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Comment · 14 days ago
Not all hacks are used to steal data. It's an authoritative website. If this hack is used to host a fake PHP fix stuffed with credential stealers then you have a problem.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Also, title: "Entire HR team terminated".

First paragraph: "This led to the firing of half the HR department."

Either this error is due to clickbait purposes, or AI

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 4 years ago
You got the wrong conclusion from your argument. IPv6 is older than some of HN's audience.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm going to guess that git is not your VCS of choice for this language
Comment · 5 years ago
Years ago I had a Graphite installation where I configured retention policies, and the same for InfluxDB if my memory doesn't fail me.

The downsampling feature at first glance seems to serve a different use case than Prometheus was built for, which I think is observability and alerting for a relatively short time period. For systems that need to work with years of data it totally makes sense, but I don't think Prometheus is used in those cases.

Since this feature has been built for a reason however, I could be wrong

Comment · 5 years ago
And even included in the kernel
Comment · 5 years ago
Ironically they can factually make that statement now as well.
Comment · 6 years ago
Perhaps you're confusing rsync.net with tarsnap? When I compared services for my personal off-site backup I came across Tarsnap and their AWS-based infra as well.

I ended up using rsync.net with borgbackup.

Comment · 6 years ago
I configured BTRFS for my data a couple of years ago on my Debian machine. It's using RAID10 - and the RAID 5/6 issue was widely known back then so I did not dare to touch that.

I must say that (fingers crossed) until now I haven't had any issues with it. There have been a couple of unclean shutdowns that haven't led to any corruptions. Scrub runs every couple of weeks and on top of that the data has an offline (external disk) and off-site (rsync.net through borgbackup) backup. I'm not expecting BTRFS to let me down, but if it does I have recovery options. I tend to be very careful with my 17+ years of photo archives, especially since I'm generating hundreds of megabytes of new content every week since my daughter was born.

It definitely doesn't look good that RAID 5/6 is broken, but I feel very safe using the other stable RAID modes.

Sometimes I'm dreaming of setting up ZFS - however the downside of that is that it doesn't live in the kernel and you're forced to work with kernel modules. It's certainly doable, but since I had a kernel module issue with Wireguard a few months ago I'll be "looking the cat out of the tree" for a bit more before I decide if I actually want to make the move. For now BTRFS feels stable for me, so until that changes - or the benefits of ZFS increase by a fair amount - I'll probably stay on this.

Comment · 6 years ago
The image in the article shows it's measured in Fahrenheit.

For those working with Celsius: its 54,4 degrees.

Comment · 6 years ago
When I reached the bottom of the page it even loaded an extra article. Now that's a real waste of CO2.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm not sure how this works in the US, but in other countries there are laws against such increases in rent - especially 'social' rent for those with low income.

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