My apartment complex has a one-page newsletter that includes a Pet Of The Month photo. It's always a dog or a cat.

Pondering sending this one in, as a dare.

UPDATE: Sent it. "His name is Fermi. He is very polite."

Fermi has a concern.

Not about anything in particular. Just a concern. #petRats #rats

#openzfs normally does a great job of naming things, but then they go and name a metadata-specific VDEV a "special VDEV."

That's its name. The Special VDEV. :flan_facepalm:

Anyway, I'm going through the #openzfsmastery caching chapter again. Lots of stuff to tweak from yesterday's draft, especially as @brnrd packaged zarcstats for us.

tomorrow's #60secondsOfWIP is recorded: "sshd and Emacs."

Catch up at https://mwl.io/podcasts or wherever you get your background babble.

oooh, these videos have a survey!

"My disability means I have a hard time learning from video. From this 20-minute video, I retained only that the camera is the size of a pencil. I need important information in text."

It will change nothing, but I had the chance to vent and took it.

The hospital says I MUST watch their video to have my shoulder surgery.

If they wanted me to learn the information, they would provide it in writing.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/117558814998256825

Brutal, but fair

RE: https://wandering.shop/@thorncoyle/117558798527170388

The only good sea lions.

"The ARC wants to be helpful, like a young Wesley Crusher." #openzfsmastery #nonotryagain

See, not EVERY thought I have goes into a book!

I've spent a long time pondering the difference between a "script" and a "command" in Unix.

Am increasingly convinced that commands come with man pages. Scripts do not. #sysadmin

Bluekakke

I need to pet Truffle.

Quercy, meanwhile, insists that I need to be groomed. #petRats #rats

RE: https://tilde.zone/@misterdave/117555640082899168

"I must not hope. Hope is the mind killer."

if I had money, sigh

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ravensridge/one-thousand-rats-devour-a-city

#OpenZFS includes arcstat, their standard tool to interrogate ARC stats.

It's in python, so #FreeBSD doesn't install it.

It'd be really nice to have this as a package before #openzfsmastery comes out.

if I look at the news, I might feel hope.

Don't make me feel anything as horrid as hope.

Today I got groceries and wrote a whole damn chapter of my new tech book.

Tonight, I am not watching the news. I am gonna eat a chicken and mushroom pie from the British Pride Bakery, watch Star Trek, and converse with the rats.

That's #openzfsmastery Chapter 15, on caches, done!

Like the October "See the Sausage Being Made" post says, nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of being hanged...

Me looking at new followers:

"oh, they're on mastodon.social? Seems sus, I better watch out."

"Catgirls dot whatever? Now THAT'S legit."

The fedi rocks.

(Organic beings are all welcome to follow no matter what host they're on. I just know where the spammers live, that's all...)

"The run-time tunables arc.max and arc.min let you set the maximum and minimum size for a host’s ARC. Linux doesn’t use periods for tunables so they’re shown as arc_min and arc_max. Older versions of OpenZFS did have arc_max and arc_min tunables, but they have been deprecated by arc.max and arc.min."

I picked a hell of a week to stop self-trepanning. #openzfsmastery