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- Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever. 1 week ago:
Yea some kind of fork of the torrent protocol where you can advertise “I have X amount of space to donate” and there’s a mechanism to give you the most endangered bytes on the network maybe. Would need to be a lot more granular than torrents to account for the vast majority of nodes not wanting or being capable of getting to “100%”.
I don’t think the technical aspects are insurmountable, and there’s at least some measure of a builtin audience in that a lot of people run archiveteam warrior containers/VMs. But storage is just so many orders of magnitude more expensive than letting a little cpu/bandwidth limited process run in the background. I don’t know that enough people would be willing/able to donate enough to make it viable?
~70 000 data hoarders volunteering 1TB each to be a 1-1 backup of the current archive.org isn’t a small number of people, and that’s only to get a single parity copy. But it also isn’t an outrageously large number of people.
- Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever. 2 weeks ago:
Would be interesting to have encrypted blobs scattered around volunteer computers/servers, like a storage version of BOINC / @HOME.
People tend to have dramatically less spare storage space than space compute time though and it would need to be very redundant to be guaranteed not to lose data.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah lack of third spaces and class mixing is big. Everyone is segregated into their own existing (shrinking) in groups, that then get concentrated by the webiverse.
The 70s oil crisis was an inflection point for Europe and a lot of cities/countries started moving back away from cars as the sole transportation option but the US didn’t have the same reaction.
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 2 weeks ago:
The problem being they’re now attempting anti-fingerprinting tactics. A lot of the AI crawlers used to identify themselves as Amazon/openAI/etc. And aren’t anymore because they were being blocked. Now they’re country from random IPs with random/obfuscated agent ids.
This is a legal problem not a technological one.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
Also, everyone’s solution to a problem is stupid if they’re only given 5 minutes to work on it.
Combine that with it being “free” for them to query the website and expensive to have enough local storage to replicate, even temporarily, all the stuff they want to scrape and it’s kind of a no brainier to ‘just not do that’. The only thing stopping them is morals / whether they want to keep paying rent.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
The Garmin Instinct is what I switched to when my Pebble died. Recently upgraded to the Fenix.
You can absolutely skip ahead through ads with the music controls. Automating it would be the job of the app.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 4 weeks ago:
If there is any thought to it, it usually goes something like “Radio is/was fine because it’s kilo/megahertz, Wifi/5G is gigahertz waves of electromagnetic radiation.(?!?!)”
Could always point to the Terahertz electromagnetic radiation source plugged into their nearest lightbulb socket and ask how that doesn’t hurt them.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 weeks ago:
Not saying they couldn’t/shouldn’t but printers are a nightmare hellscape and it’s a miracle, mostly of HP’s marketing department, that they’re a household object.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
👈😎👈
The one about Peter Jackson making They Shall Not Grow Old is also neat.
Apparently he collects WWI artillery and they used his private collection for the sound recording.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
This is the most “um acktually” of um actualities but…
For the Apollo 11 documentary that uses only 1969 audio/video they built a custom scanner to digitally scan the film with the intention that the originals will never need to be touched at least in their lifetime and its ~16k resolution.
Granted I don’t think you can get that version anywhere? But it exists.
Super cool doc by the way. Really surreal seeing footage that old at modern film quality. The documentary about the documentary is also really interesting.
- Comment on NAS Hardware selection 1 month ago:
And a 4tb SSD is the same price as a 16tb HDD.
If that trend continues, when you get to a 100tb of SSD(s) the equivalently priced HDD(s) will have 100x the capacity.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 3 months ago:
Perfect use case
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 3 months ago:
Primary use case is through terminal/web interface.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the touchscreen was a similar cost to a non-touchscreen at that size and they figured “might as well”.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 4 months ago:
Only real reason IMO is dust can collect on the seam and it’s annoying to clean without taking the peel off anyway.
IDK why people get weird about it.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 5 months ago:
It’s definitely exploded but content farms were a problem even before 2022. There’s a reason google results starting with “reddit” / “stack overflow” were trending so hard.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 5 months ago:
Even with amazing documentation, it can be hard to find the thing you’re looking for if you don’t know the right phrasing or terminology yet. It’s easily the most usable thing I’ve seen come out of “AI”, which makes sense. A Language Model being able to parse language a very literal application.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 6 months ago:
Ab-so-fucking-lutely.
For a job that requires a lot of reminding people “that’s not your laptop, that’s the companies’ laptop”, a lot of people get awful invested in “their servers”. Just let it go.
I know their business decision, however misguided, was very personal. Prove their mistake, which they will never know or care about, by moving on to the next job. Not by trying to be the sub-villain in a B-movie.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 6 months ago:
That feels like a very… hopeful interpretation. Instead of “In my expert opinion there is no non-malicious use of this component, and SysadminX was the only one with possible access.”
Intent is not always necessary, it depends on the charges.
Computer Forensics isn’t a new discipline at this point. People have literally gone to jail for putting in kill switches. It’s possible SysadminX is actually smarter than teams of people that are dissecting what happened after they were fired and is a real life Keyser Soze, but it’s extremely unlikely.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 6 months ago:
The Judge and Jury don’t have to know how a kill switch works. The Judge and Jury have to believe the expert testimony that one was placed and caused damage.
Sam Bankman Freed didn’t get jail time because the judge and jury understood the nuances of cryptocurrency and financial scams.
