Notices by cthos 🐱 (cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev)

@xgranade yup. I get real irked when one make a claim about "energy" and then does nothing but talk about how "cheap" the model is.

A certain LLM booster wrote recently that models got cheaper because they're more efficient but proceeded to only talk about it in terms of *cost* and didn't mention power consumption at all.

Perhaps you failed to consider the hyperscalers are in a race to the bottom?

@xgranade "But how?!" You might be asking. Remember that necromancer who's body you didn't burn? Wellllllllllllllllllll

@xgranade Related point, up until Altabury I was *suspicious* that Louis wasn't behind the curse but I wasn't *sure*, which was great. I mean why would he have the curse formula on him? Right until he's falling through the roof.

Also: Altus did manage to fool me, I thought we got em. Alas.

@xgranade Yeah, the storytelling in Metaphor is great. Also you're about to get more of it. O_O

@xgranade @tryst @aud I assumed asymmetric in the hypothetical but thinking on it most NAS backup software does symmetric keys IIRC

@xgranade @aud it would be flattering to be that important. 🤔

@xgranade @aud Tuta certainly thinks so. 😆 (I like their email service but the claims of quantum resistance are…..)

@aud @xgranade Hahah yes, entropy gets all things. Even optical media will degrade after a century or so even in good conditions.

The only thing permanent is impermanence?

@aud @xgranade I mean encrypted backups to a cloud provider where only you have the decryption key is pretty solid until Quantum computing is a thing (I hear, please feel to eviscerate me here @xgranade)

@aud Do you care more about read/write speed or being able to recover if 2 drives die right next to each other?

Are you planning on also doing off-site backups?

@aud So rebuild on RAID 10 is faster than RAID 6 since it just has to flat out copy from one of the mirror pairs, whereas RAID 6 has to rebuild the whole array.

With 10 you run the risk of two drives failing in the *same mirror* which is unrecoverable. RAID 6 can survive any 2 drives going poof. So if you're using sketchy drives that *might* be worth the added safety without offsite backups if you can tolerate the perf penalty.

@aud The space should be identical, RAID 10 would also be 12 GB since it's 2 mirrored drives.

@aud You can add more drives to the RAID 6 and get better storage efficiency, though.

@xgranade uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@xgranade Maybe I'm reading into it, but this seems desperate? Like, "shit, we can't get enough people to pay for this thing so let's burn more cash to try and get more users to try and onboard them to the paid tier. I'm sure once they see the value they'll......"

@xgranade Kill god?

@aud @xgranade Yes, I'm still pissed at Proton.

@aud @xgranade Relatedly: "We designed a survey that proves our point because we designed the questions to prove our point".

@xgranade @aud From what I've observed, it's just a lot of "we put the utm_campaign variable on the thing and it's getting a lot of clickthrus so it's gotta be working well".

But for stuff like buying TV ad spots....... it's like zero data.