eliza🌻
@elizas.website
e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
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eliza🌻
@elizas.website
· Mar 5
it is very telling that “BIOS”, in addition to being an acronym, is also the Greek word for “life”. meanwhile, “UEFI” is, of course, ancient Greek for “unified extensible firmware interface”
i mean, fans are still the same price…
February 9, 2026 at 6:54 AM
i mean, fans are still the same price…
the last one is honestly pretty good
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
the last one is honestly pretty good
considered replying with a link to the NEMIX RAM website, thought better of it
February 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
considered replying with a link to the NEMIX RAM website, thought better of it
it’s bad out there, folks
February 8, 2026 at 5:26 PM
it’s bad out there, folks
this is how you know it’s gonna be a good website
February 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
this is how you know it’s gonna be a good website
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Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master
Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert
Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master
Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert
Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert
capacity_planning dot png
February 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
capacity_planning dot png
yeah, there could very well also be OCR involved too. maybe the emails were printed out, redacted by hand, and then scanned? who knows!
February 5, 2026 at 2:47 AM
yeah, there could very well also be OCR involved too. maybe the emails were printed out, redacted by hand, and then scanned? who knows!
so that’s likely due to an older version of Outlook or something being involved, possibly at the time that the emails were being sent and received, rather than when they were exported.
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 AM
so that’s likely due to an older version of Outlook or something being involved, possibly at the time that the emails were being sent and received, rather than when they were exported.
i believe the equals signs are actually an artifact from an 8-bit escaping scheme that used to be really common in SMTP mail servers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-...
Quoted-printable - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 AM
i believe the equals signs are actually an artifact from an 8-bit escaping scheme that used to be really common in SMTP mail servers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-...
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This message is a warning about danger.
The danger exists in your time as it did in ours.
This message is a warning about danger.
The danger exists in your time as it did in ours.
February 5, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This message is a warning about danger.
The danger exists in your time as it did in ours.
This message is a warning about danger.
The danger exists in your time as it did in ours.
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one thing the web should have evolved by now is a portable non-centralised way to verifiably assert "I am the owner of <email address>" because this is clearly necessary for loads of things and approximately nobody does a good job of implementing it
February 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
one thing the web should have evolved by now is a portable non-centralised way to verifiably assert "I am the owner of <email address>" because this is clearly necessary for loads of things and approximately nobody does a good job of implementing it
well it stores data just fine, as long as the data is all zeroes
January 31, 2026 at 8:15 PM
well it stores data just fine, as long as the data is all zeroes
“Bit coin is trans Gender” — jeffrey epstein, apparently
January 31, 2026 at 8:15 PM
“Bit coin is trans Gender” — jeffrey epstein, apparently
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We take it for granted today, but a single 6W embedded NPU can do more tensor operations per second than a peasant in the 1400s could perform in his whole lifetime
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We take it for granted today, but a single 6W embedded NPU can do more tensor operations per second than a peasant in the 1400s could perform in his whole lifetime
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“external fan cage is cheaper than change whole BMC firmware”
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
“external fan cage is cheaper than change whole BMC firmware”
if /dev/null is fast in webscale then i will use it
January 31, 2026 at 3:59 PM
if /dev/null is fast in webscale then i will use it
incredible missed opportunity for them to say “elder hatesman”
January 30, 2026 at 10:49 PM
incredible missed opportunity for them to say “elder hatesman”
the intrusion detection system!
January 29, 2026 at 5:44 PM
the intrusion detection system!
enjoying the comments on r/Gundam that are like “you should watch the entire First Gundam show instead of the recap movies because, uh…the animation is bad and you won’t properly appreciate how bad it is unless you sit through the whole thing?”
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 AM
enjoying the comments on r/Gundam that are like “you should watch the entire First Gundam show instead of the recap movies because, uh…the animation is bad and you won’t properly appreciate how bad it is unless you sit through the whole thing?”
i made the diagram using Mermaid in an issue comment (github.com/oxidecompute...), tried to make it into an ASCII art using ASCIIFlow, got frustrated, and rm offered to do it for me
thermal: it's PARTY TIME!!! by hawkw · Pull Request #2362 · oxidecomputer/hubris
The Problem
We have recently been seeing a number of Cosmo-Bs being shut down by the thermal control loop under load, and we we would really prefer they didn't do this. This has generally occur...
github.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
i made the diagram using Mermaid in an issue comment (github.com/oxidecompute...), tried to make it into an ASCII art using ASCIIFlow, got frustrated, and rm offered to do it for me