1. City installs trash bags because they’re contractually obligated to keep the devices installed and powered on
2. Someone hosts an impromptu Office Space fan meetup, with a fun reenactment of the printer scene
3. City sees this, responds with an obvious but legally non-actionable tweet response suggesting it continue (e.g. “Fartsburg loves Mike Judge films, too! So nice to see our citizens enjoying the various forms of recreation and socialization ths city has to offer.”), along with some conspicuously-placed garbage cans near all of the cameras’ installed locations.
4. ???
5. (No) Profit. (for Flock)

Seems like none of y’all even read a few paragraphs into the article.

A human-sized, human-shaped robot can integrate into an existing production layout without having to redesign how the factory works. That’s the sell.

To me that’s a thinly-veiled way of saying “these things are purpose built to uproot human workers as soon as fucking possible,” which would be a great thing if the intent were to remove humans from dangerous and/or unfulfilling jobs and pipe the earnings from the cost reduction/efficiency increase into taxes/ubi/assistance programs so that people can pursue their own dreams and interests without needing to wage slave their healthiest years away trying to survive.

But that’s never the intent; it’s always to add more zeroes to the balance sheet of the people at the top.

Yes, valid points that I didn’t really want to muddy the discussion with. In my experience, most people hear the Redundant in RAID and think that’s sufficient and that their data is safe. Maybe poor choice of words on my part, but that’s what I meant re: “data safety.”

You’re fully correct that a proper RAID setup can provide additional layers of availability atop a robust backup process, but I’d wager most of the people who are interested in that extra layer are already aware of the limitations of RAID.

I do run RAIDZ1 on my franken-nas due to limited drive sizes on that machine, the goal being to maximize usable space while providing a sufficient amount of time to address a drive failure. If drive prices ever become reasonable again, I’ll likely rebuild the system with 6-8 drives in a RAIDZ2 configuration just for a little more peace of mind, but as long as my off-site backups are running, I sleep at night just fine.

You do you, but I’m holding out for it… and only in fully automated, luxury, gay form.

I would absolutely not trust BTRFS’s implementation. Maybe things are better now but it earned the backronym Bro The RAID Fuckin Sucks for a reason.

RAID is not a backup.

RAID is not for data safety.

RAID is for:

1. Ensuring availability of data in the face of hardware failure. That means your files don’t disappear when a drive dies and you have some time to swap out for functional hardware and restore redundancy.
2. Presenting multiple drives as one larger unit. This is what striping does, and to a lesser extent the parity-mode levels.
3. Improving performance (sometimes). A RAID mirror is generally much faster to read from than any individual drive because reads can be interleaved across drive members. A stripe can be much faster because writes are distributed across drive members. This is less of a bonus today with solid state/nvme drives, but it’s still applicable to spinning rust.

If your concern is protecting your data, set up a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

I have an actual rubber duck for that. I hate it when my colleagues interrupt me just because they forgot how lambdas work

I personally would go the other way, use your nvme for storage and have a second small drive for proxmox since that part doesn’t really need speed. That said, if you go with zfs replication it doesn’t matter; just have the one nvme drive that holds the proxmox install and the storage pool. Separate drive only matters for Ceph.

Agreed, it helps that with proxmox the cluster is a first-class feature and all installs are a cluster even if only a single node. Really removes a lot of potential pain points from operations like this.

That depends on what level of HA you want to end up with.

If you want proper HA, you’ll want to plan on adding a (small, like a Raspberry Pi) third node for quorum. If you are already taking backups and you just want “I can restore on the second system” then it’s slightly simpler, but mostly the same process:

• Setup new node, add to cluster
• Migrate all VMs and LXCs to new node
• Remove and upgrade other node
• Add rebuilt node to cluster

If you’re planning on proper HA, I’d strongly advise having the proxmox installation on a second small drive on each node and leaving your 1tb drives as data only.

This article half-explains one option for a two node setup (zfs replication), which is functional but not ideal. If you want to get your feet wet with Ceph then I can give you some pointers.

Randall seems to have aimed at recognisability in choosing those song titles.

Reflection is one of my favorites, super underrated even amongst Tool fans IMO.

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He’s talking about that shady coyote who’s always chasing after that flightless bird.

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Maybe the United States should pass laws that force public utilities to be owned by the public and operated as a nonprofit?

Idk, Miles Dyson was able to engineer a neural-net processor with room temperature superconductors all the way back in 1995…

My ISP eventually started supporting IPV6, but only assigned /128

This is hilarious to me.

“We’ve got 7.9 septillion addresses to play with in each of our v6/32 LIR allocations… if we follow the standard and give each customer a whole network prefix, that caps us at 4 billion customers per LIR! Nonsense, let’s just give every household a single v6 address.”

It’s like these people don’t understand what IPv6 is for.

There are a few ISPs in North America that support ipv6, but many many don’t. As much as I detest the recent push toward “5G Internet to the Home”, it at least does increase adoption of IPv6 since (from what I understand) basically all mobile carriers are v6-only and do NAT64 for v4 support.

I don’t know if that translates to the 5G-at-home offering but it wouldn’t surprise me since most customers don’t care what address scheme is being used as long as Netflix works.

Go watch the Aging Wheels Silverado EV road trip video. Charging infrastructure is fine, and even when the truck itself broke and wouldn’t charge at the proper speed it was still fine.

EVs aren’t being adopted because the fast charging infrastructure is lacking. Improvements can be made, sure, but that’s not the reason. 95%+ of people do not need fast charging.

When (slow, 120 or 240V) charging is more available to people without garages/driveways (read: at apartments and in workplace parking lots) you’ll see EV adoption in the US ramp up substantially: new car buyers will opt for the thing that’s less likely to suddenly cost double-per-mile next week, and used car buyers will have an increasing supply of 3-10 year old EVs to choose from.

This is awful and aweful at the same time.