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Jèf Uphoff

@juphoff.bsky.social

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Principal Systems Engineer at @ctrliq.bsky.social. Lapsed astro/physics guy. Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke. Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump. Crazy cat gentleman.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 4h

The hell you say!

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 5h

How does a table malfunc?

(Hope you’re OK!)

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 5h

“Seasoned”

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 5h

I watched Challenger explode in the sky above my head. 😵‍💫

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 5h

Apparently, my dad tried to corral me to watch Apollo 11 land (he’d met Neil Armstrong years earlier), but I wanted to go outside and play in the yard—basically running in circles and yelling a lot.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 6h

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Nixon
2. Apollo (I remember 13!)
3. The Bicentennial
4. The Energy Crisis
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 6h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Italia 90
2. Live Aid
3. Charlie Haughey telling us all to tighten our belts while buying his mistress couture in Paris
4. The Troubles
5. 35-40 classrooms in school & teacher strikes

Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 7h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Power cuts
2. Star Wars
3. Space Shuttle
4. The Royal Wedding
5. Falklands War

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 15h

somebody call adult rock and tell him to come get his dumbass kid.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 16h

Turns out there were QA scripts there that *required* cowsay! 😅

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 16h

As I was working to define the software manifest for Amazon Linux 2023 at AWS, I removed 'cowsay'.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth was immediate; the change was rejected udderly.

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

gnu cowutils

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 17h

I've got good news. That democracy you like is going to come back in style.

🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ugh arm hurts Laura Palmer played by Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks the Return aka season 3 text reads "I am dead, yet I live."

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 18h

Yup. Eagle’s Nest Airport in Waynesboro—houses with hangars!

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 19h

Nah. An airport that extends to the bus lines.

Downtown needs a runway!

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 20h

“Donald Trump is the cause of this mess” is similar thinking here in the U.S.

The rot already ran deep. He’s an effect of that, not the cause.

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 20h

Mid-continent fuel stop.