Thanks for the live view, @esa.int! Total solar eclipse 2026: Telescopic feed (Official ESA broadcast)

"Sometime earlier this decade, we passed some invisible line where it became cheaper to produce energy from the sun and the wind than from setting stuff on fire." (@billmckibben.bsky.social in this interview with Ezra Klein -- link in the comments.)

Me and a buddy hanging out in Vail.

Rifle Falls, Colorado.

Responding to a support request on a weekend when one of the dogs starts roughhousing with the other one sitting next to me. I've been experimenting with voice input so this happened.

I encourage National Parks employees to disobey this order and fail to collect entry fees on MLK Jr Day and Juneteenth, and collect fees on Trump's birthday in spite of this Dear Leader nonsense. (Hat tip: mstdn.social/@mattmay)

I really enjoyed my time at #SC25. Thanks to everyone who stopped me in the halls, took time to talk with me about things you thought were important, or stopped by to visit us at the Texas Tech booth. It was a really enjoyable experience. Thank you!

@glennklockwood.com and @willkill07.bsky.social in the house!

Made my day when @jeffgeerling.com stopped by the Texas Tech #SC25 booth to take a look at our x86 mini-clusters that run Warewulf, Ansible, Spack, and complete scientific #HPC applications with the same software stack as on our main clusters.

P.S.: We built a 20-node x86 mini-cluster with 2.5 GbE plus a head node with 2 TB NFS storage for 2/3rds of that amount (pre-tarriffs) that handily out-performs @jeffgeerling.com's 10-node effort and without trying came in second in our first entry into the sbcc.io undergraduate student competition.

Know the difference!

Those of you who know me know what this is. It’s midway through its initial qualification test runs now.

For example, I can't build this with US-made boards:

Meme for my next university IT internal management meeting. Feedback welcome!

Dear @bsky.app: Literally nobody wants this setting on by default, in my opinion. Certainly I don't, and it's annoying to have to turn it off in every instance of the app on every device that I own, rather than having the setting be sticky for my account across all devices. Fix this, please?

While driving, I received a text with a picture from my sister that Siri described to me with its new #AI features as a picture of an outdoor scene with a cat. The cat:

Current home ride. (Super fast and draws almost no power!)

I bought this for the featured content, but what am I supposed to do with the DVDs? None of the machines I have at work or at home have DVD drives, whether small or large. Oh, wait: I do have a Windows PC the university gave me that I could usefully reimage with Rocky Linux! @rockylinux.org

#HPC folks in Atlanta: We still have some hpc.social stickers to give away today at the Texas Tech booth at #SC24, along with some other goodies.

Ah.

You folks still stuck on Twitter are missing out!

Much better!

We've got 8 HPC centers and 27 individuals so far with entries in the community map at https://hpc.social/map/! We've added automated scanning and manual review of URLs entered for purposes of safety and enabled self-editing of your responses to the map entry form. Thanks @vsoch!

Passed our first 150 accounts on https://mast.hpc.social and growing steadily! #HPC #Mastodon #community

Third test in 7 days since I left early from #SC22 and still testing clear! I credit my trusty mask. It looks like a plain cloth one but it hides an N95 secret! I find it can be adjusted to fit snugly & is easier to put on and adjust. I replace the N95 periodically. Works for me.

Great turnout for the #SC22 BOF on “Addressing #HPC’s Carbon Footprint”! Hope for real action as a result.

Hope to see folks at this important BOF at #SC22 at 12:25 pm in room D171 on “Addressing #HPC’s Carbon Footprint”!

SC’22.

This is from the man himself, folks. Resist the peer pressure and follow the science. Wear your masks at @Supercomputing! https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-faucis-sign-off-message/