billwashere
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- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 day 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 days 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" 1 week ago:
Firefox to evolve into not existing.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 week ago:
Mozilla’s new CEO is a dumbass.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 1 week ago:
The powers that be really don’t like the idea of unmonitored secure networks do they?
- Comment on Announcing Linkwarden for iOS & Android 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
- Comment on Refried beans is just Latino hummus 1 week ago:
🤯
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Same. Depends on the weather.
- Comment on Skier narrowly avoids a crevasse 2 weeks ago:
I would have absolutely soiled myself.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 3 weeks ago:
Well crap it was taken already…
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Kinda what I was thinking.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 3 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 3 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:
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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).
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2 different media
- e.g., Primary on SSDs, backup on HDDs; or primary on local NAS, backup in cloud.
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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:
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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.
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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….
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- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 weeks ago:
With TrueNAS yes, a sata card connected to a bare drive is the preferred way. I have done it differently with enterprise hardware and virtualization but it’s not really supposed to be done that way. And ZFS is not technically “RAID” in the classic sense, but it does implement its own RAID‑like redundancy (RAIDZ and mirrors) as part of an integrated filesystem and volume manager. There are also things you can do with faster NVME drives like SLOG, L2ARC, and SPECIAL vdevs to store pool metadata. But some of these can fail and wipe out all your data if you aren’t careful. So read a lot.
Second hand drives are fine in my opinion as long as SMART is not reporting any immediate errors. Just assume you will have failures and have spares built into the zfs volume.
I’m not an expert by any stretch but I have been doing this for 10 plus years so I have some experience.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 weeks ago:
TrueNAS is better when it sees raw disks and not HW raid. There are still useful parts in TrueNAS if you have a HW raid volume like file sharing, synchronization, apps (docker), etc. But the true power lies in zfs which needs raw disks.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 3 weeks ago:
Pointless and maybe a little reckless.
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 3 weeks ago:
Way to make me feel old… I mean I am but you didn’t need to rub it in.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 3 weeks ago:
So it’s like generating a CA and then signing your own certs.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 3 weeks ago:
Oh I missed that separation before. Ok my bad.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 3 weeks ago:
Technically this works EXCEPT the required third party. Either it’s the government and you have to trust them with information of knowing everything that required age verification or its separate company that can and would sell your data to data brokers. Being free and NOT the government seems mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Are they still underpants if you aren't wearing pants? 3 weeks ago:
Superman enters the chat.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is my take as well. AI can be a useful tool but putting people out of work so you can save money to create soulless art is just wrong.
- Comment on What indexers do you use in Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr 4 weeks ago:
Drunkenslug and nzbgeek are my gotos. Technically you can run your own as well but it’s a PITA honestly.
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 4 weeks ago:
Well… I guess you’re right … dang. 🤯
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 4 weeks ago:
Don’t let AI generate recipes. Recipes are generally tried, tweaked a little, tried again, etc until it’s consistently reproducible, and well good. The AI recipes I’ve tried get proportions wrong, skips steps, has stuff cooked in the wrong order, etc. There is no trial and error or iterations.
- Comment on Yes, I definitely do see the irony of this being posted to X 4 weeks ago:
Ok I had heard something about that and figured this was about that but given the time of year my brain was fried. Thanks for the clarification.
