From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Apr 1 09:48:05 2026 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 09:48:05 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: Michael W Lucas Message-ID: Note: MWL will be remote, so the meeting will be streamed from https://www.nycbug.org/streaming.html, and some local NYC people will be watching at the Brass Monkey. What's Changed Since The Last Time I Came this Way - a talk that was supposed to be about OpenZFS, Michael W Lucas 2026-04-01 @ 18:45 local (22:45 UTC) - Backroom of Brass Monkey 55 Little West 12th St Remote participation: Plans are to stream via NYC*BUG website. Q&A will be via IRC on libera.chat channel #nycbug - please preface your questions with '[Q]'. Michael W Lucas and Allan Jude are busy working on a new OpenZFS book, which means not only documenting everything that?s changed in the last 12 years but discovering everything that they got wrong the first time. The quest for accuracy has taken Lucas deep into mailing list archives, Usenet, VAX installation manuals, the Kremlin?s first Internet connection, the United Nations? effort to merge the BSD projects, and the ULTRIX and S51K filesystems, and left MWL more convinced than ever that filesystems are nothing but a April Fools? prank. This hurriedly conceived and hastily assembled talk will update you on new OpenZFS features, but will also try to determine if it?s a good prank?or not. Michael W Lucas? name may ring a bell for some in the BSD community. He?s written several shelves of books. But for anyone who has seen him speak in public during Ante COVID days, it was clear they are mere transcriptions of his rambling presentations. For this NYC*BUG meeting, he is unlikely to edit out any of his expected corny jokes we endure during his conference presentations. More likely, you know his name from his grotesque horror fiction. In the same way his technical books are just transcriptions of his presentations, his fictionaal horror is just a simple reflection of someone who lives in a haunted house filled with (pet) rats in Detroit. Nearest NYC Subway is the 14th Street/Eighth Avenue station L, A, C, E. To get to the backroom, you must enter the front door, follow the long bar on your left, and walk all the way to the back. At the rear of the BrassMonkey, you will see an alcove for the 3 bathrooms our room is off to your right.