Why did you say six months?
He's coming.
This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?
Why did you say five minutes?
He's coming.
This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?
Why did you say five minutes?
Wednesday, April 09
Problem Resolved?
Hosting company had a partial internet outage. I was panicking until I found out the server was still reachable from a virtual server I happen to have in the same city, though not elsewhere.
Seems to be mostly fine now, though if you can't read this you should let me know.
Hosting company had a partial internet outage. I was panicking until I found out the server was still reachable from a virtual server I happen to have in the same city, though not elsewhere.
Seems to be mostly fine now, though if you can't read this you should let me know.
Update: Down again, up again. This outage took out the virtual server too, so it's affecting that whole area and not just the hosting company.
I'm taking fresh backups just in case. The last full offsite backup is two weeks old, which is a lot better than some situations I've been in but also not perfect.
I'm taking fresh backups just in case. The last full offsite backup is two weeks old, which is a lot better than some situations I've been in but also not perfect.
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Monday, May 27
We're Back
Well, at least it wasn't a fire.
Well, at least it wasn't a fire.
At roughly 6:20am EST the facility where [name of hosting company] operates its DAL1 data center ... lost utility power. Redundant power sources, UPS and generators, did not operate as designed thus causing the entire facility to lose power.A few hours later:
All [name of hosting company] servers and infrastructure now have power fully restored. If you are experiencing any issues with your server(s), please open a support ticket so that we can troubleshoot the problem.This server needed some manual intervention before the blogs were accessible again.
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Thursday, March 14
Daily News Stuff 14 March 2024
What's This Edition
What's This Edition
Top Story
- Hello, what's this? (Liliputing)
2024 HP Pavilion Plus 14
AMD CPU: Check, 8845HS (8 cores, 5.1GHz)
High-resolution screen: Check, 2880x1800 120Hz OLED
Upgradeable RAM: No
At least 32GB then: Check
USB-C: Check, two of
USB-A: Check, two of
HDMI: Check
Headphone jack: Check
Four essential keys: Check
Micro-SD slot: No
Actually available to buy: Yes, at least in the US
It's not perfect, but close enough.
Pricing starts at $850. That's not particularly cheap, but it's $250 less than the new MacBook Air while providing twice the memory and storage.
Tech News
- If an 8 core 5.1GHz laptop CPU just doesn't do it for you anymore maybe the Cerebras WSE-3 is more your speed. (Tom's Hardware)
900,000 cores. Yes, on one chip. Yes, it's a very big chip.
The chip also contains 44GB of RAM with a bandwidth of 21 petabyte per second, which is a lot.
Cerebras says you can link up to 2048 of these chips together in a single system, which would let you train a 70 billion parameter LLM in, uh, three minutes.
- SpaceX has scheduled the third test flight of Starship - the most important advance in spaceflight since Robert Goddard - for March 14. (WCCFTech)
Yes, today.
- Epic Games is back in court seeking a contempt order against Apple for violating its existing injunction. (Reuters)
Godspeed. You're also assholes, but to a lesser degree.
- The FBI and DHS are targeting extremist gamers... In Roblox. (The Intercept)
I'm bulldozing the whole of DC into a river of lava... In Minecraft.
- The M3 MacBook Air received a 5 out of 10 for repairability. (WCCFTech)
That's 5 points for not gluing the battery in place.
Some recent Apple products have received a score of 0, because you can't even open them without causing permanent damage. This might be grading on a scale, but at least it's an improvement.
- Let's ban TikTok! (Tech Crunch)
Thinks of the result of 170 million delusional TikTok users infesting every other social network.
Let's ban TikTok users from the rest of the world!
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Monday, December 04
OopSSL
Oops.
When Namecheap says "FINAL NOTICE" for an expiring SSL cert, they mean it.
Back now.
Oops.
When Namecheap says "FINAL NOTICE" for an expiring SSL cert, they mean it.
Back now.
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Saturday, July 08
Pest Test
Testing...
Testing...
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Monday, June 12
Pest Test
Just testing for pests...
Just testing for pests...
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Monday, March 20
Test Post
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Saturday, February 11
Daily News Stuff 11 February 2023
Holocure 0.5 Edition
Holocure 0.5 Edition
Top Story
- Google is planning to implement opt-out telemetry into its Go programming language. (The Register)
That means that not only will Google's own apps phone home to Google - they already do that - but every program written by anyone running anywhere if it uses Go.
Programmers have, not surprisingly, told Google to get fucked.Now you guys want to introduce telemetry into your programming language?" Weisz said. "This is how you drive off any person who even considered giving your project a chance despite the warning signs. Please don't do this, and please issue a public apology for even proposing it. Please leave a blast radius around this idea wide enough that nobody even suggests trying to do this again."
The moral lepers over at Mastodon are upset that anyone would object to this latest expansion of the Panopticon:He added: "Trust in Google's behavior is at an all time low, and moves like this are a choice to shove what's left of it off the edge of a cliff."
"This is a large unconventional design, there are a lot of tradeoffs worth discussing and details to explore," he wrote. "When Russ showed it to me I made at least a dozen suggestions and many got implemented."
Correct."Instead: all opt-out telemetry is unethical
Google is evil
It is indeed.this is not needed.
Go has existed for 13 years without this; other programming languages for more than 60.No one even argued why publishing any of this data could be a problem."
Because the default in any networked system is not to send any data you don't need to send.
It doesn't matter how useful it is to Google. I don't care. It has to be useful to me.
Tech News
- MSI has confirmed its 12th and 13th generation Intel motherboards support Micron's new 48GB DIMMs that you can't get. (Tom's Hardware)
Soon.
Probably.
- The Asus Vivobook OLED 14 has a 14" 2880x1800 OLED screen, a Ryzen 7730U which is to say a 6800U, 8GB of soldered RAM and one DIMM slot so you should be able to upgrade it to 40GB, and a stupid keyboard. (Liliputing)
Ugh.
- Elon Musk is still busy firing idiots at Twitter. (The Verge)
The Verge is the usual left-wing hack rag that represents so much of the pseudo-tech press, so they try to write this as if Musk was in the wrong. If you know anything about how these systems work, or about recent events on Twitter, he is quite obviously right and the unnamed engineer needed to be ejected forthwith.
Disclaimer: Trebuchets 'R' Us, for all your ejection forthwith requirements. Call now for a free measure and quote.
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Sunday, December 04
We're Back
Well, that was exciting.
Well, that was exciting.
We've moved to the new server. Well, two new servers, since the designated new server had weird issues.
The migration was complicated by the old server disappearing for 24 hours just before I was set to start doing this.
The migration was complicated by the old server disappearing for 24 hours just before I was set to start doing this.
But... We're back.
We were actually back for a while earlier (as some people noted) but that was with three weeks of data missing. In the end I was able to recover everything up to the Scheduled Maintenance Window of Doom, and the only person who posted anything after that was me (and a couple of commenters) so that's close enough to everything.
Also, looks like I can stop paying for that backup server, since it's kind of deceased.
Also, looks like I can stop paying for that backup server, since it's kind of deceased.
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