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7 yıl öncediscuss

The running gag of mobile internet in Germany is EU-roaming (no-charge use of you cellular internet service abroad in the EU): I can travel the 1-4 hours to any neighboring countries for the perfect cellular internet access I paid for. The only country where it doesn’t perfectly work is the one I live in. Germany.

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7 yıl öncediscuss

Have you had a look at rclone? Pretty sure you can copy or even sync files from one remote storage to another. E.g. copy from S3 to B2. https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/

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8 yıl öncediscuss

I like https://www.urbackup.org for Windows boxes. Does incremental file and image backups. Next system for the Linux world will most likely be https://restic.net with a rclone backend that saves to B2. Idea is to have an append-only service that is safe from ransomware deleting backups for extortion purposes.

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8 yıl öncediscuss

One data point: LTE gives me 65-90ms ping RTT in reasonable non-crowded indoor conditions. Subjectively, working interactively via LTE is totally fine for me. Compare that to UMTS (3G T-Mobile DE) where I think RTT was more like 350ms and working interactively is a pain.

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9 yıl öncediscuss

Came to Ctrl-F for Skynet. Was not disappointed. This seems to be a classic situation of reasonable strategic action with problematic potential of stepping over the fine line to automatic actions based on AI-derived intelligence. Maybe not now, but think a decade into the future where enough time and space has passed between the initial planning/implementation personnel and those advancing what "has always been there". We can only hope the others love their children too.

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9 yıl öncediscuss

And me. I also still laugh about all the silly jokes in Sam'n'Max and You don't know Jack.

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9 yıl öncediscuss

Yep, Miele. Washing ~5 loads/week an a 27 year old machine. Replaced main water valve ~5 years ago (20€ part). Resoldered one relais PCB ~10 years ago (instructions on the internets).

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9 yıl öncediscuss

(Way) back when I was working with OpenEmbedded/Ångström I dreamt up sth like this: make uboot/whatever set up a HW watchdog that is retriggered once from kernel mode and then in the userspace as ususal. The daunting task would've been to implement the (platform specific) watchdog in the bootloader. Looking now, there is support for at least some platforms - nice! Good luck with Mender - I'm sure you are badly needed!

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9 yıl öncediscuss

Interesting! How did you go about falling back to an older version if the update was bad? Is there a nice way to do this automatically? Say I update to a really botched version with the kernel panicing before it reaches userland. Does this need manual intervention?

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9 yıl öncediscuss

FreeMind on Mac and Windows. Open-source software. Topics (SW-dev, Ops, Processes) nicely form a foldable tree. Storage is cleartext readable XML. Nodes take formatted richtext if needed. Syncs nicely via Owncloud or Dropbox or git. Has been with me for 10+ years. Downsides: Jumping through Java hoops on MacOS. Copy&Paste prone to non-ASCII punctuation/whitespace. Not really maintained and hosted on Sourceforge.

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10 yıl öncediscuss

Remembering the start of it and seeing the US pressuring enough to alter Galileo to be US-blockable[1] makes me feel old. Really excited though to see it finally getting usable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...

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10 yıl öncediscuss

At my daughter's school, they had that project week, too. Easily the most important experience in grade school IMO. They put the liquid inside a tube with a non-return valve. Also, all-time adult supervision, clear instructions upfront and kids did not get the tubes until they needed it. Kids were 8/9 years old. Yes, you have a significant risk and I am very glad they took it to help the kids grow up to be responsible people who can take limited risks.

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10 yıl öncediscuss

That, and tuning the covariance matrices can be tough and time-consuming.

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10 yıl öncediscuss

Got a price slightly above that in EUR. A cluster of 1 to 5 nodes should go for ~24.000€ (customer would've been SMB non-IT enduser company). My gut reaction was: Insane. They do include infrastructure consulting, support and the premium plugins as part of that. So at least if you can grab lots of consulting that way I can see where they are going. Then again, needing lots of consulting is a problem in itself. And I guess operating Elasticsearch is not for the faint of heart anyway...

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