Jonathan Corbet
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@baconandcoconut We used BBB to run the Linux Plumbers Conference entirely online during the worst of the pandemic. The conference brought in 700 or so people, and we had individual sessions with as many as 200 in them.
I wrote a bit about the experience at https://lwn.net/Articles/830436/
We used fairly hefty cloud instances to host it - too hefty, really, but we didn't want to risk problems.
The scalability point with BBB is really the number of video feeds you have going at any time. Once you approach around 20, things tend to fall apart - on the client side, not on the server. We established a convention that you only turn on your video when you are actively participating in a discussion, and really didn't have any problems.
I routinely host meetings of 10-12 people on a server hosted on a two-CPU basic Linode VM, and it works great.
Feel free to drop me a line if you have questions.
I wrote a bit about the experience at https://lwn.net/Articles/830436/
We used fairly hefty cloud instances to host it - too hefty, really, but we didn't want to risk problems.
The scalability point with BBB is really the number of video feeds you have going at any time. Once you approach around 20, things tend to fall apart - on the client side, not on the server. We established a convention that you only turn on your video when you are actively participating in a discussion, and really didn't have any problems.
I routinely host meetings of 10-12 people on a server hosted on a two-CPU basic Linode VM, and it works great.
Feel free to drop me a line if you have questions.
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At the end of 2021, the Marshall fire swept through a highly populated part of Boulder County, destroying over 1,000 homes over the course of a few hours in an area where nobody had really thought #wildfires were a big risk.
Since then, the county has been putting out regular newsletters on the recovery process. A recent one (https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/COBOULDER/bulletins/368ffb5) includes the news that FEMA put together, for the first time, a "mitigation assessment team" to study how neighborhoods can be made more resistant to wildfire disasters. Everything from subdivision planning to how to make one's house less likely to burn. A lot of good information there.
This isn't fun stuff to think about but, as recent events have made clear yet again, we don't have a lot of choice in this matter. There's going to be more fires, and they are going to happen in surprising places. I hope this information finds its way into thought processes and building codes quickly.
I always knew I didn't like junipers...
Since then, the county has been putting out regular newsletters on the recovery process. A recent one (https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/COBOULDER/bulletins/368ffb5) includes the news that FEMA put together, for the first time, a "mitigation assessment team" to study how neighborhoods can be made more resistant to wildfire disasters. Everything from subdivision planning to how to make one's house less likely to burn. A lot of good information there.
This isn't fun stuff to think about but, as recent events have made clear yet again, we don't have a lot of choice in this matter. There's going to be more fires, and they are going to happen in surprising places. I hope this information finds its way into thought processes and building codes quickly.
I always knew I didn't like junipers...
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Today, it seems, is my lucky day ... I got data breach notifications from two separate companies, each of which holds some subset of my healthcare data. The good news is that they are generously offering me a year of credit monitoring, I'm sure that will fix everything right up.
How is it that these people can still write "we take your data security seriously" with a straight face?
How is it that these people can still write "we take your data security seriously" with a straight face?
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I'm sorry but it's a beautiful morning and the approximately 12,423 emails sitting in my linux-kernel folder are just going to have to wait.
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"Web environment integrity" — because Chrome isn't dominant enough yet?
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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A recent exchange on the lists reminds me of a rule of thumb I've had occasion to apply more than once: never attribute to malice that which can be explained by the person involved being a non-native speaker of $LANGUAGE_IN_USE.
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There is a certain sort of cognitive dissonance that comes with waiting in a long line of idling cars for an emissions test. It makes me appreciate, yet again, that the other car is an #EV (a Bolt, mind you, not one of those elonthings). Our determination to never acquire another internal-combustion vehicle, already strong, has been reinforced.
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A celebration of Independence Day that makes me truly proud of my Wyoming roots... https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/07/03/pure-patriotism-unleashed-reporter-plays-star-spangled-banner-on-chainsaw/
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@brauner This is something I raised at the maintainers summit a couple of years ago ... the addition of kfuncs is almost entirely invisible and, thus, not widely reviewed.
6.5 has seen the addition of five kfuncs (so far): bpf_cpumask_any_and_distribute, bpf_cpumask_any_distribute, bpf_cpumask_first_and, bpf_sock_destroy, and bpf_task_under_cgroup
6.5 has seen the addition of five kfuncs (so far): bpf_cpumask_any_and_distribute, bpf_cpumask_any_distribute, bpf_cpumask_first_and, bpf_sock_destroy, and bpf_task_under_cgroup
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@brauner There was a whole discussion on this back in January: https://lwn.net/Articles/921088/
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Concerts at Red Rocks can often be surprising, but this isn't the sort of surprise attendees are generally after... https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/21/red-rocks-convert-fans-hail-injured/
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Daniel Ellsberg died today. Goodbye to a courageous defender of much that is good.
Here's a couple of pictures I took of him at a protest at the Nevada nuclear test site sometime in the mid 1980's.
Here's a couple of pictures I took of him at a protest at the Nevada nuclear test site sometime in the mid 1980's.
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It has been some time since I played with OsmAnd; I'm surprised by how good it has gotten in the meantime. The user interface is still a bit annoying at times, but functionally it mostly outdoes the proprietary competition at this point.
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Things are going so great in ElonLand that Twitter managed to get evicted from its Boulder office...
https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/06/14/boulder-twitter-eviction-unpaid-rent/
https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/06/14/boulder-twitter-eviction-unpaid-rent/
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Local Boulder news, perhaps, but for those of us who watched over 1,000 homes burn down, in just a few hours, from our front steps, a determination of the cause (or causes, as it turns out) is a pretty big deal.
Nobody, it seems, is being charged for having started this disaster, a decision that seems correct based on the evidence as described. I can only imagine that the lawsuits are going to keep an army of lawyers employed for a long time, though.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/COBOULDER/bulletins/35f05e9
Nobody, it seems, is being charged for having started this disaster, a decision that seems correct based on the evidence as described. I can only imagine that the lawsuits are going to keep an army of lawyers employed for a long time, though.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/COBOULDER/bulletins/35f05e9
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@geert Amusingly, I'm currently in *your* country/region...but WireGuard hid that blocking so I didn't even know it existed. Apologies for that. An alternative that seems to lack this blocking is https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a44118928/cows-attack-runner-on-boulder-trail/
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This crime problem really is getting out of hand...it's not even safe to go jogging anymore... https://kdvr.com/news/local/jogger-attacked-by-cows-in-boulder-county/
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So I am distinctly grumpy with the Internet for having, for some unknown and inexplicable reason, failed to tell me about NO_COLOR for the last five years or so. Maybe I can finally stop cursing the people who think that yellow text on a white background is somehow legible...
https://no-color.org/
https://no-color.org/
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@larsmb Well said: "I'm quite happy to not be welcoming to those who feel offended by rainbow colors."
https://lwn.net/ml/opensuse-factory/zhrxgrswkc44svmgmiiqtgoslnq3gc3evv33kfjdfugssoku36@i2p3owz3gbo2/
https://lwn.net/ml/opensuse-factory/zhrxgrswkc44svmgmiiqtgoslnq3gc3evv33kfjdfugssoku36@i2p3owz3gbo2/
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