avidamoeba

@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also looking forward to working a couple of days a week, training and coaching young developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A for profit worker co-op is very different than a private for-profit. A for-profit worker co-op would be fine ik my book and in fact preferable than a non worker co-op nonprofit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a difference in definitions, as well as difference between non-profit/not-for-profit and charities. As far as I know what your described is a non-profit and a non-profit can sell services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I read LPCAMM in its current state does not work for this. The electrical noise is too high. These things aren’t the same. A repairable waterproof phone can be made without glue by making it a bit thicker. In the case of RAM today, we’re hitting fundamental physics limitations with speed of electricity and noise. At this point the physical interconnect itself becomes a problem. Gold contact points become antennas that induce noise into adjacent parts of the system. I’m not trying to excuse Framework here. I’m saying that the difficulty here borders on the impossible. If this RAM was soldered and it had bandwidth no different than SODIMM or LPCAMM modules then I’d say Framework fucked up making it soldered, majorly. As I said, there’s no point buying this if you don’t care about the fast RAM and use cases that need it like LLMs. Regular ITX board with regular AM5 is the way to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You get fast memory as a result. If you don’t care about the fast memory, there’s no good reason to buy this, with their motherboard. There’s a use case this serves which can’t be served by traditional slotted memory and the alternative is to buy 4-5 NVIDIA 3090/4090/5090. If you want that use case, then this is a pretty good deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My AM5 system doesn’t post with 128GB of 5600 DDR5 at higher than 4400 at JEDEC timings and voltage. 2 DIMMs are fine. 4 DIMMs… rip. So I’d say the present of DIMMs is already a bit shaky. DIMMs are great for lots of cheap RAM. I paid a lot less than what I’d have to pay for the equivalent size of RAM in a Framework desktop. Of course there are significant differences between the speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re experiencing isn’t hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is more like when a load of bread is $1 today, $2 a month after and $10-100 by the end of the year. Grown up in country during hyperinflation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers identify gene linked to origins of spoken language.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  we generated mice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss myspace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is another reason why income and wealth inequality are bad for us. We have a natural level of psychopathy in the population. You don’t want them stumbling on the kind of power given by obscene inequality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  • Primary ZFS pool with automatic snapshots
    • Provides 3+ copies of the files (3)
  • Secondary ZFS pool at a different location replicates the primary
    • Provides more copies of the files (3)
    • Provides second media (2)
    • Is off-site (1)

  Does this make sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you run backups on your system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try ZFS send if you have ZFS on the other side. It’s insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you run backups on your system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every hour. Could do it more frequently if needed.

  It depends on how resource intensive the backup process is.

  Consider an 800GB Immich instance.

  Using Duplicity or rsync takes 1.5 hours per backup. 99% of the time is spent in traversing the directory structure and checking which files have changed. 1% is spent into transferring the difference to the backup. Any backup system that operates on top of the file system would take this much. In addition, unless you’re using something that can take snapshots of the filesystem, you have to stop Immich during the backup process in order to prevent backing up an invalid app state.

  Using ZFS send on the other hand (with syncoid) takes less than 5 seconds to discover the differences and the rest of the time is spent on the data transfer, at 100MB/s in my case.

  When I used Duplicity to backup, I would backup once week because the backup process was long and heavy on the disk array. Since I switched to ZFS send, I do it once an hour because there’s almost no visible impact.

  I’m now in the process of migrating my laptop to ZFS on root in order to be able to utilize ZFS send for regular full system backups. If successful, eventually I’ll move all my machines to ZFS on root.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless AI dramatically improves from where LLMs are today, I’m looking forward to the drastic shortage of experienced senior devs in a few years time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If we look at other companies that have been in Apple’s position, this seems to be a temporary state of affairs even if it lasts for a while. If the expectation is for profit to grow year over year (it is), as growth of market share stalls because you’ve already expanded as much as you could, you’d get pressed to find profits by exploiting existing revenue streams. That’s the point when employee opposition stops working. Think of the recent events when the Google Search VP opposed the Ad VP’s requests to make search worse in order to improve ads revenue. The Ad VP got appointed to lead search and the previous search VP got moved to a dark corner somewhere. Once you run out of profit growth in the existing revenue streams, they’d ask you to find profit growth by reducing labor cost. We also saw that happening in various companies over the last little while.

  If Apple was a private corporation owned by some people who aren’t looking for ever increasing profits, I’d believe they might not follow this pattern. But they aren’t.

  That’s just my guess and the reasons behind it. Could turn out that you’re right and Apple is an exception to the rule. I mean, I hope it does but I’m not optimistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any replacement is subject to the priorities of Apple’s major shareholders and its board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC and Intel rumors stoke Taiwanese fears of losing its 'Silicon Shield'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be time for the Taiwanese people to take a page from their Chinese comrades and learn that they can’t rely on a private corporation to do what’s in their and their country’s best interest. If they want to keep that democracy, they better reign in their capitalists before they sell their security for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are underestimating the effect. I’ve learned a whole lot in my year and a half here. Enough to develop a decent understanding of what’s going on and what concrete actions I could take in my corner of the world. I think we can’t expect action without understanding of why act and what action. I think discussions here help with that. For all the people who post and comment, there are many who read, learn go find out more, and so on. Some of those would take action that they wouldn’t have otherwise. If we don’t platform that do this, if all there is are corporate platforms that keep people unaware of even the basics of what’s happening beyond the reporting, then the number of people who’d act in some productive way would be even lower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Old Social Media

  Oof, heavy shade. Well done! Makes the Fediverse sound cooler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the project is already okay with Github, perhaps a set of polls in Github with this feature, linked far and wide in Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great point and a really low hanging fruit that would likely help with adoption and retention. The defaults weren’t great for me either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If people went as far as registering in a Lemmy instance, they clearly have some affinity towards the Fediverse. Getting through Fediverse to work nicely for them is what bridges the gap. It’s the same with anything people do. Better defaults is a trivial low hanging fruit that can help perhaps significantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s faster ways to get data. We can do a few surveys on existing users. We’ll get hundreds of responses easily. Perhaps multiple surveys, one for each setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomy than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨42links: A bookmarking server, written in Lisp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did you do that to yourself… 🥹

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a first tariff-induced hit against the PC gaming sector, ASRock is talking about increasing costs and moving its graphics card manufacturing away from China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. They already make their motherboards in Vietnam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  JFC… This such a trainwreck…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people use for a shelf-stable backup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ZFS with automatic snapshots and scrubbing. This will keep as many and as old snapshots as your like. It’ll ensure the files don’t rot. It’ll ensure the media doesn’t die, so long as you have enough redundancy and you replace disks as they die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTB⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too good. I’m gonna change the title to it.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use Debian LTS or Ubuntu LTS (10 years support with free Ubuntu Pro). Turn on automatic unattended updates. Upgrade OS when you’re bored one of those years.