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billwashere

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  • What's your boomer trait?

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  • I despise the idea of an influencer. I hate the idea. I hate the word. I really do not like people that describe themselves this way. These people are the problem.

  • Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's

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  • Maybe they should tell them to get a Coke printer or two. I hate the lack of soda flavors available at Micky D’s.

  • Mike Johnson says lawmakers should be able to continue owning stocks

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  • This fuckwad wouldn’t know a conflict of interest if it bit him in the ass or his son found it while searching through his father’s porn history.

  • ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

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  • toilet. camera.

    ummm… no thanks

  • ChatGPT down again

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  • Well crap it was taken already…

  • Hillary Clinton says TikTok to blame for young Americans' pro-Palestine views. They disagree

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  • Why are these asshats so reluctant to admit that Isreal is in the wrong?!?

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • Yep. Kinda what I was thinking.

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • 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.

  • White House throws commanding admiral under the bus in killing of alleged drug boat survivors

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  • Pretty sure Obama was the weapons specialist on board… gees.

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • 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.

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/category/cloud-storage/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….

  • I'm down with that

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  • Most of the people I work with were my friends long before. My boss and my grand-boss I’ve know for 30 plus years. I also have several other friends I work with that I hang out with occasionally outside of work. I do have other friends but they were originally part of that same group I’ve known for 30+ years.

  • Kelly says Senate will ‘put people under oath’ over reported follow-up strikes in Caribbean

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  • I’m assuming you meant congress and not confess?

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • 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.

  • I'm down with that

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  • I already work with all my friends so problem solved?

  • White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories

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  • No it will be…. Department Of Governmental Efficiency, Science, and High-impact Innovation and Technologies

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • 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.

  • Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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  • Pointless and maybe a little reckless.

  • Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

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  • Just take a look at their workflow and you tell me. NVIDIA uses an AI-powered code editor called Cursor. It is a fork of VS Code that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) directly into the programming environment.

    Here a quote from this article:

     A high-profile endorsement from NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang in late 2025 underscored Cursor’s rapid ascent – calling Cursor his “favorite enterprise AI service” and noting that 100% of NVIDIA’s engineers now use AI assistance with a remarkable boost in productivity.

    https://digitalstrategy-ai.com/2025/11/07/cursor-ai-business-model/#%3A%7E%3Atext=A+high-profile+endorsement+from%2Ca+remarkable+boost+in+productivity.

    In late 2024 and early 2025, CEO Jensen Huang explicitly stated that "every single software engineer at NVIDIA uses Cursor."

    https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/15/jensen-huang-says-every-nvidia-engineer-now-codes-with-cursor/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Replit%2C+Cursor%2C+and+Lovable+offer%2Cchip+designers+utilize+the+tool.

    And then there is this article:

    https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/nvidia-jensen-huang-insane-to-not-use-ai-for-every-task-possible/

    So it’s kinda obvious they use a lot of AI in their code. Now there is no direct proof they use it in their drivers but they obviously do given the CEO’s stance.

  • Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

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  • Well being it’s all vibe coded now yep that tracks.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL there is a notable correlation between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and gender dysphoria (GD).

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /26753812/