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by johnklos 4y ago
This article is too kind. We're supposed to believe that all the brilliant minds at Google can't keep ahead of scammers? Sorry, but I don't believe that. On the other hand, I do give Google credit for knowing when they can ma
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by johnklos 4y ago
"Tape Gateway supports all leading backup applications" Only huge companies like Amazon can be this dumb. They don't even mention tar or pax, the two most common tape backup applications. Also, how will this magic Amazon &quo
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by johnklos 4y ago
Are posts really not coalesced? If not, that's a pretty big oversight right there. It might be worth pointing out that Mastodon using Ruby on Rails and all of its dependencies is very, very far from being light, whereas Pleroma and oth
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by johnklos 4y ago
Honestly, if you want steady progress and consistency, if you want changes that are thought out, well reasoned, discussed and sensibly implemented, you should consider the BSDs. Even ignoring the systemd stuff separating Linux from the rest
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by johnklos 4y ago
This is why people shouldn't write their own time functions (in the same vein as not writing their own encryption code). If it's not used in a public library by many, many other things, issues like these might not be discovered un
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by johnklos 4y ago
That's why it's a good idea to use a passphrase with your key so that the key by itself is not useful to anyone. It's not easy for people to run only trustworthy software, or even software that has been reasonably vetted by o
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by johnklos 4y ago
This clarifies a bit the dispute about AMD's settlement about the core count lawsuit. The one FPU per cluster of two cores is what I've always thought decided the case, and observations like these continue to point out that the tw
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by johnklos 4y ago
That sounds flippant, but it really isn't. Imagine this: someone doesn't like you and wants to harm you. They plant a USB stick with random data on it on you, or in your home. They call the authorities and tell a story about how y
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by johnklos 4y ago
Yes, we do have to worry about excessive writes. I had a Samsung SSD - chosen because Samsung flash storage is generally better than most - connected to a SATA to IDE adapter, which was connected to an IDE to SCSI adapter, installed in a VA
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"Most"? Nope. Perhaps that was true twenty years ago, but it's definitely not true now.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Yes - you're absolutely right to have off-site backups. In the past I've had reciprocal backups with others for years, where I host a small box of theirs and they host a small box of mine for exactly this. Also, having had a coloc
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by johnklos 4y ago
These were interesting results then, but I think code generation and OSes have evolved enough that current compiles on a current OS with a current toolchain are actually faster on an FX-8150 than on an i5 of the age from those results. Even
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by johnklos 4y ago
Why not run it from your home network? You're likely already paying for home Internet, and since most of the access will be local, it'll be neither slow nor will it cost anything. Don't forget that running your stuff and putt
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by johnklos 4y ago
But even this article states that the L2 and front end aren't bottlenecks on simultaneous operation. Perhaps it'd be more accurate to say that the case was lost primarily based on the strength of the argument that there are four F
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by johnklos 4y ago
I decided to test future dates on my VAX, running NetBSD, of course, after replacing the battery-backed Dallas DS1287: https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/12198307902357954... Hopefully people will fix 32 b
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by johnklos 4y ago
There is enough actual stuff so that each integer core is, in fact, a separate, distinct core. The issue is that there was only technically one FPU core per two integer cores. AMD paid out $12 million because they called these individual co
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by johnklos 4y ago
I remember deliberating between AMD's eight core FX-8150 and the latest Intel Sandy Bridge in early 2012. Even though lots of people consider Bulldozer to be an AMD misstep, I don't regret my choice: AMD's eight integer cores
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by johnklos 4y ago
You can't get to a shell and dd when booted in a Linux installer?
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by johnklos 4y ago
I remember deliberating between AMD's eight core FX-8150 and the latest Intel Sandy Bridge in early 2012. Even though lots of people consider Bulldozer to be an AMD misstep, I don't regret my choice: AMD's eight integer cores
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by johnklos 4y ago
The main web page has almost no information on it: the example configuration has no SSL, nothing is mentioned about whether this uses local mail delivery on Unix(like) systems, no mention is made about DKIM, DMARC, et cetera, the documentat
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by johnklos 4y ago
> It took me forever to realise DHCP was overwriting resolv.conf, Always expected and well documented. > but that some sneaky bullshit was also overwriting part of unbound’s config using DHCP config data too. Absolutely unacceptable a
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by johnklos 4y ago
There's nothing strange about that. Why pay $10 a month extra for something that can be eliminated with $20 worth of hardware?
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by johnklos 4y ago
I'm not just backing up my data. I'm colocating a whole server that does lots of different things, some which I'd like to keep private and safe.
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Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT(theregister.com)
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by johnklos 4y ago
If I rent hardware, I have no real way of knowing whether remote management is accessible by other people, nor whether it has been secured properly. At least with hardware I own, I know every part of it has been configured by me and by nobo
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The standard Unix utilities on AIX are a pain as well.
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's not worth it to you, but it's worth it to me. See, I know that my hardware is secure. I don't have to worry about bullsh*t closed-stack IPMI / iLO that requires a specific JVM from a decade ago. My server takes less
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by johnklos 4y ago
It depends on the USB-SATA adapter. Yes, I get some SMART data using smartctl. I also get alerted if a pending write takes longer than a few ticks, which would indicate issues.
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by johnklos 4y ago
The primary issue with USB-SATA is power. Give a good USB-SATA adapter, the drive, and the host computer good power, and you'll see excellent reliability. My 1U Raspberry Pi server with two mirrored spinning rust disks on USB-SATA has
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by johnklos 4y ago
There is such a thing as good enough. For instance, are you trying to watch a two hour movie in five minutes, or two hours? For most things, particularly video streaming, 100 Mbps is more than enough. If you want faster, a Pi 4 can saturate

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