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Eric Carroll

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Quality #Internet #HA #platforms since 1989.

🌐#Internet 1985-
🇨🇦#ISP 1989-2009
☁️#Cloud 2010-

Formerly AS804, AS239, AS549, AS577, AS839, AS855, AS852, AS812, {uunet!mnetor, utgpu}!unicus!emc

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Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Mar 06, 2026

Gotta say, #ArchLinuxWiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page really has the best information for debugging #Ubuntu issues.

I use it so much.

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Feb 20, 2026

Optical fiber prices are also soaring on AI demand

https://www.lightreading.com/ai-machine-learning/optical-fiber-prices-are-also-soaring-on-ai-demand

> Fiber manufacturing capacity has maxed out due to rise in AI and military drone sales, and prices are soaring.

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Jan 15, 2026

@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Livingston portmaster... I had a ton of them and loved them dearly.

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Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Jan 10, 2026

When I think about my personal list of "line noise as code" my mind drifts back to my time coding in APL and, of course, Perl.

I just downloaded my first rust project to look at.

I have added a new language to that list.

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Dec 24, 2025

Replying to @sehugg@infosec.exchange

@sehugg@infosec.exchange Archeological findings of dead tech as excavated from moving boxes. I have also found a magtape, likely with vax bsd source on it, and mystery dlt & travan tapes, likely with backups.

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Dec 24, 2025

Found while unpacking.

Yikes.

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Sep 19, 2023

Replying to @akareilly@hachyderm.io

@akareilly

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Apr 07, 2023

Replying to @tubetime@mastodon.social

@tubetime@mastodon.social Very cool. This is textbook Christensen Innovator's Dilemma case study.

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Mar 23, 2023

Replying to @randomwalker@mastodon.social

@randomwalker I vote keep the name. We are rocketing up the Gartner hype curve faster than we can assess risks. Someone has to call it out. @nafnlaus @sayashk

Eric Carroll @EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org · Feb 14, 2023

Replying to @dsandler@mastodon.social

@dsandler@mastodon.social You want it in slack?

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