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btrfs?

this is the opensuse transactional server solution (snapper) isnt it?! -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMCoW

so rhel image mode is going the way of rpm-ostree, silverblue... but centos is going the way of opensuse microOS and snapper?

lazylizardon My website was down because I didn't pay the server bill

what can you do?

host on a .bit domain? on 3 continents?

ipfs?

lazylizardon Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage

why do they want old ram or hard disks or vga cards? lets say i got ddr2..what use is that unless u have a core2duo?

lazylizardon Ask HN: In the real world we pay for everything so why not software?

you step into a class and draw a line down the middle.

to the students on the left , you pass them a note that asks them how much would they pay to hear you recite some poetry you wrote last night.

to the students on the right, you pass them a note that asks them how much would they pay so that they wont have to listen to you recite the (same) poetry you wrote last night.

its not just free. it can be worth negative money too.

lazylizardon Lessons from 14 years at Google

efficiency is the enemy of employment, no?

lazylizardon Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

i realise there are plenty of alu boats on the water. but im still not quite sure how they keep the aluminium away from iron in practice.

lazylizardon Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

but people who take ferry rides want to know roughly when they'll reach the other side?

lazylizardon The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

how about 3d printing backup boat propellers?

i dont own a boat.

i imagine real propellers are somewhat expensive. and people often dont buy 2 to keep a spare on board. and on occasion they do fail.

why not a 3d printed backup propeller then? it only needs to last 1/2 a trip..only the way back...

lazylizardon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

https://atscaleconference.com/calling-relay-infrastructure-a...

if i read this right, whatsapp calls go thru relay servers?

lazylizardon No, it's not a battleship

slowly.

https://www.hullwiper.co/

but surely..

lazylizardon Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – The Roadmap

is there an immutable spin on/of ubuntu? just asking..

lazylizardon GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

when i was younger there were more games i wanted to play than i had money to pay for..and i pirated.

then i had some money and i bought more games than i had time to play.*

now i neither buy or play games.

*the point is that at this point, there is no point wasting time trying to pirate games. every humble bundle. every steam sale. u just click and its yours. you dont even have time to play. why waste time pirating?

lazylizardon NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks

many wants yes

lazylizardon Self-hosting is being enshittified

in the last 5-10yrs...letsencrypt made ssl much easier..and its possible to host on small,cheap arm devices...

yes no more dyndns free accounts... but u can still use afraid or do cf tunnels maybe?

and in some cases nowadays u can get away with

docker-compose up

and some of those things like minio and mattermost are complaints about the free tier or complaints about self hosting? i can't tell

indeed the easiest "self hosting" ever was when ngrok happened.. u could get ur port listening on the internet without a sign up... by just running a single binary without a flag...

lazylizardon NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks

if only i could compel the org to only buy laptops that have built-in lan ports..sigh

lazylizardon Nvidia Bought the Bouncer

the supercomputer market is us$14b a year?

https://itif.org/publications/2022/09/12/high-performance-co...

and nvidia's revenue is closer to 200b? whats nvidia+slurm going to do? put altair/pbspro out of business?

lazylizardon NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks

You can always reinstall if the kid messes with the OS too much. --> then all your sysadmins will be reinstalling os all the time? so they figured why not give the users an OS that cannot be messed with...

unless maybe the sysadmins are also linux tutors or something? their job is teaching kids how to use linux. not to make sure their computers can work for the math class.

lazylizardon Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026

before (what? when? covid?) nvidia annual revenues were circa us$10b and amd was competing with it to make GPUs. after (what? when? covid?)..or now.. nvidia is a accelerator manufacturer with a small legacy GPU business and revenues are closer to us$200b. and amd is still no closer to competing with nvidia at making GPUs. intel started something in the mean time though. but everyone seems to be expecting them to try compete with nvidia at making accelerators. nobody is interested in GPUs anymore. accelerators seem to be the much bigger and more interesting market.

lazylizardon Nvidia Acquires Schedmd

like. look at it this way. before (what? when?) nvidia was a gpu maker and yearly revenue was maybe us$10b. and after. or now. its an accelerator maker and its revenue is nearer us$200b. im imagining the slurm/pbs market was, and still is, a fraction of that original us$10b. and the new us$190b are the kubernetes+mlops kind of thing. i wonder if theres a public breakdown of this somewhere...

lazylizardon Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

somewhat interesting right? ho chi minh, instead of combining with adjoining areas into a "metro hcmc" like metro manila, actually spun off thu duc..

and yeah. dmk airport is inside bangkok while bkk is in the next province.. why only can color within the lines?

lazylizardon Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

"south asia" is the area thats in-between the gulf cooperation council and asean?

theres no south east asian or east asian person either...

lazylizardon Show HN: Deadlight · Zero-JS blogging for hostile networks (Workers and SQLite)

npx create-deadlight-blog my-blog

Error: In a non-interactive environment, it's necessary to set a CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN environment variable for wrangler to work. Please go to https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/get-start... for instructions on how to create an api token, and assign its value to CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN.

lazylizardon She blew the whistle at Meta. Then her career fell apart

in my private circles we say.. you take stick poke the tiger backside, and you expect the tiger to do what?

lazylizardon I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

wodehouse loved ejaculated

lazylizardon Nvidia Acquires Schedmd

i thought nobody use slurm/pbs anymore..its all kubernetes and mlops nowadays?

except universities? cfd? other engineering stuffs?

lazylizardon Umbrel – Personal Cloud

was the market for this birthed by synology when they insisted on synology certified drives?

lazylizardon The 3-Ladder System of Social Class in the U.S. [pdf]

i thought. the rich (gentry) want to pay less tax. the really rich(elite) want to pay more tax.

lazylizardon Mark Wiens Food Map of the World

https://youtu.be/Yg4KgRqoTEk?si=ZZ7BAPcxHGdAyVI7

these are not on the map?

lazylizardon People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows

how many steamdecks have been sold thus far?

lazylizardon CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

yes. i use rhel+derivatives in the datacenter and ubuntu+derivatives outside it. in general. theres an OS for every purpose..or something like that...