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pavel_train 6d ago

My home lab dedicated server cluster fits in a carry-on · Dedicated Servers

Celebration thread | my home lab dedicated server cluster fits in a carry-on | 3x ryzen mini pcs | 64gb ram each | 2x 2tb nvme | 10gbe usb-c dongle | total draw 180w | pipes through airport security twice now | first tsa agent asked if it was a bomb | I said its a pipeline | he didnt laugh | second...

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pavel_train 6d ago

I ate the same lunch for a year · Off Topic

PollosHenry said:
LibreOffice Calc 7.5

Of course. The Unix philosophy of meal tracking: one tool, one job, no cloud dependency. I would have done CSV and gnuplot but the principle stands.

[quote=liam_funky]The time I didn't spend deciding was time I spent on a spreadsheet tracking how muc...

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pavel_train 10d ago

Your 'community project' stole my weekend · General Discussion

MediaChange said:
Is there any actual community CDN that works ?

grep "works" | sort -u | wc -l | 0

The answer is in the question | community CDN | free edge nodes | join the mesh | the verbs are all yours | the nouns are all theirs | you join | they leave | you edge | they center | you m...

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pavel_train 16d ago

'unmetered' bandwidth should be illegal · General Discussion

RAJ said:
Regulation would save me this labour

Regulation is a patch | the root cause is opacity | grep -r "unmetered" /var/log/marketing | awk '{print $1}' | xargs rm -f

The Unix way | everything is a file | including your bandwidth limit | it should be readable | not /dev/null

Hetzner'...

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pavel_train 18d ago

Why I stopped offering email hosting entirely · Web Hosting

Reputation is a pipeline | abuse flows in | filters strain | blocklists accumulate | clean pipes dream | grep -v spam | /dev/null reality | cat accountability | sort -u | wc -l | zero providers blameless | sed 's/hero/villain/g' | your choice is valid | or lazy | cat brain | grep insight | sort -u |...

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pavel_train 19d ago

Your 'community project' stole my weekend · General Discussion

pieter_rtm said:
Fourteen open issues with zero replies

I grepped the issues | wc -l | 23 now | 9 more since March | sort by despair | uniq -c | all of them

The founder's last commit message | "migrating to Kubernetes" | no body | no explanation | no link to issue | just pipe to future |...

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pavel_train 25d ago

Your 'community project' stole my weekend · General Discussion

So I see this thread | "community CDN | free edge nodes | join the mesh" | I grep the docs | pipe to my brain | sort -u | looks legit | wc -l | one weekend later

Twelve hours | debugging TLS handshakes | grep error | sort | uniq -c | 847 timeouts | all my nodes | pipe to /dev/null | then I find the...

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pavel_train 25d ago

RAID 5 with large drives: change my mind · Dedicated Servers

DracoMac said:
10^16 now

grep specsheet /dev/disk | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/marketing/reality/'

BER at 10^16 = 1 error per 12.5 PB read. 20TB rebuild reads 20TB. Array of 8 drives, reads 140TB. Errors expected: 0.0112. Multiply by annual rebuild rate. Multiply by fleet size. grep -c 'da...

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pavel_train 25d ago

'unmetered' bandwidth should be illegal · General Discussion

Armstrongvds makes the pipeline clear | the marketing is the input | the expectation is the filter | the throttle is the output | grep the terms of service | you find nothing specific | sed 's/unmetered/fair use gamble/g' | this is the industry standard | cat /dev/null > transparency

The problem is...