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Re:Why I self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) on Friday September 06, 2024 @04:32AM (#41464151)
it was a while ago but i think basically this

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/minimizing-ssd-wearout-que...

Re:Why I self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) on Thursday September 05, 2024 @10:25PM (#41462320)
I noticed that with proxmox, my SSD wear out was going up about 1-3% a month.

There are things you can do to minimize this even with ZFS tho in terms of arc cache and setting syslog to log to memory instead of disk etc.

Now i get about 1-2% every 6 months.

By "Observe" dont they mean the act of any photon "hitting/interacting with" the system collapsing it into a known/predictable state.

Not specifically a "intelligent" observer per se.

Re:Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2) on Thursday June 06, 2024 @12:21AM (#40593454)
Recently got back into playing Diablo Immortal because i got a new m4 ipad, was playing with a standard nintendo switch controller for 2 weeks fine just doing standard story quest/leveling then banned for "Severe Exploitation - Automation (Botting), Hacks, or Third-Party Software". I tried to appeal but just automatically rejected and no recourse or way to even know what they think i did wrong besides that vague statement above.

I'm 100% sure i didnt do anything that would count as cheating, was just playing the game normally on an unjailbroken device, never interacted with another person in the game either.

Yet the chat is full of bots spamming stuff that dont seem to get banned.

Luckily i got banned before i decided to spend any money on it besides $8 for the battlepass.

Re:How we made an animated movie in 8kB on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:30PM (#39125088)
Were you able to use libs like sdl or opengl etc?
I had great fun messing with a 6502 and 32kb of ram with an audrino as a semi first electronics project.

https://github.com/dmateos/420-6502

One thing i often do when i forget one of my passwords, is go into chrome, goto the webpage corresponding to the login of the thing in question and let it autofill, then i turn the password area to a plain text area in the HTML editor.

I've always thought this kind of bypasses most checks you get if you try to go into the password db in the browser it self.

Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command on Thursday July 21, 2022 @02:53AM (#32176537)
Not too much, like $4k extra a month i think, noticeable but not the end of the world.

I assume a smaller place would just beg AWS for forgiveness and probably get it.

Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command on Thursday July 21, 2022 @02:12AM (#32176310)
Once one of our devops engineers was testing a script with nohup yes > output.

The /home directory was mounted to an autoexpanding EFS on AWS.

23.4tbs and 2 months later we noticed the bill :)

Re:Bob Saget has died on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:55PM (#29870422)
Re:Metaprogramming custom control structures in C (2012) on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:26PM (#27794504)
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
I sleep in a Racing Car!, Do you?
Re:Show HN: Paperkast on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @03:29AM (#17764289)
TypeError in Home#index

Showing /opt/lobsters/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #85 raised:

no implicit conversion of Symbol into Integer

Re:Linux RNG flaws on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:23AM (#16986276)
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Nice.

With these fixes and the performance losses, does that stack?

IE if you have a Server on amazon running a newer kernel with the patches but then that underlying hardware is also running the newer kernel?

Re:Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:56AM (#16070310)
If you stack kernels like

Hypervisor Guest OS

Is there double the performance hit of all these attack fixes?

Re:Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @07:34AM (#16035006)
Useful for finding the 12/12 or 18/6 pattern spikes of a weed grow house also.. `
Re:A new fast Linux OS? on Sunday December 17, 2017 @11:33AM (#15946367)
More like a slightly modified ubuntu with different default packages.

And his only other project on github is a keylogger :o

Dead body raft like on Rome.