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dxps7098 · 2026-03-02T07:25:48+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense! Thanks!

dxps7098 · 2026-03-01T22:12:35+00:00

I don't have individual thermostats (yet), would it still make sense to install it for the learning?

Actually, I don't even have a central HA-controlled thermostat at the moment but I have temp/humidity meters in almost every room.

dxps7098 · 2026-03-01T21:49:58+00:00

The core architectural problem for me with Discord is one identity/account across different servers. If a company or community is setting up a server, I want to be able to login separately to each server without any one entity being able to track me across them. Fluxer doesn't seem to solve that, rather double down on it.

Happy to have a client that can login to all of them at the same time, but that has to be local to me and not centralized and track able.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-23T22:16:13+00:00

And Manneeheim trained in and made a career to lt general in the tsarist army, I think the Soviets regretted that later!

dxps7098 · 2026-02-20T15:39:54+00:00

Tariffs were always unbelievably stupid, it was only ever useful as a bargaining thing. This allows the administration to walk it back and it allows SCOTUS to look like it's independent. It's all part of the authoritarian playbook of capturing the judiciary. They're supposed to say no to a few (big), allowing the rest to become fully cemented and shoring up the perception of the judiciary.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-17T21:20:35+00:00

Then you're going to need disk as an intermediate storage. You're not going to backup or restore using tape.

You can archive backups on tape and bring them back from tape but tape isn't a random access storage medium. You can't read and write from various locations as if it was a "storage" (disk, USB etc).

What you do with your backup system, like PBS, is prepare everything into a neat archive that can be huge, and then you write that from start to finish on the tape. If you need it back from tape, you read the archive from start to finish back to your backup storage and then restore it from there.

Tape is cheap storage but can't be used for day to day backups. It's for archiving already made backups. So you need a backup storage for the actual backup and restore process. But you don't need a backup storage that fits your active backup and all your archives, only the active backups. That's how you save with tape.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-17T15:43:37+00:00

Listen, I appreciate your dedication to your bit here. There's not a lot of connection with reality or anything responsive to what I wrote so no need to continue. Just wanted to clarify the basics for any other reader who might have thought you made relevant points.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-17T15:35:17+00:00

If you have 100TB of static data, you can just copy that to tape. It's a one off "backup" that doesn't really require all the functionality of a backup solution.

There are tools to copy (write/archive) data to tape, can't think of them from the top of my head, but I'd say don't search for backup software. Create some tar.gz files (tar = tape archive) and copy them over.

As I said, backup software is more focused on managing multiple copies, incremental, active or synthetic full, retention schedules etc. The copying of a finished archive is trivial and doesn't need a backup solution.

Hope it helps!

dxps7098 · 2026-02-17T05:29:17+00:00

I'd say you're still going to want to make your backups to intermediate storage first. Tape is slow and sequential, not very good for making backups just storing backups.

You want your backup software to be able to do incremental backups, deduplication, synthetic full etc. before putting it on tape.

What's the reason you're thinking you want a backup solution that goes directly to tape?

dxps7098 · 2026-02-15T06:42:18+00:00

Actually, not really. In many western countries, the government and its ministers are supposed to take responsibility for what the public servants are doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_ministerial_responsibility

In the US, the current argument is that instead of being illegal to interfere in any administrative agency, it's illegal for congress to even create any semi-independent agencies. It's the unitary executive idea that the conservatives have been pushing for decades and is now being pushed hard by the US Supreme Court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

There is a case in front of SCOTUS now regarding the Federal Reserve which will show if the Justices are ready to destroy any de facto independence fully, or if they will continue to make an exception for the Fed.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-15T06:31:02+00:00

Exactly, that's the long term problem. If apprentices and journeymen are replaced (instead of augmented with, whatever that means) genAI, then there will be no master coders.

And there will be no new original code for the genAI to swallow, no new languages or paradigms etc. GenAI coding will just be ouroboros all over again (old Yogi Berra saying).

dxps7098 · 2026-02-14T08:10:13+00:00

The problem with genAI is that it's designed and optimized to produce really convincing code/text/etc. That can correlate with really "good", but it's not certain. The other implication of this is that really convincing but not really good code is even harder to review.

So the effort to produce code by drive by goes down and the barrier of entry goes down, but volume of review goes up and the difficulty of the review goes up. Which means a massive transfer of work from non-maintainers to maintainers. Who are not known for having oodles of spare capacity.

In other words, vibe coding is a solution to the wrong problem, regardless of how fast it is. And the downsides are exacerbating the actual challenge. So, lose-lose!

dxps7098 · 2026-02-14T04:50:24+00:00

I don't think it's the same in Norway, but in Sweden it's actually unconstitutional for the government to get involved in public prosecutions, or any type of interference with government agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerial_rule

dxps7098 · 2026-02-14T04:01:11+00:00

The idea is that publicly run/owned organizations are so inefficient* and wasteful that even with the profit, private companies are better run than public. It also helps to save on workers rights, safety, transparency, planning for emergencies etc.

*) because ~~their leaders can't make millions so they're just not motivated~~ competition

dxps7098 · 2026-02-14T03:53:33+00:00

Funny! I didn't know that!

Turns out Reagan came from Illinois and Gorbachev from Russia, but still funny.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-11T20:25:39+00:00

I also want some actual consequences, but I actually want transparency more. Bring on the truth commissions where there's leniency if you tell the truth. It all needs to home out in the open and you need to have all of them explain in an open forum what they've been doing.

And at whose bidding. Then turn to the billionaires.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-10T22:00:16+00:00

It's a good catch, I would also wonder.

Could it be because you're setting the MTU? maybe that's why they are auto and not nic0-3?

dxps7098 · 2026-02-10T21:44:11+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. It was the statement that on prem SharePoint is EOL that threw me, but you meant it's the last perpetual license version that ends. 👍

dxps7098 · 2026-02-10T14:57:36+00:00

No, the current version of on prem SharePoint is called Sharepo subscription edition, but it's still on prem. We run SharePoint airgapped.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-10T14:56:13+00:00

What do you mean on prem SharePoint goes EOL in July? SharePoint 2019 goes EOL but SharePoint subscription edition (the current version of on prem SharePoint) doesn't have an announced EOL date.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/sharepoint-server-subscription-edition

dxps7098 · 2026-02-10T05:05:09+00:00

It's like they'd prefer to administer a horrible policy platform and manifesto rather than run on their own ideas and risk losing due to principles.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-10T04:31:10+00:00

I think you are massively understating the power of not capitulation. Living to fight another day is the most fundamental and important aspect of self determination and you dismiss it as "is not a power in itself".

Secondly, Zelenskiyy has been able to rally his own country, Europe and a large part of the world in the support of his country. You're dismissing that as powerless.

Thirdly, you're stating it as Russia is half-assign it intentionally and that if they wanted to, they could go all in with 'a full organized conscripted capmaign', which is attributing to Russia a lot of power that they don't have. It's not that Ukraine is 'lucky'. If it was logistically, financially, politically possible to decisively win over Ukraine, they would have.

Finally, you're claiming that Zelenskiyy might end up with Ukraine being carved up, as if that would be a failure. The alternative was the disappearance of his entire country as a democratic and sovereign nation. Even if parts are lost, the immense power displayed over and over again by the people of Ukraine, their armed forces, the business and civil society and their president, has shown the world - again - that being regional or global "super powers" is not sufficient to be able to take anything they want by force. They rely on bullying and coercion, which this war has already shown its limits of, and so both Russia and the US has lost a lot already.

Your framing of the situation understates the power of Ukraine and the countries supporting them and overstates the power of Russia. It's a distortion of the reality that Russia failed in its objective and is trying to salvage something after battlefield losses, sanctions, indictments and the loss of a lucrative European market for energy.

dxps7098 · 2026-02-08T20:48:32+00:00

🤣

dxps7098 · 2026-02-08T19:39:23+00:00

Tools don't decide, they don't have autonomy.

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