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System Admonisher, tech support in Hampshire, UK. A screeching voice of the minority. I read your email.

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vwbusguy, to random
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RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.

I haven't said it enough times, but I hope someone who needs it will get this message before it's too late.

  • Someone who has had to troubleshoot 3 failed RAID5's in the last week in his dayjob

proactiveservices,
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@vwbusguy RAID5: Now you really need a backup.

jvcleave, to random
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Get 4X performance by plugging your thunderbolt drives into the correct ports

proactiveservices,
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@jvcleave get 576x performance by not using a hard drive that's SMR.

yakkoj, to random
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Finding my Windows product key used to be a simple matter of viewing COA sticker that has more elaborate protection than a country's money.

Now I had to DDG "windows 11 product key finder". Fortunately, there's a built-in command that gives me it.

But then there's a registry key with it, and that product key is DIFFERENT

To quote Henery chicken hawk doing Foghorn impression: One of these things, I say ONE of these things, has GOT to be my product key!

proactiveservices,
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@yakkoj I've known brand new computers, from the Windows 7 era, which had one key in the registry and one on the chassis, and sometimes only one was valid!

kev, to random
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My wife and I recently discovered a bum gun in one of our bathrooms at home. It gave me quite the shock!

https://kevquirk.com/the-bum-gun

proactiveservices,
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@kev ahahah, that chuckle in the video, priceless <3

dev_ric, to random
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I'll be 38 on Friday, and I just got ID'd in Waitrose 😆

proactiveservices,
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@dev_ric
you tactically did not say if it was by a machine or a person

kim, to random
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In Lake District news, the dry night with a bit of mist has suddenly and very quickly turned to six hours of heavy rain...

proactiveservices,
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@kim I refer you to your previous post, what have we learned?

edboythinks, to random
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this prebuilt nas might be the most sobering purchase i've ever made

feels more like i'm not cut out for tech than anything else

proactiveservices,
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@edboythinks There's only so much time in a day, a week, a year.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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paru is now aliased to 'brew upgrade'

paru is the universal update my shit command

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel Mine would be "luall" for historical reasons I shall not admit to.

bagder, to random
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I'm happy to say that celebrated its 7th year as hosted by Fastly's CDN network just yesterday.

454 TB of curl website contents were cranked out over the last twelve months. Up 27% from the previous period!

proactiveservices,
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@bagder Fastly: Stepping Up to Host Your Hobby Web Sites!

proactiveservices,
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@bagder No need, we got you covered.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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I am firmly against putting bread in the microwave

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel what are your thoughts about bread stapled to trees?

fedops, to random
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Shoutout to lightningmaps.org for a really neat visualization of what's going on. 👍

proactiveservices,
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@fedops What's going on: everything.

I recently learned a new meteorological warning from @troublewithwords along the lines of "Expect all weather conditions".

benjojo, to random
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How do we collectively stop Google's NOC from replying to every single IX mailing list post thinking that people are talking to them directly. How do we teach them about mailing lists. Is such a thing possible????

proactiveservices,
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@benjojo
shibboleth is your one (1) choice

proactiveservices, to random
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Listening to a bro in this cafe on a call who is espousing the benefits of ChatGPT for tourist information and other civic services.

I sure would love directions to see the string of volcanoes and the 50km tall statue of Jesus located in the village Liss, Hampshire, a quick walk from the M700 motorway and serviced by a fleet of flying taxicabs.

realtime, to random
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the tetrahedron industry is ruining journalism

proactiveservices,
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@realtime what's a tetrahedron?

thewk, to random German
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I finally know what has been putting me off about Michal Burnham in Discovery. It‘s the fake smile she always has, almost like an Apple robot ahme employee

proactiveservices,
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@thewk What put me off most was that she's god, and Star Trek is kinda meant to not be about gods.

proactiveservices,
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@thewk That is exactly it. Perhaps she's actually a very naughty person?

OpenSauce, to random
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RIP to the SD card that I accidentally left in my laptop before disassembly and snapped in half
Thought the case was harder to open than usual

proactiveservices,
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@OpenSauce Folding@Home wasn't meant to be taken literally.

chris_hayes, to opensource
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I gotta say since switching to FOSS finance tool, Actual Budget, I've been really happy with the experience. They've struck a nice balance between minimal, but powerful.

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

proactiveservices,
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@chris_hayes wow, have you read their privacy policy?
https://actualbudget.org/docs/privacy-policy/

proactiveservices,
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@chris_hayes I also can't find any meaningful hits for "telemetry" or "analytics" in their Github repo. Why does their brief and cromulent privacy policy, and the lack of telemetry seem so rare these days?

ScaredyCat, to random

https://haggiswildlifefoundation.com/ #haggis

That is all.

proactiveservices, (edited )
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@ScaredyCat I wonder if the designs on their merch are also generated by plagiarising artwork.

bagder, to random
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Six billion docker pulls.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/24/six-billion-docker-pulls/

proactiveservices,
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@bagder coming up on Java numbers there, careful now.

defuneste, to random
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Damn cargo bike are so nice but so expensive ...

proactiveservices,
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@defuneste ahh yes. problem is the extra price will often translate to better products but oof, the price really does ramp up.

laney, to random
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I really despise the prevent internet-culture way of trying to "own" or "zing" in response to any comment. It's the "no, but" of discourse - destroys any change of having a meaningful conversation and tries to divert attention to the "zinger"'s wit rather than what was being said.

Utterly tedious. I simply stop replying when it happens now.

proactiveservices,
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@laney the adage of "don't feed the trolls" if evergreen.

freeciv, to random
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Fix to problems in games with over 65535 cities and units was pushed in today. This will be in 3.1.1. Not many games reach that city/unit count, so the issue had gone unnoticed until Giacomo Mulas encountered and reported it.

proactiveservices,
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@freeciv This reminds me of a bug I reported in Factorio, but only after I'd travelled the distance that a train could go on 150 solid fuel. RIP phantom minimap trains.

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