Got myself 2 of those #Zimablade 7700s as fallback-backup option for my little 8TB office NAS:

https://www.zimaspace.com/products/blade-personal-nas?pos=nav_zbl

My previous #Gen8 (10+y of service) also ran well with 16GB, so Zimablade should be capable of handling #Proxmox #Debian with #ZFS.

Currently looking for PCB-level specs. Like: "Where's docs on *all* the things/connectors on the board?"

Cool #miniServer though! 🤓 😎
Considering it for #lowbudget #dltp #distributed collection backup storage. (http://compost.cc) 🌻

AGAIN: This is not a drill, and yes it is VERY REAL and VERY SERIOUS:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

"Starting in 2027*, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.

Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out."

(AFAIK back to Android v6).

"If noone (of us) cares, who is gonna save us?"

@beet_keeper :

What's your opinion on using the default unix "file" tool vs DROID to roughly-and-quicky-identify mixed data sets?

🙋‍♀️ ❓

I especially like the 'flexibility' requirement in Wikidata's (design-)requirements for their data-model:

"Flexibility: accessing and re-purposing data should be supported; the utility of the data should not be limited to one context"

Goes towards #DataCentricParadigm.
Think of "applications" as "context".

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel#Goals_and_requirements

https://cloud.arkthis.com/index.php/s/AHAlodeck2026?dir=/videos

A 50 minute show-and-tell, about #AHAlodeck, and how #xattrs on #ZFS can be used as #DataCentric catalog/environment.

Enjoy!

Perfect for #longterm preservation #dltp - and any other digital data collections.

Did anyone else also notice that
"MORE AND MORE YOUTUBE VIDEO TITLES ARE SHOUTING!!!" and heavily overloaded with emojis?

I guess it means "I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS!" - yet in the end it yells:
"SEE ME! HEAR ME! ACKNOWLEDGE ME! please!"

Usually, "#IRL" this means we change the bar/place.

Maybe this "one room" is too crowded?

#Decentralize and #ForkOff?

Some enterprise #HDD models gone from ~350 EUR to >2000 EUR in a few months.

Yes, dear everyone:

Who do you think WILL HAVE TO PAY for these increased costs (which affect any person or business using computers pretty soon)?

Even if you do not need or use #AI at all.
This global #SystemIsBorken.

#DoesntScale

I've set #bash aliases for #git operations I use often. It's great!
#HappyTypingFingers

g-s : status
g-a : add
g-c : commit
g-d : diff
g-p : pull
g-pp : push
g-ppp : commit & push

Like this:
`alias g-ppp='git commit && git push'`

🤓 😎

Thanks to #AIGoldrush-scrapers, a friend of mine's #php forum is has gone from "a few MB per month" to ~750 GB / month web-traffic! 🤯 🙄 😵‍💫

Numbers are growing, the more "bots" now know about his forum.

Thanks to FOSS-devs, we can set up Anubis, but I'VE GOT A MILLION OTHER THINGS TO DO! 😡

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/design/how-anubis-works

#AHAlodeck R&D news:

Created holotar-copy of a real-world mixed audio collection (recording production and digitized tracks archive): ~120.000 filesystem objects (files/folders)

(donated by recording engineers)

filesystem metadata-only = 175 MB (.tar)
+exiftool metadata as xattrs = 252 MB (.tar)

...compressed (.tar.bz2): **6,3 MB** ( 🤯 😎 🤓 💾 ❗)

**This is AMAZING!**

I can browse, order, catalog and manifest any object in this collection using standard #GNU #Linux tools.
@beet_keeper

#ProductWarnings:

Who of you...

- actually reads them?
- believes they make sense in that form?
- is distracted by them, making it harder to find out THE ACTUALLY IMPORTANT information?
- would rather have resources WE pay to have those, being used for useful things?

Here's a scan from "I need a lens/microscope to actually read it" - samples.

How much is this "worth" (in money)?

(my) webservers (!) running without reboot for almost 10 years 🖖 🥳
/WITHOUT/ changing anything.
(only security patches)

Thanks to #Debian's #FOSS-developer best-practice of:

"**fixing a security problem is to make as few changes as possible**"
[quote src=https://www.debian.org/security/faq#oldversion]

And other distros building on top of each other, in collaboration.

I ♥️ *stable, professional #OpenSource tech*

#StableIT #Ubuntu #GNU #linux #security #dltp #longterm #bash

I've just re-discovered the fineprint on #xkcd's comic pages, below the pictures at the bottom:

"xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS
at a screen resolution of 1024x1.

Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device
from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode.

For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing."

😎 🤣 NetscapeNavigator4? Yeah!

https://xkcd.com/2347/

By: @PaulNoth

I've mentioned it here already, but I think it's good to keep this way of data-handling/thinking on our radars:

https://datacentricmanifesto.org/

"We have uncovered a root cause of the messy state of Information Architecture in large institutions and on the web today.

It is the prevailing application-centric mindset that gives applications priority over data.

The remedy is to flip this on its head.

**Data is the center of the universe; applications are ephemeral.**"

#dltp #interoperability

Trying to work for an archival client who has a governmental-enforced security policy for their IT:

> "All software on all computers must at all times be updated to the most recent version available."

Not just security patches.
Even for in-house-only services an storage running on #linux servers.

In my practical and professional opinion, this is a DISASTER! 💥

And #bash knowhow is very useful on many many setups and even "embedded" devices.

I love that even my gaming handheld #R36S supports #bash (over #SSH).

https://handhelds.wiki/R36S

"If it's still regularily used, it's not old. It's stable and sustainable"

#timeless #stable #computing #linux #foss

https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Games/Top200/

What a beautiful collection of 8-bit retro artworks for 80s style game cartridge imagery: Each one /is/ a real game! 👾 🤓

#Pico8 seems to be a great thing to teach game-coding and computing-by-handheld hardware in a brilliant way!

Sooo happy there's a #FOSS version, too:
https://github.com/FunKey-Project/retro8-libretro

Actually, both should get paid: Pico8 for the idea and base work, and libreto for the role-model school-for-life version.

and most of their system-docs read "use #PuTTY here, use PuTTY there".
So it's all #SSH anyways.