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Mike Gerdts
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Software engineer working for NVIDIA. What I say here is me speaking for me, not my employer. Sometimes while not hacking for work or fun, I try to find fun places […]

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Is this a choose your own adventure game? If so, I’ll veer right.
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This isn’t the most spectacular #aurora photo of the night but it illustrates how light the landscape was from aurora light. It was odd to walk trails on a moonless night, 5 hours after sunset, with no flashlight. These auroras were not visible to the naked […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Happy #fungusfriday to all who celebrate. I found this #fairyring in the woods along the #iceagetrail this morning. Quite a surprise.
September 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I think the Google #streetview camera was mounted on the car backwards when it went through #belleville #wisconsin. I was first tipped off when clicking on the forward arrow took me backwards.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4iLs7M9Jx6W9y1B98

Related, what’s going […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
September 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Today I found the Table Bluff segment of the Ice Age Trail, just a few minutes from home. What a wonderful trail.
August 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’ve paid for #alltrails every year for years, recently $36. I’ve submitted trail reviews and submitted new trails that became popular.

Several of the features that I’ve used are no longer available unless I pay more than 2x what my current subscription costs. Every time they prod me to upgrade […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Reposted by Mike Gerdts
I don't know if anybody noticed #zerofs yet, but it seems there is a completely user space-implementation of #nfs and #blockstorage on top of #s3 #objectstorage: https://github.com/Barre/zerofs

Including a demo running #zfs on top of it which essentially allows geo-redundant ZFS volumes […]
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mastodon.africa
July 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I always trust google maps, particularly for telling me the speed limit.

#googlemaps #icantdrive55
May 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If anyone knows a college bowler named Madisyn Gerdts, please let her know that every bowling coach in the country is trying to reach her at the wrong email address.

#bowling
May 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Typo of the day: nitlab

If I ever write a code review tool, that’s the name.
May 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
In the last 100 days or so my incoming spam call rate has increased from a couple per week to a few per day. Has anything changed?
May 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
April 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Reposted by Mike Gerdts
As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it could spiral into a possible pandemic

Avian influenza is constantly changing. Every new infection increases […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
April 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM