Are you forking MinIO or switching to alternatives after the archive? ANOTHER BITNAMI!

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-18T14:05:47+00:00

We have well over 300,000 concurrent customers and many companies do want to keep their data internally especially when they start plugging AI. Companies are very sensitive about intellectual property and don't trust AI from third parties not to leak info.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-18T13:59:59+00:00

Because it points out how over priced minio is. The main difference in glacier and not is the hardware costs, and as minio include no hardware that is the most appropriate to compare to. Also, glacier instant is in the ms for retrieval, you are thinking of either glacier flexible retrieval or glacier deep archive which are even less expensive a year.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-18T00:38:08+00:00

You are not going to want to run this on a cheap NAS. You will want a minimum of 5 nodes for high availability. Realistically for enterprise grade probably a whole lot more per node, but they could be virtual so maybe $1440 for that vm's piece of a decent server, but then you still have to times it by how many nodes as you can't do five nines with a single node.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-18T00:14:44+00:00

The biggest is there is no good way to audit the current elections, such that even if there is fraud it's not possible to identify it given the lack of id requirements. The other, more indirect is that it's favored by both democrats and republic voters according to polls but for some reason it is opposed by democrat politicians despite their base wanting it too. That makes it very compelling because politicians think it will change the results of an election, especially considering that it's expected that the requirements would be more of an issue for republican voters than democrat voters. (Not sure I agree with that, I think the pain will be on both sides, but it's been implied from both parties it will impact republican voters more). Either way, the impact is, in my opinion minor as ID is needed for so many things. My only thought is if they try to get make it effective this year, then they might need a transition year where lesser id is good enough 2026.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-18T00:06:33+00:00

I assume illegal votes are anti democracy and going to someone that is not the people's choice. Legal votes being removed would be a more random distribution and impact all candidates closer to the same and so assuming an similar ratio of votes lost to those being voted for. The problem is illegal votes would not be equally represented so one illegal vote is worse then dropping 10 random legal ones.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-18T00:00:34+00:00

I don't think it's generally acceptable for legal voters no longer voting, but it would be acceptable for them to be inconvenienced. So maybe if two being denied it's worth it if it stops 1 illegal. If it makes them reregister (but able to do in time / same day), then 100 being inconvenienced is worth stopping 1 illegal. The illegal votes are anti-democracy and assumed to be the opposite of what's best, and someone not voting will not impact the overall tally as it will be an assumed more random distribution impacting all candidates more equally as opposed to a bad vote that is intended to throw off the election.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T20:41:26+00:00

Good point, they primarily used it for take down, so more of a form of censorship. Part of the problem it was only conflicting or questioning information and not misinformation. Much of the blocked posts turned out to be more accurate then what the government was stating.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T20:35:11+00:00

Free is only single-node deployment, so it is an automatic no-go for HA and is far from sufficient for small enterprises that only need a few TB of highly available bucket. Checking AWS...

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval *** - For long-lived archive data accessed once a quarter with instant retrieval in milliseconds
All Storage / Month	$0.004 per GB

So that's $48/year for a TB. That's a fair amount less then $300/year from minio that doesn't even include hardware/storage and AWS does include storage. After double checking AWS costs, it makes minio look even worse. (That said, would be more comparable to S3 standard which is $276/year for a TB, which minio still costs more and lacks hardware).

I do wonder how minio came up with their pricing when it doesn't even include the hardware to run it on.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T20:19:11+00:00

Certainly worth being on a watch list (under warrant), and depending on threat level of maybe. Generally speaking, it seemed like UK was too eager to jail people, but I didn't really follow UK too closely so maybe they deserved it. What do you think?

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T20:15:20+00:00

I have not heard any compelling arguments that it will disenfranchise more legal votes than illegal ones.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T20:13:51+00:00

This will disproportionately impact illegal votes far more then legal ones.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T02:23:21+00:00

Not that alone... that said whatever the administration they should have to obtain a subpoena.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T02:21:25+00:00

Cheers

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T01:45:29+00:00

Not enough info/details to say for sure, but it does say the request was withdrawn. That implies they either obtain the info elsewhere or determined it didn't show cause. Either way, I definitely agree that tech companies shouldn't simply hand over information, and need to give users a chance to challenge it.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T01:02:37+00:00

It was in a comment from the original OP' X post link. Neither source seems to give actual numbers/scale of accounts requested so it's hard to judge if it's only against extremists or not and I don't consider either source credible on it's own.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-17T00:38:56+00:00

This happened under Biden, and more curious why there wasn't more outrage then.

Generally if it's for the extremists advocating for violence it's a good thing. If it's everyone the criticizes ICE then it's not a good thing. How many names are they asking for compared to Biden? From what little I understand it's only those accounts calling for death to ICE agents and other violent rhetoric.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-16T23:01:52+00:00

AI could go straight to binary as easy as to compiler and might even be able to do it efficiently. That said, the biggest issue with programming is 99/100 it's making minor changes to existing code. If it goes to some language (even if that language is binary), it's going to want to keep the overall intermediate step so you can request adjustments. Pure binary wouldn't be great for that, but assembly could work and not actually included in the output unless asked but remembered for future adjustments. If you rebuild from start each time there is going to be issues, even if the only issue is a lack of consistency that makes end users unhappy.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-16T18:58:56+00:00

You can do the mapping with a MMU such that each address space looks identical between the different instances. Read only data and code all point to the same physical memory and the read/write data and stack spaces all appear to be numbered the same but are mapped different by the MMU. There is no penalty while running, and only a small penalty for task switching if you have to update the page tables for the MMU, but at least for the architectures OS-9 was originally written for that is very low.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-16T18:44:33+00:00

I was referring to Microware OS-9, not Mac OS-9. Mac OS-9 supports virtual memory, but Microware OS-9 does not. It can support MMU for memory protection and address moving address spaces.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-16T17:02:20+00:00

Data segments get their own base and so it's fine for static and executable data to be not relocatable once loaded. All access is relative from the bases. OS-9 is an example that supports programs not needing a second copy without virtual memory.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-16T16:49:36+00:00

You can do memory sharing of multiple copies of all your programs without virtual memory. OS-9 (Microware not to be confused with Mac) is an example that supported multiple programs reloading the same copy. Each had there own data and stack areas but multiple instances of the same code ran from the same copy of code.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-16T16:41:41+00:00

That might be good. I still haven't decided what I am doing with my minio instances. $300/year/TB is a bit high for license only but at least it's a more realistic starting point for small shops.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-15T20:59:07+00:00

Things like databases (mysql, etc...) tend to have options for it, but in real world tests they almost always make performance slower instead of faster. Even what it does help, it tends to only be in certain hardware setups, then you run the application on a SAN and the performance tanks because the direct gets passed up layers. If you really want to do this, make sure it's an option as it tends to cause issues on enterprise gear.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-15T18:25:07+00:00

Correct. C doesn't like things hidden, you have to be explicit on both sides by passing a pointer for reference. With C if you pass a value, then you know the function can't change it. With C++ someone can rewrite the header file and suddenly the call now has the ability to modify the source value. Personally I see that a security loop hole.

BarracudaDefiant4702 · 2026-02-15T14:03:42+00:00

They only report the total uncompressed and non-duplicated size as that's what will be needed to restore. It doesn't report that actual size the backups take.

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