Zwuzelmaus

@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For well-aged hardware?

  ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So what are you trying to tell?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LiveOverflow - php situation 24h later (YouTube)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t people use unattended upgrades?

  php can be a real nightmare even with it’s well-attended upgrades :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LiveOverflow - php situation 24h later (YouTube)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. What does it tell about patches on servers (who don’t easily show their internals in such detail)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LiveOverflow - php situation 24h later (YouTube)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess nearly everybody has installed the patch by now. Even myself :)

  Maybe we are going to see “scanner” websites for such patch situations in the future, with a world map and statistics where are how many unlatched servers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨problems with AR8151 onboard LAN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Three 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My own piece of the Internet: Part 1', a blog post discussing the process of getting an ARIN ASN and a /24 IPv4 block for their home setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also worth noting for most readers: you get 95% of the fun (your own ASN visible in bgp.tools, learning BGP hands-on) by renting a cheap VPS from providers that offer BGP sessions on a /48 or even a /24 you lease monthly. Owning the /24 outright is mainly for the permanence.

  Isn’t permanence one of the major goals if you start that road at all?

  Cheap fun never lasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you keep your backups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How long do you keep your backups?

  Yes, I have that exernal HDD lying around somewhere near the PC, and it was at least 4 or 5 times that I backed up a lot of files on it.

  I think I keep it for more than 10 years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hug your kids

  …while you still can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨used hard drive retailers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For refurbished drives, the SMART values are reset to “new”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨used hard drive retailers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you be satisfied if all your refurb drives live only for the duration of this warranty?

  I wouldn’t. Especially as a private buyer (or a small business) I would expect that most of them must live much longer than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨used hard drive retailers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller

  Rant:

  As a private person, you should avoid refurbished hard drives like the pest!

  Imagine buying a used car where the mileage counter has been reset to zero and the vehicle identification number has been tampered with, so that you cannot find out it’s history. You see that it looks shiny and you know that it has been checked (well, somewhat), but you don’t know that checklist. You even know that nobody knows that checklist.

  Seriously, you can only assume the worst about this used hard drive’s real condition (years of usage, highest temperature, number of bad sectors…), and also about this reseller.

  Refurbished hard drives can only be bought by data centers (or other mass users), where their failure rate is calculated by statistics, but not by 5 or 20 failed drives.