Lars Wirzenius
Lars WirzeniusTransferring 7 TiB of file system images takes a while. Computing checksums to verify the transfer worked take further time.
Lars WirzeniusMy latest startup will be selling this data to whoever wants to buy it. I have a special price for AI companies of only 100 euros/floppy.
Lars WirzeniusTransferring 7 TiB of file system images takes a while. Computing checksums to verify the transfer worked take further time.
Lars WirzeniusI like what @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club wrote on his blog: https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/you-probably-shouldnt-block-ai-bots-from-your-website/
Some choice quotes:
"Large scale fraud is not revolution."
"If you look past the shit-stained windows of BigTech’s walled garden, there’s a whole world of beautiful, working internet out there."
"Luckily, the bots are dumb as fuck. Three ifs in a trenchcoat gets rid of most of them"
"Fuck off you privileged elitist prick."
"I like computers, I like technology. But I like humans a whole lot more"
Lars WirzeniusI told some friends recently about the on sentence in German I can still manage, and now I'm going to inflict it on you too:
eine kleine Tasse Schokoladenschnitzel mit Bananenkartoffeln und Kabelsalat auf der Hauptbahnhof, bitte
Lars WirzeniusIn their recent episode @europeanspodcast@mastodon.social mentions that Mastodon (a.k.a. the fediverse) is where they have the fewest followers and the most interactions.
I've avoided commercial social media for a while. I'm here because I've found interesting people with interesting things to say, and I'm not being manipulated into trying to buy stuff, or being force fed stuff I'm not interested in.
Thank you @cwebber@social.coop , @evan@cosocial.ca , @Gargron@mastodon.social , and others who've built this place for us.
Lars WirzeniusI had a discussion with all the other programmers in the world, and we've agreed that it's time we stop creating bugs. I hope this comes as a relief to everyone.
Lars WirzeniusI maintain, for myself, a "dates in geek history" calendar in my Google Calendar, from where I spot things to post to the fediverse about. If I had tools to maintain it as files in Git, I'd do it that way and then share it publicly, but alas, I've never had the energy to find or write such tool. Maybe some day.
Lars WirzeniusOn this day in 1998 the first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was laucnhed. That's 26 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
#OTD #OnThisDay #ISS #space
Lars WirzeniusYesterday I moved 60 terabyte of data in about 15 seconds.
I removed drives from my old file server in my office and carried them to the dining table where I'm assembling the new file server.
Then I carried them back, because I need to shuffle data between drives so I can keep only some of the drives, as the new server is physically much smaller.
Lars WirzeniusSelf-hosting means taking on system administration duties. For some software that's remarkably easy. Most software makes it painful.
The duties include things like vetting software for suitability, installing it, making sure it runs, making the hosted system safe and secure for its users and the rest of the Internet, applying security fixes, upgrading to new versions, making sure backups exist and can be restored, helping users, dealing with spammers, dealing with hostile scrapers, ...
Lars WirzeniusAll of this is fine, if you're willing to accept the responsibility. It's usually not even difficult, as such, if you're into tinkering with computers and software anyway. But it's almost always tedious and annoying.
Not something anyone should pressure someone else to do, unless that someone will be fairly compensated for their time and effort.