#Chicago Process Servers

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime

How did Tyran cluster's Howlback fight Bumblebee? What kind of mission was she on?

Dear Retro Reconnaissance,

Following the battle at Half Dome, Soundwave and Bumblebee clashed several more times throughout the early ‘90s. During that time, Soundwave disguised himself as a van, and was experimenting with subtler means of manipulating human minds than direct blackmail. In Detroit, together with his Pretender partner, Doombox, he infiltrated the techno scene, promoting his shows on the nascent worldwide web, and using a combination of music, psychedelics, and hypnosis to influence the behaviour of club goers. From there, he began distributing mini-cassettes to susceptible individuals with government connections, hoping to gain access to isolated federal networks. Bumblebee was able to uncover and dismantle the scheme, thanks to the help of Dairu and Zauru—but with exception of Garboil, all of Soundwave’s minions were able to escape, amongst the dozens of tapes being copied and circulated within the subculture.

Bumblebee finally settled the score with Soundwave during the Battle of Chicago, turning the tables right as the Decepticon was about to execute him. In the aftermath, the Autobots were forced back into hiding, but Bumblebee nevertheless continued to protect humanity from the shadows. While on the road, the Autobots tracked a Decepticon energy signature to Silicon Valley. There, Doombox had leveraged his Princeton connections to get in on the ground floor of a music streaming startup, and had secured a small data centre. It turned out that, before his death, Soundwave had spent years seeding the internet with viruses, tiny shell scripts that each contained some fraction of his own programming. And in a data center at the heart of the Bay Area, industrial servers were collecting and processing petabytes of concert recordings, music reviews, playlists, listening data, mashups, and the lingering consciousness of a digital ghost. Disguised as smartphones, Howlback, Buzzsaw, and Frenzy (who had escaped Seymour Simmons’ basement after the ex-agent’s rather hasty emigration to Cuba) were able to totally control the actions of the company’s founders, and Bumblebee had no way of reaching them without breaking cover. But when it became clear that they intended to turn the entire city into a new body for their master, he convinced Ratchet to help him destroy the data using an EMP blast. It was during this altercation that Howlback fought Bumblebee one-on-one, seeking revenge for Garboil, Ravage, Laserbeak, and of course Soundwave—in her UAV mode, she had him effectively pinned down, until a reckless dive-bomb brought her within reach of his new energon axe. After that, he was able to keep Frenzy and Buzzsaw busy just long enough for Ratchet to wipe the last traces of Soundwave from existence.

Alas, this brief exposure was what ultimately allowed Cemetery Wind to track down and murder Ratchet, with Lockdown’s help. As for Doombox… well, startups come and go. With access to such a heady mix of personal data, cryptocurrency, nootropics, and warm bodies, I cannot imagine he found it difficult to steal a new identity, slip into a life that was waiting for him and his cronies. Rumor has it that they are creating new life, in Silicon Valley… a form of life designed not to live on that planet, but on the next.

[mltshphq]

BRB... just upgrading Python

CW: nerdy, technical details.

Originally, MLTSHP (well, MLKSHK back then) was developed for Python 2. That was fine for 2010, but 15 years later, and Python 2 is now pretty ancient and unsupported. January 1st, 2020 was the official sunset for Python 2, and 5 years later, we’re still running things with it. It’s served us well, but we have to transition to Python 3.

Well, I bit the bullet and started working on that in earnest in 2023. The end of that work resulted in a working version of MLTSHP on Python 3. So, just ship it, right? Well, the upgrade process basically required upgrading all Python dependencies as well. And some (flyingcow, torndb, in particular) were never really official, public packages, so those had to be adopted into MLTSHP and upgraded as well. With all those changes, it required some special handling. Namely, setting up an additional web server that could be tested against the production database (unit tests can only go so far).

Here’s what that change comprised: 148 files changed, 1923 insertions, 1725 deletions. Most of those changes were part of the first commit for this branch, made on July 9, 2023 (118 files changed).

But by the end of that July, I took a break from this task - I could tell it wasn’t something I could tackle in my spare time at that time.

Time passes…

Fast forward to late 2024, and I take some time to revisit the Python 3 release work. Making a production web server for the new Python 3 instance was another big update, since I wanted the Docker container OS to be on the latest LTS edition of Ubuntu. For 2023, that was 20.04, but in 2025, it’s 24.04. I also wanted others to be able to test the server, which means the CDN layer would have to be updated to direct traffic to the test server (without affecting general traffic); I went with a client-side cookie that could target the Python 3 canary instance.

In addition to these upgrades, there were others to consider — MySQL, for one. We’ve been running MySQL 5, but version 9 is out. We settled on version 8 for now, but could also upgrade to 8.4… 8.0 is just the version you get for Ubuntu 24.04. RabbitMQ was another server component that was getting behind (3.5.7), so upgrading it to 3.12.1 (latest version for Ubuntu 24.04) seemed proper.

One more thing - our datacenter. We’ve been using Linode’s Fremont region since 2017. It’s been fine, but there are some emerging Linode features that I’ve been wanting. VPC support, for one. And object storage (basically the same as Amazon’s S3, but local, so no egress cost to-from Linode servers). Both were unavailable to Fremont, so I decided to go with their Chicago region for the upgrade.

Now we’re talking… this is now not just a “push a button” release, but a full-fleged, build everything up and tear everything down kind of release that might actually have some downtime (while trying to keep it short)!

I built a release plan document and worked through it. The key to the smooth upgrade I want was to make the cutover as seamless as possible. Picture it: once everything is set up for the new service in Chicago - new database host, new web servers and all, what do we need to do to make the switch almost instant? It’s Fastly, our CDN service.

All traffic to our service runs through Fastly. A request to the site comes in, Fastly routes it to the appropriate host, which in turns speaks to the appropriate database. So, to transition from one datacenter to the other, we need to basically change the hosts Fastly speaks to. Those hosts will already be set to talk to the new database. But that’s a key wrinkle - the new database…

The new database needs the data from the old database. And to make for a seamless transition, it needs to be up to the second in step with the old database. To do that, we have take a copy of the production data and get it up and running on the new database. Then, we need to have some process that will copy any new data to it since the last sync. This sounded a lot like replication to me, but the more I looked at doing it that way, I wasn’t confident I could set that up without bringing the production server down. That’s because any replica needs to start in a synchronized state. You can’t really achieve that with a live database. So, instead, I created my own sync process that would copy new data on a periodic basis as it came in.

Beyond this, we need a proper replication going in the new datacenter. In case the database server goes away unexpectedly, a replica of it allows for faster recovery and some peace of mind. Logical backups can be made from the replica and stored in Linode’s object storage if something really disastrous happens (like tables getting deleted by some intruder or a bad data migration).

I wanted better monitoring, too. We’ve been using Linode’s Longview service and that’s okay and free, but it doesn’t act on anything that might be going wrong. I decided to license M/Monit for this. M/Monit is so lightweight and nice, along with Monit running on each server to keep track of each service needed to operate stuff. Monit can be given instructions on how to self-heal certain things, but also provides alerts if something needs manual attention.

And finally, Linode’s Chicago region supports a proper VPC setup, which allows for all the connectivity between our servers to be totally private to their own subnet. It also means that I was able to set up an additional small Linode instance to serve as a bastion host - a server that can be used for a secure connection to reach the other servers on the private subnet. This is a lot more secure than before… we’ve never had a breach (at least, not to my knowledge), and this makes that even less likely going forward. Remote access via SSH is now unavailable without using the bastion server, so we don’t have to expose our servers to potential future ssh vulnerabilities.

So, to summarize: the MLTSHP Python 3 upgrade grew from a code release to a full stack upgrade, involving touching just about every layer of the backend of MLTSHP.

Here’s a before / after picture of some of the bigger software updates applied (apologies for using images for these tables, but Tumblr doesn’t do tables):

And a summary of infrastructure updates:

I’m pretty happy with how this has turned out. And I learned a lot. I’m a full-stack developer, so I’m familiar with a lot of devops concepts, but actually doing that role is newish to me. I got to learn how to set up a proper secure subnet for our set of hosts, making them more secure than before. I learned more about Fastly configuration, about WireGuard, about MySQL replication, and about deploying a large update to a live site with little to no downtime. A lot of that is due to meticulous release planning and careful execution. The secret for that is to think through each and every step - no matter how small. Document it, and consider the side effects of each. And with each step that could affect the public service, consider the rollback process, just in case it’s needed.

At this time, the server migration is complete and things are running smoothly. Hopefully we won’t need to do everything at once again, but we have a recipe if it comes to that.

[sophieinwonderland]

Hi, we wanted to ask why you target anti endos so much (you know, traumatized people) instead of just existing in your own space and we exist in ours? We don’t mean any harm, just a genuine question we have. Like, what’s your thought process? Can that be explained please?

Because hate and ignorance are infections and if you allow them to fester, the consequences can be disastrous.

And because, like it or not, we all share the same space...

More than ever, in such an interconnected world, separate spaces don't actually exist. There are, at best, isolated spaces where you can spread a ton of hate, but that hate is going to spill out and end up hurting people who aren't in those spaces, just as it did with Aimkid.

Or more recently, the Yaelokre server:

In my opinion, separate spaces are a myth. You can try to divide them for a time, but there will always be spillover.

Besides that... my end goal is conquering that globe.

I have this dream. A dream of a world that's aware and accepting of all types of plurality. It will be slow going and we'll need a lot of support to get there. And people need to be able to feel hope that it can and will happen.

I'm not sure how common knowledge it is in anti-endo circles, but if you've seen people saying "the future is plural," that started right here with me on this blog. (As far as I know. I suppose others could have said it first.)

But getting to that acceptance means we can't be content in staying in our own isolated corners. It's not viable for the future we want to build.

And when pondering the path to that future, one of the things I've thought a lot about is the response certain firsts will get.

If Aimkid faced such harassment just being an influencer with a moderate following for being a pro-endo traumagenic system, can you imagine the harassment that the first real celebrity to support endogenic systems, or even to come out as an endogenic system themselves, will have to endure?

What will the response be to the first scripted television show that explicitly acknowledges endogenic plurality by name as a real phenomenon? (I mean, the Chicago Med tulpa episode did that with tulpas but slipped under anti-endo radar since anti-endos don't watch Chicago Med.)

Currently, the science and opinions of doctors is overwhelmingly on the pro-endo side.

But it means nothing if that knowledge never breaches the spaces where it's needed most to correct misinformation.

For example, did you know that Stanford University funded an fMRI study into tulpamancers, taking scans of their brains during switching and possession? (Possession is a tulpamancy term for taking control of the body or part of the body without fully switching into front.)

There was an AMA a few months ago about this on r/tulpas.

The budget for the fMRI study was about $50k not counting the pay of the researchers.

This does a pretty good job illustrating how much interest there is in tulpamancy and endogenic plurality that they were willing to invest so much into this project.

And the study actually found neurological changes during possession!

But if you go into most anti-endo spaces, they'll tell you that this research doesn't exist. That not only does the science not support endogenic plurality, but that absolutely nobody is researching it because it's not real.

And they're able to claim that because they don't bother looking, never listen to the other side, and refuse to accept anything that contradicts their worldview.

These studies are real though, they're being conducted as we speak, and we're going to see far more of them in the future!

Where we are right now though, all three of the creators of the theory of structural dissociation could release a joint statement with the ISSTD that endogenic systems are real and valid tomorrow, and anti-endos would not hear about it in their echo chambers.

In short, I target anti-endos because lies will prevail wherever truth cannot breach.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Illinois is already a top destination for data centers, and more are coming. One small Chicago suburb alone has approved one large complex and has proposals for two more.

Once they’re online, data centers require a lot of electricity, which is helping drive rates up around the country and grabbing headlines. What gets less attention is how much water they need, both to generate that electricity and dissipate the heat from the servers powering cloud computing, storage and artificial intelligence. 

A high-volume “hyperscale” data center uses the same amount of water in a year as 12,000 to 60,000 people, said Helena Volzer, a senior source water policy manager for the environmental nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes.

Increasingly, residents, legislators and freshwater advocacy groups are calling for municipalities to more carefully consider where the water that supplies these data centers will come from and how it will be managed. Even in the water-rich Great Lakes region, those are important questions as erratic weather patterns fueled by climate change affect water resources. 

Illinois already has more than 220 data centers, and a growing number of communities interested in the attendant tax revenue are trying to entice companies to build even more. Many states in the Great Lakes region—Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota among them—are offering tax credits and incentives for data center developments. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has approved tax breaks for more than 20 data centers since 2020. 

“Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”

Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling. Even if that water does go back into the ecosystem, deep bedrock aquifers, like the Mahomet in central Illinois, can take centuries to recharge. In the Great Lakes, just 1 percent of the water is renewed each year from rain, runoff and groundwater.

In Illinois, 40 percent of the population gets its water from aquifers. In some places, like Chicago’s southwest suburbs in Will and Kendall counties, the amount of water in those aquifers is dwindling. 

To ensure that they can supply citizens with safe drinking water, officials from six suburbs southwest of Chicago—Joliet, Channahon, Crest Hill, Minooka, Romeoville and Shorewood—made an agreement with the city two years ago to buy millions of gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan. They are currently building a $1.5 billion pipeline to transport the water, which is expected to be completed by 2030. 

Illinois is unique among the Great Lakes states when it comes to water. The Great Lakes Compact each state signed in 2008 bans diversions of water from the lakes to communities outside the basin, but it makes an exception for Illinois thanks to a 1967 Supreme Court ruling allowing Chicago to sell water to farther-flung municipalities. 

“We are concerned about the planning of the explosion of data centers, and if these far-out suburbs are actually accounting for that,” said Iyana Simba, city government affairs director for the Illinois Environmental Council. “How much of that was taken into account when they did their initial planning to purchase water from the city of Chicago? This isn’t reused wastewater. This is drinking water.”

[feral-creep]

y’all i just…. AAAAAH

vent about work and creativity and grief incoming

ever since my mom got sick i had to give up my more lucrative “career” day hustle (video editing) and pick up night shifts at a bar. and like. it’s a college dive bar, so the tips are not great.

this particular dive bar is known around the community as the hardest place to work, and the reputation is not for nothin’:

the average server at a normal place has a 4-5 hour shift and covers 3-5 tables. WE, on the other hand, work 10-12 hour shifts with zero mandated breaks and cover 8-10 tables, many of which can seat 8-10 people at a time.

it is exhausting work that has kept me in amazing shape and has kept my sanity during the grieving process… but it’s undeniably hard as fuck.

and i feel like i’m constantly just treading water, not making enough to fully get rid of my credit card debt and move out of this shithole town… i could make so much more money serving in chicago…

yet i’m never working so little as to be able to actually, y’know, write

BUT. but. the job is not why i don’t create as much. the job is not the reason.

the reason is my own dumb brain and my own dumb shame about not being a “responsible” member of society, not being “where i should be” or “where i thought i would be” at 36 years old.

because that concept? it is bullshit. even though my peers who i used to work with in video are all flourishing, it doesn’t matter—they did not have a terminally ill mother living in bumfuck college town of nowheresville, midwaste! so what if they are now getting deals with HBO! that sort of life was maybe never in the cards for dirtbag little ol me!

and also, since like WHEN did i ever care about being a dirtbag loser anyway? being a dirtbag loser is punk rock as fuck????

i am trying to force myself out of thinking that creative pursuits are a “luxury” that must only be pursued once Everything Responsible Has Been Completed—because frankly i don’t even do that shit anyway!!! lmao (what ends up happening is that i spend 5 hours on social media, 0 hours doing laundry, and also 0 hours writing)

so maybe like, fuck twitter, fuck instagram, fuck frittering away my life 5 minutes at a time trying to convince myself i’m totally going to get up and sort thru the mail, and just. do the things i like doing. because THAT is punk as fuck.

basically i’m coming to the conclusion that i have been flailing around trying to escape a situation i am trapped in by being “responsible”—diligent with my money, a good little worker bee, etc etc—and like, very obviously not succeeding, so i might as well live “selfishly” (i.e. creatively)

when i’m dead no one’s gonna be like “feral creep touched our lives by being so on top of her laundry and having a very organized pile of receipts”

no, no they will not!

i still get comments every week or two from readers about how much [save scum] means to them, and fuck if i don’t want to somehow adapt portions of this story and Lethe so she can resonate with even more people outside this fandom…

after, of course, i finish the fic. lmao.

[sequencefairy]

About Today and Your Love is a Waterfall :3

About Today is a shyan fic I started writing for someone and then never finished, but I am still committed to actually finishing it someday.

It takes place in an AU where that last BFU filming trip is really the last and there's no Watcher. So, instead of flying back from New York, Ryan and Shane take the train back across America, and realise their feelings somewhere in the flyover states.

Here's a bit:

The train sways and bumps, gently rocking the whole car. Ryan’s hand clenches around the armrest of his seat. “Relax,” Shane admonishes, “it’s like being on a boat, just move with it.”  “Easy for you to say,” Ryan mutters.  Shane huffs a laugh. “You’ll get used to it. See how you do walking on solid ground when we change trains in Chicago, or after we get off in Los Angeles. It always takes me a minute to adjust.”  “You said you’d done this trip before?”  “Yeah,” Shane replies, stretching his arms over his head. One shoulder joint cracks gratifyingly. “Cheaper to drive into New York maybe, or to fly, but I took the train a couple of times through university, just to try it.”  “Feels like something you’d do,” Ryan says. “An old-fashioned choice.”  “You saying I’m old, Bergara?”  “You said it first,” Ryan laughs.

Your Love is a Waterfall is a Moon Knight wip, from Layla's perspective. I have a lot of feelings about her, and what she went through and how the show doesn't really ever address any of them. Have an excerpt:

It’s the wedding in the Maldives that Layla remembers when she is served with divorce papers in her father’s house in Cairo. The process server hands her the envelope, makes a note on his clipboard to acknowledge her receipt of the papers, and leaves. Layla stands in the open doorway, hands shaking, knowing what she’s going to find inside the brown paper envelope before she even unseals it. He hasn’t answered the phone in three months. He hasn’t called. No one has heard from him since the last time he spoke to her, when he landed in Chicago, three months ago. She feels like a wire, wound tight in a pair of hands, ready to be used to choke the life out of something, out of someone. She clenches her jaw so hard she can feel her teeth creaking.  She turns, and slams the door behind her when she goes back into the house. Pitches the envelope as far as she can throw it. It lands somewhere down the hall, but she doesn’t see, because she’s bent at the waist, a scream erupting into the hands she has pressed over her mouth. It’s all she allows herself.

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Michael Vaughn Duck — known as M. Vaughn Duck or simply Vaughn Duck — is a former technology executive turned lyricist, poet, and escapist storyteller. With a career spanning decades in the tech world followed by a creative shift in 2010, Duck has woven a life of innovation and introspection. From pioneering computer systems in the American Midwest to crafting funky jazz lyrics on the French Riviera, his journey bridges hardwired logic with the rhythm of reflection.

A Tech Trailblazer’s Beginnings

Born on September 13, 1943, in Rockford, Illinois, Duck kicked off his career with a tech-savvy streak. From 1962 to 1963, in Chicago, IL, he studied at the Institute of Automation, earning an Associate’s Degree in Business, Software Design, and Programming while working part-time as a Unit Record Operator at Armour Meat Company. By 1964, in Rockford, IL, he landed at G.C. Electronics as Data Processing Manager (later MIS Director), overseeing the region’s first IBM System/360 computer installation — a milestone in the mid-60s tech scene. From 1968 to 1976, still in Rockford, IL, he ran the Computer Services Center as General Manager, serving the region with innovative computing solutions.

Duck’s entrepreneurial spirit flared in 1980 when he founded Integrated Micro Systems (IMS) in Rockford, IL, leading it as President until 1982 to build election ballot-counting hardware. He followed this with Governmental Data Systems (GDS) from 1983 to 1985, also in Rockford, IL, as President, focusing on election software for public-sector clients. In 1985, still in Rockford, IL, he launched Interactive Software Products, Inc. (ISP), owning 94% and steering it as President to develop Point of Sale systems for retail hard goods, developed on IBM PC-AT servers and PC-Jr terminals. In 1986, he sold GDS and IMS to Business Records Corporation (BRC) in Dallas, TX, where he served as Executive Vice President from 1986 to 1988, managing their election division for major projects like Cook County, Illinois, and Louisiana contracts. His IMS and GDS election systems from the early 1980s, notably for Cook County, laid the groundwork for real-time precinct election results, consolidated and displayed at a central election center.

His tech journey peaked internationally as Managing Director of Global 360’s European operations in Paris, FR, from 2002 to 2004, then as Vice President of their document management group in Cerritos, CA, from 2004 to 2006, optimizing business processes to drive growth. Duck capped his career as Vice President at Tyler Technologies in Dallas, TX, from 2007 to 2009, focusing on civil court software for the public sector. By 2009, after 45 years shaping tech from hardware to software, Duck stepped away from the corporate grind.

A Creative Shift in the South of France

After decades in tech, Duck sought creative freedom in 2010, drawn by a lifelong love of music and poetry, relocating to the South of France and trading circuit boards for creative chords. His most notable musical mark came through his collaboration with Sonny Axell on the 2016 album Kickback, a 9-track journey of funky contemporary jazz laced with R&B and soul. As lyricist and producer, Duck shaped the project from November 2015 in Antibes, FR, at Studio 26, crafting all original lyrics — from the high-energy groove of “Kickback” to the tender “Little Boy Dreams” and the self-affirming “It’s Who I Am.” His words dance over Axell’s Stevie Wonder-inspired melodies, backed by tight brass, punchy guitar riffs, and the pulse of Chicago drummer Darvonte T. Murray. Influences from soul giants like Prince, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Ray Charles shine through, earning praise from jazz fans for its soulful spirit and luxurious arrangements. After its April 2016 release, the album debuted live in Nice, FR, at Galerie Depardieu, cementing Duck’s legacy in jazz-soul circles. Kickback is available on platforms like Spotify.

Duck’s creative heart traces back to his high school days, when his poem “Christmas Eve” placed third in a school contest, a spark that later fueled his literary pursuits on platforms like WordPress and Medium. From 2014 to 2024, in the South of France, he’s published over 135 poems and lyrics on Medium, branding himself a “Lyricist, Poet, and Escapist” with a motto: “Life is a roller-coaster full of ups and downs, twists and turns, and when it stops, you’re somewhere between heaven and hell.” Standouts include “The Old Black Train,” featured in his article “Afterlife,” blending quantum science, cellular research, and spiritual musings into a poetic farewell, and “Don’t Let the Old Man In,” a reflective gem in his collection. Other poems — like “What Lies Beyond the Shadows” (2016), dedicated to friends Eurold and Vivian, or “Chasing the Elusive Dream” (2024), penned on a bus with the Alpine Hiking Club — reveal a soul attuned to love, loss, and life’s fleeting moments. “The Lion” (2017) roars with passion, while “When You’re Crazy in Your Head” (2015) dives into inner turmoil. Tied to specific dates and experiences, these works showcase his versatility, mixing real-life inspiration with imaginative escape.

Beyond poetry, Duck has penned over 40 articles on Medium from 2015 to 2025, ranging from travel guides to the South of France — capturing its sun and sea — to Polish cooking recipes, political essays, and deeper reflections like “Afterlife.” This diverse output paints him as a thinker who’s traded tech manuals for a broader canvas of human experience.

A Wanderer’s Life

Duck’s story hints at a restless spirit fueled by nature and nostalgia. His tech roots in Illinois gave way to a global career, landing him in the South of France by 2010 — a creative haven reflected in Kickback’s Riviera vibe and references to Entrevaux. The Alpine Hiking Club nod suggests a love for rugged landscapes, yet he keeps his personal tale veiled and low-key. His poetry remains active, with posts as recent as 2024, showing a mind still chasing dreams.

The Full Picture

So, who is M. Vaughn Duck? He’s a tech pioneer who built systems to count votes and manage retail stores, then traded it all for a life of soulful anthems and pondering verses. From Rockford’s early computers to Nice’s jazz stages, he’s channeled life’s highs and lows into a legacy of logic and lyricism. Not mainstream, his art — from Kickback’s grooves to poems scribbled on mountain-bound buses to essays on life’s mysteries — offers a glimpse into a soul finding harmony in both the hum of machines and the stillness of reflection.

And, the beat goes on… Living the good life in the South of France

@vaughnduck @mvaughnduck #vaughnduck 4 March 2025

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SHADOWS OF THE PATCHWORK: A VISUAL HISTORY (2038-2152)

This rare collection of historical photographs offers an unprecedented glimpse into the Corporate Patchwork era (2025-2105) and its aftermath. Curated from archives preserved by the Mars Collective, Luna Prime Historical Institute, and fragments recovered from Detroit Digital Underground servers, these images document humanity's fragmentation across Earth, Luna, and Mars during one of the most transformative periods in human history.

From the early implementation of neural interfaces in Chicago-Northplex to the Mars Sovereignty Declaration following the Great Impact, this visual timeline reveals both the official corporate narrative and the resistance movements that challenged it. Of particular historical significance is the final image documenting the illegal reactivation of positronic technology decades after the Universal Prohibition—a moment that would eventually reshape humanity's relationship with artificial consciousness.

Most striking is how clearly these images reveal the stratification of society across different planetary environments: Earth's rigid PVR tier system, Luna's pragmatic industrial structure, and Mars' revolutionary evolution toward independence. The physical adaptations visible in off-world humans highlight the beginning of humanity's divergence into distinct evolutionary paths—a process accelerated by isolation following the Great Impact of 2105.

This collection was previously classified as prohibited content under United Earth Authority Historical Directive 47.3. Viewer discretion is advised, as these images contradict standard historical narratives presented in authorized educational materials.

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Might have already been mentioned but they thought of this! University of Chicago (the folks that made it) have an online client where you can upload works to be glazed on their servers, all you need is an email and a browser! Its called webglaze and its encrypted and does not save your work in any form (original or glazed) after completing the program. No humans even see it during the process. Its free to use and open to all (they only recommend you to run the program on your own machine if possible on your setup to reduce your render time and free up the college's servers for those who can't run the program on their hardware)

more info HERE

Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

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Vadim Vladimirskiy, Co-Founder & CEO of Nerdio – Interview Series

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Vadim Vladimirskiy, Co-Founder & CEO of Nerdio – Interview Series

Vadim Vladimirskiy serves as the CEO and co-founder of Nerdio, playing a key role in the development of its flagship products, Nerdio Manager for Enterprise and Nerdio Manager for MSP. He is an active speaker at industry events, focusing on channel, technology, and Microsoft-related topics. With a career that began in high school when he started his first IT consultancy business, he has maintained a long-standing commitment to technology and innovation.

Nerdio is a software solution provider that supports organizations of all sizes in deploying, managing, and cost-optimizing native Microsoft technologies. The company collaborates with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and enterprise organizations worldwide, enhancing their existing Microsoft investments, including Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, and Microsoft Intune.

How has your background in IT shaped the vision and product development at Nerdio?

My journey in IT began in high school when I started ComTech Computers, helping people set up home networks and experiencing the complexity and potential of IT. By the early 2000s, I was working as an IT consultant and network engineer at Solus, an MSP in Chicago, where I managed backups for numerous small and mid-sized businesses. Tape backups were unreliable and inefficient, and I envisioned a more streamlined, automated solution. After pushing for months, my bosses and I co-founded Level2 Storage in 2005, a cloud-based backup company, where we offered clients secure, automatic online data protection.

As client needs grew, I saw an opportunity to manage not only backups but entire IT infrastructures remotely—well before “cloud” was a common term. In 2007, we virtualized servers and offered remote access for a few clients as a pilot, which led to the launch of Adar IT. This new MSP offered clients full IT infrastructure management in a virtual environment, enabling them to access their desktops and data from anywhere. The cloud-focused model of Adar was transformative, but skeptics questioned its feasibility. Over time, we overcame challenges, optimized the technology, and grew Adar to serve numerous clients.

By 2016, with cloud adoption growing, we saw other MSPs facing the same cloud complexities we had tackled. This led to the founding of Nerdio, a platform that automates cloud environments specifically for MSPs, empowering them to deliver cloud services without needing deep cloud expertise. Nerdio’s mission is rooted in the solutions we developed for Adar IT and the challenges we faced along the way.   How does Nerdio help organizations optimize their Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 environments?

Nerdio simplifies and optimizes Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 environments through automation, cost management, and streamlined deployment. With Nerdio Manager, IT professionals can deploy an AVD environment in a few hours or connect to an existing setup in as little as 10 minutes, reducing deployment time by up to 80%. Our intuitive platform also automates key processes, from image management to application delivery, minimizing manual intervention, and reducing the risk of errors.

Nerdio’s advanced auto-scaling feature is central to its cost-saving capabilities. By dynamically adjusting resources based on demand, organizations have cited saving up to 80% on Azure compute and storage costs, when using Nerdio Manager compared to unoptimized strategies. Additionally, ESG reported that enterprises, on average, experience a 55% reduction in AVD costs using Nerdio Manager, compared to using AVD alone. Our interface also allows IT teams to manage both AVD and Windows 365 environments from a single platform, simplifying administration and improving overall operational efficiency.’

What are some unique challenges Nerdio addresses for enterprises managing cloud deployments?

We’re addressing unique challenges for enterprises managing cloud deployments by streamlining complex IT processes and reducing both operational costs and administrative burdens. With tools like our Nerdio Manager for MSP and Nerdio Manager for Enterprise, the platform fills significant gaps in managing Microsoft environments—specifically Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Microsoft’s Modern Workplace.

For enterprises with hybrid or remote workforces, we simplify the transition to cloud-first environments. Our platforms offer centralized, scalable management features, automating many repetitive tasks. For example, Kite Technology Group uses Nerdio to maintain security updates and disaster recovery processes across all client devices. This approach eliminates the need for frequent manual updates and ensures consistent, secure environments.

Nerdio’s auto-scaling capabilities are particularly beneficial, enabling enterprises to dynamically adjust resources based on real-time business needs. This provides significant cost savings on compute resources, as illustrated by Damart, who saved 50% on licensing and labor costs by using Nerdio’s scaling features. We also make tenant management more efficient. Tasks that once required hours are now completed in minutes, which saves IT leaders’ significant time and resources while managing hundreds or thousands of users.

With advanced features like unified application management, automatic updates and streamlined onboarding, Nerdio simplifies complex cloud management and enhances business continuity. By eliminating much of the labor and budget traditionally required for AVD and Microsoft Modern Workplace, our solutions empower enterprises to scale their cloud environments efficiently and affordably.   How does Nerdio ensure security and compliance while managing cloud environments like Microsoft Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop?

Our approach to security focuses on leveraging Microsoft’s robust security frameworks while adding our own layer of automation and best practices to ensure organizations can meet their security requirements.

We integrate Network Security Groups (NSGs) to manage and control traffic at the network level, ensuring all data and applications stay within the internal network.

Additionally, we support Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Privileged Identity Management (PIM), which help restrict access to only those who need it, minimizing the risk of data breaches. Regular patching and updates, combined with our automated tools, ensure all AVD components are protected against the latest threats.

Our platform ensures robust security through continuous monitoring with Azure Sentinel and centralized management. This helps maintain compliance with industry standards like GDPR, HIPAA and ISO. Nerdio is the first organization in the MSP space to partner with the Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS). This partnership simplifies compliance efforts and bolsters cybersecurity postures without requiring comprehensive customization or manual configuration. Recently, we partnered with CIS to transform our customers’ IT environments with robust, ready-to-use CIS Windows 10 and Windows 11 Intune policies to strengthen enterprises’ security and drive compliance.   How is Nerdio leveraging AI to streamline cloud management for enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)?

Nerdio leverages AI to streamline cloud management for enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) by tackling the complexities of migration, ongoing resource management, and cost optimization—all while enhancing security, compliance, and scalability.

Simplifying Cloud Complexity: Cloud environments are often complex, requiring careful handling from migration through day-to-day management. Nerdio’s AI-driven automation simplifies this process, minimizing both downtime and technical overhead. For enterprises and MSPs, this means smoother transitions to the cloud and a streamlined approach to ongoing management, allowing IT teams to focus on strategic goals rather than time-consuming configurations.

Cost Optimization: Managing cloud costs is challenging, particularly with idle resources that can drive up expenses unnecessarily. Nerdio’s platform leverages AI to automate resource scaling and optimize usage, minimizing total cloud expenditure. Predictive analytics help identify potential savings by analyzing usage patterns, while automated scaling ensures resources adjust based on demand—particularly valuable for MSPs managing dynamic, multi-tenant environments.

Unified Management for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: With a growing need for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, Nerdio offers a unified management platform compatible with Azure, Windows 365, and other environments, cutting down inefficiencies and simplifying oversight. This integrated platform enables IT teams to manage resources across multiple environments seamlessly, reducing complexity and optimizing resource utilization.

Dynamic Scalability: Scalability is critical for cloud environments, especially when demand fluctuates. Nerdio’s AI-driven auto-scaling capabilities allow organizations to dynamically adjust resources, enhancing both performance and cost-efficiency. This scalability feature provides a balance of agility and control, allowing enterprises to maintain optimal performance without overspending on unused capacity.

What role does AI play in Nerdio’s auto-scaling and cost optimization features?

AI plays a transformative role in Nerdio’s auto-scaling and cost optimization features by driving what we call smart automation. Through AI algorithms, we predict resource demand based on historical usage patterns, enabling systems to automatically scale up or down to precisely match user needs. This predictive capability minimizes over-provisioning and avoids idle resources, which translates directly into substantial cost savings.

Our AI also proactively identifies inefficiencies, like underutilized VMs, and offers tailored recommendations for actions such as resizing or decommissioning resources to optimize cloud spend. With tools like Nerdios’s AssistPro’s genAI bot, we take this a step further by automating complex configurations and task setups, allowing users to manage resources more quickly and accurately, reducing manual errors, and enhancing cost efficiency.

Beyond automation, AI in Nerdio ensures proactive management of resources by analyzing shifts in demand and usage trends. This empowers IT teams to make data-driven decisions with ease, knowing they’re maximizing performance while keeping costs as low as possible. At Nerdio, AI isn’t just about making things easier—it’s about ensuring customers consistently achieve the best performance for the least investment, all with minimal effort.   In what ways is Nerdio using AI to improve the user experience for IT professionals managing cloud services?

To enhance the user experience for IT professionals managing cloud services, Nerdio uses AI in several ways to streamline workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and empower IT teams with self-service options:

Self-Service Automations for End-Users: Nerdio’s AI-driven automation enables end-users to perform routine tasks, like starting or stopping virtual desktops, without requiring IT intervention. This feature reduces the administrative burden on IT teams, freeing them up to focus on higher-priority tasks while still ensuring end-users have quick, easy access to essential functions.

Intelligent Recommendations and Troubleshooting: AI proactively identifies common issues in cloud environments, offering suggestions to resolve potential problems before they escalate. This predictive troubleshooting not only reduces downtime but also provides IT professionals with helpful insights to address recurring challenges, enhancing overall cloud performance and reliability.

Guided Configuration and Optimization: Through tools like AssistPro’s genAI bot, Nerdio simplifies complex configurations, guiding users step-by-step in resource setup and optimization. This AI-guided assistance minimizes human error and makes configuring resources more intuitive, especially for IT teams new to managing large-scale cloud deployments.

Customizable Automation Policies: Nerdio’s AI allows IT professionals to set and modify policies that automate common workflows, from managing resource allocation to scheduling desktop availability based on usage trends. This flexibility enables teams to create a custom automation experience that aligns with their organization’s specific needs and usage patterns.

Enhanced Security Through Automated Policy Enforcement: Nerdio leverages AI to monitor for compliance issues and enforce security policies, minimizing risks while ensuring that only authorized users have access to sensitive cloud resources. This level of automation not only boosts security but also relieves IT teams from manual monitoring tasks.

As an innovative technologist, what future trends in AI and cloud management do you see shaping the industry?

Future trends in AI and cloud management are poised to redefine the industry, particularly through hyper-automation, cost governance, and advanced observability. AI-driven systems will enable autonomous, self-healing cloud environments that predictively manage resources and resolve issues, minimizing manual intervention. Cost optimization will become more sophisticated, with AI offering granular insights and automatically managing idle resources to ensure efficient cloud spending. Observability, powered by AI, will allow for deeper visibility into cloud infrastructure, with real-time analytics detecting and addressing performance and security issues proactively. Additionally, AI will streamline multi-cloud orchestration, ensuring optimal workload placement across environments, while sustainability-focused AI will suggest greener cloud practices. Enhanced DevOps and conversational AI will simplify IT management, making cloud operations more intuitive and responsive to organizational goals.

Thank you for the great interview, readers who wish to learn more should visit Nerdio. 

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chicago, IL, USA

Dallas, TX, USA

Fremont, CA, USA

London, UK

Madrid, Spain

Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Sydney, Australia

Tokyo, Japan

Toronto, Canada

Washington, DC, USA

You can view details about each data center and our global data center map on our Data Center page.

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In the process of launching these new data center locations, we have streamlined our pricing across the board, removing secondary/add-on costs we had put in place a year ago for our Sydney, Australia location. This simplifies the pricing across all 10+ data center locations making pricing the same regardless of which geographic region you select to host in across the globe. If you have any questions at all about our new data center locations please reach out to our Support Team.

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Process servers play a crucial role in the legal system by ensuring that legal documents are properly and timely delivered to individuals involved in legal proceedings. In Chicago, like in many other jurisdictions, there are specific legal requirements and regulations that govern the profession of process serving. This article aims to provide an overview of the legal requirements for process servers in Chicago, shedding light on the responsibilities, qualifications, and ethical standards that guide their operations.