Erik AblesonI like solving interesting problems and understanding how things work.
Dual citizenship #Canada/#France.
Independent IT #consultant focused on #infrastructure, with an ongoing hobby horse of #backups, data protection and availability.
Either a dilettante or a polymath - it's hard to tell some days.
Core skills: troubleshooting
He/Him
Erik AblesonAlso noting that I'm in a country back-water in (close to) the middle of nowhere at the absolute periphery of what could be considered a supportable commute to Paris
Erik AblesonWhoops - that exploded beyond my usual network. Very happy to see that the DS is universally liked and even more so in an electric version.
Also happy to note that my standalone Mastodon instance is holding up nicely under the load
Erik AblesonJust posting this link so I can pin it until the current LLM craze dies down
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
Erik Ableson@bhawthorne@infosec.exchange Here’s my current favorite in the genre: https://www.learnancientrome.com/did-ancient-rome-have-windows/
Where the section titled “what existed before windows“ includes this gem concerning MS-DOS 🙄
Erik AblesonJust bringing this one back up again. On the nose.
Edit to add the original source: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia
Erik AblesonWho specs a greenfield infrastructure design with 10G-BaseT in 2025? WTF is this nonsense?
Even better: SFP+ switches but servers have RJ45 cards so filling the switches with (expensive) ultra-hot SFP+RJ modules 🤪
Erik AblesonIt's hypnotic watching the smooth details appear out of the roughed out shapes on the finishing #CNC path
Erik AblesonMotherf*cker went rogue right at the end 🤬
#CNC
Erik AblesonIt's hypnotic watching the smooth details appear out of the roughed out shapes on the finishing #CNC path
Erik AblesonAlso noting that I'm in a country back-water in (close to) the middle of nowhere at the absolute periphery of what could be considered a supportable commute to Paris
Erik AblesonWhoops - that exploded beyond my usual network. Very happy to see that the DS is universally liked and even more so in an electric version.
Also happy to note that my standalone Mastodon instance is holding up nicely under the load
Erik AblesonAnd I have to own up to not knowing my DS history as well as I should. My parents had one when I was a kid in the early 70s, so that’s mentally how I’d tagged it, but this is more likely a model from the 60s (or maybe even the 50s !!!)
Erik AblesonAlso noting that I'm in a country back-water in (close to) the middle of nowhere at the absolute periphery of what could be considered a supportable commute to Paris
Erik AblesonNow that’s something you don’t see everyday - a 1970s era Citroen DS that has been converted to a battery electric car.
Erik AblesonAnd I have to own up to not knowing my DS history as well as I should. My parents had one when I was a kid in the early 70s, so that’s mentally how I’d tagged it, but this is more likely a model from the 60s (or maybe even the 50s !!!)
Erik AblesonNow that’s something you don’t see everyday - a 1970s era Citroen DS that has been converted to a battery electric car.
Erik AblesonJust posting this link so I can pin it until the current LLM craze dies down
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
Erik Ableson@bhawthorne@infosec.exchange Here’s my current favorite in the genre: https://www.learnancientrome.com/did-ancient-rome-have-windows/
Where the section titled “what existed before windows“ includes this gem concerning MS-DOS 🙄
Erik AblesonJust bringing this one back up again. On the nose.
Edit to add the original source: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia