billwashere

@billwashere@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable. Sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your technology mispredictions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If my math is right this would be worth about 9.8 million today if the shares were issued in 2004 ish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your technology mispredictions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had one but IMO Zune was one of the few Microsoft hw wins. And their mice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Revolt != Revolut

  Silly lawyers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Blocking cloudflare is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Unless they start blocking IPs like the great firewall of china blocking any DNS is kinda pointless. Unless maybe if the domain’s primary name servers are cloudflare but I can’t seeing any site doing nefarious things using cloudflare. Run your own DNS resolver on a VPS somewhere besides Italy.

  My worry is the internet starts getting terribly segmented and not interconnected. That would be more of an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caw caw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When you wake up in a pool of blood because your girl accidentally ran her toes down your leg in the middle of the night.

  I put this in the same category as women who grow nails so long they can barely wipe their own ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Each i have seriously considered that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love this as a commute car (if it was available in the US). I do have to drive about 80km round trip but it’s only 2-3 times per week so it would be fine. The only caveat would be top speed which would be fine if it’s in the 100 kph range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you are not hindered by the restrictions of logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t think comparison but what we have right now and Idiocracy is fair. However, I can completely see where we are now as leading to idiocracy. Making education harder and harder to get, anti-science, anti-intellectualism, pseudoscience, too much power and wealth concentration, etc. I totally think it could happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re absolutely right. Owning the gun gives them the opportunity that wouldn’t exist as easily otherwise. And just for the record I’m not anti-gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you missed the point. Not what percentage of gun deaths are suicides, but what percentage of suicides are gun related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get so irritated seeing that bottom panel of uselessness. And it’s always so exaggerated… first couple of times I thought it might be some commentary or a conversation. Now I wish there was a thumbs up, thumbs down, and punch in the face. I’d chose the later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This paper was terrible. It’s full of sentence fragments, run‑ons, and generally inconsistent grammar and lots of repetition and weak structure. It relies almost entirely on vague Bible references without citing specific passages or any psychological research, despite making claims about youth mental health and gender. And besides the fact it doesn’t follow the assignment at all, it’s just horribly written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late. He’s already shown his true colors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox to evolve into not existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla’s new CEO is a dumbass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The powers that be really don’t like the idea of unmonitored secure networks do they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing Linkwarden for iOS & Android⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does this compare to mymind? I really really wanna stop paying for something I can absolutely self host especially since I have all the hardware and setup mostly done already with other things I selfhost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine most of these models have all kinds of nefarious things in them, sucking up all the info they could find indiscriminately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refried beans is just Latino hummus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🤯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is if it’s open source it’s more easily cracked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell my wife takes hers off as soon as she gets home with this weird yoga magic trick thing where she never removes her shirt. I swear it breaks physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Depends on the weather.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skier narrowly avoids a crevasse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have absolutely soiled myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT down again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well crap it was taken already…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Kinda what I was thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But can you imagine the load on their servers should it come to this? And god forbid it goes down for a few hours and every person in the world is facing SSL errors because Let’s Encrypt can’t create new ones.

  This continued shortening of lifespans on these certs is untenable at best. Personally I have never run into a situation where a cert was stolen or compromised but obviously that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. I also feel like this is meant to automate all cert production which is nice if you can. Right now, at my job, all cert creation requires manually generating a CSR, submit it to a website, wait for manager approval, and then wait for creation. Then go download the cert and install it manually.

  If I have to do this everyday for all my certs I’m not going to be happy. Yes this should be automated and central IT is supposed to be working on it but I’m not holding my breath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think that right now the sweet spot for good used drives is between 4-8tb. Check out backblaze’s drive stats for some good info about failure rates for older drives.

  www.backblaze.com/blog/…/hard-drive-stats/

  Yeah RAID 5 is fine (in ZFS terms it’s just called raidz or raidz1). You could also do something like raidz2 (which is essentially RAID6 with two parity drives). There is some newer stuff in TrueNAS called dRAID which does some interesting stuff with the spares. It’s kinda like old RAID5EE stuff if youre familiar with that. Just google it and read up on it.

  Safest bet on old hardware… in my opinion find some old enterprise level stuff somebody is upgrading out of. I get lots of hand-me-downs that way. This stuff is meant to run 24/7, keep running forever, and is usually upgraded before it’s really not useful to anyone. Word of warning, this stuff is generally not power efficient, or quiet for that matter. So I wouldn’t be running this in my bedroom. Well unless you’re cold 'cause your heater is broken and love lots of white noise :)

  As a hardware guy going on 20+ years let me offer some basic advice. If this data is important , which you mentioned it was, RAID is NOT backup. Have separate backups. Yes I know it’s expensive but hardware can and does fail. Sometimes irrecoverably. ZFS does a good job helping with this with snapshots and the ability to sync easily. For me just I follow the 3-2-1 rules. Yeah it’s kinda outdated but I’m old.

  The 3-2-1 rule is basically:

  • 3 copies

    • Primary data (on its own pool).
    • Local backup (on a separate ZFS pool, ideally on different hardware). This is where ZFS replication is useful. This built into TrueNAS.
    • Off‑site/cloud backup (replicated ZFS dataset or traditional backup tool like restic/Borg to cloud).

  • 2 different media

    • e.g., Primary on SSDs, backup on HDDs; or primary on local NAS, backup in cloud.

  • 1 off‑site

    • Replicate ZFS snapshots to a remote location (another site or cloud).

  Oh and one other thing. If you are using TrueNAS be mindful there are two flavors now, TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS Scale. The interfaces are slightly different but the main differences are:

  • TrueNAS Core is based on FreeBSD and is the older, more mature “classic NAS” platform, optimized for rock‑solid file serving with jails and VMs.

  • TrueNAS Scale is based on Debian Linux and is designed for “scale‑out” and hyperconverged use: clustering, containers, and modern virtualization on newer hardware.

  Hope this is useful….