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r00f commented on Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw

denkmoon · 23 days ago

Problems like? I run zfs on 20gb VMs and a 100tb pool and I’ve never had a problem that wasn’t my own fault. I love root on zfs, you can snapshot your entire OS at a whim. The only other way to get that I know of is btrfs which genuinely does have well known issues.

r00f · 23 days ago

Not an OP but I have similar experience with ZFS. Over 22 years of maintaining servers, I have had serious issues exclusively with ZFS. My pool is there, but it doesnt want to mount no matter what amount of IRC/reddit/SO/general googling I apply to try and help it boot. After it happened for the second time, I removed ZFS from the list of technologies I want to work with (I still have to, due to Proxmox, but without being fascinated).

r00f commented on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta blog.cloudflare.com/email... · Posted by u/tosh

segmondy · 3 months ago

The internet is worse for me with Cloudflare. I'm using a cellphone router for my internet. My guess is I don't get a dedicated IP and probably behind a NAT with other users. 85% of my request needs me to solve a cloudflare captcha. on bad days I have to do this easily 100+ times.

r00f · 3 months ago

It is not Cloudflare's fault. It means the website operators were so fed up with bots and bad actors that they just applied a carpet ban and called it a day. Thanks to Cloudflare I was able to reduce my website load threefold and downscale my VMs and my monthly cloud bill, and seeing how 50k daily requests were shown CAPTCHA and not even tried to solve it makes me terrified of running anything without Cloudflare.

Don't blame site owners and service that is trying to help them. Blame the fact that 90% of today's Internet traffic is bots

r00f commented on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year skyfall.dev/posts/slack... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall

r00f · 3 months ago

Well, that's a good case study for teens who are learning and are going to join this industry. If you rent instead of owning, you can be rugpulled at any moment. And then your only hope is getting viral on Reddit/HN/other places.

r00f commented on Why English doesn't use accents deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/sandbach

r00f · 5 months ago

I strongly disagree that "it's a shame" that English does not use diacritics. English is my second language (third maybe, considering that the country of my birth is bilingual), and is my favorite language to read and to write. I tried to learn French for two years and stopped, and all those excessive writing marks were among the reasons.

God bless all those monks who decided to keep English writing clean.

r00f commented on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

thesuitonym · 7 months ago

> You (and everyone else in the street), will get a notification that its outside for the next 30 minutes - miss it, and it'll go get delivered to a nearby pickup site.

That sounds terrible from just about every perspective. What about people who work during that 30 minutes? Or who have mobility concerns? What about a parent who's young child just fell asleep? Should they all have to go to the pickup site? And let's not kid ourselves, it's not going to be nearby. Especially if you live in a rural area. And how do you open the locker when you get there? Do you need another app that tracks your every movement? No thank you, please just leave the package at my door.

r00f · 7 months ago

I am not sure about your particular area, but all those concerns have been solved for me. If I get package in my local mailbox (which is always nearby), I get a key to the delivery box dropped into my mail box. If the package doesnt fit there, I get message like "box 5 code 123456" if it is at self pickup site, or I go to the post office - which are both 5 minutes drive, but for box of such size I would need to drive even to my local mailbox.

I will prefer any of those options over my package having to sit in the rain or on the snow.

r00f commented on Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table wired.com/story/undergrad... · Posted by u/robin_reala

vincekerrazzi · 9 months ago

Potential digression here, this is why I absolutely insist on high performing software teams to have at least one junior. You need someone asking questions like this.

r00f · 9 months ago

Would it work in this case? Had he asked about this in a team, he would be told about the existing approach and that'd be it. I've been on the both sides, as junior questioning common practices and as senior answering such questions - and it always resulted in transfer of common knowledge, not some breakthrough.

I totally support searching for the new truths, but we must not forget why the phrase "do not roll your own crypto" exists. It is ok, or maybe it even MUST be done by students and researchers, but I am not so sure about juniors working on production systems. Still fine if you work in R&D department

r00f commented on Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports github.com/drk1wi/portspo... · Posted by u/nateb2022

9dev · a year ago

The immune system is an incredible marvel of engineering, protecting you against an infinite number of attack vectors without any online database update after initial installation. It develops countermeasures on the fly, deploys layers of Defense that coordinate intelligently as a swarm, and keeps track of which molecules belong to „you“ while those molecules keep replacing themselves with those obtained from the outside. It constantly ingests signals from billions of sensors over your body which function as first-responder Defense measures as well as repair kits AND evidence capsules for the cavalry that rolls in later. And that’s just a sliver of all the ingenious ways the immune system works.

I wholeheartedly recommend reading „Immune“ by Phillip Dettmer: https://www.amazon.de/dp/0593241312

r00f · a year ago

then vaccination is online database update through forced learning

r00f commented on Sora is here openai.com/index/sora-is-... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

observationist · a year ago

Funny how all the negative uses to which something like this might be put are regulated or criminalized already - if you try to scam someone, commit libel or defamation, attempt widespread fraud, or any of a million nefarious uses, you'll get fined, sued, or go to jail.

Would you want Microsoft to claim they're responsible for the "safety" of what you write with Word? For the legality of the numbers you're punching into an Excel spreadsheet? Would you want Verizon keeping tabs on every word you say, to make sure it's in line with their corporate ethos?

This idea that AI is somehow special, that they absolutely must monitor and censor and curtail usage, that they claim total responsibility for the behavior of their users - Anthropic and OpenAI don't seem to realize that they're the bad guys.

If you build tools of totalitarian dystopian tyranny, dystopian tyrants will take those tools from you and use them. Or worse yet, force your compliance and you'll become nothing more than the big stick used to keep people cowed.

We have laws and norms and culture about what's ok and what's not ok to write, produce, and publish. We don't need corporate morality police, thanks.

Censorship of tools is ethically wrong. If someone wants to publish things that are horrific or illegal, let that person be responsible for their own actions. There is absolutely no reason for AI companies to be involved.

r00f · a year ago

Well, humans do understand such thing as scale.

C4 and nuke are both just explosives, and there are laws in place that prohibit exploding them in the middle of the city. But the laws that regulate storage and access to the nukes and to C4 are different, and there is a very strong reason for that.

Censorship is bad, everyone agrees on that. But regulating access to technology that has already proven that it can trick people into sending millions to fraudsters is a must, IMO. And it'd better be regulated before in overthrows some governments, not after.

r00f commented on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent thehftguy.com/2024/07/25/... · Posted by u/charlieirish

r00f · a year ago

Why does article say "On 19th July 2019, CrowdStrike pushed an update" ? Is it another incident in the past, same as OVH, or a typo? I'm kind of lost in context

r00f commented on Boeing overwrote security camera footage of repair work on Alaska door plug axios.com/2024/03/13/boei... · Posted by u/belter

Sakos · 2 years ago

Who's calling for longer recordings? The NTSB or random people who don't know anything about crash investigations or politicians trying to win points with voters? Would longer recordings really help with investigations? From all the videos I've seen about them, maybe it's just selective memory, I can't recall a single time the NTSB pointed out they needed longer recordings to do or complete their investigation. I also can't think of any case off the top of my head where it would have helped in any way, much less a significant enough number to justify the cost (financial or otherwise).

Where is this call for longer recordings coming from, exactly?

r00f · 2 years ago

I watch alot of air incident reports on YT. Many of accidents (not crash) include words like "Unfortunately we wouldn't know exactly what happened, because pilots forgot to turn off the voice recorder after landing". Pilots become conviniently forgetful when some accident happens and it can possibly point to their mistake. Because privacy of two people at their job place is above safety of whole industry, you know, so others cannot earn on their expirience. I'd say, keep it at 2 hours, but suspend and send for training all the forgetful ones. OR, even better, make it impossible to open cockpit door after you have landed if voice recorder is still on. Make it a part of after-landing checklist. Make huge alarm siren. Make SWAT surround every plane until recorder is off. Anything is better then just waiving off the responsibility and potentially valuable experience