------------------------------- Wed May 20 07:16:33 PM EDT 2026 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Apr 15. 2026 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (12 total): Speaker(s): * John Abreau * Kurt Keville * Bill Ricker BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman * Bill Ricker Attendees (named): * Anastassia * Brandon Vogel * Brendan Kidwell * Calvin Boyles * Edward Piecewicz * James (Brave) Shaw * Marco Polo Attendees (anonymous): * Chuba * VAB * wt-z0 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:JABR,, You have a lot of noise coming from your audio. Jerry Feldman says:Secondly, I sent you and email and text that I am not able to make theinstallfest. 18:35 Jerry Feldman says:slap bill's wrist 😃 19:01 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:Raytheon is looking for a Principal Linux Admin in Tewksbury - my old job. LMK if interested. 👍 19:02 ------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:jerry, can you hear me? 19:04 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: No. 19:04 ------------------------------------------- John Abreau says: jerry did you her me just now? 19:04 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: Also my current employer has two open Linux-y positions open.Mostly on prem stuff. 19:04 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: There are 2 sound setttings. 1 is the linux main setting and the other is jitsi. Check jitsi settings. 19:05 ------------------------------------------- John Abreau says: are you hearing me at all? 19:09 John Abreau says: how doi find the phone number to connect to the meting? 19:12 ------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says: 512 647 1431 19:13 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: Dial-in: +1 512.647.1431 PIN: 1291 6279 58# 👍 19:13 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: Great voice quality now! 19:16 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Felman says: To easily invite someone, click on the participants icon 19:18 ------------------------------------------- John Abreau says: I saw a report a couple dy before Elon's IPO claiming that Elon got some special exemptions from Trump that allowed him to game the system so mutual funds automatically start buying SpaceX stock. If this report was accurate, then Elon basically became a trillionaires by defrauding all the people who had invested in mutual funds. 😦 19:29 ------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says: Musk is trying this hardest to make the Theranos scam look like embezzling from a one-location grocery store. 19:31 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: Sadly, Allbirds wasn't a hald bad shoe company until they pivoted to AI. 19:31 ------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says: *trying his hardest 19:31 ------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says: those residential micro-datacenters are going to get poached like unwatched livestock 19:35 ------------------------------------------- John Abreau says: Back in the 1970s, going from mainframes to affordable personal computers was an enormous watershed. I expect a similar effect when AI-capable video cards drop from multiple thousands of dollars to something an ordinary hom hobbyist can affod. 19:35 ------------------------------------------- : Why do you think they: When we talk about energy-efficient data centers, are we solving a governance prolem, Who gets power, who pays for it, and who is accountable for the impact? 19:39 ------------------------------------------- Anastassia says: are we solving a technical problem? what do you think 19:40 ------------------------------------------- Anastassia says: Why do you think they didn't use saltwater positions like oceans to cool these units? 19:43 ------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says: Salt water: is used at some nuclear power plants. increases corrosion issues. And with oceans warming, not exactly a great solution. 👍 19:47 ------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says: DIFFERENT approach, not Jabr's approach: some of what I collect doesn't have an IMDB number -- might be published only on YouTube, for example. I use TinyMediaManager to write full metadata tag files alongside the payload files (parses what it is from original filename, doesn't have to rename the files, looks up in databases or I provide the data manually. and I load it all into JellyFin, which doesn't write anything at all to the media folders if the metadata files exist. 19:48 ------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says: There have been a couple of Ocean Datacenter experiments over the years. The Microsoft Natick project was the big one. There is also a new one that is funded by Peter Thiel that should go into operation soon. 19:48 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: That is why the blue line uses a catenary rather than 3rd rail 19:49 ------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says: https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/peter-thiel-leading-investment-ocean-data-center-panthalassa/ 19:49 ------------------------------------------- Anastassia says: I asked because Vhina did it 19:50 ------------------------------------------- Anastassia says: The nitrogen environment no Oxygen no humidity no rust 19:51 ------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says: True... not as many community protesters in China though... 😃 19:52 ------------------------------------------- Anastassia says: lol off with your head any complaints 19:53 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: 😱 19:54 ------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says: The submerged data-center-pod was great for "free" cooling but there mandatory Lights-Out management. Like an orbital data center but with a working heatsink. 20:03 ------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says: which category is Trump coin and Melania coin, launched when rump resumed office? 20:08 ------------------------------------------- Anastassia says: Right up there with the gold phone, im sure 20:10 ------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: Will they all look like Brent Spiner 20:11 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: freeplane.org 20:27 ------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says: https://docs.freeplane.org/ 20:28 Bill Ricker says: re specific craptocoyns, sometimes it' "check all that apply" 20:30 ------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says: https://alternativeto.net/software/freeplane/?license=opensource&platform=online 20:32 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: alternativeto.net 20:33 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" - 2022 movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10268488/ 20:48 ------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says: Guts.... i have to run.... Kurt Keville says: See you next month... 20:59 ------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says: Cheers 20:59 ------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: Gotta drop off - have a great night! Great meet. 20:59 ------------------------------------------- meeting ended at 8:59 pm