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@arstechnica If we’re not mining Manganese nodules off the ocean floor, then how are we going to covertly recover sunk Soviet submarines?

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Number 9 4d ago

@neil This feels like similar themes to the Ken Thompson “Trusting Trust” lecture, but on the network and services side.

Its a big internet, and as an individual (or even a large corporation) you only have a very limited reach. Ultimately you have to trust someone, so it really comes down to who do you trust, and who do they trust?

Your self-hosted e-mail system doesn’t do you much good if your ISP goes away, and who are they trusting? Huawei? Cisco? What about the next hop? And the question is essntially fractal; The problem looks very similar at every scale from individual to company to country to all of europe.

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Number 9 Mar 7

@revk I’d suggest looking at TrueNAS. Mine is doing multiple duty as generic file server, media server, git, photo library, Time Machine target, and a few other things.

I built on a a UGREEN DXP6800 pro (dedicated 6 bay NAS hardware, but with TrueNAS instead of the UGREEN NAS OS), and I’m running 6x refurbished 14TB HGST/WD Ultrastar enterprise drives in Raid Z2 for ~50TB usable.

And yeah, storage prices have doubled since I bought drives in June of 2025.

with a few mods (Noctua fan swap, foam on the inside of the case) it’s fairly quiet. Not quite studio quiet, but should be fine in most environments, and one advantage of a NAS is you can always put it somewhere else!

Number 9 Feb 28

Made the decision in November of 2024 to get out of the defense industry (where I’ve worked for 29 years), and get out of the US.

It’s been a long process, but right now, finally, I’m sitting in the airport bar with my kid waiting for a flight to London and a new start.

There have been a lot of times over the past 15 months that I’ve wondered if I’m making the right choice, and EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME something has happened to convince me that I’m doing the best thing for myself and my family. And waking up to the shit this morning is just the ultimate exclamation mark on the whole thing.

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Number 9 Feb 27

@Viss @da_667 I had a “chief architect” at a major ISP/Media company tell me that their customers were “not smart enough” to figure out that they tracked user sessions by saving the username in a cookie, so weren’t going to fix it. Wish I could say there were consequences, I guess it’s a good thing that the app was a flop for unrelated reasons.

Number 9 Feb 22

@Wrewdison For a media server, I’m running UGreen NAS hardware with TrueNAS and Jellyfin. For an audio-only client I’m running a raspberry pi with Volumio, but can also playback via the Jellyfin app on Apple TV or web browser on a desktop.

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Number 9 Feb 18

@JenJen are you sure you’re not secretly in a US pharmaceutical add?

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Number 9 Dec 14

@Sonikku @SwiftOnSecurity Convertible rule #1: There is no inappropriate weather, only inappropriate clothing.

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Number 9 Dec 13

@skinnylatte I find https://thetruesize.com/ really helpful in understanding relative sizes and distances of countries on a map.

Compare Countries, States, Provinces, and Regions with This Simple Tool

Drag, drop and rotate countries, states, provinces, and regions around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

The True Size

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Number 9 Nov 24

@jack_daniel I don’t understand how companies that have any kind of data protection or sovereignty requirements are so accepting of all this. Maybe there’s something I’m missing, but this seems like an absolute no-go if you have responsibilities under SOX, HIPAA, ITAR, GDPR, &c. Has the whole c-suite gone so far down the AI rabbit hole that they are ignoring everything else?