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I think the same can be said of crashes… Or at least recessions… You would not want a market without corrections or recessions. I can’t stop beating this analogy to death: A market that is never allowed to fall into recession is like a fore
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"The only set we should really be listening to are people who both ..." I think a dial is preferable to either of the (urban, rural) choices. I love dense, urban places and I also love quiet, secluded rural places. In my mind,
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2y ago
Thoughtful of them to refer to "NT architecture" as opposed to "NT Technology".
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Published in 2003 in sysadmin magazine: https://www.kozubik.com/published/self_parsing_shell_scripts... Backups, system monitoring (same df example) … I will charitably conclude that great minds think alike!
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2y ago
I'm using these now: https://www.nord-lock.com/globalassets/mediavalet/web-assets... ... much better than a spring washer. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-jackbolt_tensioner
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2y ago
Check out: https://rsync.net/resources/howto/borg.html … both of those are very concise (especially the bsd one) and, while they can be used as a general how to, they have rsync.net examples. Related: I have, pers
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I've read the article and the entire comment thread and nobody is talking about the cloud provider itself ... ? When someone borgs[1] up their data to store at rsync.net we just assume that we are the threat . Of course I don'
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I know of a better response… List of ssids in some popular location and then duplicate it, place-shifted. I’ve been meaning to run this experiment for a while now… Can I broadcast a set of ssids that make, for instance, the mall of America
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2y ago
Genuinely curious… What is the other thing? Is this some thing about an obelisk?
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That is a very good suggestion and it is my highest priority as well, in terms of "thinking about improvements to email". I do understand the attraction of highly specialized, modular and pluggable tools - so I know why OpenSMTPd
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2y ago
"So, I think this hilarious, but link shorteners have to be stable, right?" Yes, a link shortener does need to be stable but luckily they are extremely simple to operate . You should be able to run a very popular link shortener o
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2y ago
The detail that has stuck in my mind since the last time I read about this is: Thermodynamically speaking, if you transmit electricity from outside the Earth onto the Earth – even if you do it perfectly efficiently – you are, by definition,
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2y ago
Related: I've had bad luck with configuration generators for MacOS (OSX) ... somehow the configuration is weirdly tied to a specific network interface and then pukes if you change from wifi to wired ... ... yet at the same time, the &
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2y ago
"Fortunately, UniSuper had backups at another cloud provider. Otherwise, a bad situation could have been oh so much worse." Years ago we ran ad campaigns on reddit that said something like: "Your data is stored on AWS and you
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I think my point was unclear ... What I am saying is, there is no reason for other firms to perform KYC because it is totally redundant. The banks already have to do it and they have a better view of the transaction flow anyway. Any KYC th
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2y ago
KYC is already required at banks and they have the most complete - and global - view of all transaction flows . Therefore we should insist that KYC be solely performed by banks - no other firms should be required to perform it. Given the e
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2y ago
Tangent: if your 8-9-10 year old loved Bone, a great follow up is usagi yojimbo.
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Hmmm ... I have been thinking about this recently in relation to the complex and unwieldy nature of modern car UI (especially in electric cars). It's so bad that it is keeping me from buying a car that I need . The conclusion that I h
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2y ago
Raspberry pi with a second network interface… Running FreeBSD. As to your other point… If you remove the Sim card from your telephone and then connect to a second router device that you carry with you… But we’re getting a little weird here…
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This type of device is referred to as a “network slug”[1] … and it is a fantastic idea. If we’re being formal, a true slug is one that has no IP address defined and is a transparent layer two firewall… But we don’t need to pick nits here… [
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Can it be reliably configured to “fail off” ? That is, if my configuration profile Becomes invalid or is non-functional, Will it just cease to pass traffic?
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2y ago
"Are most drives retired without failing?" Yes, certainly. One can watch both SMART indicators as well as certain ZFS stats and catch a problem drive before it actually fails. I like to remove drives from zpools early because ther
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I definitely want to find the correct solution for this ... if not for my (already built) house, for our society in general. In addition to the electricity savings, there is an enormous gain in simplicity and elegance in removing a lot of
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Yes, precisely … but I think there is an issue with the transformer which would need to be energized 24/7 and uses power sitting idle … I forget - I did look into this - but somehow the 110 to 12v conversation using normal components e
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2y ago
I think it effectively affects all web hosts… Certainly how we expect them to work in 2024… But remember that you can have a perfectly effective web host that simply accepts HTML uploads. Certainly a tremendous loss of convenience and featu
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2y ago
The talking point we should be using is: if banks know their customers, we don’t have to. The trail of knowing ones customers always leads to payments and finance. If we are accepting payment for our services with standard bank card transac
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"... the only way to get everyone on board is for someone to make vehicles for the political tribe that wants to own and drive the exact sort of vehicle that people like me want kept off public roads ..." I cautiously, tentatively
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For what it’s worth, I am doing this with FreeBSD right now … with jail.
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“Oh By”[1], The universal shortener, has had protections for this built in from the very beginning. Since the whole point is the ability to convey a message in the physical world end with chalk or pencil or whatever – we needed to make sure
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"Vizio for exmaple in 2021 made 85% of its revenue from selling the TV, just 15% from the "platform"." What percentage of their profit comes from that 15% of their revenue ? I suspect it's a lot.
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