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💝 HomeOfficeLab Updates 💝

RFC99 site rack is nearing completion (*rfc99-struct.rfc1918.host)

- waiting on a MB backing plate for Xeon-ICX GPU host #2 (eta zeitung)
- waiting on 4U chassis delivery for EPYC-Zen4 GPU / NAS host (eta frei)
- storage offsite: pick up Juniper EX3400-48T (zeitung)
- NTO (need to order): APC ATS 4500
- additional cable mgmt / routing (vertical)

Trump’s Aggression Sours #Europe on #US Cloud Giants
Companies in #EU are starting to look for ways to ditch #Amazon, #Google, and #Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising #security risks from US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
Organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including #servers, storage, and #databases—citing uncertainties around #privacy and data access fears under Trump administration.
wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud
archive.ph/8FBGJ

WIRED · Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud GiantsBy Matt Burgess

Critical #AMI #MegaRAC bug can let attackers hijack, brick #servers
MegaRAC #BMC provides "lights-out" and "out-of-band" remote system management capabilities that help admins troubleshoot servers as if they were physically in front of the devices. The firmware is used by over a dozen #server vendors that provide equipment to many cloud service and #datacenter providers, including #HPE, #Asus, #ASRock, and others.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

BleepingComputer · Critical AMI MegaRAC bug can let attackers hijack, brick servers
More from Sergiu Gatlan

👩🏻‍💻 Big Brain Computer Parts 👩🏻‍💻

- "Build Day Monday Funday, Yet Another Machine Intelligence System [YAMIS]"
- Season 2, Episode 4: Mostly Modern Systems and Hardware Engineering

Despite some goon sending this kinda pricey Ice Lake Xeon through international post, wrapped up in two thin layers of non/anti-static bubble wrap shoved into a Tyvek shipping bag (not a box!), it arrived yesterday and seems to be in decent shape after a trip from Australia to the middle of America.

So, what one does with a NOS (new old stock) bit of hardware which needs to be perfect in order to function, we inspect with macro photos and various image filtering methods to identify any potential flaws.

CPU: Intel Xeon 8370C
Spec: 32 cores, 64 threads, 2.8GHz base clock
Dimensions: my favorite general purpose lip gloss (sorta) tube for scale

The fact DoS-ing a server is even effective as a method of silencing anyone/anything is an indicator of the wrong design being used.

Server-centric design is almost always the wrong architecture to use for anything that is not strictly and invariably hierarchical (and even then, a *lot* of cases can do with message-centric and/or content-addressed distributed protocols).

#SoftwareDesign #Software #Servers #Protocols #Architecture #DoingItWrong