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@historydefined - That's quite interesting. I was surprised by the synchronized sound, but having it that way improved the perception of things.

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@historydefined - That's quite interesting. I was surprised by the synchronized sound, but having it that way improved the perception of things.

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@bloor - I remember WRQ Winsock.

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@bloor - I remember WRQ Winsock.

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@rangerdan - Ah, Vesuvio: The first time I visited I thought "I have stepped into the bar from the movie Airplane" (Which is also same bar in the movie The Big Bus.)

In my late teens, around '68, I often went to a nearby cafe - probably the Trieste, usually very late at night. Almost always present was an artist who had been working on a three color woodcut of a nude - he'd spent 30 years on it so far and was only on the first color.

I miss the Coppola burger joint on Columbus.

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@rangerdan - Ah, Vesuvio: The first time I visited I thought "I have stepped into the bar from the movie Airplane" (Which is also same bar in the movie The Big Bus.)

In my late teens, around '68, I often went to a nearby cafe - probably the Trieste, usually very late at night. Almost always present was an artist who had been working on a three color woodcut of a nude - he'd spent 30 years on it so far and was only on the first color.

I miss the Coppola burger joint on Columbus.

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@MartinezGuy - It went really bad in the last hour or so - even between Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz - 4 miles apart. Round trip times varying up to 2 seconds and a lot of packet loss. Also a lot of badness between Santa Cruz and San Francisco.

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@MartinezGuy - It went really bad in the last hour or so - even between Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz - 4 miles apart. Round trip times varying up to 2 seconds and a lot of packet loss. Also a lot of badness between Santa Cruz and San Francisco.

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Looks like Comcast's net in the SF Bay area is having a rough night.

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Looks like Comcast's net in the SF Bay area is having a rough night.

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@neil - Base negative two also works, with the same digits, 1 and 0, but the positions (starting from the least) are +1, -2, +4, -8, +16, -32 etc.

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@neil - Base negative two also works, with the same digits, 1 and 0, but the positions (starting from the least) are +1, -2, +4, -8, +16, -32 etc.

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I think ImageMagick is one of the most amazing (and sometimes amazingly incomprehensible) tools in the entire universe.

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I think ImageMagick is one of the most amazing (and sometimes amazingly incomprehensible) tools in the entire universe.

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@TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social By-the-way, that modification to /etc/hosts (which exists also on MacOS as well as Linux) depends on there not being a local web server on your machine. And it's faster than blocking - the TCP connection gets an almost instant Reset rather than waiting for a timeout (which happens when the SYN packet is blocked.)

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@TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social By-the-way, that modification to /etc/hosts (which exists also on MacOS as well as Linux) depends on there not being a local web server on your machine. And it's faster than blocking - the TCP connection gets an almost instant Reset rather than waiting for a timeout (which happens when the SYN packet is blocked.)

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@bikes - Thanks for the pointer.

I get nervous whenever someone in Santa Cruz gov't says "traffic calming" - it usually means 'we will spend years doing nothing". (We have a useless speed bump on our street that actually causes cars to go faster, not slower.)

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@bikes - Thanks for the pointer.

I get nervous whenever someone in Santa Cruz gov't says "traffic calming" - it usually means 'we will spend years doing nothing". (We have a useless speed bump on our street that actually causes cars to go faster, not slower.)

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@TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social

I find the following to be a useful addition to /etc/hosts - it kills a lot of tracking and makes a noticeable improvement in browsing speed:

127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com ssh-google.analytics.com doubleclick.net googleadservices.com

127.0.0.1 www.googletagmanager.com googletagmanager.com

127.0.0.1 prodmg2.blob.core.windows.net

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@TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social

I find the following to be a useful addition to /etc/hosts - it kills a lot of tracking and makes a noticeable improvement in browsing speed:

127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com ssh-google.analytics.com doubleclick.net googleadservices.com

127.0.0.1 www.googletagmanager.com googletagmanager.com

127.0.0.1 prodmg2.blob.core.windows.net

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@bikes - I've been making some noises that we ought to convert West Cliff drive to be one way (one lane in the west/north direction) for automobiles & motorcycles, use the other (ocean side) lane for bicycles, and leave the path for foot traffic.

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@bikes - I've been making some noises that we ought to convert West Cliff drive to be one way (one lane in the west/north direction) for automobiles & motorcycles, use the other (ocean side) lane for bicycles, and leave the path for foot traffic.

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I'm finally getting back to a project I started around 1992 to probe and monitor network behavior (for good, for ill, to detect security problems, failures, or just bad implementations.)

I'm using Raspberry Pi CM4s (Compute Module 4.) Can't say I like Debian Linux - I spend more time the Fedora camp and also FreeBSD.

I need to go visit folks in astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz to discuss ideas about how they use astrophysical measurements (yes, it's relevant.)

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I'm finally getting back to a project I started around 1992 to probe and monitor network behavior (for good, for ill, to detect security problems, failures, or just bad implementations.)

I'm using Raspberry Pi CM4s (Compute Module 4.) Can't say I like Debian Linux - I spend more time the Fedora camp and also FreeBSD.

I need to go visit folks in astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz to discuss ideas about how they use astrophysical measurements (yes, it's relevant.)

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Does anyone remember the East Bay Sharks? They used to perform at Sather Gate (UC Berkeley) circa 1971 and would always do a tune based on someone getting his plethora surgically removed.

(I have no particular reason to ask - they weren't particularly good - but I've used "plethora" as a generic word for a random internal organ ever since.)

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Does anyone remember the East Bay Sharks? They used to perform at Sather Gate (UC Berkeley) circa 1971 and would always do a tune based on someone getting his plethora surgically removed.

(I have no particular reason to ask - they weren't particularly good - but I've used "plethora" as a generic word for a random internal organ ever since.)

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@grantmarek - I certainly do not like it.

(I've suffered through too many "architect" designed buildings - like one here in Santa Cruz with forced perspective "fun house" hallways inside, truncated pyramids in the middle of rooms, and ultra hard plaster walls that reflected sound everywhere. And I've had the misfortune of experiencing too many F. Ghery designs.)

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@grantmarek - I certainly do not like it.

(I've suffered through too many "architect" designed buildings - like one here in Santa Cruz with forced perspective "fun house" hallways inside, truncated pyramids in the middle of rooms, and ultra hard plaster walls that reflected sound everywhere. And I've had the misfortune of experiencing too many F. Ghery designs.)

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@nd_scientist - I've been trying to get a sense of how far Mostodon can scale. At the moment I'm wondering how big a single instance can go - particularly whether it's processing can be spread among several server machines and what kind of back-end shared storage it can handle. I do not yet have a good feel for the CPU, memory, I/O, and net bandwidth demands on single server.

Eventually I'll wonder about the scaling (and bottlenecks) of the interactions between instances.

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@nd_scientist - I've been trying to get a sense of how far Mostodon can scale. At the moment I'm wondering how big a single instance can go - particularly whether it's processing can be spread among several server machines and what kind of back-end shared storage it can handle. I do not yet have a good feel for the CPU, memory, I/O, and net bandwidth demands on single server.

Eventually I'll wonder about the scaling (and bottlenecks) of the interactions between instances.

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One of the strangest places I've ever worked was in a shipping container next to a road race course around a lake in a forest between a 24x7 full automatic firing range and an ammo depot inside three layers of fences with well guarded gates and photo ID's that said "no firearms". I was working with 7' tall autonomous, non-tethered, humanoid robots.

Turns out the race track is used by the Secret Service to do high speed training in those big black SUVs.

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One of the strangest places I've ever worked was in a shipping container next to a road race course around a lake in a forest between a 24x7 full automatic firing range and an ammo depot inside three layers of fences with well guarded gates and photo ID's that said "no firearms". I was working with 7' tall autonomous, non-tethered, humanoid robots.

Turns out the race track is used by the Secret Service to do high speed training in those big black SUVs.

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@djzap @rangerdan - When east coasters condescend on California as "new" I start them off with a copy of "Two Years Before the Mast" and take 'em to Monterey to show 'em W. T. Sherman's place (and then to Nepenthe in Big Sur across from the Henry Miller library.)

I grew up in LA; I dated a member of the Sepulveda family - they've been here since the 1820s.

Thinking of California authors - don't forget Wallace Stegner.

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@djzap @rangerdan - When east coasters condescend on California as "new" I start them off with a copy of "Two Years Before the Mast" and take 'em to Monterey to show 'em W. T. Sherman's place (and then to Nepenthe in Big Sur across from the Henry Miller library.)

I grew up in LA; I dated a member of the Sepulveda family - they've been here since the 1820s.

Thinking of California authors - don't forget Wallace Stegner.

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@socketwench - And there's more:

1. Don't let the domain name lapse

2. Use a flat-file web management tool, like HUGO, else you need to also back up the database *and* the database schema (do not forget the schema!)

3. Validate that your backup is adequate - do that by doing a restore to a *new* domain name.

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@socketwench - And there's more:

1. Don't let the domain name lapse

2. Use a flat-file web management tool, like HUGO, else you need to also back up the database *and* the database schema (do not forget the schema!)

3. Validate that your backup is adequate - do that by doing a restore to a *new* domain name.

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@rangerdan @djzap - It was a mention of a Kerouac house near Los Gatos.

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@rangerdan @djzap - It was a mention of a Kerouac house near Los Gatos.

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@djzap @rangerdan - Is it up on Summit Road? I vaguely remember meeting someone who lived in a house up there that was owned by Kerouac or perhaps some other well known beat era figure. (Heinlein's house is not far from where I live - but then again, so is Alfred Hitchcock's Scotts Valley place.)

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@djzap @rangerdan - Is it up on Summit Road? I vaguely remember meeting someone who lived in a house up there that was owned by Kerouac or perhaps some other well known beat era figure. (Heinlein's house is not far from where I live - but then again, so is Alfred Hitchcock's Scotts Valley place.)