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New comment by agapon in "Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity"

agapon — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:39:50 +0000

With HDDs, it's also mechanical wear and increased chance of a failure. SSDs are not fully immune to increased load either.

New comment by agapon in "Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity"

agapon — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:37:43 +0000

Generally, it's possible to have data which is not corrupted but which is logically inconsistent (incorrect).

Imagine that a directory ZAP has an entry that points to a bogus object ID. That would be an example. The ZAP block is intact but its content is inconsistent.

Such things can only happen through a logical bug in ZFS itself, not through some external force. But bugs do happen.

If your search through OpenZFS bugs you will find multiple instances. Things like leaking objects or space, etc. That's why zdb now has support for some consistency checking (bit not for repairs).

New comment by agapon in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

agapon — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:47:28 +0000

Even RDIMM / LRDIMM prices have recently started going up. And I thought that those would be safe, because neither "big AI" nor regular consumers need them.

New comment by agapon in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

agapon — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:45:14 +0000

Used RDIMM / LRDIMM prices have also started going up, quickly.

New comment by agapon in "Eating stinging nettles"

agapon — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:10:22 +0000

I remember it as borsch with nettle. Nettle was one of the first green things in the spring, just after snow melted. Nettle borsch was cooked just like the regular one but with nettle instead of cabbage.

New comment by agapon in "Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again"

agapon — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:40:12 +0000

In practice, it's not as easy as it may sound.

New comment by agapon in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

agapon — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:04:39 +0000

Yeah, in a place where they live. Whatever it happens to be (and doesn't have to stay the same).

New comment by agapon in "Don't guess my language"

agapon — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:09:25 +0000

I agree that it's most stupid and most annoying kind of localizing. I search for some specific product (or other information), get a link to an English version of the page (and perhaps the only one). But when I follow the link I get redirected to my language version of the site, most often its portal page. Sometimes because the language specific site does not have a page for the thing I searched, but most often because the site is lazy. And then I have to search again but using the site tools instead of my search engine of choice.

New comment by agapon in "The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction (2020)"

agapon — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:28:06 +0000

Protecting children from real or perceived threats, temptations, evil things, etc was much easier in the physical world. In the virtual world it's much harder to put up fences.

New comment by agapon in "Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)"

agapon — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:37:59 +0000

ZFS is part of the OS on FreeBSD. Integrated more tightly in every respect.

New comment by agapon in "Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America (1995)"

agapon — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:48:01 +0000

That was back then when people believed in their country, in republic and democracy...

New comment by agapon in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

agapon — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:27:52 +0000

> If you own a house you are part of a Ponzi scheme in most developed nations.

Not unless you explicitly choose to. If you own a house to have a roof above you, to have a comfortable and safe place for you and your family, if you love and care about that place, then that's what you are getting out of the house. Its monetary value changes are "just" a side story.

But if you buy a house purely as an investment, then yeah.

New comment by agapon in "Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'"

agapon — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:42:52 +0000

100 cable "faults", but only 2/3-rd are from ships. And, then, how many of those have been in the Baltic Sea in prior years? 66 incidents per year sounds like a lot, but there are so many cables and shipping lanes all over the world.

New comment by agapon in "Does the tech industry need so many workers on H-1B visas?"

agapon — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:36:39 +0000

Rad idea: limit H-1B to product companies, exclude consulting / body-shop companies.

New comment by agapon in "Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war"

agapon — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:12:28 +0000

Want you or not, there will be a Putin's successor. No one is immortal.

New comment by agapon in "Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB"

agapon — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:07:11 +0000

You may find esp-link interesting: https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link I've built a WiFi<->RS232 bridge using the firmware, ESP8266 and a UART<->RS232 converter module. All hardware is very cheap.

New comment by agapon in "Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events"

agapon — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:40:27 +0000

Those wars do affect climate. They do affect global economy.

New comment by agapon in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

agapon — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:31:10 +0000

The point was probably to reduce accidental casualties. Also, the wounds can be quite severe. Finally, a device like a pager cannot hold a lot of explosive substance in its spare space anyway.

New comment by agapon in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

agapon — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:22:33 +0000

Hamas terrorists boarding commercial airplanes? With their secret pagers on them?

Somehow I don't think so.

New comment by agapon in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

agapon — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:27:02 +0000

Well, if growing or breeding bigger oxen were as feasible as building bigger (mower powerful) computers was/is, perhaps people would take a different path? In other words, perhaps the analogy is flawed?