WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on LF Suggestions on how to architect new setup, 5x22TB + 3x4TB NVME 1 day ago:
Take the ZFS plunge - My only real concern is the overhead
you shouldn’t worry about ZFS overhead if you are planning to use mergerfs.
you can tune the memory usage of ZFS significantly. by default it targets using half of your RAM, but on a home setup that’s wasting resources, you should be able to limit the arc cache to 1-2 GB, maybe somewhat more depending on how you want to use it. It’s done with sysctl or kernel parameters.
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 days ago:
And the issues are locked so if something nefarious happens, discussion will only occur somewhere else instead of the repo
people shouldn’t count on that anyways because the repo owner can delete issues, comments, also edit them
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 days ago:
and the code must be a replicable build by F-Droid’s internal apk signature copying process
that’s not a requirement. or was it already being built reproducibly?
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 3 days ago:
it means android api changes, google play restrictions and removals
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 4 days ago:
what’s RoW?
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 4 days ago:
its funny how the up and down votes are almost in sync for all comments.
let me clarify for everyone: email is not needed for a selfhosted setup, and shouldn’t be.
- Comment on Apple Joins Google in Offering Passport-Based Digital ID 5 days ago:
everyone else will use this crap, and dumb people will be happy
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 5 days ago:
Tailscale is wireguard with automatic configuration. OPs problem will remain: it needs an app
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 5 days ago:
set up a tailscale client on their networks, and set up a reverse proxy on it for your services. then you can just point these tvs to the local proxy
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
that warning was not at all prominent, and as others have said, t does not exist anymore on modern android
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
don’t forget google. that applies to all paid apps, in app purchases and donations on the play store, not only for games. google also forbids you from showing any other donation option on your website if you link to it from your app.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
Around $3.5 Million per employee, nearly 5x the next highest company, which is Facebook at around $780,000 per employee.
that’s a bullshit metric only useful to incite hatred. why the fuck do you want to say that valve is “this many times worse than facebook!”? it is obviously false.
only thing this proves is that they have relatively few employees. which also probably means that most of them do real work instead of being overloaded with managers
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
does being “super fast” matter here though? It’s a gaming machine, not for AI, and for that normal ram is also super fast.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 week ago:
I think their stupid angle is “it’s not unfair because what if this time it really worked though!”
I think their angle is “its not unfair because the computer says it!”. automated bias. offloading liability to an AI.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 1 week ago:
and hard drives too, right?
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 week ago:
it sounds fun but
And since this is being done to one business at a time,
how can people coordinate that?
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
valetudo
- Comment on 1 week ago:
corrupt files will have glitches in the best case, but more likely have noticeable decoding errors, and completely unplayable files in the worst case (some parts of a video file are essential for processing the rest). that could also happen if the file system metadata gets corrupted, and the OS cannot piece together the file extents or the whole directory anymore.
modern data storage relies on reliable storage medium. to protect yourself against bit rot the only thing you can do is to keep backups on different storage devices. but what does it worth if you don’t notice (in time) there’s corruption. you need some way to detect it. a catalogue of some sort, like a checksum file for a whole directory tree, automatically extended with new files, ran in checking mode on schedule, and notifeably notifying you about issues. it can be a custom made solution for traditional file systems like ext4, ntfs, xfs, the FATs, etc, or a filesystem that has that function built-in like zfs or btrfs. the latter two don’t implement the notification and the schedule part, but they do the majority of the work. also if you want to notice not just corruption but erroneous deletion or modification too, you should also use their snapshot functionality. you can diff them to see if there’s any unexpected changes.
- Comment on NTOPNG: Quick Question 1 week ago:
well, to some people. but if you think about it this way: it’s an entertainment website with no useful content, then I can agree
- Comment on Is re-visiting a place of trauma a good idea? Have anyone done it? 2 weeks ago:
I think it wouldn’t be a good idea to go back to china
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 2 weeks ago:
the recent California law seems to be better. what it requires is the parent to be able to configure the age for an OS account. browsers can then check the age bracket, and enforce the limit instead of having the website do it.
- Comment on My own copyparty instance 2 weeks ago:
you start with authenticated things, like forgejo and such, and always double check that anonymous visitors don’t see any data.
but generally it’s also not wise to just expose most services to the internet. jellyfin for example had lots of leaks because lots of API functionality was accessible without authentication. I don’t know if it’s been fully fixed.
with copyparty there’s an added risk. if police finds you hosted child porn, they won’t care if it wasn’t you who uploaded it. someone reports it to them, they steal all your computers, worst case you can even end up in jail.
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 2 weeks ago:
weird, I thought its in the default selection. did you maybe register with a different language (I don’t know if possible)
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 2 weeks ago:
yeah tick in both english and undefined (or how it’s called), maybe others too
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it was a demand but you do you
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 weeks ago:
since the housing bubble collapsed
did it? it does not seem so. where I live to buy a house in good condition people need to take out loans that the bank may not even allow, but if it does they’ll pay it for decades. even empty plots are still very expensive. more and more people live in a rented place even though they don’t want to move, because their house is taken away.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 weeks ago:
In contrast to the housing bubble, where a lot of the value was in overpriced houses sold to individuals,
was?
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 3 weeks ago:
Invidious won’t let you play a video that youtube itself removed
- Comment on Concerned about claiming warranty for homelab with Linux 3 weeks ago:
how do you expect to claim warranty if you can’t do an RMA?
- Comment on Join Tech Workers Coalition and help unionize tech workers - Onboarding Call Oct 29 3 weeks ago:
from my part even a text platform would be better, like a discourse forum, or god forbid, maybe even discord.