billwashere
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- Comment on ChatGPT down again 1 day ago:
Well crap it was taken already…
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 days ago:
Yep. Kinda what I was thinking.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
Pointless and maybe a little reckless.
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 5 days 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? 6 days 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? 1 week ago:
Oh I missed that separation before. Ok my bad.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Comment on Yes, I definitely do see the irony of this being posted to X 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if this is sarcastic or this was posted as true.
- Comment on Stupid recipe 1 week ago:
Egg is a much harder thing to replace. My son is vegan so my wife is often baking things that are vegan. Chia egg or aquafaba are usually pretty good. She makes a vegan muffin that I honestly prefer to “normal” muffins. Although I’m not 100% sure what she puts in them, I’d bet its applesauce.
Whatever you do, don’t ever have vegan “cheesecake”…. run away… quickly
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s a photoshop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Human bodies are terrible electrical power sources…even if you harvested all their metabolic heat or chemical energy, you would get far less usable electricity than a comparable mass of conventional fuel or batteries. Much more efficient ways to turn biochemicals or biomass into energy exist.
And to use us as batteries we need food. I would venture to say at least 99% or more of human food production requires sunlight. So just use sunlight for energy. No sunlight because of horrible nuclear winter or something else blocking the sun? Create satellites to collect it and beam it down with microwave lasers.
Anytime you convert a form of energy to another you lose energy. So sunlight->food->human->electricity is not only inefficient but dumb. An AI would never do this. The Wachowskis were writers, not scientists or engineers, and it shows. What would we be good at? The human brain is exceptionally good at massively parallel, low‑power pattern processing: recognizing, predicting, and adapting in complex, noisy environments. This sounds like the exact sorta thing you’d need if you were creating a virtual world. The trick would be getting the interface right. Assuming they had enough time that could be accomplished. So the whole reason the rumor of us being used as processors instead of batteries, is because it makes WAY more sense.
- Comment on Where childhood goes to wait for its shift to start. 1 week ago:
This is depressing as hell… which I guess is the point of this post sadly.
- Comment on Where childhood goes to wait for its shift to start. 1 week ago:
What the hell am I looking at?
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 week ago:
It was a lame attempt at humor since it’s called fossil fuel… I know oil primarily came from ancient algae and plankton that died and sank to the ocean floor.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 week ago:
I would think driving a car is not vegan because it’s fueled by dead dinosaurs.
- Comment on what do you use to add weight? 1 week ago:
I’ve used both plaster of Paris and Portland cement. But both have exothermic curing processes so you have to be careful with large cavities. I have also used some of the very low temp alloys for smaller prints with mixed success. Stuff like Field’s Metal, Wood’s Metal, or Rose’s Metal.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 week ago:
Docker, I think. I haven’t touched it in a while since it’s not broke so I’m not 100% sure. I can probably send you the compose file I used.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 2 weeks ago:
I love seafile. And if you need access on the main server there is a server-side FUSE filesystem which exposes all libraries at a mount point as a regular directory hierarchy.
- Comment on Took me a while to get this 2 weeks ago:
Ohhhh … can vs can’t… duh.
- Comment on Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking 2 weeks ago:
Or just be bald. I never have helmet hair.
