SFONRT NH7 Satellite meeting of IETF-125 because a lot of attendees don’t want to go to the actual location in Shenzhen. That’ll repeat next year when nobody wants to come to the US.

Went to sign up for a GDC Expo pass so I could pop in, check out the middleware and tools, and catch a few random folks.

There's no Expo pass this year. The grifters that run the show want you to pay for a full pass (>$1K) unless you go through a multi-day approval process for a discounted $649 pass after you prove you're indie enough.

So instead of $350-ish, Informa will get $0. I'll wander between a few key hotel lobby bars for that time instead and the exhibitors will lose eyeballs.

The HGST HUH721010AL4200 (10TB helium) drives I installed in 2018 are reporting only 5 months of runtime because even though the power-on-hours field is 32-bit, it clearly keeps an unsigned 16-bit counter because one extra bit would give the true value.

Either a bug in firmware A38F, or bad QA somewhere along the way.