When I was a wee kid, I thought that scene from the Matrix where Morpehus explains that humans destroyed the whole damn planet just to maybe slow down the machines was stupid.

I mean if you block the sun, we’re all going to fucking die, why would you do something that stupid?

Yeah, well, the last few years has shown that actually at least half the people on the planet would be pro-kill-everything, even if that includes themselves.

So really, this take isn’t remotely shocking anymore.

Hey Elon! Do it! You want to! You have the money!

Buy Reddit!

(It’d be the funniest damn thing.)

Oh I wasn’t saying to not, I was just saying make sure you’re aware of what recovery entails since a lot of raid controllers don’t just write bytes to the disk and can, if you don’t have spares, make recovery a pain in the ass.

I’m using MD raid for my boot SSDs and yeah, the install was a complete pain in the ass since the debian installer will let you, but it’s very much in the linux sense of ‘let you’: you can do it, but you’re figuring it out on your own.

Buy multiple drives, setup some sort of raid, setup some sort of backup. Then set up a 2nd backup.

Done.

All drives from all manufacturers are going to fail at more or less the same rate (see: backblaze’s stats) and trying to buy a specific thing to avoid the death which is coming for all drives is, mostly, futile: at the absolute best you might see a single specific model to avoid, but that doesn’t mean entire product lines are bad.

I’m using some WD red drives which are pushing 8 years old, and some Seagate exos drives which are pushing 4, and so far no issues on any of the 7 drives.

Make sure, if you use hardware RAID, you know what happens if your controller dies.

Is the data in a format you can access it easily? Do you need a specific raid controller to be able to read it in the future? How are you going to get a new controller if you need it?

That’s a big reason why people nudge you to software raid: if you’re using md and doing a mirror, then that’ll work on any damn drive controller on earth that linux can talk to, and you don’t need to worry about how you’re getting your data back if a controller dies on you.

Well knowing Elon, he’s probably paying minimum wage and also forcing the guy to clean his toilets and bring him tendies.

And complaining the entire time about how the tendies doesn’t have enough honey mustard.

Seriously, when did The Verge get a paywall?

I’d support that: the new excuses as to why a suspect escaped would be fantastic.

“Well, I would have caught him but my car died for some reason and I couldn’t get out.”

“Well, I would have caught him but I hit a bump and half my car fell off.”

“Well, I would have caught him, but my car caught fire and killed my partner.”

“Well, I would haved caught him but it was raining so my bumper fell off and punctured my tire.”

Question: how is LinkedIn useful to you?

For me it’s just a non-stop swarm of recruiters from India who want me to kindly listen to their offer of a job that pays less than I’d make picking up garbage, utter sociopaths dredging up some psychotic hustle culture nonsense, and previous people I’ve worked with/for asking for favors, which of course means free.

Is it somehow more useful for an actual business?

I wouldn’t argue with the dude; he’s got a clear case of bad-faith-itis. What you did was bad, so you shouldn’t have done it, but no I won’t tell you how to fix it.

The absolute best you could have done is cross-posted to a Mastodon/Bluesky/whatever account as well, but you can’t just always go around yanking the rug out underneath communities especially if you’re in a position where it’s not just lazy shitposting and worthless commentary.

…that said, you have moved anything you can to being posted somewhere in tandem riiiiiiight?

As with all things email, they probably really wanted to make sure that the mails were delivered and thus were using a commercial MTA to ensure that.

I’d wager, even at 20 or 30 or 40k a year, that’s way less than it’d cost to host infra and have at least two if not three engineers available 24/7 to maintain critical infra.

Looking at my mail, over the years I’ve gotten a couple hundred email from them around certificates and expirations (and other things), and if you assume there’s a couple million sites using these certs, I could easily see how you’d end up in a situation where this could scale in cost very very slowly, until it’s suddenly a major drain.

There are very very few things that I believe deserve summary and immediate execution, and that’s just made the list.

I logged in a few months ago to deal with something with my Quest, and holy shit.

I didn’t follow many people, but every post was some AI generated sexy-single-in-my-area nonsense trying to convince me that I need to call them right now for the hot sex, or something.

It was fucking bizarre and I’m utterly confused as to what in the hell is going on, since if they’re showing me that shit, you know they’re shoveling it at everyone too? Like, I cannot fathom why anyone would willingly put up with that shit for cat pictures or whtaever the hell boomers use it for.

It means they don’t plan to add support but don’t want to tell you that so it’s “on the radar”.

Wouldn’t hold my breath or expect anything.

Agreed. We can’t run the risk that children might think on their own or develop an opinion on things.

They’re here to take care of me when I’m old, and until I’m dead they’re going to do exactly what I say, when I say, and how I say.

We don’t need this kind of woke “thinking for yourself” nonsense.

(Very /s for the person out there that had a bad case of the woosh.)

Wait, five weeks to change billing providers?

I really really really need to hear the story as to what the fuck happened with their old provider, why they didn’t have the engineering work already done for the new one, and how a trillion dollar company got caught flat-footed in something even a dinky-ass ecommerce site selling kitten hats wouldn’t be.

+1 to mxroute for anyone thinking about it.

Been using it for a while (and worked with the guy who runs it) and it’s been pretty much perfect.

Ah cool. I kinda wish that card issuers would issue a tiny little NFC disc or something so I can just integrate that into whatever and get the same functionality.

But that’d probably be a thing all of 8 people on earth want, and everyone else would lose it or eat it or something.

Sorry if i missed it but I have a really stupid question: why not just use the card directly?

Is this just a dont-want-a-wallet thing, or something else?

I mean, it’s economic blackmail: we won’t build the good shit anywhere else, so if you don’t protect us, you get nothing.

Effective, but only if you’re dealing with someone who is rational, and, well, have you seen the brain-worm oligarchs in charge of the US lately?