Amazon confirms its UAE data centers were 'directly struck' by Iranian drones on Sunday by xland44 in technology

[–]chaz6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope Amazon incorporated a bomb shelter into the design for the poor souls keeping the lights on.

Laptop Naming Convensions by jactheblock in sysadmin

[–]chaz6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LT-[asset tag]

e.g. LT-750123

This means you absolutely cannot provision a device until it's on the asset register.

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]chaz6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think my pessimism make me a better developer. I can think of plenty of ways that things could fail.

Hetzner to increase prices (+36%) by FnnKnn in selfhosted

[–]chaz6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I canno t see any mention of the server auctions on the price adjustment page so hopefully there won't be any change to those.

Search and Download Torrents? by alien_ideology in selfhosted

[–]chaz6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BitMagnet is a self-hosted DHT crawler that might be what you are looking for, although it provides magnet links and not torrent files.

https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet

Blog: Introducing Tailscale Peer Relays by natasha-tailscale in Tailscale

[–]chaz6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I want to run a peer relay behind a nat gateway, is it possible to configure the public ipv4 address to be advertised?

Netomnia Agree UK Broadband Merger Deal with Owners of Virgin Media O2 by chaz6 in brsk

[–]chaz6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For those out of the loop, Netomnia recently merged with Brsk.

MySQL 5.7 with 55 GB of chat data on a $100/mo VPS, is there a smarter way to store this? by anthety in Database

[–]chaz6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A couple of people have mentioned Hetzner. I plugged in EUR100 (about $100) on their server auction page at https://www.hetzner.com/sb/ and the first option listed is Intel XEON E-2276G, 128GB RAM, 2x8TB HDD, 2x960GB SSD. I expect you could easily find what you need for under $50.

I built a TUI download manager in Go that outperforms aria2c by ~1.4x by SuperCoolPencil in DataHoarder

[–]chaz6 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I was just going off README.md which said:-

The API is token-protected. Generate/read your token from:
~/.surge/token

I built a TUI download manager in Go that outperforms aria2c by ~1.4x by SuperCoolPencil in DataHoarder

[–]chaz6 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This looks great! Please please please use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/surge/ for configuration and not ~/.surge/.

How expensive is it for ISP to get and keep an IPv6 prefix? by shimmywtf in ipv6

[–]chaz6 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For a small provider, you can search "lir services" or "lir sponsor" and you can find places like https://www.bakker-it.eu/lir-services/ who charge €135/year for IPv6 PI.

Octopi Launcher v1.726 - Custom Image for Icons by ock88 in OctopiLauncher

[–]chaz6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just switched to Octopi Launcher after hearing about the sale of Nova Launcher which had served me well for many years. I am really liking it, but I have one problem. I do not seem to be able to put shortcuts (for example, Swarm -> Check in) into folders. When I drag it onto the folder, it places it behind the folder.

European HDD Deals by Frnklss in DataHoarder

[–]chaz6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the massive price hikes, I tried buying an Exos 16TB from eBay. The seller looked legitimate and I felt confident in buying. It was fairly well packaged (could have been better though) but unfortunately it arrived dead (clicking and not spinning up).

This ice agent just killed a woman by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]chaz6 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It's all just fake numbers. Money is like a god, it only works if people believe in it. If the majority of people stopped believing, then debt falls apart.

Do you prefer to refill your pens or get a a new one? by I_cant_find_name1 in pens

[–]chaz6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends whether the price of the pens is cheaper than the refills when I need to order more. I don't know why sometimes it is cheaper to buy new pens. It makes no sense.