8fingerlouie

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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
"Banks are full of war stories trying to migrate off their old mainframe codebases, and often giving up. " Most of the time it's a question of trying to apply "death by a thousand cuts" to their codebase, which wor
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by 8fingerlouie 10mo ago
"RTT to NextDNS is ~30ms for me" That's why i setup a local caching resolver. RTT to NextDNS in Denmark is ~10ms, and RTT to my local caching resolver is 1-2ms, so yes, it's quicker, but my caching resolver is essentia
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Wireguard is simple enough to setup, and i actually use it much like OP does, though i don't force all my DNS queries through it, and instead use NextDNS. It's basically setup so that i have my internal machines registered in Next
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Can you setup custom filters on the free solution ? If not, DNS4EU ( https://www.joindns4.eu/ ) is free for personal use, and has no quota, and offers various endpoints for malware protection, adblocking, and other stuff.
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
I doubt the VPS/VPN route is for the majority of people, but if "you" are one of those, then yes, it would make sense. For everybody else, $18/year vs $5/month for a VPS should be an easy choice.
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Is running Pihole or Adguard home even worth it these days ? You can get something like NextDNS for $18/year, which is probably less than what you pay for the power required to serve Pihole or Adguard Home, and you get enterprise level
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
ignoring all "hate" against streaming services, you have to at least give Netflix credit where it's due. They contribute a lot to the open source community, and their engineering blog is always a good read. Granted, not many
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Too late. Your phone (GSM anyway) continuously reports back to the cell tower it's connected to, the strength of every other cell tower it can "see". The cell network, not the handset, decides which is the better cell tower f
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
I doubt much will change. Your location is already known to your mobile operator, to your phone OS manufacturer, to various social media services, and more, including the government/law enforcement on request (maybe, or they have perma
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Probably because dash cams have a questionable legal status in Denmark. There's a law that prohibits all video monitoring of public spaces, and a register where you must register your video cameras if you're a business owner. Vide
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
"- The data was collected in 2016, and was used in 2023 - a retention period of 7 years, way longer than the specified maximum of 2" Normally, when there's an ongoing police investigation, the police can either request and
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
It's still a law in Denmark, despite being rendered illegal in the EU, and likewise in national courts. It was last used to convict a murderer of the murder of Emilie Meng ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_E
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
drives are spinning. 4x8TB WD Red Plus, which uses 3.4W idle, and assuming 20W for the NAS it's at ~34W (measured 35W). Mac Mini uses 4.6W idle (headless). POE consumption (measured by switch) is 37W (I'm aware there's overhe
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
did you forget the Mac Mini M1 in that comparison ? My setup, UNAS and Mac Mini M1, with 10Gbps networking, will easily perform as well as the NAS in question, but the Mac Mini only uses 4.6W idle, making it much more efficient. As for ZFS
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
"by measuring "36W POE consumption" you are excluding the AC-DC conversion losses from the switch's PSU which further makes the comparison a bit unfair. IOW your POE equipment draws more than 36W at the wall." I&#
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
96W is what's reported at the wall including everything. The switch reports 36W PoE consumption The Mac Mini is 5-6W, and the UNAS Pro around 35W with drives (4xHDD, 2xSSD). So ~75W in total for everything PoE, Mac Mini and UNAS Pro. I
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Not really. It's part of the 3-2-1 backup setup, but where other people have their "offsite backup" in the cloud, I keep my working copy there, and have backups at home. I outsourced operations of it though. I have self hoste
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Holy smokes, the NAS in idle consumes more power than my UNAS Pro with 4x8TB HDD and 2X8TB SSD, as well as a Mac mini M1 with a 2TB Samsung T7 SSD, and my 4 access points and 4 protect cameras combined. For reference, the UNAS Pro comes wit
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
They have removed the backdoor paragraph, and inserted a new one that states that scanning is entirely voluntary and best effort, and also state that the EU cannot force them to scan. As far as the mass surveillance scanning goes, it has co
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Modern Safari is pretty damned good at randomizing fingerprints with Intelligent Tracking Prevention. With IOS 26 and MacOS 26, it's enabled in both private and non private browser windows (used to be only in private mode). All "f
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
Rclone works fine, but the main difference to Cryptomator is that their mobile apps integrate well into the phone filesystems, essentially allowing you to modify the contents of an encrypted vault from mobile, desktop or wherever. It’s basi
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
If you still want/need cloud storage, but don't want to roll your own (with the warts that brings), Cryptomator is an excellent tool for source encrypting your data before uploading them. It works transparently, and has clients fo
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by 8fingerlouie 11mo ago
And yet, despite all it's bells and whistles, it hasn't kept up with the times. Apple introduced "icloud optimized storage" about a decade ago, and Time Machine still doesn't support backing up files that have been
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Banks running on mainframes don't shard. They just throw more hardware at the problem. The modern mainframes capacity for raw IO is insane, and much higher than what you can achieve with any PC setup. More hardware, more bandwidth, cli
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
The actual hardware (or virtual these days) is not the problem, but getting the 5000-10000 services properly connected with auditing, credentials and more is more trouble than most people expect. Finance is a heavily regulated industry, so
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
But if your one source of truth is a single huge database, maybe on a mainframe, as is often the case with finance, and eventual consistency is a huge no go, the mainframe can become a limit regardless when you're being "hammered&
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
There's a reason i specifically mentioned finance, where the end and start of a month is a lot more busy than the middle of the month, as in factor 10+. People receive paychecks, pay bills, buy stuff, with holidays (christmas, x-mas, e
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Biometrics are identification means (including DNA). They can be used to uniquely identify you, but they're not secret. You literally leave fingerprints and DNA everywhere you go, and obtaining your biometrics is not as hard as guessin
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
If you have high volume traffic depending on time of month, ie finance around ultimo/primo, you might need to scale your performance to 5-10x your normal idle load. If running on your own data center, or renting physical/virtual m
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
I wrote “if you’re in the EU” because the project only has resolvers in the EU, so accessing it from the rest of the world will likely not be worth it over local alternatives. As for the legality, the following text is from their website: &

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