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tenchiken

@ tenchiken @anarchist.nexus

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Res Publica Non Dominatur!

I'm just this guy, y'know?

In your interwebs, janitorializing things up and keeping the porns online.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • Power isn't so bad really. These were all 2tb disks, so ended up with about 40tb total after shenanigans.

    Cabling was atrocious. I'd originally been using several pulled 4 disk SAS backplanes from servers thrown out of my work, just screwed down to some pine boards in a stack.

    Zip ties and sata/sas cables were the rule.

    Overall the drives had 4 small power supplies initially, 300watt iirc. Cheap.

    Somewhere I have an old photo from the wiring during the "rescue" but I have to look around.

    Disk failure was actually not an issue for ages before. A specific thunderstorm with 2 nearby tornadoes is what caught me this time. Before that, the occasional single disk every 6 months or so.

    I still have running arrays using 15 year old disks, many with more than 10 years of that powered on. If you find good models, they can last ages.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • Mine would be when I had a 48 bay disk array / JBOD fail on me... badly. After a storm, it killed the larger card that allowed for me to get many of the drives into a PCIe 16x slot, and I was relegated down to only getting ~8 disks per box made from spare hardware. A single box I got 16 going. Add to this mix an SSD for mid-line caching.

    These were all running bcache on top of mdraid... One single mount.

    Yes I understand how obnoxiously stupid it was to run RAID6 on a 48 disk volume. It was almost all just stuff I could re-acquire over time, not irreplaceable things.

    I just HAD to solve this one though.

    In come several spare chassis / mobo etc.... get a bunch of drives powered and on /dev/ , move to the next.

    A couple spare gigabit switches...

    several gigabit NICs...

    two explicit paths for each machine...

    a bit of iSCSI magic, and one machine now had the physical disks all exposed to it... mdadm --assemble blah blah, bit of UUID chaos...

    It's surprising that while a bit speed limited (I think I got just around 110MB/sec reads), it was nicely performant for what a huge mess of wires and disks just strewn out around my rack.

    Managed to evacuate all I needed without much issue once I got that going. Now, I try to keep my arrays under 16 drives at a time, or keep a very rigid policy of "I can lose this and don't care" vs "this box gets RAID10 and/or offsite backups nightly".

    back up your critical stuff people!

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    Rimu deletes users to hide criticisms

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  • Hey, Rimu DID improve! He's been caught out in the past just outright deleting directly from the DB.

    He's also repeatedly bitched about people screenshotting his chats. I wonder why?

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  • Thats a misrepresented story that Rimu was propagating.

    The core issue is that he intentionally went out of the way to try to copy code after directly denying and blocking Mia from submitting PR upstream.

    Why deny the code through GIT/Codeberg, only to copy and paste it (incorrectly as well) and claim it as new features from his team?

    We know the AGPL well enough and don't care if patches were taken upstream. Lying about it is the issue at core, and slandering folks at the same time.

  • Mitch McConnell announces discharge from rehabilitation center

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  • Mitch McConnell announces IS discharge from rehabilitation center

  • It's our fault for having shins, really.

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  • Replace the guy with just moneybags on their way to get emptied.

  • SMART data on some old drives, can anyone beat my powered-on times?

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  • root@kamidake:~# for i in /dev/sd? ; do echo $i; smartctl -a $i |grep Hours| awk ' { print $10/8760}'; done

    /dev/sda

    15.6055

    /dev/sdb

    15.6979

    /dev/sdc

    6.04909

    /dev/sdd

    7.35708

    /dev/sde

    10.618

    /dev/sdf

    7.28071

    /dev/sdg

    10.5689

    /dev/sdh

    10.6264

    /dev/sdi

    2.28311

    /dev/sdj

    10.7498

    /dev/sdk

    10.5832

    /dev/sdl

    7.35502

    /dev/sdm

    10.643

    /dev/sdn

    10.8016

    /dev/sdo

    10.7558

    /dev/sdp

    9.11416

    root@kamidake:~#

    These are running ZFS and I have 2 other boxes with similar, most in the 10-12 year range. Spinning drives.

    Good stuff.

  • From the day you were born until today, what was the best piece of advice you still follow?

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  • Often I've just taken what came across misogynistic as a badly implemented form of lensing from the time.

    Filtering out euphemism heavily, and not saying he wasn't, but overall many of his stories for the time were very modern on strong women in books.

    I'd instead say that instead of directly labeling him misogynistic, it's more accurate to say just "asshole of equal opportunity".

    His women were frequently critical to story (not just devices for saving). Gender and sexuality were some of the most absolutely open and not only accepted but outright fought for violently in many cases.

    While the picture of what it looked like may be dated, he grumpily would argue for women's rights in his tales.

    I would also say that I base from his fictional writing. If your basis is from another venue then I may be lacking data. I've tried to read into rumor and such about overlap of shit with Rand but find much conflicting things and just have given up interest in trying to untie that.

  • From the day you were born until today, what was the best piece of advice you still follow?

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  • Kiss the girl.

    More specifically "Give in to temptation; you never know if it'll pass your way again."

    If we relax the rules a bit here, most of the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" apply. Many of Heinlein's comments held a lot of value and have helped me be happy with who I've become in the 36 years since I started reading the words he put on pages.

    Enjoy your life whenever you can, and hopefully find someone to enjoy it with. The end comes sooner than you know.

  • It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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  • lol.

    lmfao even.

  • Looks like I failed ...

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  • I'm the admin of one of the blocked instances. Yay!

  • Trump assessed by 22 medical specialists at latest checkup; The White House has declined to identify the physicians.

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  • lol.

    lmfao even.

  • If you could have any superpower from any fictional universe, what would it be?

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  • Absolute control of atomic structures / telekinesis and psychic abilities.

    The grandfather in the book Slipt. Amazing story.

    This effectively allows:

    Change chemical structures, transmutation, cure/remove illness

    Cause strokes or embolisms from a distance with no evidence.

    Hey that building full of people I didn't like is now glowing from extreme amounts of radiation! Almost like the cement became a hugely unstable isotope suddenly. Weird.

    Within a few days, the world would be forever changed.

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    dbzer0 porn bot raids?

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  • Appreciate the context. Seeing what we can do here.

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    dbzer0 porn bot raids?

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  • Screenshot or comment link please? I'm not seeing anything like that

  • Pizza night

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  • Gonna just say your wife's pizza choices are divine, and your pizzas look heavenly.

    #TeamPeppOliveNanaPeppers

  • Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority

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  • Huh?!

  • Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority

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  • Horrific flashbacks to the time a city decided to blow up a beached whale... The consequences were quite memorable.

    I'd hate to be anywhere near where Trump's orange mist would travel. That has to smell awful.

  • Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority

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  • Out of a cannon.

    Into the sun.

  • Rendezvous with Rama

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  • Heartily agree about the sequels.

    The first was... Ok. Great notions, but very dry.

    The sequels had much better overall cohesion and I feel, if approached properly, would make an excellent couple of movies or a series akin to how Foundation has been approached.