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by rsync 10mo ago
I think it's quite the compliment - you should be flattered! Unrelated: I really enjoy "Security, Cryptography, Whatever".
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by rsync 10mo ago
That’s fine. We don’t have our own forum so this is as good of a place as any to discuss anything that’s on your mind. AMA.
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by rsync 10mo ago
We already provide this. The zfs snapshots that we make of your account are immutable (read only) from the perspective of your credentials. So even if you publish your rsync.net credentials and Mallory wipes out your entire base account, th
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by rsync 10mo ago
Happy to discuss any aspect of the Q4 notes, or previous notes[1] throughout the day today. [1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/
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Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025(rsync.net)
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by rsync 10mo ago
"... because good enough quality roads are so cheap ..." If there is only one thing you take away from this discussion I hope it is: Roadbuilding is fantastically, stupefyinlgy expensive . One can hardly believe just how expensi
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by rsync 10mo ago
"My wife just had our fourth child earlier this year. Once again we used a midwife but this time we had a home birth. You couldn't have paid me to accept a home birth when we were new parents. I wish I knew then what I know now.&q
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by rsync 10mo ago
"Healthcare shouldn't be a market. That's why you're paying $40k." I see your drill down to fundamental issues and I raise you: Pregnancy is not a sickness. Hospitals are for sick people. If we reserved hospital bi
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by rsync 10mo ago
GDPR et. al favor, and entrench, larger business firms and (relatively) handicap smaller firms. I’m not in full opposition but people should understand that there is a downside.
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by rsync 10mo ago
Both unsophisticated lay observers and capital/owners tend to fault operators ... for different reasons. Accident studies and, in particular, books like _Normal Accidents_[1] push back on this assumptions: "... It made the cas
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by rsync 10mo ago
I think "vanity" is the wrong term because their existing credit rating, which they attempt to preserve, impacts all other borrowing (and possibly other agreements and finance vehicles, etc.) that they undertake. So it's prob
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by rsync 10mo ago
This is true: when I load the page I just get stock photos of business meetings and cubicle …
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by rsync 11mo ago
“ What I mean is that for an institution of higher education and intellectual research, the bar for ethical action should be higher.” Who is the highest paid state employee in Minnesota? Hint: he works for umn.edu … [1] Who controls the la
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by rsync 11mo ago
"... then zip them up, anyone you send that zip to (a journalist, a public file-hosting site, w/e) will have your full legal name ..." A bit of a leap to assume that your Apple ID (or the name you give your iphone) is your fu
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by rsync 11mo ago
All of rsync.net and "Oh By"[1] are coded in perl. Which is to say, the customer facing web interface, ordering, management and our own management back ends. Obviously the actual storage component employs no interpreters of any
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by rsync 11mo ago
Genuinely curious: Do you run this on single tenant hardware that you own ?
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by rsync 11mo ago
“Hundreds of concurrent requests…” Back in 2001/2002 my personal website was “slashdotted” several times… … which I learned about after the fact by seeing myself on slashdot. It was not noticeable as it occurred and my services were no
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by rsync 11mo ago
I don't know if "tech capitalists" care about humans or not but I am certain that we should behave as if they do not . I include myself in that. I hope people find value in the things I have built and I assume that my litera
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by rsync 11mo ago
I agree with this. However, an even more fundamental philosophy behind any work that we do is "defense in depth" which means that even after building the fault-tolerant, anti-fragile system, we also spend time and resources qual
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by rsync 11mo ago
"It's crazy to me that rsync.net is buying mission-critical enterprise drives on Amazon." We don't. "At rsync.net we have trusted suppliers with verified supply chains and a long history of providing reliable servic
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by rsync 11mo ago
Yes. There are vendor-specific utilities that have escaped into the wild that allow bad actors to reset various SMART counters, etc. A lot of abuse came to light during the launch and initial mining of the (ridiculous) Chiacoin[1] during w
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by rsync 11mo ago
It's rough out there and has become increasingly difficult to maintain our pace of storage deployment. Further - and most concerning - is the pollution of the supply chain with refurbished/recertified stock being sold and marketed
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by rsync 11mo ago
... but available only to users of google/apple/microsoft: https://tickerfeed.net/login I'd be interested in an "HN for financial folks" but the very modest ability to handle auth/login is a
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by rsync 11mo ago
You buy puts on TQQQ.
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by rsync 11mo ago
Author: please accept my offer of a free-forever account at rsync.net to aid/assist/enable any aspect of what you are doing here. Just email us …
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by rsync 11mo ago
"... Rsync.net has a deal to prepay ~4 years worth upfront and they'll let you use it for life but it's capped at 1TB ..." To clarify ... it is not capped. You may scale the lifetime payment option to any size you like
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by rsync 11mo ago
Extremely fine optimizations - like you are describing - only make sense after the major, gross actions have already been exhausted. Do you have a regular, intensive, exercise routine with a good mix of aerobic and resistance training? Don’
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by rsync 11mo ago
Bob and Alice and the eavesdropper is Eve … What name do we give “the guy who says it’s fine to tear down Chestertons fence” ?
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by rsync 11mo ago
You don’t need to be in Europe. It works everywhere.
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by rsync 1y ago
A certain business I own has an openai account for testing and research purposes. What ID would we provide? Would we pick some random employee to attach to the account? What relevance does this have to the notion of “piercing the corporate

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