Notices by LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)

@vie It's worth noticing that the ones most enthusiastic about it are also the ones that care the least about their craft and were only ever in it because it was a well-paying job (in some places, they wouldn't have chosen it otherwise).

That's not a coincidence.

@icedquinn > i'm not too aware of any gossip features, although if relays do negentropy syncs (many softs support it) then a message will eventually crawl across the network that way.

I don't recall quite perfectly, but the protocol documentation alluded to that being in the works.

though it looks like the latest generation of nostr has been about gatekeeping. paid relays like primal or FOAF relays like pyramid.

Huh. Is it going to go to shit before I even get to try it? lol

I think Linux distro system administration guides kind of messed up a lot in the past.

Especially rolling distros for "didn't update in a while" procedures.

With adequate partitioning of either LVM or btrfs/zfs managed storage, it's very possible to just use COW snapshots so that failed upgrades are as simple to revert & retry as booting a live CD, destroying the old partition (subvolume/lvm volume) and restoring it from a snapshot.

I do see mention of chrooting & reinstalling while leaving /home (or similar) untouched but nothing about snapshots despite how long the functionality has been around.

Sure backup away, but you really shouldn't need to touch your backups at all.

I would recommend the use of the memtest parameter in Linux kernel parameters as a precautionary measure, especially if one doesn't have ECC memory.

The setting should be >1 (e.g. memtest=7) because if the test is mere zeroing, then that won't be enough on its own to catch a number of malfunctions.

Errors caught result in segments being automatically reserved so the kernel and programs do not use them.

This is of course not going to protect against faults that develop during the current uptime of a machine. It is a stopgap measure, not a replacement for ECC memory.