I would probably shy away from passing the raw disk. There are a few dozen ways to skin that, But in the end I would probably just mount the disc through NFS,smb, whatever it takes. Reading that smart data is paramount for your situation. You could have a bad cable and never know it.

You could run a couple of VMs K8S and longhorn the data, It’s capable of backing up to an S3 compliant storage.

For my home stuff at the moment I’m running unraid with a BTRFS and a parity disc. The first every month I run a scrub if I had any corruption it would find it for me and alert me. It’s slow as balls but more protection is better than less. You can also buy some recycled discs and keep a offline store. I don’t love the recycled discs but for backup purposes that aren’t running 24x7 they’re better than nothing.

Ohh, you’ll find degrees but not in power systems :). No wonder it’s hard to find hands.

oh jesus, rabbit hole accepted, thanks!

You should start poaching the gaming industry, it’s shedding developers like mad. Most of them are familiar with several stacks so pickup up new stuff is nbd.

Yeah they’re processed, but not passed through.

Now i just need a registrar that allows emoji…

I lost it at the fork bomb. I mean I hit valid because there was no way it was on the and not valid, but there’s no way i’d have expected that. after that I just kept guessing the most stupid answer and did pretty well

it’s a bell curve, at some point you have access to procurement :)

If all the two-monitor people get up and walk out, the company stops.

You can lose any other single rung there and still push on.

A two-monitor person who works so hard, they’re willing to give you three to make you happier.

A four-monitor person has access to inventory/procurement (it)

Calibre definitely works in Moon reader, The interface could be better but it’s serviceable.

I asked her what the fuck she was thinking later in the process. She knew that files weren’t supposed to be there She just thought it was a good idea, and was very defensive borderline offensive about being able to store files wherever she wanted.

My first inclination was she was just putting non-work-related stuff in there so that her manager would never see it. But no, there were hundreds of megs of work related stuff. I recommended she not store the 500 megs of personal digital camera fodder on what computer if she was that tight on space. Hard drives of this era were only a handful of gigs large. She just flipped out some more demanded a bigger disc. I had a private consult with her manager and mentioned that We could get a bigger desk but it was going to come out of her budget. She declined.

A year later we did SOX compliance and as part of that we deleted emails over 3 months and deleted any recycling bin data over a month old. I made sure her manager noted this and that it would delete her preferred file storage and never heard another word out of them.

I’ll go look at it again as well, their (jf) source control still had a lot of ancient open tickets last time I looked at it.

TLS for Plex was a really nice guesture. Company handling the issuing of the cert was pretty nice.

Realistically, I don’t mind running a proxy for SSL unwrapping, there are enough projects out there that handle the unwrapping and renew their own keys from lets encrypt.

I just want to self-host this thing maybe run it through a single proxy product send the URL out to my extended family and forget about it. I wanted to be as secure as reasonably possible enough that I feel comfortable surfacing it.

Right now I surface Plex for the distant relations and tailscale jellyfin for my own, but it kills me I want Plex gone. But there are random TVs and kids on tablets, and honestly I don’t want to be everyone’s VPN endpoint or worry about onboarding everyone’s new device.

Yeah, as long as you have a decently supported client the entire platform is very serviceable. I do wish they would get rid of the unprotected endpoints and officially support 2FA on the server and clients.

For all their anti-consumer practices Plex does at least take their security very seriously.

I shit you not, IT around 2004, I had a nurse who stored all her important docs in “Recyle Bin”

She put in a ticket that her computer was slow. We scheduled a time to look at it and made sure she knew to be there.

When I showed up, she had left to go to lunch on purpose so she could take a free long lunch. I asked her manager to call her back in, she refused.

I diagnosed she was out of space, and emptied her bin.

That did not end up going well.

She was furious, Her boss was mad. My boss was pissed that it happened but considered it reasonable since she refused to be there.

I spent the better part of 4 hours undeleting deleted recycle bin contents which is WAYYYYYY harder than undeleting deleted files. They’re already UUID’s and bringing them back into existence will not put them back in the recycle bin, all that meta is gone.

Rust provides safety and protection.

Rust isn’t as rapid as other options, has less library support, and porting existing code is relatively difficult.

IMO because of the workarounds you need to do to handle the memory safety, you end up with a lot more hard to solve bugs than you do with conventional languages. It should be noted however that the bugs don’t end up being security vulnerabilities like they do in conventional systems.

If you have something that needs to be structurally sound and/or you have enough talented people willing to work on it, it’s a great option. If it needs to be fast and cheap and you don’t have a gaggle of rust developers on hand and it’s already written in another language, it might not be the best solution.