• By a combination of ZFS compressed volumes and deleting a ton of old crap (expired sessions, duplicate entries, stuff like that) I squashed the mee.nu database down from 105GB to 22GB.
  
  That will help a lot as we move to DigitalOcean.  They charge for convenience, so I get less memory and disk space for the money (CPU potentially works out better).  Squishing the database that dramatically means we need that much less memory and disk space, so it's all good.
  
  
• Gigabyte is preparing a 5GB/s consumer SSD.  (AnandTech)
  
  PCIe 4.0 of course.
  
  
• Zombie Spectre meets the Disco Dingo.  (Phoronix)
  
  A technical analysis.
  
  ...
  
  Of the performance impact of CPU security flaw mitigation patches on Intel and AMD.
  
  
• Can we declare GDPR a total failure yet?  (TechDirt)
  
  I'm game if you're game.
  
  
• Blah blah everyone's private details leaked blah blah.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Did Apple's fourth attempt at the infamous "magic" keyboard succeed where previous attempts failed no of course it fucking didn't.  (iFixit)

Posted by: Mauser at Monday, May 27 2019 04:39 PM (Ix1l6)

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