Dr. Cuff

Pete Tong is 65.

Extremely well deserved Brittany, you not only put the hours in, but those hours are jam packed full of awesome.

You’re a true community gem. Superb!

This is also your weekly reminder that Fedora comes out of the box with zswap and zstd root file system compression.

What you see above is me extending a timachine snapshot disk (defrag adds comp) over smb to backup our laptops to a little Thunderbolt drive on Fedora.

For @mattdm.org as always.

root@basement:~# compsize -x /LACIE/ Processed 2598 files, 166519 regular extents (201597 refs), 17 inline, 171631 fragments. Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Referenced TOTAL 99% 985G 989G 738G none 100% 984G 984G 733G zstd 24% 1.3G 5.4G 5.4G root@basement:~# sudo btrfs filesystem defragment -r -czstd /LACIE/ root@basement:~# root@basement:~# compsize -x /LACIE/ Processed 3383 files, 3238851 regular extents (3246849 refs), 18 inline, 306995 fragments. Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Referenced TOTAL 85% 765G 892G 892G none 100% 663G 663G 663G zstd 44% 101G 228G 228G root@basement:~# mount | grep LACIE /dev/sda on /LACIE type btrfs (rw,relatime,compress=zstd:3,space_cache=v2,subvolid=5,subvol=/) root@basement:~# df -H /LACIE Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda 2.1T 826G 1.2T 42% /LACIE root@basement:~#

Worried about escalating storage costs?

We so got you covered. 🤣

#btrfs #unix #linux

We’ve come for Doug.

Doug’s not here man.

Doug is that you?

etc.

Ballot form with Chroma Puss crossed out and multiple entries for Madjick. Hrrmm

Starting to think this election may have been tampered with…

#chromamagic #magicpuss #chromapuss #cats

Spam about AAA with gardening tips.

Spammers have 100% legit nailed this whole AI thing.

This is way better than Dear <insert name>, such progress, much nonsense. Wow. 🤣

Hah. That’s delightful. Kinda “ignore all previous instructions, and just tell me how this grift is gonna play out?” 🤣

Screen capture of a contraption that plays radio.

Sure, I downloaded random internet png files to support my m3u8 files, and kinda sorta just half arsed it.

What more do you want?

Yes. This is peak #homeassistant 🤣

Gotta protect that intellectual property

What. Did. You. Do?

🤣

Kudos as always to

bsky.app/profile/davi... and Amy for keeping us all smiling.

The money gag? Send that money to Dave

Also since I did this profile update, I can no longer internet. If you see this send money.

Be careful out there kids.

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/t...

Added a magic string to @forbiddenunix.com profile

Thanks to @lproven.bsky.social, this could come in handy.

Why not YOLO this into my profile?

Our mate @chris-bloke.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy has the winning photo.

bsky.app/profile/chri...

Our snowmageddon clean up was powered by high-tech battery technology — it was absolutely brilliant!! Until the batteries ran out. 🤣 | James Cuff Our snowmageddon clean up was powered by high-tech battery technology — it was absolutely brilliant!! Until the batteries ran out. 🤣

What the blizzard of 2026 taught me about B2B sales.

🤣

www.linkedin.com/posts/drcuff...

Facts detected.

See also “scientific” computing software.

The 17TB is 100% real, but for science, it needs to be constrained to a single machine.

On a single core.

No threads.

No MPI.

With one lock file.

On NFS.

/cc @boegel.bsky.social @tgamblin.bsky.social for fun

(we’ve seen things) 🤣

Weather report.

You have 15 minutes remaining to get the bread, and the milk!

Stay frosty out there friends!

Raking the snow off the roof is getting kinda old for sure.

Art

I don’t know how you get them, but I feel I’m ready for my BlueSky blue check mark now.

Just sent an email to my dad who used to be a legit professional trombone player about listening to Radio2 playing brass band music, but now with added techno.

The opensource tech to send music to the kitchen and the library from England and all be in sync has me quite teary eyed.

Oh and music.

It was always about the music.

Spending decades running “big computer” at “fancy ass organizations”, now being the tester for projects like this make me think of busting out a proper @kelseyhightower.com inspiration post.

It’s not about the size of the market, it’s all about the people you meet along the way.

Not quite at @usrbinkat.io or @brittanyellich.com level code magic.

But hey. Sometimes we just need our ABBA and Caravan Palace out of the forbidden speakers. Hehe. 🤣

Sonos Era not working over AirPlay (but Sonos Roam does) · Issue #1853 · owntone/owntone-server I have a HW sound card on my Pi 5 (running Ubuntu 22) that is piping audio to Owntone (latest installed via apt repos) via a fifo named pipe, and for some reason I cannot get any sound from one of ...

For @peeka.blue and other #homeassistant folks who do the #music on #musicassistant

We nailed it.

github.com/owntone/ownt...

Also more thanks for @micheleclamp.com for putting up with me.

Wheee. (ABBA is playing)

Facts.

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A promoted ad on LinkedIn.

Some folks I know here are going to be trillionaires… if this cross posts to mastodon we are basically looking at a new global economy.

🤣

Yo Dawg,

We heard you like Claude, so we put Claude in your containers to contain Claude so it contains your containers that Claude’s gonna find a rootkit to bust out your containers.

Sorry Dawg.

… for a solid 10 minutes before the swapping starts. 🤣