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by jnxx 6y ago
I feel somewhat similar. Since I am using Linux, they ultimately were trying to break the security of my computers. If I do that with any company without their consent, I can easily end up in jail.
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That gives me goose bumps.
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by jnxx 6y ago
Sadly, that only consolidates my view of that organization.
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> The problem here is really that they’re wasting time of the maintainers without their approval. Not only that, but they are also doing experiments on a community of people which is against their interest and also could be harmful by cr
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Bad actors could exploit this, and the researchers are showing that maintainers are not paying enough attention. And this is anything new? And if I blow a hammer over your head while you are not suspecting it, does this prove anything
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by jnxx 6y ago
Well, shit happens. Imaging doctors working in organ transplants, and one of them damages trust of people by selling access to organs to rich patients. Of course that damages the field for everyone. And to deal with such issues, doctors hav
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Understandable from gkh, but I feel sorry for any unrelated research happening at University of Minnesota. That's the university's problem to fix.
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by jnxx 6y ago
The earlier patches could in theory be OK, but they also might combine with other or later patches which introduce bugs more stealthily. Bugs can be very subtle. Obviously, trust should not be the only thing that maintainers rely on, but it
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by jnxx 6y ago
It more shows up a very serious problem with the incentives present in scientific research and a poisonous culture which obviously seems to reward malicious behavior. Science enjoys a lot of freedom and trust from citizens but this trust mu
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by jnxx 6y ago
> The only frustrating thing is how clearly it's been highlighted that the rich and powerful countries get all the vaccines and we'll only get them here once everyone in the west has been vaccinated three times over. One can on
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by jnxx 6y ago
Are not renewables (that is, wind and solar) the cheapest energy sources today? If I understand correctly, that would mean that bitcoin mining has to use them (in order to stay competitive), and bitcoin is effectively subsidizing renewables
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by jnxx 6y ago
I think what comes closest is the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/
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by jnxx 6y ago
CCC in Germany does really fantastic work and they are well recognized in the public. And they have some friends. Years ago, the club was moving from Berlin to Hamburg, I think. They had an ongoing dispute whether they are, tax-wise, recogn
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by jnxx 6y ago
Interesting. What is roughly the total price, the average power consumption, and what is the main advantage compared to ARM systems? Am I correct to assume the Intel chips still draw a lot more power than the single-digit Watt numbers of AR
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by jnxx 6y ago
Compare that to the 4GB of a Raspberry Pi 400.
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by jnxx 6y ago
Well, I see better what point of view this is coming from. However, ZEF is not part of the standard kernel, IIRC there are still license issues and it needs to be built separately, which is not necessary with any normal file system. I enjoy
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by jnxx 6y ago
I have been working professionally with Linux since 22 years, and I have tried the same with a NAS - and found out that it has just so many annoying quirks and shortcoming that I am definitively far better off, and waste far less time if
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by jnxx 6y ago
I agree. What I wanted to point out is that this is not intended as a privacy-enhancing move by Google. More that they make life a bit harder for their own competitors.
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by jnxx 6y ago
That's very generous. However, with the plethora of browser fingerprinting techniques, cookies today have become almost irrelevant: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://scrapebot.com/browser-fingerp
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by jnxx 6y ago
> For RAID, I use a HDD backup. A reliable backup is way more important than RAID. Unless you run some kind of emergency service.
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by jnxx 6y ago
> But they're not nearly as energy efficient as a consumer-grade NAS. I agree that over multiple years, electrical power becomes a substantial part of the cost (and also the environmental footprint). Small ARM systems with sufficien
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by jnxx 6y ago
> But updates and Linux are very prone to breakages - there’s too much hw and sw combinations to expect solid experience. That seems like FUD to me. I am running Linux since over 20 years. A NAS's hardware interfaces are mostly HDD
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Its surprisingly common, especially when a machine is underload and spending ages flushing to disk. A kernel oops happens and bam, broken partition. 1. That is what journaling file systems like ext4 are for. These are exactly to preven
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by jnxx 6y ago
> But that framing is based on a false premise Another false premise is that the "old tracking" will stop because of the "new tracking".
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by jnxx 6y ago
I already discussed that a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26804794 So, some NAS vendors seem to spread a bit of FUD that their hardware is purportedly better or more robust than a self-built Linux system. It
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by jnxx 6y ago
> The issue is not speed, its the USB disks. firstly you are reliant on the disks presenting themselves in the same order at the same time. (historically that was challenging) ZFS can cope with this quite well, MDADM, not so much. I have
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by jnxx 6y ago
Just to complete this: As said, it is not a good idea to leave the root file system of the Raspberry, which is on an SD card, writable for heavy-duty, long-term tasks where reliability is important. It is not made for that. Among other thin
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by jnxx 6y ago
> It's not a turnkey solution like a Synology or QNAP box, but it's a lot more flexible. That is not even the biggest advantage. The biggest advantage, in my opinion, is that you will always get updates and can run that for an
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by jnxx 6y ago
> firstly you are reliant on the disks presenting themselves in the same order at the same time. In Linux, which is what Raspbian is, it is standard nowadays to use UUID disk labels. > Another issue I've bumped into is that mdadm
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by jnxx 6y ago
I'd be really curious to know why people are downvoting this. I can't see any technical reason against it. Of course, for some people this might be too complicated or too much hassle in comparison to buying a more expensive commer

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