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TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to datahoarder in SAS hardware questions

Yes the Dell H310 will work, but be around 40$. Other good options:

• Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8E LSI 9300-8i - should sell for around 40$
• Dell H200 IT - less expensive, like 25$

There are also other cards from less known brands, just search ebay or aliexpress for LSI 9211-8i or LSI 9207-8i.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

Fair enough 😂😂😂

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

About the metadata part: one of the issues with Matrix is that it considers some stuff like read receipts as metadata. In XMPP all that information is special messages inside your conversation thus they get encrypted as well.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

Let me add the following: the problem is that that metadata is all over the place AND you can’t remove it from those 3rd party servers. Also there’s a ton of questionable stuff like read receipts and reactions that are never encrypted (not sure if this was fixed already). XMPP with OMEMO enables will encrypt everything.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

The way Matrix is designed is to force people into jumping through hoops and kind of drawing all attention to Matrix itself instead of the end result

That’s just another detail where we see that.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

I would go with Prosody or Ejabberd, and here’s a good comparison: stackoverflow.com/a/45531372 and Ejabberd is the most used thing out there. xmpp.org/software/

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to selfhosted in XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

Yes, but Matrix a plague of questionable open-source and a metadata disaster.

Matrix’s E2EE does not, however, encrypt everything. The following information is not encrypted: Message senders, Session/device IDs, Message timestamps, Room members (join/leave/invite events), Message edit events, Message reactions, Read receipts, Nicknames, Profile pictures

Matrix is developed by a for profit entity, a group of venture capitalists and having a spec doesn’t mean everything. The way Matrix is designed is to force people into jumping through hoops and kind of drawing all attention to Matrix itself instead of the end result.

Decentralized communication protocol Matrix shifts to less-permissive AGPL open source license Element, the company and core developer behind the decentralized communication protocol known as Matrix, has announced a notable license change that will make the open source project just that little bit less appealing for companies looking to build on top of it.

techcrunch.com/…/decentralized-communication-prot…

Stop recommending questionable open-source like Matrix. XMPP is the true and the OG federated and truly open solution that is very extensible. XMPP is tested, reliable, secure and above all a truly open standard and decentralized it just lacks some investment in better mobile clients.

What people fail to see is that XMPP is the only solution that treats messaging and video like email: just provide an address and the servers and clients will cooperate with each other in order to maintain a conversation and it can be configured to be secure and private. Everything else is just an attempt at yet another vendor lock-in. Here a quick overview of the architecture.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

Yes, but Nextcloud is also a perpetually half made project that breaks at every corner and requires a lot of resources.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad as USB Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for ZFS

Yes, but the one that came with your NAS is most likely better than that. Those power supplies from china with a grill on top tend to be very poor quality and have close to no filtering.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad as USB Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for ZFS

Seems reasonable, unlike ultra cheap Chinese power supplies they added the bare minimum isolation and should be able to handle a few spikes here and there. Bunch of components that you can’t get datasheets on but all things considered I’ve seen and had worse.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

So… it’s exactly what I said but with extra steps.

A way to provide money to the friends and have underplayed govt workers without the benefits and the stability 😂

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad as USB Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for ZFS

Go go go!

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

they so thoroughly took the hardest route and made questionable choices that it was almost sure to fail

Typical government move going full malicious compliance while allowing “a few selected friends” from consulting companies to make a ton of money. They could’ve just picked Debian and rolled with it. Let’s face it, nobody develops desktop applications anymore most of the govt work is already done on custom built web platforms, any OS that can run a browser is good enough to address around 90% of the govt daily work.

Meanwhile China is creating their own distro that will be successful for sure because they’ve plans to move the public sector and whatever private they influence to the thing.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

So the Germany has been moving back and forth between Microsoft and Linux / open-source.

When Munich decided to ditch many of its Windows installations in favor of Linux in 2003, it was considered a groundbreaking moment for open source software – it was proof that Linux could be used for large-scale government work. However, it looks like that dream didn’t quite pan out as expected. The German city has cleared a plan to put Windows 10 on roughly 29,000 city council PCs starting in 2020. There will also be a pilot where Munich runs Office 2016 in virtual machines. The plan was prompted by gripes about both the complexity of the current setup and compatibility headaches.

Do you know what this smells like? Corruption and consulting companies with friends in the govt looking for ways to profit.

What else can be more profitable for a consulting company than shifting the entire IT of a city or a country between two largely incompatible solutions? :)

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in ZFS for Dummies

Great share.