CompactFlax
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- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 7 hours ago:
Evaporative cooling.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 1 day ago:
Generally true and that’s why I often read these articles scratching my head. Make them closed loop! They almost always use chillers…
Water use becomes a concern if the water is moved too far and/or too fast like your Sahara example.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
I see your point but the correct answer is to install current branch. If you want pain and suffering, skip the appetizer and go straight to Linux.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It can be disabled.
You need the PIN.
You’ll also need to leave the Apple Family.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 days ago:
Simply, because Microsoft says so. The amount of “omg micro$oft is such garbage” more professional versions of that that can be attributed to not RTFM is fairly significant. It’s interesting how much effort people will put in to making a OSS project work, and give up fairly quickly in Windows land. Merely an observation; all respect to those who daily drive on Linux (and to be fair it’s been quite a few years since I tried).
More specifically, you can run into driver and software issues both inside and outside of the Microsoft space. The “Feature Updates” that are put out do include a fair bit under the hood sometimes and you miss that. Less likely in the personal use space, but quite significant in the business space. When the IT curmudgeon deploys LTSC across 1500 devices and 2 years later needs to implement a newer capability, it’s a hell of a lot of work.
Your use case is realistically the intended use case, outside of industrial equipment/embedded systems. You’re using WINE for most stuff and poke your head into Windows occasionally.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 days ago:
LTSC is supported, yes, but it’s an edge case not intended for desktop (or most server) applications.
If you don’t want to move to 11, install a flavour of Linux. Don’t run LTSC.
- Comment on Help setting up fail2ban for jellyfin both in docker? 4 days ago:
Thanks for sharing; I was unaware. Just closed off that network hole.
- Comment on Do you hate French people too? If so, why? 6 days ago:
Cheese-eating surrender-monkeys, the lot of them!
But don’t impugn Captain Picard.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 1 week ago:
I guess you didn’t see the several points in the article where they make it clear that it is “opt in”?
I do look forward for the bursting of the LLM bubble, but the article isn’t just about LLM.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 week ago:
There’s no way he’s 100kg.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 1 week ago:
Ben Thompson has been saying that they need to collect user data (like google) for a decade.
It seems the botched Apple Intelligence release changed some minds, a little bit.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
This makes sense. Give the companies like Apple and nvidia time to set up some local factories. How long could it take to acquire land, set up a chip foundry, and train up staff? 90 days?
- Comment on FTTH upgrade - getting my LAN multi gig ready 1 week ago:
To be pedantic, there is no 6e. Just 6A. I am looking at a spool labelled 6e as I type this, but that’s just a manufacturer thing, not an actual spec.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 1 week ago:
$AAPL stonk go up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The 1 year chart puts it in perspective. DJIA 1 year chart
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 3 weeks ago:
In both scenarios the profit margin is removed, or the customers are bearing the significant increase in cost. Hence the recession - the stock market plummets or inflation goes up. Or both.
- Comment on How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up. 3 weeks ago:
When my employer reimburses me fully, I will pay for two connections. But they don’t, even though they (could) save a ton of money by closing the office.
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 3 weeks ago:
Look at the boxes outside the back of the restaurant.
Any decent restaurant will be cooking a fair bit of their food, even if they’re using Restaurant Supply’s fried chicken mix.
Applebee’s potato skins you probably can’t get directly because it’s probably only available to franchisees. But with some digging you might be able to buy a skid of the generic stuff from the manufacturer.
Once, I got a box of frozen microwaveable dessert. We ate so much… every day… it was a big box.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Missed opportunity to put letterkenny, Ontario.
Good luck in the search. Don’t let them push you around too much.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Did you post your number…?
When applying to jobs, try to cram in some keywords from the posting that you have some knowledge of. Don’t completely fake it, but if it can get you past the HR screen to an interview, you’ve got time to learn a little about it.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
Several years ago I inadvertently (because I didn’t realize who they were) got in a twitter argument with someone who I seem to recall as the creator of electron about how it was fucking embarrassing how bad electron apps are. At the time I kinda felt bad because he seemed like a decent guy and I let loose but I wonder what the carbon footprint of his little side project is…
I don’t know who at Microsoft had such a hard-on for electron back then, but it seems to have spread and it’s still nowhere close to the good old windows GUI for resource usage.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
It uses a fucking inordinate amount of resources to accomplish its task, mostly.
- Comment on I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud | Jeff Geerling 4 weeks ago:
It’s all just to analyze the use of the options
…with the eventual intent of selling a subscription for the valuable features.
Buy a top of the line Bosch dishwasher for only $200. And pay $15.00 for the rest of its life to be able to use anything more than the “eco-quick” wash which doesn’t clean anything because it only has one wash and one rinse cycle.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 4 weeks ago:
What sort of isp supplied residential equipment doesn’t block inbound connections? Pedantically, you’re correct.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 4 weeks ago:
You have a firewall. It’s in your router, and it is what makes it so that you have to VPN into the server. Otherwise the server would be accessible. NAT is, effectively, a firewall.
Should you add another layer, perhaps an IPS or deny-listing? Maybe it’s a good idea.
- Comment on A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most. 4 weeks ago:
Not just salary - H1B are also good at following orders, because if they lose their job, they will get deported.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 4 weeks ago:
2 is almost as bad as the all or nothing approach. I argue that while Apple is not trustworthy, they are not incentivized to collect every piece of information about you that they can. Conversely, android is an operating system created by an advertising company specifically to ensure an ongoing corner on their market. Asking the average person to use a DeGoogled OS is akin to telling them to switch to OpenBSD on their desktop.
- Comment on How would I set up local DNS or DNS rewrite 1 month ago:
Well yes, it is one hop, because you’ve got the router doing TLS termination. Inside your network you point to the server that has the TLS certs. Outside of the network you do port forwarding, or use a tunnel with cloudflare agents.
Why is the router involved at all? It’s all local traffic. The external traffic comes through the cloud flare tunnel, right? Maybe I’m not understanding the architecture you’ve got.
- Comment on How would I set up local DNS or DNS rewrite 1 month ago:
It’s possible but it’s an extra pain in the butt.
Internally, have you tried pointing the DNS directly to the ngnix server, not the router? There’s no reason to have that extra hop (I don’t think).
- Comment on How would I set up local DNS or DNS rewrite 1 month ago:
If you are establishing a TLS connection to a server, the server will need a certificate. It sounds like you’re trying to have two instances of a reverse proxy - one on the server, and one on the router. It may be my ignorance of the particulars, but my immediate thought is that you should select one point in the network to do reverse proxying.
