s_mcleod

@s_mcleod@aus.social

I'm an engineer specialising in platform / infra automation and performance, team leadership and culture. One of those folk that were into the whole DevOps thing "before it was cool". A fan of remote work.

Outside of work I'm passionate about collecting / hunting for interesting music, HiFi gear, IoT, things with engines. Full time cat whisperer.

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    s_mcleod,

    @decryption a lot missing from there - Slow Horses, Foundation, Paul T Goldman, Silo, Justified: City Primeval, Clarkson's Farm

    s_mcleod, to random

    Software communities that use discord instead of an issue tracker / forum / wiki as a knowledge base and to share code / assets really do my head in.

    Discord is a terrible knowledge, repository, and promotes valuing instant answers from individuals rather than shared knowledge.

    s_mcleod, to devops

    New blog post: 'MBA Washing' https://smcleod.net/2023/11/mba-washing/

    s_mcleod,

    @decryption nah man, I wouldn’t blog about that - everyone knows you just submerge them in milk (use full fat, not skim) overnight, it’s practically common knowledge.

    s_mcleod, to security

    Why are so many enterprise security teams so incredibly inept when it comes to basic communication skills and the ability to work together towards a common goal?

    Any team / business unit can be bad at these things (and often are in the "enterprise") but the problem seems especially prevalent with security teams.

    And no, branding your teams / culture as devsecops does not fix the problem.

    #Security #Culture #Agile #Development #BlueTeam #EnterpriseWankers

    s_mcleod, to random

    @decryption 99

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    s_mcleod,

    @decryption can do 4k 60fps if you really want 😜

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    @decryption

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    s_mcleod, to llm

    M.2 NVMe -> PCIe x16 + some dodgy cabling = Tesla P100 eGPU 😂

    Combined with my RTX3090 I can load Q4/Q5 70b models 100% into vRAM with exllama or autogpqt

    #LLM #AI #ML #Llama #Nvidia #GPT

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    s_mcleod,

    @decryption thanks bro, I haven't had to do a wheel alignment yet though 😉

    s_mcleod, (edited )

    @decryption haha danno, you've seen the massive turdo' I've bolted to it 😂

    I've actually got a second one here if you know anyone that is in the market for a P100 12GB, happy to print them a fan adapter if they're a good sort.

    afilina, to random
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    In 1997, when we still had 56k modems, if your website took 10 seconds to load, you lost most of your users. Today, Outlook spins for 20 seconds on a 300 Mbps connection, despite being in cache, and everyone is somehow fine with this regression.

    This is without counting the lengthy SSO loop that we need to repeat every morning, because "remember me" is also no longer a feature in 2023, it seems.

    s_mcleod,

    @afilina yeah between JS heavy websites and SSO I feel like I spend half my life loading or logging back into things.

    Paywall/Loginwalled websites (Medium, Reddit etc...) and SSO/OAuth re-authentication daily is painful.

    And it's not just websites -

    CLI tools whenever you're working with enterprise clients that force insanely short session expiries for things like awscli - you end up having to log into each account in each terminal session every single hour 😫.

    Password managers every time I lock my machine.

    Every time applications are updated/modified locally (outside the app store).

    and the list goes on...

    s_mcleod, to random

    It is 2023 isn't it?

    I had a referral from the GP and called the specialist to make a booking...

    They said they don't accept email referrals as they're "Not as good quality as Fax" and said I had to fax it through to them.

    So, 1) wtf 2) no seriously, wtf

    s_mcleod, to random

    wtf is this

    #smokedraweggs

    s_mcleod, to machinelearning

    Picked up an old Tesla P100 accelerator card off eBay quite cheap, managed to get it working in my home server.

    Had to print up some ducts to add active cooling (they're usually cooled by the airflow within the server they're installed in), added a little fan smoother/adjuster and a few brackets to hold the (massive) card in place, then whipped up a little helper utility that reads from nvidia-smi GPU temp data to set the 12v fan speed as I was having issues getting fancontrol to read nvidia's i2c values in a useful way.

    It's still a bit too noisy when under load, the fan I've got doesn't rotate until you apply at least 40% of the PWM cycle as it's a big-boi, so might look at getting a couple of smaller fans perhaps, just want to make sure the thing doesn't cook.

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    s_mcleod,

    @jpm Yeah tried that actually, I can get it down to about 33% with that method.

    I probably need a couple of smaller, or at least higher quality fans, at the moment I'm just running a budget one - https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B082KKYRRY

    theconversationau, to random

    The rise in the cost of living in NZ has been followed by calls to cut GST from fresh food.

    However, overseas experiences suggests a targeted system using smart cards would be more effective than changes to the tax system, writes Ranjana Gupta (@AUTuni). https://theconversation.com/cutting-gst-on-fresh-produce-wont-help-those-most-in-need-a-targeted-approach-works-better-207598?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1690655611

    s_mcleod,

    @theconversationau need to properly regulate the for-profit super markets and offer a people owned alternative that has motivations other than profit for shareholders.

    s_mcleod, to random

    What happened to Siri in 2019?

    Around the release of iOS 13 Siri's accuracy was significantly reduced. Seemingly over night Siri went from being easily the best voice recognition I'd ever seen - to being one of the worst and it hasn't recovered.

    Back on iOS 11/12 - Siri's average accuracy when I was speaking standard English (aka not jargon) was a pretty consistent 94%.

    As soon as iOS 12 (or it may have been 13) was released there was a massive dive right down to 30-75%.

    Interestingly 4 years on and it hasn't got back to where it was previously - in fact I doubt it's really improved much at all as it's average accuracy now seems to sit around 60% for me.

    I do wonder if Apple doesn't test New Zealand and Australian accents very well and has made some sort of storage or compute savings by applying a less specific model to it's speech recognition engine.

    Does anyone have any insight as to what might have happened?

    #Apple #Siri #VoiceControl #Dictation #iOS #Australia #NewZealand

    s_mcleod,

    @decryption so I can't remember the details, but I remember figuring out that it went to crap after it was already local on device. If it went to on-device in iOS 12 - it would have been iOS 13 where it turned to custard. 

    I wish I'd saved the conversations where I did the measurements. I remember being surprised how it was just as good on device as it was in the cloud.

    s_mcleod, to random

    Profiteering Australian supermarket giant Woolworths is raising prices again despite yearly profits and growth.

    The same company is also continuing to promote the use of plastics over renewables both in store and when ordering online.

    Basic food is a fundamental human right - not for something for corporations to profit from.

    #Australia #Woolworths #Environment #Profiteering #CrappyCompanies

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