About this episode
The episode discusses hardware scarcity in hard drives, AI developments, and issues in the FOSS community.
Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads News/discussion AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’ An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations Sorry all this is my fault Free consulting We were asked about ZFS and VMs in the homelab.  …
Topics covered
- hardware scarcity
- AI consciousness
- FOSS maintainer
- ZFS
- homelab
- hard drive pricing
- Proxmox workloads
Keywords
- hard drives
- AI
- Bcachefs
- ZFS
- homelab
- Proxmox
- hardware pricing
- FOSS
- London Bridge
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bcachefs, Ars, Proxmox
Places: London Bridge
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