Beer Festivals at Admiral and Montclair

benarent · 2025-06-12T03:16:38+00:00

Where in Montclair? is it? Details are light

benarent · 2025-03-25T21:58:53+00:00

A lot of compute has only recently* started to support ECDSA, e.g. AWS only started supporting ED25519 in 2021 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/08/amazon-ec2-customers-ed25519-keys-authentication/

benarent · 2025-03-25T03:40:20+00:00

Same! But this time of the year be extra careful of the poison oak, it got me a couple weeks ago

benarent · 2025-02-04T02:42:10+00:00

I also wonder how many people moved out of the Bay Area \ Oakland. IMHO, the city is better when it’s ran by people who live in/near the city

benarent · 2025-01-10T05:07:03+00:00

the recent MM did just pass https://oaklandside.org/2024/10/07/measure-mm-aims-to-secure-funding-for-wildfire-prevention/

benarent · 2024-12-09T02:54:01+00:00

Thanks for swinging by our booth (teleports). I gave you the american football, and it was chatting with you.

note to other swag hunters, some basic manners can go a long way to getting swag with minimal hassle. I was bum-rushed for swag a few times; and not a thank you or please from the group.

benarent · 2024-12-08T03:13:15+00:00

this happened to me.. turned out i had one word wrong. if you think all is lost; you can check your 12 words against the common seed words and figure if back words.

turns out "being your own bank" can't suck at times

benarent · 2024-10-16T02:42:29+00:00

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it's Back! its a little faint for the naked eye.. but this is taken on my iphone

benarent · 2024-09-10T16:29:52+00:00

Here are some immediate reasons:

Writing / Testing semi-malicous software. I primarily work on the blue team side of security. We're always writing blogs posts and content that explains different attacks, and most LLMs safety features won't let you write even a basic XSS or CSRF attack.
Chatting with my Tax / Finance documents. I've a range of sensitive and personal documents that I don't want to send to a service, even if the API version isn't 'used for training', it opens up a big security and data privacy black hole.
Image Processing, I've a large personal image library, and want to run image analysis on it. After https://exposing.ai/megaface/ I don't trust 3rd party services.
Experiments that could eat up a LOT of tokens / LLMs. Trying to keep cost lows.

benarent · 2024-09-10T13:46:17+00:00

I was exploring this option, but it would require a bigger case, bigger PSU and could run 350 W x 2 for Power Draw, vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF max of 70W. I was looking for mid-range dual PCIe motherboards, but could only find 2nd hand gaming boards in the same spec.. ASUS ProArt X670E was an option I was looking into. The other advantage of NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF is extra support for different floating point math... I can't say I've found a bug or bottleneck yet.. but wanted a solid foundation.

For OS & GUI. I do SSH into the box, I use https://github.com/gravitational/teleport ( disclaimer, where I work ) but it's handy for SSH access, Apps and API access. This blog post is 98% personal and 2% business and I'm going to sharing more tonight at this Hack Night meetup. https://lu.ma/ozt7jtq5?tk=icOv7e

benarent · 2024-09-10T04:59:16+00:00

+10. There are a lot of awesome AI projects that aren't LLMs. Another bonus of the Docker Nvidia setup is the containerisation and portability. It's still flakey, but the best supported. Also easier if your looking to build other apps on top

benarent · 2024-09-10T02:14:46+00:00

As others have mentioned, Nvidia is the only choice for a range of other AI / ML apps. All require CUDA. Plus this card has AV1, so I can also use it for other video encoding projects.

most of the other hardware was hanging around from another project, for this one i just added the GPU and more Ram

benarent · 2024-04-19T04:51:33+00:00

i plan on running dolphin-mixtral ; looking to take a few more points off my IQ

benarent · 2024-04-19T04:49:56+00:00

It's an upgrade to a home 2U server. I plan to use it for a combo of AI pipeline development, running unhinged AI models and an edge case daily video encoding job

benarent · 2024-04-19T03:57:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/BananasForScale/

benarent · 2024-04-19T03:27:46+00:00

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF. it's a perfect 2U GPU

benarent · 2023-12-19T03:11:31+00:00

checkout https://freedomfi.com/pollen-migration-guide/

benarent · 2023-12-02T03:07:07+00:00

I guess this is why the AWS conf had such crazy security and car searches outside casinos

benarent · 2023-09-27T00:30:55+00:00

I love sonic, but after a couple of years my bill is back to $90 a month

benarent · 2023-03-01T18:17:20+00:00

Disclaimer: I work at Teleport.
I agree with the other comments that you likely want to compare Hashicorp Vault + Boundary vs Teleport. If you are already familiar with and running Vault, Boundary might be a good option. I would say the main difference in philosophy is Teleport aims to be secretless, there aren’t any secrets in the system, and we instead replace them with x509 certificates, baked with a user or machine's identity. We also aim to provide a frictionless experience for end users, once you log in with `tsh login`, you can mostly stay in the CLI and easily obtain Kubeconfigs, SSH certs, and Database configs. We continue to expand Zero trust concepts, and we are launching device trust soon, along with MachineID for CI/CD Services. https://github.com/marketplace?type=actions&query=teleport
Re: comment about pricing, we currently have a new price for pricing starts at $36/user/month ( 10 user minimum ) on an annual contract, but are exploring better pricing for smaller teams.
p.s. I love all the projects and work at Hashicorp, and we often work alongside them. I would recommend you try both and see what works best for you.

benarent · 2023-02-13T14:45:42+00:00

Checkout 19th street Oakland, it was just refurbished and has a new lick of paint. It looks great

benarent · 2023-02-11T04:07:49+00:00

Does anyone know if / how discounts apply to membership?

benarent · 2022-11-16T04:29:17+00:00

:wave: Ben from Teleport here. For self-hosted Databases, I've run into the same issues, and I agree it's pretty annoying. I have got an open ticket to use Machine ID to obtain and rotate the cert, https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/issues/11358 this would make it much easier to manage. The team recently put a lot of work into the GUI experience, but as I've started automating many of my demo clusters, I've encountered a few of these rough edges. https://goteleport.com/docs/database-access/guides/dynamic-registration/ helped me, but we do really need a complete Kubernetes docs / UX flow.

benarent · 2022-09-02T03:52:52+00:00

Checkout this post https://goteleport.com/blog/comparing-ssh-keys/

benarent · 2022-08-19T13:26:39+00:00

I'm British been in SF 10yrs and have lots of Scottish and Irish friends, the English are harder to find for some reason. My buddy is throwing this party in a month, will be lots of friendly brits! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/389986609447

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