Ruben Schade (taking break)

rubenerd@bsd.network

Hi 👋 I’m a human, blogger, technical writer, IaaS engineer, weeb traveller, urbanist, third-culture kid, profile list enumerator, and retro computator in Sydney, Australia, formerly Singapore. He/them. Friend. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Runs <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a>, <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>, <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#illumos</a>. Slings <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Xen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Xen</a> and <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/QEMU" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#QEMU</a> at work. Co-host of <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/BSDNow

Posts

Post #2831203
Pardon the French, but fuck I love #NetBSD. Had a long train ride home, so SSH’d into my Shonen Jump box at home, then into my old Solaris box, then my Pentium 1. It all still works, and it’s wonderful. Wanted to try something, built a little chroot, done. It’s all so predictable and consistent and wonderful. And… increasingly rare.
Post #2754861
The SilverStone FLP02 retro beige case has 3 positions for its upper drive sleds, but only ships with 2. On a whim I emailed and asked if I could buy another one. Within 24 hours they arranged shipment for one, for USD 6. SilverStone are awesome!
Post #2664677
Bagels aren’t stale doughnuts. Doughnuts are under-ripe bagels.
Post #2234969
Morning waves to Monday people in this and similar timezones 👋 . What an awkward sentence. I&#39;m on my first double espresso of the day. Feels like I&#39;ll need it, based on The Calendar. Update: This espresso is delicious! Wow! What a difference starting the day right makes. #tzag
Post #2023654
A non-essential tool I use has changed their login process to be far more complicated. I&#39;ve mitigated this by making my account login much less secure. Bravo, claps all around!
Post #1929732
Okay, onto the first call of the day. Stay fabulous everyone 👋
Post #1820553
Generative &quot;AI&quot; is like plutonium and PII. There are *extremely* limited cases where its use is appropriate, and misuse carries severe issues. We&#39;re far enough along in this bubble where pleading ignorance also doesn&#39;t fly. The way in which people are speed-running Fuck Around and Find Out when it comes to this stuff shouldn&#39;t keep surprising me, yet here we are! -- PII: Personally identifiable information. You can&#39;t have a data leak with data...
Post #1760300
The new Commodore announced the 64C Ultimate, and I'm happy for a whole multitude of reasons, some of which I awkwardly wrote about here. tl;dr: The 64C was my favourite 64, and something something optimism. https://www.rubenerd.au/commodore-releases-the-64c-ultimate/
Post #1511673
Equinix will now only deal with you directly if you have $50K (IIRC) in additional spend, otherwise they're palming you off to a distibutor. And the one they've chosen in Australia is... not ideal.
Post #1492151
Only times I’ve “experienced” racism is second hand, via people I’ve walked with. Today, an older white woman had a rant as she walked past Clara, saying she was “Chinese” as though it were a pejorative. I stopped and called her out for it, and she mumbled and slunk away, because of course she was too cowardly to face someone about it.
Post #1334638
Two rude emails last night, but got a comment from a gentleman saying he&#39;d retired many years ago, and that he drinks his tea while reading my blog every morning. This image of a father figure in a dressing gown on his porch in the rural US reading my silly words on his iPad just... fills me with more joy than I care to admit. (Also, hey look, imposter syndrome! I must have tricked him somehow into reading my stuff).
Post #1168833
Seeing more European governments announcing plans to switch to Linux over sovereignty concerns. Curious what distros they&#39;ll end up choosing. The news articles and government press releases don&#39;t usually say.
Post #1168828
ZFS helped remove a bunch of code for a client! Only high level, but got his permission to share this morning. https://www.rubenerd.au/zfs-removing-code/
Post #824893
I’ve decided to spend more time talking about and sharing things that are awesome. FreeBSD is especially awesome for storage and hypervisors. NetBSD is especially awesome for anything old and small, but can still grow with you. Xen is especially awesome as a Linux hypervisor. Tribblix is an awesome illumos OS, not just for those nostalgic for Solaris tooling. OM System (ne. Olympus) still make especially awesome fun cameras. Coffee is especially awesome for taste and alertness. FLAC, turn...
Post #245334
I know I've been mentioning @davidgerard@circumstances.run here a lot recently, but his stuff has been super useful. Pivot to AI comes out every weekday, and succinctly summarises the latest AI guff. Each episode covers one topic, which also makes them easy to share. @PivotToAI@www.youtube.com