...and finally (since Sunday afternoon) in Wisconsin.

And yesterday (since I've been remiss in posting), a visit to Arches.

@domi @voltagex @th For the in-band firmware update mechanism (i.e. through the BMC's web interface), the *.ima files ASRock uses are yes, a raw flash image, but typically with a footer appended with some additional little bits (checksums of some sort, perhaps?) that I think its update machinery may actually verify, though I'm not certain.

However, you can probably bypass that by blasting new firmware in from the host via @arj's nifty tool culvert.

@voltagex @th @domi Having worked with a decent number of ASRock Rack boards, I've yet to encounter one that uses secure boot -- a handful of recent-ish ones are also now supported (to varying degrees) in mainline OpenBMC, FWIW. (I've never dealt with any Asus systems.)

@th @domi In my experience with Supermicros (at least on earlier ones without BMC secure boot), without even opening up the chassis it's also pretty easy to unpack a firmware image, replace the useless SMASH CLP shell with a symlink to a real shell, re-pack/install/boot, and then just ssh into it.

@arj @voltagex @directhex I haven't actually worked with any ASRock systems with an on-board discrete power supply (only externally-supplied 12VDC), so unfortunately I'm wholly unfamiliar with the workings of their BMC<->PSU machinery.

@rk Depending on your window manager, couldn't a modal dialog also pop up out of nowhere with a button of its own in the same spot?

@regehr Same thing happened here (Seattle) last week -- shortly before the and-then-it-was-hailing stage it exceeded the flow capacity of our gutter->rain-chain outlet so we just had a waterfall over the edge of the gutter. Probably the hardest I've seen it rain since moving here 3 years ago?

@tedu So polite of the heat to respect the state line like that!

@arj Less than I'd like, but I still do from time to time...

@arj Oh neat! I'm pretty sure one of their other trombonists (not the one in that particular video) was in the jazz band at my high school, though we weren't quite in the same band at the same time.

@w8emv @aburka Yeah, that's the one...also a video of a short talk on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxribsZFDQQ

@w8emv @aburka That does sound like sshfs in reverse -- so you could perhaps use sshfs back from the beefy server to your local client (it has configurable caching options available).

Though I wonder if perhaps what @aburka is remembering is cpu from Plan 9? (Which is of course one of those annoyingly-named things that's nigh impossible to search for, so I don't have a great link to point to at the moment...)

@stephen0x2dfox @endrift No idea what the odds of it being fruitful vs. an exercise in futility might be (or if you've already tried it?), but there's an email address and phone number listed in the Google Cloud OrgAbuse contact info in whois...

@mattblaze Slightly higher if you only count Cleveland once!

@tedu The combination of the "dive even deeper into hell" copy and a person whose expression seems to suggest that she yearns for the sweet release of death is a real winning combo. Where do I sign?

@tedu Is anything really permanent though?

"Look upon my pixels, ye mighty, and despair!"

@glyph @kasperd @gvwilson @vaurora ...and further, the btrfs transaction facility got removed about six years ago (in Linux 4.17). The small trace of it that remains hints at some of the dragons lurking there:

/* trans start and trans end are dangerous, and only for
 * use by applications that know how to avoid the
 * resulting deadlocks
 */

@alex @arj Neat, glad it's back in working order!

@dougall Also perhaps noteworthy: the commit that fixes it is a revert of a revert...of a revert. (Hello, semantic satiation.)

And further, the commit hashes of second and third commits in that chain of reverts (the most recent two) just so happen to have fourteen prefix bits in common, throwing off my mental tracking of which was which via the first three hex digits when trying to count how many reversions had actually happened.

@regehr @steve Sounds to me like they're territorial, but to a fairly limited extent compatible with habitats of a density roughly comparable to that of NYC.

@gorplop @mothcompute Even u-boot is configured with Kconfig these days...

@cliffle @jmc

Have a look at the tcl_each macro!

You know you're in for a good time when you look at a macro definition and (literally) see TERROR.

@cliffle Just out of curiosity, what necessitates the nop in the loop there?

While Bowie did not, in reality, appear to be terribly interested in the aurora (or show any signs of even noticing it at all, frankly), I like how transfixed by it he looks in these photos.

@cliffle Or for a somewhat different style, Herbie Hancock offers both 'Future 2 Future' and 'Future Shock' (though the latter sounds more like something such a runtime might want to aim to avoid). Definitely not The Police's 1983 album though.