Vintage Obsession
I've been in love with this one for months, years, decades. Perhaps one day, when the moons align, I'll grab four Pentium Pro "Black Edition" CPUs and as much RAM as its mezzanine cards can handle, and ... well, you know how the rest of the vintage hardware story goes. Beautiful. The only concern is, "wtf is it doing on the EMI static-charged carpet for the photos?"
Honestly, i think server distributions should be secured way better by default. The default configs should be as strict as possible out of the box.
#Fedora #AsahiRemix 42 Released for #AppleSilicon #Macs with #KDE Plasma 6.3
This release continues the trend of providing #Apple Silicon Mac users with extensive device support, including microphone support for #MacBook laptops. As with the previous release, there’s a Fedora Server variant for those who want to turn their Apple Silicon Macs into #servers or for other types of headless deployments.
https://9to5linux.com/fedora-asahi-remix-42-released-for-apple-silicon-macs-with-kde-plasma-6-3
#openSUSE isn't just for #servers & #devs; it's for #gamers too! Install. #Play. Repeat. #openSUSE makes gaming easy. #GameOnLinux #UpgradetoFreedom https://get.opensuse.org/
Happy to see Fedora has implemented CoreOS support for Hetzner. Guess the ball’s in Hetzner’s court now: would be great to see it as one of the natively-supported operating systems with rapid deploy (under 10 seconds deployment).
From powerful #servers to creative #desktops, #openSUSE scales with you.
Built by the community.
Updated with purpose.
Powered by freedom.
Try it: https://get.opensuse.org
#Linux #opensource
Trump’s Aggression Sours #Europe on #US Cloud Giants
Companies in #EU are starting to look for ways to ditch #Amazon, #Google, and #Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising #security risks from US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
Organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including #servers, storage, and #databases—citing uncertainties around #privacy and data access fears under Trump administration.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud-services-europe/
https://archive.ph/8FBGJ
@lindenshieldarts Here you can search #servers by character limits and language: https://mastodon.help/instances/en You can even try your topics in the 2nd field ("contain).
Critical #AMI #MegaRAC bug can let attackers hijack, brick #servers
MegaRAC #BMC provides "lights-out" and "out-of-band" remote system management capabilities that help admins troubleshoot servers as if they were physically in front of the devices. The firmware is used by over a dozen #server vendors that provide equipment to many cloud service and #datacenter providers, including #HPE, #Asus, #ASRock, and others.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-ami-megarac-bug-can-let-attackers-hijack-brick-servers/
Big Brain Computer Parts
- "Build Day Monday Funday, Yet Another Machine Intelligence System [YAMIS]"
- Season 2, Episode 4: Mostly Modern Systems and Hardware Engineering
Despite some goon sending this kinda pricey Ice Lake Xeon through international post, wrapped up in two thin layers of non/anti-static bubble wrap shoved into a Tyvek shipping bag (not a box!), it arrived yesterday and seems to be in decent shape after a trip from Australia to the middle of America.
So, what one does with a NOS (new old stock) bit of hardware which needs to be perfect in order to function, we inspect with macro photos and various image filtering methods to identify any potential flaws.
CPU: Intel Xeon 8370C
Spec: 32 cores, 64 threads, 2.8GHz base clock
Dimensions: my favorite general purpose lip gloss (sorta) tube for scale
I can't deal with this weirdly artificial 500 character limit any more, so sadly, I am going to have to move instances.
Recommendations for a new server, and what should I watch out for doing the move over?
I'm just going to put here Pattrick Kennedy thougths from ServeTheHome about the #BoltGraphics Zeus:
The big elephant in the room is NVIDIA and the CUDA ecosystem. That's is going to be really difficult to break without something that disrupts the market.
Some quick pics of recent day to day life, some project hardware, and some considerations on a new sweater (don't often wear red, kinda like it for the winter sometimes).
@dexter perhaps you recognize the GPU... it's installed as of this evening 
As previous post I’m in the last few days of moving about 60 #websites to a new server. Today was meant to be the last day, moving the main domain over. It went utterly tits up.
Set up the main domain and its subs on the new server, move all files over, then updated the DNS. 10mins later the server hit max load with swap file at 99.8%!
Hours trying to work out the issue found nothing, eventually reverted all DNS. Tomorrow I’ll start changing DNS entries one at a time.
Need a list of welcoming #fediverse #servers that are not based on US soil. If anyone has that. Thinking it might be important moving forward.
A cheap-ass company I worked for (7 1/2 years) canned me 3 times because they didn't want to pay a reduced market rate. These shitheads treated me as an employee. But I was a contractor, stiffed for all of my overtime. This is what working in tech in Los Angeles is like.
One time, they hired a Russian to replace me.
Understand, I made P/SOS run in Linux, including all of the system calls, in order to "make the Net/ARM code run in Linux without modification."
"Well, tell me how to do this."
"How to do what?"
"This. What you did."
"You have got to be kidding me. You took my job and you expect me to tell you how to do it? Go to hell."
My manager was snickering (he had nothing to do with this).
A few weeks later, they hired me back. Even called me "the greatest programmer I've ever met," but that was my manager, who snickered.
Do what Paul suggests. Don't do the Russians' work for them.
And, when the script kiddies finish fucking all of our governmental systems up, give me a call. Reasonable rates for remote work. Unreasonable rates if I have to set foot in any building the Musk Rats took over. And I will be covered in PPE. I don't want to contract whatever it is that is eating Elon's brain.
#Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend #semiconductor industry
Arm plans to launch its own chip this year after securing Meta as one of its first customers, in a radical change to the #SoftBank-owned group’s business model of licensing to likes of Apple and Nvidia.
Arm’s chip is expected to be a #CPU for #servers in large #datacentres and is built on a base that can then be customised for clients including Meta, manufactured by #TSMC
https://www.ft.com/content/95367b2b-2aa7-4a06-bdd3-0463c9bad008
https://archive.ph/XVjpn
New #Botnet on the loose?
A surge of accounts from gtmastodon.online / mastodon.gtmastodon.online has emerged, all seemingly following a limited number of #MastodonSocial users.
Is this a coordinated effort? If so, what is the goal? 
@small-tech/https version 5.3.0 released
• Uses Auto Encrypt 4.1.1 (removes OCSP stapling support because Let]s Encrypt has removed OCSP support).
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/https
This module is a drop in replacement for Node HTTPS module that automatically handles TLS certificate provisioning and renewal both at localhost (via Auto Encrypt Localhost¹) and at hostname (via Auto Encrypt with Let’s Encrypt certificates²).
So, this is how you create a HTTPS server in Node.js that uses this module and automatically handles TLS certificate provisioning and renewal for you both at localhost (during development) and at hostname (during production):
```js
import https from '@small-tech/https'
const server = https.createServer((request, response) => {
response.end('Hello, world!')
})
server.listen(443, () => {
console.log(' 
Server running at https://localhost.')
})
```
(Yes, that’s it! I wrote a metric shit-tonne of meticulously-tested code so you don’t have to.) :)
Note that the localhost certificate support via Auto Encrypt Localhost is 100% JavaScript and does NOT rely on an external binary like mkcert or certutil.
Needless to say, Kitten³ uses this module under the hood and it’s a big part of why Domain⁴ can deploy servers so easily that don’t require any day-to-day maintenance.
In case you’re wondering why I’m spending so much time releasing all these modules, it’s because I believe in sharing every brick of the house I’m building so others can easily build different houses if they want to. I’m not saying that what I’m building with Kitten, Domain, and Place⁵ will be the end all be all of the Small Web⁶ (the peer-to-peer web). And I want others to be able to experiment by building their own tools without having to go through the grueling development process I’ve had to in the past six years to build basic infrastructure.
Enjoy!
¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost
² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
³ https://kitten.small-web.org
⁴ https://codeberg.org/domain/app
⁵ https://codeberg.org/place/app
⁶ https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/
