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First I drink the coffee, then I explain the Internet*.

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@feoh @jimsalter

Does the NAS run ZFS? Is the pool 8TB or smaller?

If the answer to both questions is yes, then the answer is a separate ZFS send to each drive. Slightly better would be to plug in one drive for a week, send to it, then swap it for the other drive, which you keep in a local […]
Original post on tilde.zone
tilde.zone
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
@mawhrin

"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

This guy has so little situational awareness that he will need to wait for an LLM to mention that he is in a hole. Which it can't do.
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reposted by -dsr- (hypoparenthetically)
This was probably my peak as a sysadmin. The next logical career step would have been working for Google which was not unattractive in 2001 aside from needing to relocate to the Bay Area which I was not willing to do.

As it played out Excite went under after being cored out by @Home, I worked […]
Original post on oldbytes.space
oldbytes.space
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
@Susan_calvin

If you're making them for canapes, shouldn't you either make a rectangle or use minimuffin pans? I would.
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
@feoh

I may have not expressed myself properly.

People have problems understanding variables. That's the first cut in CS100 courses.

People have problems understanding pointers. They end up needing to understand them when they get sufficiently advanced; there's a lot that can be done in […]
Original post on tilde.zone
tilde.zone
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
@feoh

If you have a syntax good enough to convey your intent to a computer, you have a programming language.

As far as I know, the two big barriers to learning to code (after willingness, time and opportunity, of course) are the concept of variables and the concept of pointers. There are […]
Original post on tilde.zone
tilde.zone
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@fatsam

Upton Sinclair:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@feoh

Hang it on your wall. Then change it around every couple of months .
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@emptywheel.bsky.social

When it's a tax, they don't want to pay it.

When it's a donation, they can select what it's used for, increase or decrease it according to whether they have been pleased, and otherwise use it as a means of control.
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@futurebird Wot about carcinization, though?
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM