Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
#geek #nerd #hamradio VK6FLAB #podcaster #australia #ITProfessional #voiceover #opentowork
Around the turn of the century I built a “middleware” layer for an Oracle to MySQL bridge which enabled legacy systems to keep running while modern and open source tooling could be built.
The biggest challenge was moving from columnar to row based data … that and compiling Solaris tools using Oracle libraries.
Oracle is like sendmail, user friendly, just very picky whom it makes friends with.
I’m getting flashbacks to debugging an Oracle connection file.
… and replace them with a whole new class of bugs.
Source: I’ve been writing software since 1982.
And if you think that migration to Rust will magically remove all bugs and vulnerabilities, you haven’t been writing software for very long.
Seems like a valid use of the technology…
The website has a heading proclaiming that apparently it’s a bad year for the Linux kernel.
I have to ask … compared to what … the Windows kernel?
Wow … so I can finally have root on my own phone?
At the rate Microsoft is going, by the time we set up a community on Mars, everyone will have migrated to Linux 😁
You don’t need to go to Mars to deal with timezones … plenty of people right here who have absolutely no idea that half the planet is dark at any one time and still schedule global events in their colloquial timezone rather than UTC.
I think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it’s meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.
An AI bot operator isn’t going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they’d attempt to use [NOT AI].
I’d also point out that while lemmy doesn’t (yet) support hashtags, any “tagging” would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.
Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new “normal”?
I’ll note that I’m not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we’re going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.
There’s nothing to host.
Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.
I think that this is symptomatic of a much larger issue at Mozilla, leadership, or rather, lack of leadership. AI, tracking, privacy, funding, the list of crazy coming from there appears to be just ballooning.
I see no evidence that they deal with actual bug reports, no evidence that they care about users and no clear path being forged, unless they want to enshitify their business, in which case, that appears to be going swimmingly.
This is GOLD!
Source: Debian user for 25 years.
I suspect that Meta suddenly requiring that the family Messenger account has a PIN is unrelated … right?
I can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.
I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.
If it helps, it’s the only thing I think of wherever I encounter it, bus lines, taxi numbers, number plates, street numbers, you name it.
So, yeah, I think it’s funny.
How do you secure a Windows PC from hackers?
Turn it off and unplug the power.
But, then you can’t use it.
Precisely.
But …
It’s the only way to secure it.
I apologise, I saw S3, never even noticed the “OVH”, nor had I ever heard of it.
I’ll leave my original reply as is with an added disclaimer for anyone who follows down the same path.
Have a look at your AWS billing console, since data egress is charged and downloading to verify is considered egress.
AWS S3 supports data checksums where a checksum is calculated at AWS, which you can compare against a checksum that you calculate locally.
This is an article that goes into how it works, but I’ve not (yet) tested it, but I’ll be following in your footsteps pretty soon.
As an aside, make sure that versioning is OFF on your backup bucket unless you specifically require and understand it, because even when you delete objects, they persist as a previous, all but invisible, and charged(!), version.
My former backup software “helpfully” enabled versioning and I was left with a $600 monthly bill for six months while there was no actual backup being done due to a local hardware failure, until I figured out what was happening. I used that software for years and shudder to think just how much extra it actually cost.
I will note that while I had a catastrophic hardware failure, I didn’t lose any data.
Finally, if you’re storing data in Glacier, retrieval is charged at different rates, depending on timelines of access, so it might be that your backup software is using the slow tier to “save” you money.
Edit: OP advises that they’re not using AWS, instead they’re using OVH. The object storage solutions appear to be mostly compatible, but I was unable to discover if the OVH implementation supports checksums.
I faced pretty much the exact same choice, except I was given four of them, each with 8 GB of RAM.
Unfortunately they were two different hardware revisions, so the most I could achieve was two servers with 16 GB each.
They sound like a Jet taking off when powered up and the BIOS doesn’t support lower fan speeds.
Instead after months of deliberation I decided to go with a SFF Lenovo, 32 GB, 2 x 1 TB NVME, Ryzen 7, and bought this:
It’s whisper quiet and running Proxmox.
To get VM video passthrough to work I installed an extra video card, though, you could install a desktop on the host OS instead if you prefer.
The video card I used to fit inside is this:
“That’s not a flaw … that’s a feature!”