Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️

Troublemaker | Computer Architect | @Arm Servers Architect @Google | Previously @RedHat, @Nuvia_Inc | Runner | Author | All views my own | #ArmServers

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Who out there would find a Computer Architecture blog or podcast interesting? What if I arranged to do one in collaboration with folks like @AMD, @Arm, @intelnews, @risc_v?

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

On some level I agree. But on another I don't. Many friends have entered software engineering without formally studying it, but they're *very* smart women and men who could easily understand this, if it was ever made accessible. I intend to make it more accessible to everyone.

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@Arm @Frassle Good call 💪

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

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[Arm @Arm]

Congrats to @GoogleCloud on expanding its TPU portfolio, with Arm-based Google Axion CPUs now powering host compute across TPU 8t, TPU 8i, and TPU 8i Max! ⚡

The latest milestone in our collaboration highlights the importance of CPU and accelerator co-design in scaling AI infrastructure to support large-scale training, real-time reasoning, and increasingly demanding agentic workloads.

https://t.co/01k4Jd06W1

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@OnlyInBOS Newton represent 💪

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Like what is the literal point of this? All this kind of nonsense does is push away paying subscribers, that’s literally all it does

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Dear @nytimes we’ve noticed multiple devices reading the NYT website (yes, because I subscribe) and we would like to be the biggest constant pain in the ass with verification and upselling a family plan. Thanks.

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@Srasgon They keep below the baseband, out of sight

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Trail run outside my meeting 💪

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@united @JetBlue This was my second time flying JB just for timing reasons. United stopped its evening flights which is inconvenient to say the least

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Good morning San Francisco 👍

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

I hope @united actually does a tie-up with @JetBlue. The Mint experience and flight timing is absolutely great. Leaving Boston at 9pm allows a whole Sunday with kiddo and bedtime before going to the airport 😊

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@ericabrescia Congrats to you both. You are perfect for one another 🥰

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@CattelainFrano1 (On-orbit IMSI capture that is, no reason you couldn’t be doing this live globally in real time, then you back correlate paths of every individual the moment you get confirmed facial scans from other sources later)

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Really enjoyed watching colsto’s video on using airplane background sound doppler curves to geolocate a recording. At first, I thought it was going to be about grid hum but no this is next level awesome stuff 💪

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@CattelainFrano1 Sure. I hypothesized what the NSA called “CO-TRAVELER” at the turn of the century, possibly before they actually built it. I’m certain they have a giant facial ID database collated from correlating CCTV cameras with IMSI pings goikg back decades too

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@CattelainFrano1 So none of this stuff is surprising. But it is pretty neat anyway

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@Srasgon I’ve watched it at least ten times since Ari put it up the other day 😂👍

[Stacy Rasgon @Srasgon]

What an absolute banger

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@JoshMBlackman I too hit this milestone a few years ago. Hope to bump into you on a United journey someday!

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@bexbsd New basement currently has many dozens of servers in assorted piles that will consume a number of evenings and weekends getting re-racked and automated (still with @RedHat ‘s Beaker Lab project based upon Fedora of course)

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Began relocating home lab to new location. The new space before equipment goes in. I have a bunch of extra dedicated circuits, plenty of CAT6A drops and distribution fiber runs up to my main home office 😊

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@bexbsd All of them are dedicated 20A home runs 😉