johnklos

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by johnklos 2y ago
Simple disagreements suffice. I don't have to make an argument for something just because you bring it up. I'm just pointing out that you bringing it up (hmmm - without backing it up!) doesn't make it a valid point. You seem
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by johnklos 2y ago
I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make here, but you're a bit off on a tangent.
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by johnklos 2y ago
You're handwaving. Anything can increase cost and complexity. Using Amazon S3 increases cost and complexity. Set up two locations. Set up rsync. It's still cheaper than cloud storage by far, and that's even after paying yours
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by johnklos 2y ago
I'm puzzled about why you'd suggest such an obviously silly thing. Purchased, fully redundant storage is MUCH cheaper than anything in the cloud when talking about any time frame of a year or more. Obviously you can "rent&quo
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by johnklos 2y ago
Yes, I did, of course. Storage is MUCH cheaper when you colo, and bandwidth requirements are a large part of why you colocate instead of just running servers out of an office building that has at least two upstream connections. I'm rea
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by johnklos 2y ago
VMs introduce security issues that bare metal don't have. Those security issues are mostly academic for most people and many projects, but not for software where a supply chain compromise could severely impact all users of that softwar
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by johnklos 2y ago
Is colocation knowledge lost now? Do people no longer know how to configure a server or three, bring them to colo and run them? I don't understand how this is a story worthy of an Ars Technica article. Where's the issue? If the is
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by johnklos 2y ago
I think all these things are absolutely ridiculous. I use alpine (the email client, not the Linux distro). Before that, I used pine. Every single thing that gets loaded from anywhere on the Internet has to be the result of an action that I
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is brilliant and elegant. It's quite satisfying to have ways to have older computers communicate with the rest of the world. Thanks, Cameron, for preserving and extending this work from and history of John Iannetta.
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by johnklos 2y ago
This seems like little more than a sales pitch. For instance: > Second, companies like Cloudflare benefit from a fast, secure internet. If the internet is fast and reliable, more people will want to use it. The author doesn't seem t
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by johnklos 2y ago
Not everyone wants to participate in the x86 monoculture and its myriad bugs. A PowerPC machine has many benefits, particularly if someone wants to test that x86 assumptions aren't in their code or infrastructure tools. Like running Ne
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by johnklos 2y ago
The depth of this article is wonderful. The PowerPC line did have lots of good things going for it, and the Mac mini G4 is a good example of how much you can get done with modest space, power and heat. I'm still using Mac mini G4s in s
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is actually not bad at all. Whenever I want to get a feel for a search engine, I do the following searches: * 1U vax * 1U amiga * vax 5g netbsd The first tells me whether commercial interests are prioritized over other results. The sec
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by johnklos 2y ago
I was anxious the whole way through. I bet it's both wonderful and nerve-racking to own a piece of history like this.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Does "But if you're going out of your way to look suspicious" advance the conversation?
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by johnklos 2y ago
That's oversimplifying a bit and missing some critical information. Cloudflare wants to "protect" people from exposing even their general region. This has the side effect of making CDNs that aren't Cloudflare work worse.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Is this Hertz? Somehow Hertz in Mexico decided to add my email address to their mailing list, and I tried to complain to every level of Hertz to get them to stop. Their hosters didn't care, their upstream didn't care. I decided to
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by johnklos 2y ago
Cloudflare puts challenges on their abuse contact page and rate limits it to much slower than human speed. It's also still broken after years in that you can't report abusers who register domains through Cloudflare and/or h
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by johnklos 2y ago
> The society works best when people don't capture all the fruits of their labor for themselves. Sure, but it sounds like you think people shouldn't be upset about businesses trying to capture all the fruits of people's la
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by johnklos 2y ago
The author makes some good points, and the overall message is good, but: Why would we care so much about being a property owner and not renter if we don't care about whether a hosting company can just turn us off? Why would we care so
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by johnklos 2y ago
I've heard this about various Linux distros, but every time I've tried it has never been as simple as people say it should be. I assume your twenty lines has customizations. How do you rebuild the OS and kernel the simplest way po
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by johnklos 2y ago
According to the app store: This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease device battery life. Why would an emulator running Linux need someone's location?
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by johnklos 2y ago
I'm not attacking you. I just see too many people say to not do something, and think that's a silly thing to say to a technical crowd. Also, I don't agree that it's not obvious when something goes down. You don't kn
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by johnklos 2y ago
There's a huge difference between training and running models. The multimillion (or billion) dollar collections of hardware assemble the datasets that we (people who run LLMs locally) run. The non-open datasets that we-host-LLMs-for-mo
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by johnklos 2y ago
I love the idea of small homes for everyone, and I'd want to help with similar projects in my areas. This is inspiring. Separately, I absolutely love the "lite" aspect of this news web page. Clean, simple, quick, with an easy
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is exactly what I do, and for exactly the same reasons. I don't do any kind of content based filtering in part because some of my users do anti-spam, anti-phishing work, so of course they need to be able to talk about spam and phi
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by johnklos 2y ago
Any post about self-hosting email inevitably gets posts from people who think it's their place to tell others what not to do. Replace "email" in what you wrote with "web". Is it just too easy for something to go wro
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by johnklos 2y ago
One way that I explain cognitive load to people unfamiliar with the term is to imagine crossing a lawn that has both autumn leaves and dog poop, and picture how much more mental energy one expends when trying to not step on dog poop.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Lithium AA or AAA batteries won't, nor will good rechargeable. I just took some lithium AA batteries out of a system that were 25 years old. Not even a hint of leaking.
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by johnklos 2y ago
It's good to see this getting some attention. People should know that removing batteries and replacing them with something modern, particularly non-leaking modern, is a good thing. Most motherboards work with 3 to 4.5 volts. If a circu

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