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9fronton Why Oxide Chose Illumos

I'm puzzled by your comment. On an EC2 instance of AL2023 deployed on us-east-1 region this is the output of hostnamectl:

  [ec2-user][~]$ hostnamectl
   Static hostname: ip-x-x-x-x.ec2.internal
         Icon name: computer-vm
           Chassis: vm 
        Machine ID: ec2d54f27fc534ea74980638ccc33d96
           Boot ID: 6caf18b7ed3647819c1985c11f128142
    Virtualization: xen
  Operating System: Amazon Linux 2023.5.20240903
       CPE OS Name: cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2023
            Kernel: Linux 6.1.106-116.188.amzn2023.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64
   Hardware Vendor: Xen
    Hardware Model: HVM domU
  Firmware Version: 4.11.amazon

9fronton Why Oxide Chose Illumos

EC2 instances are using the Xen hypervisor. At least that's what reported by hostnamectl.

9fronton Tomato64: A port of Tomato Firmware to x86_64

Tomato ain't got nothin on OpenWRT!

9fronton Okay, I Like WezTerm

WezTerm is available for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD also. See https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/installation.html

9fronton The only tourist in Moldova

"rachiu" in Romanian/Moldovan is brandy in English.

9fronton Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait

The fear of losing is greater than the desire to win! So people trade or sell before a ten years timeframe.

9fronton The History of DR DOS

When IBM released the Personal PC it offered MS-DOS for $40 and DR-DOS for $240, thus neutering DR-DOS. Back then $200 was a lot of money for something that looked and worked very much like MS-DOS.

9fronton The eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments

Microsoft did nor release a device tree for the 2023 Dev Kit, so Linux won't boot. There are community efforts to overcome this but it's for people who enjoy pain! As for OpenBSD, it boot using ACPI, but there is no hardware acceleration for GUIs.

9fronton Intel throws a wrench of efficient x86 CPUs into Qualcomm's Snapdragon party

The new "Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows" has a power brick rated at 180W. That new "Snapdragon X" chip has the power efficiency of an Intel processor.

9fronton Cheyenne Super Computer Auction

Sold for $480,085.

9fronton New startup sells coffee through SSH

  ┌──────────┬────────┬─────────┬───────┬────────────────────┐
  │ terminal │ s shop │ a about │ f faq │ c checkout $ 0 [0] │
  └──────────┴────────┴─────────┴───────┴────────────────────┘
 
 
  nil blend coffee
 
  whole bean | medium roast | 12oz
 
  $25
 
  Dive into the rich taste of Nil, our delicious semi-sweet
  coffee with notes of chocolate, peanut butter, and a hint
  of fig. Born in the lush expanses of Fazenda Rainha, a
  280-hectare coffee kingdom nestled in Brazil's Vale da
  Grama. This isn't just any land; it's a legendary
  volcanic valley, perfectly poised on the mystical borders
  between São Paulo State and Minas Gerais. On the edge of
  the Mogiana realm, Fazenda Rainha reigns supreme, a true
  coffee royalty crafting your next unforgettable cup.
 
 
  sold out!
 
 
 
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  + add item   - remove item   c checkout   ctrl+c exit

9fronton New startup sells coffee through SSH

From the FAQ:

  will Nil make me a better developer?
  legally we cannot guarantee that it will, but...

  is it true your coffee contains the sweat of @theprimeagen?
  we can neither confirm nor deny these rumors.

  is it true your coffee contains the tears of @thdxr?
  yes, this is true.

9fronton New startup sells coffee through SSH

"Dive into the rich taste of Nil, our delicious semi-sweet coffee with notes of chocolate, peanut butter, and a hint of fig" and "medium roast"

9fronton How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet

No, IPv6 has not been a failure, just a newer version of IP. IPv5 was skipped, so will be IPv7. Maybe IPv8 will unify IPv4 & IPv6.

9fronton Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

SBF was a top political donor in Washington. I expect a pardon by the end of this year.

9fronton Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP

There's nothing special about this NVMe-TCP scenario. It can be done with any storage protocol that works over TCP. Setup a target and an initiator and use dd to dump the data. iSCSI or FCoE could be used also. NVMe-TCP is just newer tech!

9fronton Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

In my case the installer finished okay. It pulled in miniconda, nvidia-toolkit and "Mistral 7b int4". Upon launch it opens a gradio-chat session. For the datasets it supports .txt, .pdf, .doc files. There's a "YouTube URL" option and "AI model default".

When asked "What is ChatWithRTX" the reply was:

    Chat with RTX is not mentioned in the given context information. It is 
    possible that it is a separate event or feature that is related to the 
    NVIDIA Lounge at LTX 2023 or QuakeCon 2023, where attendees can interact 
    with a virtual assistant or chatbot powered by NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 
    technology. However, without more information, it is impossible to provide a 
    more detailed answer.
    Reference files: portal-prelude-rtx-inside-the-game-interview.txt

9fronton Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

It's a 35.1GB download!

9fronton iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

When did Mr. Bates, the X poster, find the phone? The time shows 2:21 and the picture was taken during daylight. Is that 2:21AM or 2:21PM? If in 12hr mode I'd expect the later.

9fronton iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

“It was still pretty clean, no scratches on it, sitting under a bush and it didn’t have a screenlock on it,” from the article. No information how big the bush was but it cushioned the landing.

9fronton Text Editor: Data Structures

Even under WSL emacs is fast:

    [9front@RIPPER ~]$ time emacs -Q -eval '(kill-emacs)'
    
    real    0m0.193s
    user    0m0.136s
    sys     0m0.010s

9fronton Find out who owns a nursing home with our Nursing Home Inspect tool

In every state there are licensed residential homes who offer long term care mostly to senior citizens. They are called "Adult Family Home" or "Adult Foster Home". So there are much better alternatives compared to nursing homes. But it's a best kept secret you won't find about unless you have a grandma or other relative(s) looking better care.

9fronton OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired

"Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!"

9fronton OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

During meeting on Thursday board members asked ChatGPT what is the best next step for the company and the chatbot replied "Fire Sam Altman". The board obeyed.

9fronton Fedora Workstation 39

Version 7.1 was release a month ago. Development for version 8 is going strong. However, Elementary might be behind other distros in switching to Wayland from X11.

9fronton The hijacking of rare Japanese KitKats

There's "kit" in this story but no "kat." Don't storage facilities have a procedure to verify who deposits what. And security cameras. Is Tristan a known client of the storage facility? Maybe Vin Diesel drove the truck. Looks to me the storage facilities are on the take. Keep the load for a few weeks then demand payment to release the load. This way the storage space doesn't go unused.

9fronton ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment

The GUIs running on top of a Linux kernel are written in C, C++, or another programming language. That's not Linux.

9fronton ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment

You could say that ChromeOS is Google's desktop environment with a Linux kernel, also. Which actually is!

9fronton ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment

No, it wouldn't! Linux is the kernel only. A small part, and very important, of the ChromeOS ecosystem.

9fronton GNOME's VTE Seeing Improvements for Faster Terminal Performance

Here's the link to the GNOME blog: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2023/10/03/vte-performance-...

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