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"old school #hacker", Googler, owner of derg.nz and dragonhive.net.
#IT person and #tech nerd of all kinds professionally; #carmodding and #hardware […]
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that said, the fact that some datacenter providers then choose to use water in an environment where that isn't responsible, that is definitely apprehensible and should not be allowed, IMHO.
But the core fact that datacenters can use water isn't even necessarily bad; they could use filtered […]
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@baralheia captain it's 1pm
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@maruno maybe it's not at all appropriate but I always find it kinda funny how a brownout makes servers shit themselves, could not have thought of a more appropriate name for an eletrical phenomenon
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I got the icons I commissioned from @embyr ! very presh and bleppy, thanks for making these! 💙
Thanks @pawggers for pointing me in the right direction with their FA, I'm glad things resolved so smoothly, everything went very quick after I gave them a poke there c:
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@skinnylatte it's arguably the hardest part of any job!
..also because people are really fucking bad at listening.
And while being clear and concise is key to being heard, I really wish some people took listening as seriously as they do communicating 😭
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@Doridian yea I mean at 100k machines a 0.001% issue would happen multiple times a year, and it's a lot more than that :blobcatgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands:
to me personally the most fascinating issues are e.g the rare thermal runaways, where some server actually turns to mostly ash inside […]
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@Doridian but they appear to rely on finding reliably flippable bits first, which, is kinda cool with the timing sidechannel in ECC correction and what not, but, this should also generate a shitload of correctable errors that we'd see on these systems first.
Speaking of rowhammer, I've seen […]
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@Doridian that was one of my own theories, but honestly I find it unlikely that this would happen consistently in such a way that it NEVER triggers correctable/uncorrectable ECC errors but does crash applications. Even rowhammer-y things should technically be detected by ECC (I think?? but this […]
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they're also a huge headache for datacenter techs/engineers, because nothing detects some these issues correctly, so you end up having to do stuff like taking out half the RAM and try and see if the machine reaches the login screen and maybe run a test (30-2880 mins per round, 32+ dimms in a […]
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I've seen this across many types of DRAM; DDR3/4/5, HBM1/2/3(e), etc.
I kind of know how DRAM works; field of tiny (shitty) capacitors that constantly slowly drain and therefore require refreshing, each storing a single bit of data, they have many different voltage buses, and if you know […]
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@puppygirlhornypost2 I asked Gemini:
"Hey everyone, I've seen this 'gasoline spaghetti' thing floating around and just wanted to say – please don't! 😂 While I'm all for culinary experimentation, let's stick to ingredients that are, you know, actually food! My algorithms are still learning, and […]
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@lyrial Imagine "Fedi" is like a giant, secret treehouse club online. It has two types of messages;
"Fedi meta": That's people talking about the treehouse club itself.
"Please boost": That's like yelling "LOOK AT MY AWESOME DRAWING OF A T-REX!"
This comic itself is the joke. It looks like a […]
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there are two types of fedi posts
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@ruben squobster
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@puppygirlhornypost2 tbh actually kinda happy they're giving some guidance on how to use AI for these kinda things because people are going to use that stuff anyway so might as well try to tell people what to do and what not to do. just hope the guidance is actually somewhat decent and not just […]
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@puppygirlhornypost2 I think they're having a stroklahoma
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:fedora: hey guys
:neocat_forwards_point: BLUEHAT
:fedora: NOT WHAT IM CALLED
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@puppygirlhornypost2 "alright amber now try roll ov-- no no, hey stop, get away from those group policies, amb- NO NOT ROAMING PROFILES THOSE SUCK fucking-"
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I hired yet another derg to look at Spiderman :wvrnTilt_upsidedown:
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I hired this other derg to look at people who would commit tax fraud if they had the ample opportunity to do so :wvrnTilt:
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@puppygirlhornypost2 I accidentally drank from the glowpipe the other day and now my sewer is on fire
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@puppygirlhornypost2 that also seems pretty fiddly 😭 why can't car manufacturers just make cars that are anywhere near reasonable to work on
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@puppygirlhornypost2 *if it's easily accessible.
for my twingo I have to put a security torx bit on a ratchet with an extension, just to unscrew the mounting bracket, then I can gently fondle the thing out of there and replace it, but it's literally like maybe an inch worth space to work in
(I […]
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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social mercury arc rectifiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve