Episode 8: In which the cat finds some catnip on the floor and goes bonkers #caturday

Saw this in my desk drawer and thought of you @coypu #RISCOS

CAMRA's new report on the state of beer, brewing and hospitality in the UK is essential reading; not just for beer drinkers, but consumers in general as well as critics of globalisation

https://camra.org.uk/beer-report

#RealAle #CAMRA

#SilentSunday

#CambridgeBeerFestival has just opened (as did the heavens with a torrential downpour). Been working hard cutting kilos of cheese alongside @ptribble

Just watching Marcus Wareing on Saturday Kitchen. How do you pronounce almond?

#pronunciation

Yes, it's the same with @xcpng as #XenServer. XenCenter and XCP-ng Center don't offer the SR-IOV network as an option for VMs. Luckily, #XenOrchestra gets that right.

While there I tested various #BSD OSes with SR-IOV and Intel i350 NICs:

#NetBSD - NIC is described (as defined in pcidevs), but no driver
#OpenBSD - NIC entirely unknown as not in pcidevs
#FreeBSD - virtual function works straight off as igb0

The #NetBSD and slightly-newer #OpenBSD iavf(8) drivers only support much newer NICs.

Well, that was annoying. I enabled SR-IOV in #XenServer and it stopped traffic to all VLANs on all interfaces. This is fair enough on the physical interface that SR-IOV is enabled on, but I wasn't expecting it to affect all NICs.

I wasted a lot of time hunting through switch and router configs to track this down.

Disabling SR-IOV isn't sufficient, each host needs to be rebooted afterwards. Let me see if I can recreate with @xcpng

Those joke letters in #Viz are actually quite accurate

#SilentSunday

Speaking of beer, there's an article in the #CAMRA magazine about #CaskAle in the #USA name-checking Portland, Brooklyn, Georgia and Arizona. I'd love to hear how visible this is in real life to the discerning beer drinkers on the Fediverse

Yay, fixed the WiFi on the coffee machine. I don't whether @stefano would consider brewing from an app to be a crime against nature or the pinnacle of human achievement.

Stupid Delonghi coffee machine has dropped off the WiFi. Now I have to walk downstairs like a chump to switch it on #FirstWorldProblems

Now that's a good deal. Reduced from £10.40 to £12.92 for quick sale

I hate driving anywhere near #Sheffield. The ring road and main route signposted to the motorways (M1 and M18) are part of a Clean Air zone that you have to pay to use. I was simply traveling from the Peak District, dropping someone where they could catch a tram and heading back towards Scunthorpe. Instead, the signed and satnav routes kept springing "Charges ahead" signs on me leading to 40 minutes of wider and wider circuits polluting more than would have happened on the quick dual carriageway

I wonder how many other #NetBSD devs got this spam?

Hello Stephen,

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Is NetBSD planning to implement AI initiatives this year? We support teams in starting with small pilot projects that demonstrate their value before scaling.

Open to a quick chat?

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P.S. Simply reply with 'Stop' to opt out.

Thanks #Cloudflare for demonstrating to @theregister why centralisation is bad

This is someone parked:
a) on zigzag yellow lines outside a school
b) on the pavement
c) actually blocking the drive into the school so no-one can get in or out

The lollipop man isn't happy.

How terrible it would have been if their little darling had had to walk another 10m to the car had it been parked sensibly.

#ParkingMorons #Selfish

I have uploaded the slides for my #EuroBSDCon2025 #ebc25 talk about creating products with #NetBSD (and why I chose NetBSD in the first place)

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/sborrill/eurobsdcon2025/NetManager.pdf

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/SMSYQE/

This is terrible news for the provision of end-of-life care in #Cambridge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8w4gl42k5o