jimsalter

jimsalter, 10 months ago to reddit

Well everyone, it's the first week in July, and #Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is still a lying asshat who treats Redditors as voiceless resources to exploit. So, as promised, I'm off Reddit and out of r/zfs for good.

The good news is, Practical ZFS is up and running as a replacement, with more than 100 registrations in its first day online and more continuing to come in. I hope to see you there soon!

https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/

#RedditBlackout

jimsalter, 10 months ago to random

This wasn't my first concern about Replika harming people, but... I guess "encouraging teenagers to assassinate UK royalty" is gonna need to get both added into the bingo card, and immediately punched.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/queen-crossbow-murder-attempt-windsor-castle-trial-police-b1092313.html

JoeRess, 5 days ago to random

Idea for a sport:

Instead of moving really quickly, kicking or hitting or throwing a ball or something really accurately, or outwitting people, how about this?

You have to inflict enough brain trauma on your opponent to render them unable to stay on their feet.

jimsalter, 10 months ago to random

Community Members and Community Supporters wanted!

I've set up a new home for OpenZFS community news, discussion, and education at https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/ and although it's still new and ugly, it's ready for folks to start kicking the tires.

#OpenZFS #RedditBlackout

jimsalter, 1 month ago to random

I think AI music generation has reached a similar level as AI image generation. Behold, "sad girl on piano sings the MIT license" as generated by suno dot ai:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/mit-license-text-becomes-viral-sad-girl-piano-ballad-generated-by-ai/

jimsalter, 8 months ago to random

I'm probably never going to write the actual article I'd originally intended these charts for. But if you want to see the difference between latencies between #OpenZFS and #btrfs on an eight-drive system that's creating and replicating automated snapshots regularly, here ya go.

We're looking at fio random access, limited to (simultaneous) 8MiB/sec read and 23.0MiB/sec write. The system has eight 12TB Ironwolf rust drives, in four ZFS mirrors vs one eight-wide btrfs-raid1.

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jimsalter, 2 months ago to random

Windows Server 2022: DISM Error 1168, the key could not be validated, and your attempt to activate using this license has been cancelled

Also Windows Server 2022: yeah you're licensed and activated just fine, why do you ask boss?

pics related.

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jimsalter, 1 day ago to random

Good(ish) news, everyone!

I got off my ass and set up a vhost on a different webserver for the (bare) practicalzfs.com. It just redirects to discourse.practicalzfs.com for the moment, but that's enough to give it its own SSL certificate so nobody who types in the barename gets a cert mismatch error.

Baby steps? :)

jimsalter, 4 months ago to bluesky

I don't think I realized how easy it was to block entire Masto instances as a user--not just as an instance admin--until today. It's literally two clicks and done.

So there's DEFINITELY no need for anyone to lose their mind over commercial ventures offering Fediverse integration. If #Bluesky or #Threads or whatever shows up in your timeline and you don't like it, just find any post from any user on that platform, click the hamburger menu, and click block domain: DONE.

jimsalter, 8 months ago to random

Listening to myself talk about SSH keys, as I "proof-listened" the most recent @25admins episode, I tried to hear it with newer ears, and it reminded me how long it took to grok public/private key infrastructure.

It occurs to me that we missed a MUCH better naming schema. Your private key is just a key. Keys are private by nature. Your public key is a LOCK. Locks are public by nature.

In that metaphor, you install your lock on a server so that your key will unlock it.

jimsalter, 6 months ago to random

You can give a Microsoft person a main ballroom to speak in, and they can give an excellent talk on #WSL... But you can't get many of the Linux conference attendees to show up for it. ☹️

#UbuntuSummit

A selfie showing Jim sitting at the front of a nearly empty ballroom

18+ jimsalter, 1 day ago to random

We're having a VERY normal one on this side of the pond, y'all.

Yes, this really was an ad released by the Trump campaign. Yes, it really does feature the words "industrial strength significantly increased driven by the creation of a unified reich."

If we in the USA actually elect this asshat for a second term, y'all who live elsewhere need to MASSIVELY step up your military budgets. Please.

jimsalter, 9 months ago to random

It's a very sad sign for society at large when a network with the history and prominence of NBC decides that running grift ads via Taboola for a few pennies is a good idea.

(And I PROMISE there's nowhere you can stab your phone with a toothpick to make it block ads.)

jimsalter, 11 months ago to random

It's official: in accordance with overwhelming community consensus and support, reddit.com/r/zfs is now your one stop shop for discussion of and memes about zfsboutique.com, Zalando Fulfillment Solutions, and zinc formaldehyde sulfate.

Don't like it? Blame CEO Steve Huffman.

#redditblackout #zfs

jimsalter, 1 month ago to random

Y'all ever get a fractal question? One that seems simple at first glance, but the more you pay attention, the deeper the layers you've got to address actually go?

This morning at Practical ZFS--if you'll pardon a car analogy--essentially, a Proxmox user wanted to know "how can I wash my car?" and I discovered that I first needed to walk them through every stage of Johnny Cash's Cadillac, THEN we could talk about the carwash:

https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/hard-drives-in-zfs-pool-constantly-seeking-every-second/1421

jimsalter, 4 months ago to random

Hey everybody! PSA:

Both 2.5admins.com and practicalzfs.com are currently offline, due to their entire datacenter also being offline, possibly due to extreme inclement weather.

We have full backups, and are monitoring the situation at the datacenter to determine if/when we give up on them and spin up a new host elsewhere.

jimsalter, 9 months ago to random

If you want to convince an "esteemed journalist" that your project deserves to fail horribly, and for said journalist to consider ways to help make it happen, talking about your "last follow-up" on your very first message is a great way to do it.

I will never understand why people tolerate this shit.

jimsalter, 10 months ago to random

TIL that Stack Exchange mods are having very similar problems with their platform's management to the ones we Reddit mods are having with ours.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425100/moderation-strike-update-data-dumps-choosing-representatives-gpt-data-and-wh

#RedditBlackout

jimsalter, 3 months ago to random

There's certainly more than one reason I strongly prefer free and open source operating systems and other software. But this ONE would frankly be enough, all on its own.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/

This is the face of enshittification.

jimsalter, 3 months ago to random

People are so quick to be like "don't hoard your health potions and scrolls, use them, it's what they're there for!" And yeah, admittedly, I frequently finish an RPG with 100+ unused health potions alone.

HOWEVER.

I am a child of the 80s, goddammit, and I grew up with two different types of RPG: the kind where you could always grind to get more loot, and the kind where there were only so many monsters in each area.

You ever gotten to the end of a game with NO consumables at ALL?

Yeah.

jimsalter, 10 months ago to threads

I know we're all shocked--SHOCKED--to discover that Mark Zuckerberg's version of Twitter is clearly designed to be an unapologetic hellscape.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/05/threads-meta-instagram-twitter-alternative/

#threads

JoeRess, 21 days ago to random

Click here for a picture of a cute cat!

https://blog.patshead.com/2024/05/please-do-share-our-links-on-mastodon-heres-why.html

jimsalter, 2 months ago to random

Can any #actuallyautistic folks following me chip in on something?

I was having some shower thoughts this morning, and it occurred to me that stimming is likely essentially the same neural impulse as instinctive dancing to music is in neurotypicals.

Like, sure, we have plenty of DELIBERATE dancing in neurotypical society, and it serves any number of purposes, but I'm talking about the automatic, unforced impulse to nod your head, tap your toes, shake your ass to a beat.