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

Did you know that @iFixit has an offline archive that you can install via @kiwix ?

Now you do! Now's a great time to have an offline copy of your repair guides.

This one also solves for the "no one should buy a Tesla" problem for sellers.

cc @xgranade
https://spore.social/@kataclyst/114144732629939347

@skinnylatte Because they were reracking stuff or some data residency reason? (edit: rephrased that to be clearer)

Okay, so, Hetzner might be out, the only bucket regions are in the EU. This is normally good / fine, but I'll also be sending lives through the object storage so I suspect I want a datacenter relatively close to me. Though, the latency on even a low-latency peertube stream is 15s so that might not be a huge deal. 🤔

Okay, looks like I am going to have to migrate my Peertube instance to another server (one where I can expand the filesystem, it's currently sitting on a VM without that option) and *then* figure out about migrating the object storage away from S3 (I'm thinking Hetzner + Bunny or some other S3 + Bunny).

@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