tylerjd · HackerTrans

4 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

The major Linux providers already offer 1st party supported Linux on AWS. Both RHEL and Ubuntu instances offer support contracts from their respective companies, as well as Amazon Linux from AWS themselves. It is already here and a big force there. You can provision ElastiCache and RDS Graviton instances too.

tylerjd

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Blizzard might not be targeted at the younger demographic, but teenagers still play CoD, which is made by Activision. ActiBlizz also owns King, which makes games like Candy Crush, which kids also play.

tylerjd

7 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

To be fair, it comes with your World of Warcraft retail subscription, and you don't have to purchase the original game again nor the latest retail expansion (Battle for Azeroth) to play it.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

With Parity, afaik they had a uninitialized contract owner, which could be and was initialized and subsequently caused the contract to suicide. This has a better writeup: https://medium.com/crypt-bytes-tech/parity-wallet-security-a...

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

If you can't find it or it is too scratched, they also sell the full edition of RCT2 on GoG for cheap https://www.gog.com/game/rollercoaster_tycoon_2

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Probably something along the lines of secure erase. Most modern SSDs/NVMe drives are encrypted by default in firmware. All the firmware needs to do is throw away the old keys and generate new ones. It's better than zeroing the drive as there is no wear to the write cycles and guarantees that the slack space in the SSD is also cleared, which DD'ing to /dev/nvme0 wont be certain of. The nvme-format tool can be used for this: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/zesty/man1/nvme-format.1...

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I agree with most of what you said, but Kaby Lake had issues with Hyperthreading, and Haswell had to fully disable the TXT extensions, both modified (fixed/disabled) through microcode updates. You could say Intel hasn't had great press either.

That being said, I still agree AMD still needs to prove their new platform in the server space.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Newer steppings of Ryzen have a fix applied, and AMD is allowing people to RMA those processors affected. Threadripper is unaffected by the bug.

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=new-ryze...

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Are you trying to say that BTRFS is supposed to compete feature-to-feature with ZFS? It's not. https://lwn.net/Articles/342892/

>I had a unique opportunity to take a detailed look at the features missing from Linux, and felt that Btrfs was the best way to solve them.

>From other points of view, they are wildly different: file system architecture, development model, maturity, license, and host operating system, among other things

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>Btrfs snapshots are read-write by default, which in some ways defeats the point of a point-in-time snapshot.

Yes, and have the option of being read only for your temporal "in place" snapshots. But if I want to clone a container for instant use (as LXC or Docker does), then the RW snapshots make sense. Btrfs doesn't make a distinction between a Clone and Snapshot, they are one and the same with a flag.

> but in practice is much less flexible

Tell me more how I can mix disks of differing size in RAID on ZFS

> There's no way to confuse the origin of a snapshot because it's tied to a parent dataset

There's no confusing to the origin of my sanpshots. `btrfs subvolume list -q` shows the ancestral parent as well as the subvolume it's located in, example:

  ID 6442 gen 50527 top level 751 parent_uuid 0f4442f8-6363-6944-be8d-e2b45d809352 path .snapshots/321/snapshot

> some operations can be performed like snapshotting, but not deletion

See user_subvol_rm_allowed mount option, available since Kernel 3.0

It's like comparing a car and a truck, they both have four wheels, transport passengers and cargo, and have an engine. Just because a truck runs on diesel does not make the fact that the car running on gas "wrong". Due to its fundamentally different implementation, the way the filesystem works is also different.

Yes ZFS has many more features, has been in development longer, and probably more "production ready" than BTRFS. But ZFS is not GPL compatible. And BTRFS doesn't require it's own separate cache that is apart from the normal filesystem cache.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

> deprecated and unsupported LXC

Where did you hear this? This is news to me. https://linuxcontainers.org/ and https://github.com/lxc/lxc both seem active and supported by Canonical to me. The only deprecated project by them is listed to be CGManager.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

It was a euphemism, though I don't know how much RedHat would like you swinging around a binary build of RHEL, but IANAL

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

It depends on your threat model. Are you just wanting to get around your ISP selling your personal data and (in the future) slowing down your internet to certain sites? Host a VPS at DO or Linode or AWS (though you'll look a lot like a bot). This way is also useful for hosting things at your house, but have them look and act as if they are hosted in your provider's DC.

Are you trying to partially anonymize yourself on the internet and download Linux ISOs? Use a provider like PIA. The benefit of those is you're going to (probably) be connected to a node with dozens of others, certain entities would be dissuaded from tracking you, and cease and desist letters stop at PIA and never make it to you, as they don't maintain logs.

If you really want to be anonymous and not be able to be tracked by even governments, TOR is really your only option.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Essentially, the Captains word is law while on the plane. He is responsible for the safety of everyone on board. According to FAA FAR 91.3,

  a. The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft.

Additionally ICAO code states

  The pilot-in-command of an aircraft shall have final authority as to the disposition of the aircraft while in command.

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

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

That's exactly what they did. Someone up the chain made a mistake. Other airlines board must-ride passengers (i.e. crew deadheading to the next destination) before passengers, but this did not happen.

Due to FAA regulations, the movement and sleep requirements of crew is enforced big time. In this case, they had a higher priority than a full-fare passenger (Must Ride), and even though it's morally wrong, it is well within the airline's right to remove any passenger at any time for any reason.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

He probably meant droplets, they are KVM VMs.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

ZFS is not GPL? I dunno, I like feeling safe when I do kernel upgrades knowing even if for whatever reason my ZFS module doesn't compile/work under the new kernel, I won't be left without a root FS. I have been running BTRFS for 5 years with very little issues, and enjoy not having to compile a new dkms module with every kernel.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

As a business, I completely agree - streamlining to focus on what matters. As a individual person, I am also the kind who hosts my own mail server - and, well, everything else <- Not a fan of the NSA.

tylerjd

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I host my own GitLab instance - if it goes down all I have is myself to blame - and honestly with their pre-packaged software it's super simple. And took me another 15 minutes to get the GitLab CI workers running. I also mirror to GitHub for public projects.

GitLab ran into an issue many startups do - they grew very rapidly and didn't hire enough people. They make a fantastic piece of open source software, and the self-hosted version will continue to serve as my main Git server, but seeing as they've had so many issues with their hosted platform, I will be weary for some time to come.

tylerjd

10 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Yes, when I was still in high school, I had set up a Munin graphing node on AWS. Well, what I didn't realize at the time was that Munin likes to use a lot of disk IO every time it writes out the graphs. AWS charges for I/O on their SAN (not on local disks, but the free tier doesn't come with local disks), and so I ended up with a $150 bill and only use them now for Route53 (DNS hosting, it is fantastic for that), and S3/Glacier for archival storage.

It is worth trying if just to gain knowledge on AWS. But for hosting, I'd say DigitalOcean

tylerjd

10 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I use OBS with the NVEC codec - the one that is installed with the NVIDIA driver, and if you are recording anything, regardless of 3D or 2D, it is your best bet.

It's especially nice compared to normal H.264, and has the option of light compression with nominal CPU usage if you don't like large lossless files. It outputs normal MP4/H.264 files that I can then work with in Linux (as opposed to say Fraps) but uses the fact your GPU is already rendering the scene to then output it in H.264.

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