[announce] Wednesday NYC*BUG Michael W Lucas

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.
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