Tommy McCormick

@jan0ski.net

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security, distributed systems, networking, & rust

A Claude Code terminal window that reads: "Now try the shortcut. Two underlying things worth knowing for next time: - Long Discord sessions leak X11 connections until Xorg refuses more clients (your case: 208/256 held by Discord). Killing/restarting Discord fixes it. Worth restarting it occasionally, or filing/tracking the upstream issue. - Discord's window-close doesn't quit it — only pkill -9 -f /discord/app- or a real Quit does. If the shortcut still fails after this, paste the new journalctl --user --since '1 min ago' | grep chrome output and I'll keep digging — but the X-server saturation was the root cause this round."
XKCD Comic: A three-panel black-and-white stick-figure comic titled “How Standards Proliferate (see: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.).” Left panel: Text reads, “Situation: There are 14 competing standards.” Middle panel: Two stick figures talk. One says, “14!? Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.” The other responds, “Yeah!” Right panel: Labeled “Soon.” Text reads, “Situation: There are 15 competing standards.”
An Oxide ubuntu VM instance showing "running" status
The oxide control plane software showing an ubuntu VM disk image successfully uploaded.
The Oxide control plane software "images" page showing an ubuntu vm image upload in progress
The inventory page of the Oxide control plane software UI, showing a single machine connected and a URL of "localhost:8080".