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jimsalter

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Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka "the biggest ZFS stan on the planet."

I am not Jim Salter, the Associated Press reporter based in Missouri. That's a different guy, and he hides from the Internet.

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jimsalter, to threads
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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/

jimsalter, to random
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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

jimsalter,
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@feoh @spacewizard I want to draw attention to the fact that I specifically referred to
"people who want it to just talk to them, without weirdness" as the segment that got screwed over by its aggressive horniness!

I do not and would not call those people "losers." Although Replika certainly is forcing losses onto them. 😢

jimsalter,
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@feoh @spacewizard the Hippocratic Oath only works to prevent deliberate causation of harm, not weapons-grade ignorance.

I could be wrong, but my read on the original creators and their original (however creepy) idea of mimicing dead loved ones falls into the latter category, not the former.

Now, if you want to talk about a Hippocratic Oath for the VC types that will do ANYTHING for money... like the ones who leaned into its anime waifu renaissance... I'm on board AS FUCK.

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@feoh @spacewizard

> unfortunate antipatterns

VERY much this. Nobody should be trying to learn how to human from a freaking LLM. All it can do is teach you how to be an LLM, and specifically, an LLM trained on the dataset it was trained on.

Which is NOT in ANY way human.

jimsalter, to reddit
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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,
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@Magnifico OpenZFS is an extremely advanced filesystem which offers, among other things:

  • Built-in multiple drive and volume support
  • Support for arrays larger than "every hard drive on the planet put together*
  • Per-block cryptographic data validation hashes
  • Automatic repair of corrupt data using said hashes
  • Inline compression, multiple algorithms supported
  • Native encryption
  • INSANELY fast replication
  • Instantaneous atomic snapshots

And more. These are $1M SAN features, in FOSS.

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@mcdanlj that is pretty exciting! I'd love to be part of the fediverse eventually. I looked VERY hard at Lemmy/kbin/etc, but reluctantly came to the conclusion that they weren't quite ready yet.

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@mcdanlj thank you!

feoh, to proxmox

@jimsalter I can't figure out how to say this on social media he participates in without being That Guy, and I think you're likely already aware, but Allan's wrong about Proxmox wanting the VM to be local to its disk.

lets you define storage pools from whatever source you like. I run all my VMs off of my NAS except for a couple of perf intensive cases where I use the local disk and utilize Proxmox's automatic backup if the VM's use case merits it.

jimsalter,
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@feoh yeah, I'm aware. Not sure whether it just didn't seem like the most important point to push back at on air, or whether I did say something and it got eaten in editing (which definitely happens, frequently for my own good 🙃) or what. In particular, I've seen a lot of proxmox+TrueNAS stories!

Don't worry about being That Guy. We're sysadmins, aren't we?

jimsalter, to random
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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.

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For those of you who would like to support the new community home, I've set up a Patreon project at https://www.patreon.com/PracticalZFS .

Patreon supporters can log in to the Discourse using Patreon auth, and get Supporter flair and access to the Supporter's Lounge. Also, you can help patch the hole in my wallet! =)

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@feoh thank you so much!

The app rebuild stuff takes for bloody ever, but so far the actual platform seems pretty snappy. Hopefully it'll still seem that way once traffic ramps up 🙃

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@feoh would you mind logging into the Discourse with your Patreon account? I'd like to make sure the automatic stuff works right, and so far I've got several supporters but none seem to have logged into the Discourse using their Patreon. :)

Thanks!

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@feoh or if you've already registered a local account:

  • user preferences
  • if you enabled 2FA, disable it (you'll use whatever 2FA your Patreon account uses)
  • click "connect to Patreon"

After connecting to Patreon, your Patreon login becomes the way you log into the site, via OAuth.

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@feoh yay, it worked right!

Thanks for helping me test. And, of course, for the support itself! =)

feoh, to random

@jimsalter and a gaggle of others have been saying this for years, but it's still super interesting to see an actual analysis of how GOOG is making independent email as close to impossible as it can manage:

http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html

jimsalter,
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@feoh the rate limiting and similar pointless delays drive me insane. That's one of the reasons I do still run my own mailserver: it's a gigantic pain in the ass, but when someone sends me email I know if it didn't get here that the problem isn't on my end. Similarly, when I send email and somebody doesn't get it, I know that it wasn't a problem on my end--because I can see what happened to it in the logs.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is even still emitting BACKSCATTER, the chumps. 😡

jimsalter, to random
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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

feoh, to FF

Here's an early for you all :) If you're technical and self identify as "sysadmin" even just a little bit, you should be following @jimsalter - He wrote for @arstechnica for quite a while and now drops science on us all every week on the @25admins podcast. I have learned a TON about and *NIX in general from him through the years and prize his advice rather highly.

Except for his dislike of which I personally think is a pretty great way to herd VMs for non production use :)

jimsalter,
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@feoh @arstechnica @25admins I'd probably be one of the Proxmox herd if I hadn't already been doing most of what they do before they started doing it. :)

jimsalter,
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@feoh great, now you made me start hankering for "virt-manager as an android app" 😂

jimsalter,
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@feoh you don't need anything special for template VMs. :)

syncoid data/gold/windows2022 data/images/newvm

then I just wrap a VM definition around the image with virt-manager, and done.

jimsalter,
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@feoh oh, you'd better believe I can kick them from my phone. I just use an SSH app and the terminal to do it. virsh shutdown $vm ; virsh start $vm and Bob's your uncle!

jimsalter, to random
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Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, Reddit admins comin 'for ERRYBODY.

I thought they were coming for r/zfs at first but nope, they were coming for r/25admins, which has only 250 subscribers and had no activity at all for a YEAR prior to the protest.

jimsalter, to random
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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.

jimsalter, to reddit
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r/zfs remains dark, alongside many of the largest subreddits in existence. This was not the original plan, but Huffman REALLY raised the stakes by declaring that the protest was just "noise" to be ignored.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/reddit-blackout-date-end-protest-b2357235.html

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