are complaining about errors like "We are at capacity, we'll be back soon" since at least yesterday. For me just now, Gemini on Google Docs is very slow.

An acronym for scientific data storage: WORN: Write One, Read Never.

FYI: most of the #kubecon #cloudnativecon NA videos are up on youtube, should hopefully be all there by end of next week! www.youtube.com/@cncf/videos

Trains are not stopping at 12th St. Oakland City Center Station in the Antioch and Richmond directions due to a medical emergency. Trains are able to run through and continue on to 19th Street. Trains in the SF and Berryessa directions are still making stops at 12th Street.

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.

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

Every interaction with AI: --- 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

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

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

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

Hey Kubecon folks, want to save $$$ on your Atlanta hotel room? Try searching for rooms with your browser in incognito mode. Some prices were reduced by $30/night, sometimes more. Helped me to find more options under per diem limit. #kubecon #CloudNativeCon

🚀 Heading to #KubeCon || #CloudNativeCon North America 🇺🇸 in Atlanta 10-13 November ⁉️ 🥳 I have a discount code for you: ABDEL for 30% off the current prices 🥳 ⚠️ Only available for All-Access and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Passes ⚠️ Code expires on August 26! events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou...

KubeCon is coming to my home town, Atlanta, GA, in November from the 10th to the 13th, so it's only right I get a discount code for anyone looking to attend. Use code KELSEY20 for 20% off. events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou...

The Arch wiki is top notch. Good to see this cooperation with Debian. BTW I used the Arch wiki Distro's like Ubuntu needs to follow suit. The Ubuntu wiki is full of bad information & harmful to the community. lwn.net/SubscriberLi...

SF fireworks at 11:30pm? SF Is like the Bay Area's upstairs neighborhood who just won't go to sleep

Friends on the US West Coast: Tsunami Watch is in effect for US & Canadian West Coast. Nothing to do right now but to be aware. Be on the lookout for Tsunami advisory or warning. tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Hey Berkeley, here's the Berkeley Tsunami risk map. berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...

My fingers typed the Vim exit command into the AI Chatbot window and it acted appropriately.

Wow these two helicopters were flying pretty low over Berkeley. Looks like 500' altitude? globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=ae2694

Apart from the Oakland warehouse fire on E 8th Street, there's another big smoky fire in Alameda? Just drove down 880 S & saw a big smoky fire that definitely wasn't on E 8th.

NERSC just announced that IBM and VAST have been selected as the storage providers for the upcoming Doudna #HPC system. Strong statement since NERSC had long invested in Lustre (scratch) and GPFS (community). Very cool to see NERSC not settling for the status quo. www.nersc.gov/news-and-eve...

Here in the #eastbay I haven't heard many illegal fireworks this year compared to past years. I hear the occasional boom, but that's it. Uncharacteristic for the week before July 4.

PG&E over the last year: * New website is coming! * "we’re launching a new pge​.​com account this fall." * 20 messages "Ensure your email & phone # are correct so you can log into the new website!" * "New site is delayed again but it'll be really cool" * New site is here! PG&E for the last 2 days

Felt an earthquake near Berkeley. Quite a big jolt for us. M3.4 in Pinole earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Helicopter over Berkeley are from KTVU Channel 2 due to incident on Curtis Street (near Gilman) Berkeley police notification about the incident. They closed the street. Sounds like a person in crisis. Give the BPD space & let folks do their job. nixle.us/GCW5F www.flightradar24.com/N62TV/3a9df5ef

There are 4 hard problems in computer science: 0. Naming things uniquely & intuitively 1. Naming things uniquely & intuitively 2. Off-by-1 errors 3. cache invalidation 4. Naming things uniquely & intuitively

Hot take about Andor's song Niamos: the wedding version is intentionally a bubblegum remix of "Niamos" heard in the brothel. There's a distinct lack of the alien, industrial edge in wedding version. Pop vs rock & roll. Pat Boone vs Little Richard. youtu.be/3YMFs7NPj7I?... youtu.be/lmNB25jVwrg?...

Zoom is experiencing a global DNS outage with the zoom.us domain. The Zoom Status page is at status.zoom.us, and ironically is also down at the same time as their primary service-- a reminder to keep your status pages on a separate domain from the main product.

Berkeley Earthquake! Yes you felt it, no you are not crazy.

Our @sonic.net Fiber Internet service in Berkeley went down about 10:20 pm. Anyone else?

Question about CVE-2025-1974: A number of vendors appear to have been caught flat-footed by announcement & are still updating their forks. I would have expected them to have their fixes prestaged & ready Does k8s have a mechanism to disclose the vulnerability to vendors before public announcement?

The US CISA added this physical attack, CVE-2024-50302, to their database of KEV Catalog (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) yesterday. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

If the sidewalks are blocked, I can tell the students are back and the weather is good.

Helicopter circling over Berkeley. Probably related to this morning's fatal house fire at Cedar & 10th. www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/02/03/c...

Fire at Martinez Refinery #BayArea #California share.watchduty.org/i/41561?ts=1...

Berkeley bicycle folks, the street engineers left a dangerous hazard behind on the newly repaved bikeway on Virginia-- I'm concerned someone's going to hit the center section that I've circled here & flip over. Can you help report it to the city for visibility? seeclickfix.com/issues/18273...

The Alameda to Oakland water taxi has these stretchable Velcro straps (LuBanSir Super-stretch-Storage Strap) to secure bicycles. Easier to use than the clips on SF Bart. Faster to secure, can stretch to accommodate larger bike frames. @sfbart.bsky.social should consider them.

"This bash script wasn't written with a real programming language!" **replaces all echo statements with printf** Confidently: "NOW this bash script was written with a real programming language."

M3.9 earthquake near Concord, CA at 8:49AM. Felt here in Berkeley. #earthquake #bayarea earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

All apps need more cowbell, right?

It's been a pleasure working with Tina all these years at @nersc & @berkeleylab.bsky.social & I wish her the best in retirement. Via @hpcwire