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threwawaysoff commented on Anthony Quinn Warner, person of interest in Nashville bombing, a 'computer geek'   tennessean.com/story/news... · Posted by u/fortran77
fortran77 · 5 years ago
This describes me and most of the people I know. Why does the press treat "techies" like weirdos?

      “You never saw anyone come and go,” Schmoldt said of Warner’s home. “Never saw him go anywhere. As far as we knew, he was kind of a computer geek that worked at home.” 

     Warner had placed lights and security cameras outside his house. 

     Warner would do a lot of work in his yard, a tall antenna is placed prominently on the side of the house, Schmoldt said. Warner built the fence around his yard himself, the neighbor recalled. 

     The neighbors never talked about politics or religion. Warner never gave any indication of any closely held ideology.

threwawaysoff · 5 years ago
Well, consider the Simpsons' comic book guy: high-IQ but essentially unproductive. He represents that smart-weirdo stereotype.

In terms of envy and anti-intellectualism, it's convenient to lump most tech people, including productive ones, into the smart-weirdo stereotype.

Furthermore, someone is also a "weirdo" if they have a lifestyle that differs significantly from an acceptable "normal" range of allowed configurations.

threwawaysoff commented on Anthony Quinn Warner, person of interest in Nashville bombing, a 'computer geek'   tennessean.com/story/news... · Posted by u/fortran77
new_guy · 5 years ago
Sounds like an easy way to frame someone, steal their vehicle, pack it with explosives and make sure you get caught on all the cameras.
threwawaysoff · 5 years ago
Occam's razor. Inventing conspiracy theories isn't helpful.

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threwawaysoff commented on New setup for 2020   changelog.com/posts/the-n... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
PietKachelhout · 5 years ago
I'm disappointed that blogs and podcasts keep promoting Linode. I currently maintain about 30 Linodes and I have been doing so for the past 2 years.

Some things I noticed:

* The internal network is not private. But people don't realise it. You share a /16 with other Linodes. So many open databases, file shares and other services in there.

* Block storage performance is really poor, around 100 iops. Same as a SATA disk from 10 years ago.

* No proper snapshot / image functionality.

* Linode Kubeternetes Engine was based on Debian Oldstable when it launched.

* Excessive CPU steal, even on dedicated cores. 25% CPU steal is considered normal. Over 50% happens a lot.

* Problems with their hosts. I can only guess what the reason is but 4 to 8 hours of unannounced downtime of a VM happend to me 6 times in the past 2 years.

Yes, support is friendly. But my international phone bill is huge because the fastest way to get them to do something is to call.

threwawaysoff · 5 years ago
I ditched Linode years ago because it just wasn't that great. AWS if I need ephemeral boxes (I used to be an enterprise on-prem AWS consultant), but I run most everything on a home 96 EPYC core, 512 GB, SSD, HDD (ZFS) box running KVM, Docker, and open vswitch. It just isn't worth it to rent slow, expensive servers when I need lots of them and to be fast. I don't have any problems remoting into them with ddns and wireguard.

u/threwawaysoff

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