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dmateos··on Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
it was a while ago but i think basically this

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/minimizing-ssd-wearout-que...

dmateos··on Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
I noticed that with proxmox, my SSD wear out was going up about 1-3% a month.

There are things you can do to minimize this even with ZFS tho in terms of arc cache and setting syslog to log to memory instead of disk etc.

Now i get about 1-2% every 6 months.

dmateos··on The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change
By "Observe" dont they mean the act of any photon "hitting/interacting with" the system collapsing it into a known/predictable state.

Not specifically a "intelligent" observer per se.

dmateos··on Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
Recently got back into playing Diablo Immortal because i got a new m4 ipad, was playing with a standard nintendo switch controller for 2 weeks fine just doing standard story quest/leveling then banned for "Severe Exploitation - Automation (Botting), Hacks, or Third-Party Software". I tried to appeal but just automatically rejected and no recourse or way to even know what they think i did wrong besides that vague statement above.

I'm 100% sure i didnt do anything that would count as cheating, was just playing the game normally on an unjailbroken device, never interacted with another person in the game either.

Yet the chat is full of bots spamming stuff that dont seem to get banned.

Luckily i got banned before i decided to spend any money on it besides $8 for the battlepass.

dmateos··on We made an animated movie in 8kB
Were you able to use libs like sdl or opengl etc?
dmateos··on A most very unofficial guide to the W65C265SXB
I had great fun messing with a 6502 and 32kb of ram with an audrino as a semi first electronics project.

https://github.com/dmateos/420-6502

dmateos··on Browser password managers – flawed security, by design
One thing i often do when i forget one of my passwords, is go into chrome, goto the webpage corresponding to the login of the thing in question and let it autofill, then i turn the password area to a plain text area in the HTML editor.

I've always thought this kind of bypasses most checks you get if you try to go into the password db in the browser it self.

dmateos··on A little story about the `yes` Unix command
Not too much, like $4k extra a month i think, noticeable but not the end of the world.

I assume a smaller place would just beg AWS for forgiveness and probably get it.

dmateos··on A little story about the `yes` Unix command
Once one of our devops engineers was testing a script with nohup yes > output.

The /home directory was mounted to an autoexpanding EFS on AWS.

23.4tbs and 2 months later we noticed the bill :)

dmateos··on Bob Saget has died
Fitting :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats

dmateos··on Metaprogramming custom control structures in C (2012)
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
dmateos··on Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?
I sleep in a Racing Car!, Do you?
dmateos··on Show HN: Paperkast
TypeError in Home#index

Showing /opt/lobsters/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #85 raised:

no implicit conversion of Symbol into Integer

dmateos··on Linux RNG flaws
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Nice.

dmateos··on Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
With these fixes and the performance losses, does that stack?

IE if you have a Server on amazon running a newer kernel with the patches but then that underlying hardware is also running the newer kernel?

dmateos··on Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack
If you stack kernels like

Hypervisor Guest OS

Is there double the performance hit of all these attack fixes?

dmateos··on Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25
Useful for finding the 12/12 or 18/6 pattern spikes of a weed grow house also.. `
dmateos··on A new fast Linux OS?
More like a slightly modified ubuntu with different default packages.

And his only other project on github is a keylogger :o

dmateos··on Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions?
Dead body raft like on Rome.