It is strange seeing the physical manifestation of a web endpoint, to me, in 2026, after decades of cloudslop.

Its just a computer! on a shelf! you can go hold it!

How dejected could you be when you can bring someone such joy?

pfft sure buddy enjoy your binary logs

You’re adding piles of nonsense ontop of nonsense.

None of it actually gets you closer to your objective.

Reduce and simplify. k8s and whatever the hell it is you’re doing is very much the opposite of that. enjoy yaml hell.

bro just run the fucking container.

That sounds heavy and complicated. Terraform + plain docker is super easy and makes the machines trivial to replace, as well redeploying updating their containers without downtime.

And I don’t have to learn a damn thing about systemd’s nonsense. Nor do I have to learn a single bit of k8s yaml braindamage.

Yaknow, now that I know its tightly coupled to systemd I especially don’t care about podman. Thank you genuinely for resolving any curiosity about it, however.

Culture ships.

Limiting Factor and Cargo Cult are desktops.

Empiricist and Sense amid Madness, Wit Amdist Folly are a NAS and NUC that runs everything I need

Its a great variety of memorable names.

(And even though Elon keeps naming things after them, he hasn’t fucking read the books.)

k.

There’s just not much worth being happy about right now. Its kind of silly to be doing a light-hearted marketing push while people are being shot by their government.

Its the same reason Alien Conspiracies aren’t fun any more

Labels are how you group ideas into contextual boxes so you can communicate with other humans with your idiot mouth-hole.

The problem is is that I severely doubt that there’s anything of value on it. Have you any idea how many disks are full of banal static?

> No, we only use Jellyfin via browser.

Three. Three emojis, used in headings as a bullet point.

It is perfectly plausable for someone whos job is to write technical documentation and promotional material would punch it up with a couple 'mojis.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases

Every single release uses the same format with the same 3 emojis. You’d know that if you’d clicked “releases” and had even a modicum of curiosity.

I wonder if theres an argument for an automatic down-scaler after watching it for retention, but tying it to the original torrent file at the same time.

if its encrypted at rest, it doesn’t need it.

So, I present my paradox: If the data was sensitive, it wouldn’t be disposed of properly. If the data is irrelevant or encrypted at rest, the disks are disposed of unneccisarilly.

I bet what you were handling wasn’t -that- comparatively sensitive, so its a whole bunch of human effort and material being pulverised for no reason.

Because I can ensure you that the people who should -always- be that thorough are not. Especially right now. There’s all sorts of drives that shouldn’t be out in the wild, out in the wild.

I’m a little surprised there isn’t buyers for liberated disks (and their data) from ASEAN datacenters.

Additionally, if an attacker wanted to steal your business data, they’d be your contracted, approved disposal partner already.

I can tell you right now that not everything that goes to recycler and gets a cert even gets wiped.

Someone, somewhere said it was, therefore, the box is ticked.

And this will remain so until there isn’t an economic imperative.

the fediverse is frustrating like that.

I consider if you’re typing words into a computer the CIA is reading it. Its a generally good idea to assume everything is already compromised.

They’re currently snarfing all the encrypted data to later decrypt it when the technology becomes possible, betting on quantum computing to break our current encryption technologies.

Its the only explanation I have for why AI needs disk storage. They’ve already indexed the internet, no?

Also, impressively, it ran like butter on a HTC ChaCha about 10 years after that phone was relevent, and was a joy to message on.