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New comment by Helmut10001 in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

Helmut10001 — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:08:18 +0000

It is not possible to zoom in, as far as I can see (mobile, but tested desktop). [Edit] This allows zooming [1].

New comment by Helmut10001 in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

Helmut10001 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:18:56 +0000

I invested quite a bit in enterprises level homelab equipment 2020 to 2025 (about 10k). Happy I made it before the big bang. Eg. my SAS he8 drives will last at least till 2035. But what then? I want my children to be free, too.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van"

Helmut10001 — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:13:00 +0000

Yes, manual. It is very rare to find automatic cars of that age in Europe.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van"

Helmut10001 — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:11:32 +0000

Electronics don't usually last for more than 30 years. Pre-2007 cars can be driven for that long because they had minimal electronics and relatively oversized manufacturing. This was because managers hadn't yet taken charge of reducing material thickness to the absolute minimum.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van"

Helmut10001 — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:16:50 +0000

Our VW T4 from 2002 has 300k km on it. I consider this half it's total possible mileage, if not less. I wish they would still build reliable cars like these today.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

Helmut10001 — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:56:31 +0000

What I found pretty great with docker is isolating individual docker systemd instances in rootless linux namespaces (i.e. users). I wrote about this here [1]. This lets you easily create multiple services on one VM that are quite isolated from each other. This system of doing things has worked reliably for me for quite some time, even for the 'bigger' services (gitlab, nextcloud, mailcow-dockerized etc.).

[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2023-12-12_mastodon-docker-rootless...

New comment by Helmut10001 in "Where the goblins came from"

Helmut10001 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:48:45 +0000

I had the feeling they didn't really answer the questions, that is why the goblins appeared. They simply "retired the “Nerdy” personality" because they couldn't fix it and went on.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "I just want simple S3"

Helmut10001 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:53:14 +0000

I added an Zenko Scality CloudServer S3-compatible Storage backend to a selfhosted Grist [1] instance. This allowed me to create forms with attachements in Grist (e.g. users can upload photos). I experimented with several and settled on Zenko Scality CloudServer [2]:

- MinIO [3] is somewhat deprecated and not really open source anymore. Its future is unsure.

- GarageHQ [4] looks pretty great and I wished I could have used this, but it is not yet feature-complete with S3 protocol and specifically missing the versioning feature (I reported this [5])

- Zenko Scality works out of the box; it is a bit too "big" for my context (aimed at thousands of parallel users) and uses 500MB memory; but it does the job for now.

I posted my compose here [6]. Since then (~months ago), it works really well and I am happy with Zenko Scality S3.

    [1]: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core
    [2]: https://github.com/scality/cloudserver
    [3]: https://www.min.io/
    [4]: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
    [5]: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/issues/166
    [6]: https://github.com/scality/Zenko/discussions/1779#discussioncomment-15869532

New comment by Helmut10001 in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

Helmut10001 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:30:53 +0000

The comparison pictures look like there is more dust in the air today. They don't explain this effect, so I assume it is related to time of day the photo was taken, or camera settings, not actual dust accumulation compared to 1972. However, the direct comparison gives the impression they want people to interpret like the air is getting dirtier?

New comment by Helmut10001 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Helmut10001 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:53:07 +0000

You mean via WebDav? That is definitly an option, but then it is not possible anymore to mix working file directories within Nextcloud. E.g. I have a long list of ignored files for nextcloud [1], such as .git folder etc.

I would need to create a separate file tree, splitting my work between nextcloud maintained files and working files. That feels cumbersome. On Windows, I could directly add my whole drive to nextcloud as a virtual file system.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/Sieboldianus/280afdb2f994fae6e5f6b18...

New comment by Helmut10001 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Helmut10001 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:04:18 +0000

I found virtual files support also somewhat critical. This is not really stable on Linux yet and makes using Nextcloud with 8TB and Million of files pretty difficult.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

Helmut10001 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:34:32 +0000

I think nowadays the only safe and sane way is running Windows isolated as a VM (e.g. QEMU on proxmox). I did this with my gaming server. The VM sits on ZFS which I can snapshot before any Microsoft stuff happens, to revert any action. I can cut off the network card virtually and shutdown the guest whenever I get tired of it. I could even disguise the CPU/QEMU config, so that the anti-cheat from Star Citizen didn't recognize it was running in a virtualized environment. Pair this with Moonlight+Sunshine and you can game without issues on any remote client. Why I prefer Windows for gaming? It is just (still) the default and provides the least barrier and setup effort for most games.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

Helmut10001 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:35:01 +0000

I use ZFS even on consumer devices, these days. Parity checks all the way!

New comment by Helmut10001 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

Helmut10001 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:29:45 +0000

Thanks for the details. I agree and had the same experience, trying to figure out if an AMB motherboard supports ECC or not. It is almost impossible to know ahead of trying it. At least we have ZFS now for parity checks on cold storage.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

Helmut10001 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:20:33 +0000

Interesting, I was not aware! Do you have a statistics for the bit flips in RAM %? My feeling would be its the majority of bit flips that happen, but I can be wrong.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

Helmut10001 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:11:46 +0000

I don't understand why ECC memory is not the norm these days. It is only slightly more expensive, but solves all these problems. Some consumer mainboards even support it already.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

Helmut10001 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:50:15 +0000

I don't browse US newspapers that often, but I regularly observe blocked ones, particularly smaller ones. Non-deterministic, e.g.: New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Dallas Morning News, Virginian-Pilot. Beyond that, a lot of CA and San Francisco Government and local utility services are geo-restricted (which I think, from a security standpoint, makes at least somewhat sense..).

Btw. asking once is enough ^^

New comment by Helmut10001 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

Helmut10001 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:19:10 +0000

This is somewhat counterintuitive: The US is the only country I know where most newspapers and government services use strict geoblocks to prevent me from accessing US sites in Europe. Conversely, I've never had any problems accessing European sites from the US. I know this is for a different set of reasons (likely GDPR cookie law or similar), but it's funny that anyone thinks blocks like this are relevant. Most people I know use VPNs these days to make their traffic appear to come from whatever country they need.

New comment by Helmut10001 in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

Helmut10001 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:32:09 +0000

For anyone, this is the reference post from the bot [1].

[1]: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/83b...

New comment by Helmut10001 in "I miss thinking hard"

Helmut10001 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:12:37 +0000

I agree. I think some of us would rather deal with small, incremental problems than address the big, high-level roadmap. High-level things are much more uncertain than isolated things that can be unit-tested. This can create feelings of inconvenience and unease.