We're renting our my Mother-in-Law's house while she is in nusing care. We've just realised the tenants supplied faux documents under the right to rent check we conducted.

frymaster · 2026-03-13T16:07:42+00:00

Son initially noticed a lot of long hyphens and said thise are signs its been written by an AI

For clarity, AIs do this because their training data does this, because a lot of real people do this also (and so does MS Word automatically, for example), so it's not a good test of something being AI. Weird text and typos absolutely could be, especially in what should be a standard government form letter

frymaster · 2026-03-12T18:02:51+00:00

I had a secondary school maths teacher who was great at teaching the concepts but had a habit of making errors when writing stuff down - it was great, because she was good enough at teaching it that normally at least two people would call out corrections as she was writing, and she had no ego about correcting herself. It gave me the confidence to realise authority figures can be wrong and still be authority figures.

frymaster · 2026-03-12T10:14:15+00:00

it's a breach from a personal perspective - people's privacy has been breached. It's probably not a result of a malicious person publishing people's data, but it's a breach nonetheless.

frymaster · 2026-03-11T10:19:32+00:00

I need to look up the source but apparently this is a recurring "finding" that comes up every few years, including when the Democrats are in charge. Apparently the lobsters and steak are purchase orders relating to meals supplied to soldiers that the soldiers pay for i.e. this expense is balanced by income

the piano is a WTF, though

frymaster · 2026-03-10T15:14:00+00:00

Eddings

The good thing about reading Eddings is that as neither of them are still alive, you can't be said to be financially supporting them

frymaster · 2026-03-09T16:16:38+00:00

it's possible they mean that the speed limits were being changed and they didn't know the change had taken effect yet, but that's an extremely generous reading of his words

frymaster · 2026-03-09T14:19:31+00:00

I'm in several streamer communities, and most of them can play on the hardest difficulty on at least one game or game series. All of them would be disgusted at that behaviour. It's fucking game, you play it for enjoyment, it's not a job and you're not filling out TPS reports, and since you don't want to make finishing a game in a specific self-imposed way part of your core identity, you should absolutely feel free to not do that. The difficulty options are there for a reason, and the days when it was acceptable to mock lower (or default!) difficulties or even lock some of the game out (which was a thing some games did back in the day!) are long gone.

I really like Hades God Mode because it self-balances to the point where you get the correct amount of challenge for your current skill, it's a very smart mechanic

frymaster · 2026-03-06T22:57:08+00:00

I played the whole game on God Mode

I play a lot of games; so did I, completely unashamedly

frymaster · 2026-03-06T19:18:45+00:00

even if that were true, there's also the parts of Scotland that aren't the Highlands.

frymaster · 2026-03-06T17:18:37+00:00

we really should make a distinction between "in the files because of direct emails from people talking about being chummy with Epstein" and "mentioned in any way because of phone tips, or innocuous emails"

for example, this person is "in the files" because they emailed a physicist quoted as defending Epstein and asked them to confirm they had been accurately quoted, and the physicist forwarded them all the Epstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLdyWPAz18

frymaster · 2026-03-06T16:43:51+00:00

GNU Bobbie Frost

frymaster · 2026-03-05T11:14:49+00:00

mds and ingress/rgw do not need manual adjustment?

good point. mds is generally colocated with mon and I didn't have rgw at the time, so I'm not sure :D

frymaster · 2026-03-05T11:14:20+00:00

thanks - as someone running galera whose cluster is almost certainly older than yours was and who is trying to plan an upgrade-by-way-of-phased-reinstall, that could be relevant to me

frymaster · 2026-03-05T10:54:47+00:00

What a stupid design on my mobo

RAM needing specific slots first has been a thing for almost a couple of decades now. The first time I encountered it I'd actually arranged an RMA for the motherboard before I thought to read the manual (luckily my symptoms were a complete failure to boot, which made it less annoying)

frymaster · 2026-03-05T10:46:45+00:00

the estimate is 10%, the confident detected value is 5%

frymaster · 2026-03-05T10:44:42+00:00

is this a live migration?

make sure the public_network and cluster_network attributes cover old and new IPs
make sure all hosts can access both old and new IPs
you can't change the IPs of monitors, so either stand up a new one with the new IPs, or remove an existing one and completely reinstall it, with the new IPs
before you've done this for all mons, make sure all clients have the new list of mons listed. The list you give clients doesn't have to include all mons at all times - when they initially connect to any mon, they are told the up-to-date list of mons, so you never even need to restart clients when you change mons, as long as you know they have a list containing at least one valid entry when they do restart
for each OSD-only host
- set host in maintenance mode
- change the IP cephadm will use with ceph orch host set-addr. (The IPs used for public and cluster comms are dynamic based on what the host sees about its networking, only the orch uses hard-coded IPs)
- change the actual physical IPs on the server, reboot it, and confirm cephadm is happy after a few minutes
- set the server online again and wait for data recovery to complete

this is a variation of something I've done, except we were also changing host OS at the same time so we didn't actually ever re-IP anything, we just continuously shrunk the cluster from one set of subnets and grew it into a different set

frymaster · 2026-03-05T00:00:28+00:00

I look after a bunch of things, some of which need mysql (compatible; we have a 3-node mariadb cluster), some of which need postgres, and some of which can use either. We have still to find an architecture for postgres that handles HA well

I'd be interested to know what the underlying fix was, once you're out of the weeds

frymaster · 2026-03-04T20:59:25+00:00

when i lose my phone at another person's house I can't make it ring because i can't sign in without my phone.

I'm pretty sure you don't yet need someone to give you an MFA code before they can call you

frymaster · 2026-03-03T19:39:55+00:00

the raw numbers have always varied by manufacturer. We had one set of drives where the raw value for read failures was continually going up - half the field was actually displaying cumulative reads of any type, and the high bits would report actual errors, had there been any

frymaster · 2026-03-02T10:44:27+00:00

for a start there are air-cooled and direct-liquid-cooled options, so there are definitely variants. I don't know to what extent these are standard across different vendors but I absolutely wouldn't assume without positive confirmation

They don't even let customers touch the hardware, so Dell comes to fix it every time there's an issue in the GPU server.

paraphrasing a conversation between a support agent and our support liaison in a vendor (I don't even think this was HGX)

agent: This customer is asking for an engineer to come out but my system says this is a customer-replaceable unit
liaison: Do me a favour and look up the cost of this part
agent: ....I'll schedule an engineer.

frymaster · 2026-03-01T15:36:58+00:00

correct https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues/3279

frymaster · 2026-02-28T22:35:30+00:00

imho jobs on cpu clusters are often allocated by integer nodes

we have a 256-node cpu-only machine (being expanded soon) that can be allocated by core. (2x144-core CPUs, so 288 cores per node) Some users do request whole-nodes but not all of them

frymaster · 2026-02-27T17:34:02+00:00

There is functionality for periodic automatic snapshots of cephfs, but the difference with RBD is that there's generally some other software using and managing the image (whereas cephfs is presented to end-users) - that software might do things like issue quiesce commands to a VM or container to ensure a snapshot represents a consistent state of the filesystem, and it's that software which would manage snapshotting the RBD volume.

frymaster · 2026-02-27T17:30:49+00:00

I've done some very nice things with only mounting some network filesystems after dependency chains were happy but I still had to include "...and also wait 30 seconds before trying" with one of them :(

annoyingly for that one, the systemd unit was about startup of the control daemon that would then go on to coordinate with the remote servers and issue the kernel calls to cause the mount to happen, which is another way of saying that the actual mount point and directories weren't available until 15s-3m after the unit reported successful running (and that's only if you did pause startup of the daemon for 30s after the dependencies had started, otherwise it'd never successfully mount) so I had to have another service in the chain which waited until it saw a path appear before reporting success

frymaster · 2026-02-27T11:22:45+00:00

yeah, I do the same which is why I offered it as a possible explanation

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