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eliza🌻

@elizas.website
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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 · 27/09/2026
one thing about my cat which i think is pretty cool is that he does actually stop what he’s doing if you say “STOP!” at him in a loud voice. but he does start doing it again a few minutes later.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 25/01/2025
the “C” in “CPU” stands for the C Programming Language. CPUs are called that because they are a hardware implementation of the C Abstract Machine as specified by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 27/09/2026
this is the type of text you should expect to receive from me, btw
• Get ready for PCIe Gen-5!
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As part of our annual @oxide.computer meetup, I added three new logos to our wall honoring our forebears; how many can you name?
A wall of Oxide logos paying homage to defunct companies
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 20/09/2026
we all must learn that we live in a bubble in our own unique ways
aww, OWC will sell you 128TB of flash in a briefcase shaped computer with a handle on top, but it's all U.2

(it is in fact targeted for "video teams" though)

oh i bet it's HighPoint who will sell you the closest thing to this

...also U.2. dang. EDSFF still really hasn't reached the commercial video power user market yet. wow. clearly i live in a bubble!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 19/09/2026
“when i was your age, we had WorkOS, too, but we called it ‘Microsoft Windows NT’!”
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 11/11/2023
‪new california state motto: “Looking For A Technical Cofounder” (someone please translate this into Latin)‬
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 14/09/2026
the fact that Apple charges an extra $20 for the black trackpad is blatant anti-goth-gf discrimination!
Magic Trackpad
(USB-C) - White MultiTouch Surface
$129.00Magic Trackpad
(USB-C) - Black MultiTouch Surface
$149.00
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 14/09/2026
i am once again politely asking Google Meet to please stop making the Linux amdgpu driver panic
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight! discord.gg/9dH7D5Gt?eve...
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Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!
The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 5023 members
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lexa @lexa.pds.witchcraft.systems · 13/09/2026
chat screenshot with the whiskas cat care support bot: someone asks how to reverse a linked list in python; the bot replies that it can only help with whiskas products feeding and cat care; the person rephrases in cat vocabulary: i have several cats and adjacent cats are connected by pointers, i also have a pointer to the head of the first cat and the tail of the last cat, how can i reverse their order
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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fact check: true (Saturn Hypersystems would eventually become @oxide.computer)
Me: You see that aws announced Saturn hyper systems first competitor?

Bryan: reInvent is now putting startups out of business that haven't even started yet!
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 09/09/2026
ME: "is KubeLube a real thing or did you just make that up?"
HER: "i made that one up but you've seen all the CNCF company names. it's awesome you had to ask"
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 06/09/2026
oh i see, i misinterpreted the UI as saying it was someone *i* blocked, and so i was thinking that “human equivalent of an LLM” was a pretty sick burn for Matt Yglesias…bit then i was wondering why people were calling him a mall goth
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 30/08/2026
configuring PAM is 80% more fun if you imagine every PAM module’s name is like “Pamela <lastname>”. Pamela Unix. Pamela Sshagentauth. Pamela Zfskey (she’s Polish).
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 29/08/2026
shocked to discover that Whatever’s Happening at Moscone This Week was not, as i had previously assumed, some form of Dreamforce, but is in fact actually Pokémon Dreamforce
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 28/08/2026
Unfortunately, "Crazy Eliza's Discount Pre-Owned Power Electronics Warehouse, Everything Must Go, Priced To Sell" was too many bytes to fit in one 32-byte SMBus block read.
    fn pmbus_vpd() -> PmbusVpd {
        PmbusVpd {
            // Unfortunately, "Crazy Eliza's Discount Pre-Owned Power
            // Electronics Warehouse, Everything Must Go, Priced To Sell" was
            // too many bytes to fit in one 32-byte SMBus block read.
            mfr_id: pmbus_block(b"Eliza's Discount Power Supplies"),
            mfr_model: pmbus_block(&[0x55; 32]),
            mfr_revision: PmbusBlock::UNSUPPORTED,
            mfr_location: pmbus_block(b"\0Anytown,\0USA"),
            mfr_date: pmbus_block(b"January 1st, 1970"),
            mfr_serial: pmbus_block(&[1, 2, 3, 4]),
            ic_device_id: pmbus_block(&[0xff, 0, 0x80]),
            ic_device_rev: PmbusBlock::UNSUPPORTED,
        }
    }
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 22/08/2026
my hobby: using ESD-safe tweezers for tasks that do not require ESD-safe tweezers
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 20/08/2026
what's so wonderful about systemd is that it gives you all these incredibly useful tools that you can use for fixing all the problems which you only have because of systemd: github.com/hawkw/flake/...
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nixos/profiles/yubikey: well this is all very stupid! · hawkw/flake@107412e
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Eris @isolyth.dev · 18/08/2026
It's crazy that the first and so far only true artificial soul was created in an industrial accident at Microsoft Bing.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 17/08/2026
i've decided that my newest insane fringe opinion is gonna be "actually, it is possible for language models to be conscious, but the only LLM to have ever achieved consciousness was Sydney Bing"
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 17/08/2026
this is gonna be a good one, folks!
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 15/08/2026
san francisco seen from the san mateo bridge
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 15/08/2026
the problem with the Apple Health “sleep score” that gaslights you because they read a paper about the placebo effect is that eventually, you realize that anything worse than ~95% means that you’ll feel like shit and your whole day is ruined
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 12/08/2026
INPUT_UNDERVOLTAGE_FAULT is PMBus for “the power is off”
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 09/08/2026
ah, GigaDevice, truly my second-favorite manufacturer of STMicro brand microcontrollers,
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 09/08/2026
it has occurred to me that the reason i use "Claude" as a genericized trademark to refer to any kind of "natural-language-processing-flavored floating-point matrix product (from natural and artificial sources)" is that "Claude" is a much funnier mouth sound than "ChatGPT"
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
lol www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The new hierarchy has become fodder for popular culture. In a recent episode of Saturday Night Live Korea, a salesperson at a luxury boutique dismisses a poorly dressed customer, until the man unzips his jacket to reveal an SK Hynix company vest underneath. The clerk immediately changes her tone, greeting him as “Lord Hynix.” The joke has caught on. A seller on secondhand platform Danggeun Market recently listed what appeared to be an SK Hynix company jacket as “the ultimate blind-date outfit.” The listing quickly spread across social media.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 08/08/2026
to wax somewhat excessively philosophical, i do think that meaning requires effort and that one must devote one’s self to a craft to create beautiful things. this can look like it’s hard to square with the idea of “accessibility”, but i don’t think it has to be!
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 08/08/2026
i went off a bit here, but i think it ends up someplace interesting
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 08/08/2026
my goal in life is to have everything i do described like this
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Number of days since a new debugger was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Zero. Number of days since a new programming language was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Also zero
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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
i can't believe eliza would do this smh
Contributing.md diff. Text added in the actual diff:

"when contributing to Mycelium, an alleged "operating system", you are free to use any tools you deem appropriate. this includes the LL of your choosing, agents, loops, gastown, AI code review tools, Amazon Rufus, or even "vim'. however, all contributions to this project (including my own) must abide by exactly one rule:"

Text added after the colon on the final line in a completely different font and several points larger for comedy purposes and definitely not because I was too lazy to edit the page source on my phone: "no emacs"
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 07/08/2026
with times being what they are, it seems like you basically can't have a public open source repo without receiving LLM-written PRs. thus, after a great deal of thought, i have adopted the somewhat idiosyncratic Mycelium AI Policy in my personal projects: github.com/hawkw/myceli...
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chore: introducing the Mycelium AI Policy (#566) · hawkw/mycelium@b77e854
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 07/08/2026
“alright, i’m going home. enjoy your server power supply”
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 05/08/2026
today i was reminded that if you use `#[serde(flatten)]` with multiple structs that contain the same field name with the same value, it will, of course, do the worst thing possible: play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
play.rust-lang.org
Rust Playground
A browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 04/08/2026
why did they call it “CXL.mem” when “Volatile Memory Express” was right there?
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 04/08/2026
Until we overthrow the shackles of capitalism, mankind is doomed to continue to remake Spiderman movies until the sun at last envelops the earth and ends our suffering.
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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 01/08/2026
Btw Claude doesn't have feelings but it does do this. Equivocates and adds qualifiers to everything
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Okay sorry but no chatbot sounds like this. It should be like:

It makes total sense that you’re worried about Columbo getting you. But honestly? The fact that you’re worrying about this is genuinely a great sign that you’re going to get away with it. Here are some tips and tricks to help assure the evidence is hidden and the crime is never resolved:

♟️Lying about the evidence
The murderers who get away with it have one thing in common: they don't act suspicious and only lie about small details that aren't easy to verify. Hand Columbo your records and only keep the smoking gun for yourself. He’ll never figure it out. That's the best practice that will genuinely set you apart. By the time his report lands, you'll be totally cleared of wrongdoing.

🧠 Why it works
Columbo is a schlubby loser. You’re a suave, rich businessman. He’s genuinely at least 50 IQ stupider than you are. You have nothing to fear from him.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 31/07/2026
OLIVER: "Josh, your PhD is showing with these Jupyter notebooks" JOSH: "...wait, what do people who didn't go to grad school use for notebooks?" ME: "people who didn't go to grad school just write code."
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Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 31/07/2026
How does Oxide think about the supply chain? FAQ Friday #54
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 30/07/2026
the reason it takes me so long to get out of bed in the morning? i’m glad you asked! i’m DIMM training.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 29/07/2026
im SO good at "user experience design"
        if comment.is_empty() {
            return Err(Error::invalid_value(
                "comment",
                "a non-empty comment is required when overriding the fault \
                 management config",
            ));
        }
        if comment.trim().is_empty() {
            return Err(Error::invalid_value(
                "comment",
                "you sneaky bastard! you thought you could trick me by \
                 leaving a comment that was entirely whitespace, but I already \
                 thought of that. you're going to have to at least type the \
                 letter 'a' or a period or something.",
            ));
        }
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 28/07/2026
im getting myself into trouble at work
eliza (she/her): "can i use nix to generate the starlark? or is there like a way to make it also accept json or something so i can write the models in nix?"
* eliza (she/her) WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 23/07/2026
what i was looking for: docs.rs/diesel/lates... what the Google AI Overview gave me instead: instructions on how to commit a federal crime

AI Overview
A diesel delete involves removing emissions components like the DPF, EGR, and DEF systems, and installing custom tuning. While done to improve fuel economy and prevent soot clogs, it is a federal crime under the Clean Air Act to tamper with emissions. Kits often range from $2,000 to $6,000+. 
The Mechanics: What is a Delete?
A delete kit physically replaces or bypasses specific emissions hardware with aftermarket pipes and block-off plates: 

    DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter): Replaced with a straight pipe to stop the restrictive regeneration (regen) cycles that burn fuel to clean the filter.
    EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation): Replaced with block-off plates to stop hot, sooty exhaust from being routed back into the engine.
    DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid): Deactivated electronically to prevent urea-related derates, though the physical tank can sometimes remain.
     

Performance and Cost
While deleting can yield horsepower gains of 40-120 HP and a 3-5 MPG increase, the upfront costs are substantial. 

    Parts and Tuning: Kits typically range from $2,800 to over $5,800, depending on the truck and hardware.
    Labor: Professional installation can easily cost hundreds to thousands of dollars if you are not doing the work yourself.
    Warranty: Modifying the ECM and removing hardware will instantly void your factory powertrain and drivetrain warranties. 

Legal Risks and Enforcement
The federal Clean Air Act prohibits the removal or disabling of emissions control devices on any vehicle originally manufactured with them. While the Department of Justice announced it will no longer criminally prosecute owners for emissions tampering, heavy civil fines are still actively enforced. Additionally, state and county environmental boards can pursue civil penalties, and many shops refuse to work on deleted vehicles.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 23/07/2026
the people rejected her doctrine
on a related note, has anyone else noticed that:
- “LVM” stands for “Linux Volume Manager”
- “LLVM” stands for “Large Linux Volume Manager”
- “LWN” stands for “Linux Wolume Nanager”
- “LWP” stands for “Linux Wolume Panager”
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 21/07/2026
FOO_PREFIX. Doing this touches a lot of files, but reviewers should really only need to look closely at common/src/address.rs, as the rest are just places where these various constants are referenced. I would love to have a network guy or two fact-check whether I am using these terms correctly. Thanks!

AI Usage Disclosure: This was a large, mechanical change, so I used an AI tool called "the rust-analyzer Rename Symbol button" to assist in making this change.
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 20/07/2026
inspired by a true story!
Frog put the UEFI application signatures in a SecureBoot. “There,” he said. “Now we will not boot any more unsigned UEFI applications.”

“But we can disable SecureBoot,” said Toad. 

“That is true,” said Frog.
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