johnklos

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by johnklos 2y ago
Tell us something new, please.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Running Linux on a 4004 is possible, as we've seen, but running llama is just way too far? Interesting take.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Yes, a Macintosh LC II :)
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by johnklos 2y ago
Dmitry talks about compiling the kernel in years. While I haven't done that, I have built NetBSD-vax and NetBSD-mac68k natively on a VAXstation 4000/60 and on a Mac Quadra 610. It's on the scale of multiple months instead of
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by johnklos 2y ago
Wonderful look in to our history, and you're undoubtedly correct about being able to target that system. My example was about hardware that was affordable to mere mortals (although it's getting to be more expensive to buy that sam
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by johnklos 2y ago
I've always interpreted the definition of storage as arbitrarily large, not specifically infinite. The universe, after all, is finite. The "well, acshually" arguments aren't interesting, because they're 100% abstrac
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by johnklos 2y ago
There are many, many things that can't be hosted in Docker. For instance, literally everything that I run on many of my servers can't, because Docker only supports certain platforms and architectures. Things that we want to run o
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by johnklos 2y ago
I installed Windows 95 on an Amiga 3000 with a 25 MHz m68030 via floppy to see if DMF formatted disks would work and to play around. By the time it finished, I had forgotten what I wanted to try out.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Wow. And I thought modern NetBSD on a 15 MHz m68030 with a 16 bit memory bus and 10 megabytes of RAM is slow. This is crazy! It illustrates a point I've explained to many people over the years: once computers started coming with persis
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by johnklos 2y ago
It is a bit easier, at least. My almost 90 year old Mom now knows to be suspicious of email and to not believe email unless she has a reason to think she should be getting it. To be fair about setting up a Pihole or some other form of DNS f
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by johnklos 2y ago
Cloudflare's abuse form will not let you submit the report if you don't include a URL that currently points to their network. There're no options for phishing / scam domains for which they're the registrar and/
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by johnklos 2y ago
Can be summarized with: Don't click on links in email. So is github-scanner.com (and github-scanner.shop) still the same malicious party? It seems to be. Funny that their DNS is hosted by Cloudflare (who, famously, don't host anyt
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by johnklos 2y ago
You don't. Google doesn't have humans that non-paying customers can reach. As I wrote, either you work on improving your reputation (set up all the acronyms, send lots of test messages, tell everyone you know that uses Google for
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by johnklos 2y ago
You're right that I didn't check them. I said that. It's like doing research for colo, like my example. If you have the need, then a couple of hours of research is well worthwhile. I don't have the need, so I'm not
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by johnklos 2y ago
That's definitely not true. You can either put in the work to improve your deliverability, or you can smarthost through a provider that has a good reputation.
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by johnklos 2y ago
"to self-host any app" Docker != app. Perhaps it'd be more accurate to say, "to host any Docker container"?
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by johnklos 2y ago
I don't use them myself, but I only choose colocation providers that have a good handle on their own protections. A quick search, though, shows lots of reviews and options: https://www.techradar.com/news/best-ddos-
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by johnklos 2y ago
You should design your site to be resilient to spam traffic, not try to filter until it's gone. By filtering, you've become unreachable by much of the world, spammers or not.
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by johnklos 2y ago
You can self host email. There are plenty of how-tos, prepackaged packages, even books: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms I'm writing my own how-to which includes finding suitable Internet providers and includ
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by johnklos 2y ago
Anyone who actually runs machines can tell you that the cloud is an expensive way to run anything. If you have zero servers, then sure, running something small might be cheaper, but if you have any number more than zero, running things on y
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by johnklos 2y ago
Microsoft has an app called, "Windows App". Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising from a company that named their OS after a single featur, but this name is so much worse. What does it do? The name doesn't say at all. Did
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by johnklos 2y ago
There are *so* many options out there. Saying you don't know how to do it without using an evil, monopolistic company is like saying you can't host email without using Google. It's lazy, untechnical and just plain untrue.
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by johnklos 2y ago
"since you must process IP addresses in order to serve a website" That's complete nonsense.
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by johnklos 2y ago
You listed just one slightly onerous requirement: allowing people access and agency over their data. If you don't store their data, you don't have to do that. It's a bit hyperbolic to say that you're, "not even half
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by johnklos 2y ago
...and have worse quality, which makes the idea of caring about using real-time transcoding to give the best quality pretty silly.
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by johnklos 2y ago
I see both sides. While "self hosting" has always meant hosting yourself, and hosting on other people's systems isn't hosting something yourself, I can see how people can get confused and can call running their self-conf
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by johnklos 2y ago
It's a good writeup, but I do take exception to this: "Seriously, else-hosting is the practical option, let someone else worry about the reliability, concurrency, redundancy and availability of your systems." Spend one time t
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by johnklos 2y ago
Some of us don't download and run binaries. For some of us, the advantage of ARM is exactly that it isn't x86.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Transcoding using hardware acceleration is one of those things that some people insist upon, like wanting "gaming" everything and overclocking everything, but most people don't need. First, the quality of output of hardware a
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by johnklos 2y ago
True. I've wondered the same thing, and always come back to inexpensive Ryzens on ASRock motherboards that I simply underclock.

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