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n2burns ,

You can setup unattended-updates to handle most of those.

Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales (apnews.com)

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail salesof marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase....

n2burns ,

While he should have said it better, he’s 100% correct.

n2burns ,

From the article

Some products — like devices powered by combustion engines … — are excluded from Oregon’s rules entirely.

RAID setup for Ubuntu media server

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively....

n2burns ,

You’re right, hardware RAID still has some use for businesses, but it’s generally a bad idea for consumers. The main reason is the procedure if the RAID controller fails. In commercial applications they have spare, compatible controllers, so a quick hardware swap and you’re back up and running, you don’t even need to rebuild the array. However, consumers generally don’t have a spare controller, and if they don’t, they can’t just get any controller, they need a compatible one or the array is lost. If a system running a software RAID has a hardware failure, the array can be moved to a new host and mdadm can rebuild the array without needing specific hardware.

n2burns ,

Yes, but they’re using it in a consumer setting. That was the whole point of my comment. It sounds like they may have 2 identical RAID controllers, which means they might have a spare. However, if one dies, they’d be looking at obtaining another spare, migrating their data to a new setup, or risking complete data loss.

n2burns ,

It’s sounds like what you’re looking for is backup, and RAID is not backup, it’s redundancy to maintain uptime (as well as data integrity, and in some cases performance). I’d highly recommend you look into backup options, with best case being a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

To be fair, I’m being a little hypocritical. I’ve been working on my backup strategy for years and still don’t have any remote backups yet. Personally, I have a JBOD system, with 8 drives ranging from 2TB to 8TB, so my setup might be a bit complicated for your purposes. I’m not worried about uptime, and am focused on data integrity. I’m not using actual RAID because in the case of a catastrophic failure, I don’t want to lose all my data. I use snapRAID to create some redundancy, and I pool my data drives using mergerfs.

If you are still interested in RAID, I would recommend staying away from hardware RAID as I’ve commented in other places of this post. It has it’s place in data centres but really doesn’t make sense for consumers anymore. There is a lot of good advice in the rest of the comments about RAID, so I’ll summarize my thoughts. If you only plan on having 2 drives, RAID 1 is a good option, though it’s generally used for it’s write performance and that’s probably not necessary on a media server. My current server is running on decade old, lower-end, consumer hardware, and even in that extreme case, media sometimes takes a second to start 1080p content remotely. If you want to add drives and are willing to expand in redundant pairs, you you can either add another RAID layer (RAID 1+0), or pool the partitions together. If you want to be able to expand by single drives/have more than 50% of your potential storage be realized, you could look at RAID 5/6 or ZFS/btrfs. Note that for RAID 5/6, drives need to be equal size.

n2burns ,

Is HBA mode that rare? It seems pretty common. Either way, we don’t know OP’s hardware.

And I’m not scared of RAID controller failure, I’m scared of single point failure. I know it’s highly unlikely, but the risk for stranded data is unacceptable IMHO unless you’re recommending OP make sure they have a spare on hand.

Also, I never even mentioned ZFS (I’ve actually never even used it).

n2burns ,

I’m mainly concerned about:

  1. Not losing data if one drive dies on me.

Sure, that’s what RAID is designed to do. However, I’d suggest also looking into what happens when your array is degraded and how to rebuild it.

  1. Fast reads

I’m a bit surprised you need fast reads with a media server. You’re probably going to have to clarify your needs a bit more.

  1. Easy plug and play expansion

Since I’ll have 8 drives (or 6, if I use the smaller server, it would be nice if I could swap out one of them without losing data and add a larger one, which would then get used automatically. Is that something that RAID is good for?

Standard RAID levels generally don’t have options to add larger drives. I’m not sure what you mean by “plug and play”. I’m pretty sure almost all setups will involve a fair bit of configuration.

I’m hesitant to set up backups because it’s going to be a lot of data.

It’s also a lot of data to lose if things go more wrong than you expected (multi-drive failure, bit-rot, etc.).

n2burns ,

I feel like this is a symptom of Police Chiefs/Sheriffs being elected in the US of A. They need to win a popularity contest to keep their job.

In France, the Future Is Arriving on a Barge: The Seine is becoming a test case for a European plan to cut carbon emissions by turning rivers into the new highways (www.nytimes.com)

As pale morning light flickered across the Seine, Capt. Freddy Badar steered his hulking river barge, Le Bosphore, past picturesque Normandy villages and snow-fringed woodlands, setting a course for Paris....

n2burns ,

I don’t think this is about barges vs. trains, but simply trying to reduce the number of trucks.

n2burns ,

“This item is not available in your country”. Too bad, I thought they could use data from Canada but I guess not!

n2burns ,

“This item is not available in your country”. Too bad, I thought they could use data from Canada but I guess not!

n2burns ,

The article doesn’t really explain it, but assume this is because you can’t use 3rd party app stores on Fitbit devices? So to avoid opening to competition, they’re removing anything that could be interpreted as a store?

n2burns ,

You really can’t compare any other country to the Great Firewall of China.

n2burns ,

“I am aware that your family has suffered a trauma but the answer does not lie in leaving the Most Holy Eucharist,” Deshotel wrote in his excommunication decree.

By excommunicating him, you’ve banned him from receiving Eucharist. He didn’t leave.

n2burns ,

It’s too bad this has a MediaTek SoC. That means it’s unlikely to see 3rd party ROM support which makes the limited software support hurt even more.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

n2burns ,

If it was all Blue States, if probably agree, but it does include a few Deep Red States with North Dakota, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Tennessee, etc. That makes me cautiously optimistic.

n2burns ,

If was all Blue States, with a Democratic Federal DOJ, it’s quite possible that it’s just political messaging. With a mix of Blue & Red States, it’s still possible it’s messaging or a (rare) common-enemy, but it’s more likely they think something’s actually there, and they don’t want to waste their time playing nice with the “other side”.

n2burns ,

Government loans ownership would be the way to go there.

FTFY. Neoliberal policies like this got us into this situation, they aren’t the solution.

n2burns ,

Tell me you wouldn’t drive a brand new BYD if it was $10,000 like it is in China.

It wouldn’t be that price in the US anyways. The BYD Dolphin starts at €30K in Europe which is pretty comparable to the Chevy Bolt EV. Prices are similar in Australia and other places too.

n2burns ,

Agreed. I just see one that’s brighter and that makes it hard to not prefer it.

n2burns ,

This really echos of the Sixties Scoop here in Canada (and similar schemes elsewhere).

n2burns ,

I hate that they’ve convinced people to say, “the energy sector”. I mean, it’s part of the energy sector, but it’s specifically Fossil Fuels.

n2burns ,

What I’m saying is they can be specific. It’s like saying, “Vertebrates are the main source of climate change.” It’s true, but we can be more specific and say, “Humans are the main source of climate change.”

n2burns ,

Yup. I’ve volunteered at a couple thrift stores, and we’d just toss stuff like this.

n2burns ,

“Thrift” doesn’t mean it’s a charity either, take for example Value Village. There are also a ton of “consignment stores” that are for profit businesses and will get real mad if you call them a thrift store.

n2burns ,

Maybe UK wants first crack? I don’t think there’s anything stopping Romania from extraditing them, then once they’ve (hopefully) served their sentences, requesting they be extradited back.

n2burns ,

no mystery blobs.

Maybe they’re not “mystery blobs,” but I think you still need binary blobs with MediaTek chips. I’d be happy to be proven wrong though!

n2burns ,

Of course there’s other browsers! There’s Opera…uhh that now based on Chromium. Oh, how about Edge…that’s Chromium based too now. I know, there’s the KHTML engine!..no, that’s been officially discontinued.

n2burns ,

Both qutebrowser and Falkon run on the QtWebEngine, essentially Chromium.

n2burns ,

Unironically, yes. As part of Reddit’s deal with Google, they’re supposed to get access to some of Google’s search tools.

n2burns ,

There was a discussion a couple of years ago around gasoline taxes and how they are supposed to pay for roadway maintenance.

I just want to point out, even if they’re supposed to, gas taxes do not pay for roadway maintenance, not by a long shot

n2burns ,

You make a few wrong assumptions about how bureaucrats are appointed in Canada. I’ll speak about Ontario municipalities, because that’s what I’m most familiar with, but I believe the process in most other provinces is very similar.

For municipalities with their own police, the chief is not appointed by the mayor, they are recommended by the police board (made up of council members (often including the mayor) and civilians) and are approved by the whole council. Similarly, if they are to be removed, the mayor would not be able to do that on their own, they would need the support of council.

Also, it’s not just the council who has oversight. Municipalities are a creature of the provincial government, so they can overrule a municipality. This process may seem similar to what can happen in US states, but the difference is that it’s overriding the decision of municipal politicians (to not remove a police chief), rather than removing a duly elected politician (impeachment).

I know it’s hard to see things a different way than the how it’s “normal” where you are (I have a few personal experiences doing this), so I can see how it might seem that politicians could corrupt these bureaucrats under them. However, as a Canadian, I can say it’s pretty great having an independent judiciary, elections administrators, and even police (to the extent that police can be great). There have definitely been issues with politicians trying to force through friendly appointments (we had a controversy just over 5 years ago with a nomination to lead the provincial police), but it’s generally worked out fairly well. Since appointments are within the system of governance, there are some “checks and balances” which I know Americans love to tout.

n2burns ,

Everyone involved with that project is also probably dead.

Literally, the FIRST sentence of the article is talking about someone who’s been involved with Voyager I from the start. Yes, the project has outlasted many of it’s original engineers, but to say, “Everyone involved with that project is also probably dead,” for a major mission that launched 46 years ago is obviously untrue.

n2burns ,

Would it not be E2EE? Isn’t that one of the reasons for using the Signal protocol?

n2burns ,

Sure, but any messaging app (including Signal) could have these backdoors in place. Heck, there’s even vectors for unrelated apps on your phone to read this data once unencrypted.

n2burns ,

Signal is only officially distributed through Google Play, so their APK isn’t reproducible, and I believe it still contains binary blobs.

n2burns ,

Maybe this is being too cold-hearted, but we tend to choose pets that live a fraction of a human’s life. There are many animals which could make good pets except they live as long as humans (if not a lot longer).

I think what this article was something like,

The biggest tragedy of pet ownership is that sometimes those pets die far too soon due to illness.

n2burns ,

This means they have more than enough missiles to sell some, even though they are in the middle of a “war” (genocide).

I pretty much completely agree with the rest of your comment, but I don’t think we have a delivery date. Rafael might be hedging that domestic demand will be down by the time these are due.

n2burns ,

Is there something in particular about Indiegogo that I missed, or are you just pointing out it’s crowd funded? (and that means you could lose your money without anything in return)

n2burns ,

Also, what they’re saying is completely untrue. In most countries you need to report your foreign income and may have to pay taxes on it. I’m a Canadian and we need to report foreign income. We have tax treaties, so taxpayers (generally) aren’t double taxed. However, a lot of cross boarder Canadian workers pay less tax in the US than they would at home, so they are required to pay the difference to the CRA.

n2burns , (edited )

Were you “audited” or actually audited? So many people say they were “audited” when they actually just received a letter asking them to support what they claimed. An actual audit is a full review of absolutely everything to re-build up your returns from scratch and verify every little detail. Even for basic returns audits often take multiple days to complete.

n2burns ,

To me, it’s exciting because they’re showing success at one of the hardest workplaces to organizing labour. Starbucks Workers United seems to have everything going against them:

  • employees are more likely than at other workplaces to be short/medium-term, so it might be hard to convince employees to think about the long-term
  • each store have relatively few employees but they’re going up against one of the biggest corporations in the world
  • Starbucks is general seen as a “pretty good job”, so it’s got to be hard to convince employees to not just accept whatever they’re offered.

Yet, they’re persisting!

n2burns ,

Literally, the second ingredient in Corn Flakes is “Sugars”.

n2burns ,

You said

I mean Kellogg’s sells A LOT of cereal, and some of them are very healthy and very cheap so it’s not a terrible suggestion.

What Kellogg’s cereals are both “very healthy” and “very cheap”?

n2burns ,

Given it’s a defamation case, I think it’s both!

University vending machine error reveals use of secret facial recognition | A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been usin... (www.theguardian.com)

University vending machine error reveals use of secret facial recognition | A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been usin…::Snack dispenser at University of Waterloo shows facial recognition message on screen despite no prior indication

n2burns ,

Bad analogy. If you were doing what you said, but instead of taking notes, you were using a camera, you’d quickly get a visit from the UW Special Constable Service who’d probably transfer you to WRPS.

EDIT: Even if you were just taking notes on people, it’s possible you’d experience the same process.

n2burns , (edited )

I don’t think it’s offered as as an exe as it’s server-client model where you access it through a web-browser. If you want to just run it on your laptop, it can be both your server and client. The installation instructions are here, and there are also instructions for Docker on the left-side menu.

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