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New comment by irusensei in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"

irusensei — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:35:53 +0000

I'm using a certain object storage implementation post minio enshitification. The software itself is great don't get me wrong but I've noticed their logs are basically unreadable. Its metrics and traces in json data meant to be rendered on a dashboard instead of being read by humans. It's also extremely verbose even at an INFO level.

Maybe just get these on an open telemetry endpoint instead? I also don't get why people send by default json logs to journald as it's clearly meant to be a replacement to syslog which is already a good standard.

New comment by irusensei in "The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)"

irusensei — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:27:17 +0000

I heard about Alpha in that it while being more powerful than x86 it wasn't as alien as the competition. The boards had PCI slots and looked like normal PCs, it had Windows NT and Linux. So if your Exchange server was not handling the load you moved it to Alpha and it was good.

It also seems faith in IA64 was the meteor that killed most of these self developed RISC architectures.

New comment by irusensei in "IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay"

irusensei — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:59:51 +0000

Apple private relay is very flawed but on the other hand most sites that view connections originating from VPN as suspicious seem to be ok with Apple Private Relay. If you have VPN on your router private relay on top of it could be a good way to do ip address laundering.

New comment by irusensei in "NetBSD 11.0"

irusensei — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:55:55 +0000

> Improved support for vintage and misc. hardware: alpha evbppc hp300 hppa m68k mac68k macppc mips x68k

It is interesting to see that as Linux drops support for legacy computers NetBSD still welcomes them. This is a NetBSD thing as it's not so much for FreeBSD.

As of now NetBSD is probably the go-to operating system for vintage hardware.

New comment by irusensei in "Data centers trigger voter backlash"

irusensei — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:20:31 +0000

This goes to every LinkedIn brain idiot spouting recycled nonsense about the new Industrial Revolution and that white collar jobs are going away. These blabbering idiots never read a story book to understand the time period, that people displaced by industrialization were uneducated illiterate farm workers in a period in time before democracy.

Jump today most countries stable enough to build infrastructure are democracies and the white collar people you are demonizing do vote and that immense investment in infrastructure is not really easy to relocate.

New comment by irusensei in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

irusensei — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:49:08 +0000

They don't exist because the organizations who lobbied governments were YOTI, Persona, K-ID and others who have a vested interest in collecting data and rent seek by latching through regulations like diseased ticks.

New comment by irusensei in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

irusensei — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:47:33 +0000

>The government issues an eID to your wallet

So people in dubious legal circumstances are locked out the internet?

New comment by irusensei in "Steam Machine launches today"

irusensei — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:01:32 +0000

I doubt it will ever be because Apple doesn’t understand the non casual gaming market.

New comment by irusensei in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

irusensei — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:22:25 +0000

Can’t wrap my head around how their firewall rules work. Default rule and there is no way to change it.

And lately the interface has been so convoluted and nonsensical. DNS records sure now “policies”, you can only assign very essential rules like setting routing rules to known objects based on MAC address - the ui doesn’t allow you to pick an IP address.

I wanted to create a special routing rules to allow a container using macvlans to always leave through ISP2. Since this is a macvlan the interface MAC address was different every time the system started. Mind you “ip x.x.x.x goes through link 2” is one of those basic things firewalls and routers do since forever but if the object doesn’t exist on their automated inventory then forget it.

New comment by irusensei in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

irusensei — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:15:54 +0000

I guess routers and access points are easy to replace with a normal OS but I’m yet to see a managed l2 or l3 switch that runs user provider OS. I’d ditch anything in an eye blink if there was some kind of fully open source network stack that can be controlled through infrastructure code. Affordable that is, not including that Nvidia thingie.

New comment by irusensei in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

irusensei — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:12:26 +0000

Is the firmware open though?

New comment by irusensei in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

irusensei — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:10:52 +0000

Still sucks that you need to verify if your kernel update is compatible with the external module.

New comment by irusensei in "macOS needs its grid back"

irusensei — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:26:33 +0000

Seems MacOS Snow Leopard is for the Apple people what Windows 7 is for Windows people.

New comment by irusensei in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

irusensei — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:43:47 +0000

"I'm sorry but I can't fulfill requests that might potentially harm young sebastian."

New comment by irusensei in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

irusensei — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:17:22 +0000

Small fans need to spin faster so these can be very high pitch even if you stuff some Noctua 40mm fans into it.

New comment by irusensei in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

irusensei — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:03:43 +0000

As much as I would love to see Anthropic going down in flames I think that developer doesn’t deserve to be targeted by such a low effort social media farming post.

I am nothing but grateful for Samba and Rsync.

New comment by irusensei in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

irusensei — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:03:39 +0000

Please don't run Chinese models for KYC operations.

New comment by irusensei in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

irusensei — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:30:20 +0000

Most companies providing corporate security consulting I had to deal in the past are operating on a checklist.

New comment by irusensei in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

irusensei — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:23:43 +0000

I really wanted NFSv4 ACLs but Linux doesn't like it while FreeBSD doesn't make use of my hardware (intel p/e cores) in the most efficient way.

New comment by irusensei in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

irusensei — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:16:46 +0000

To be fair setting up a KDC and then distributing krb5.conf and idmap.conf files is not such a hard task.

Then it's not unencrypted anymore because sec=krb5p handles signing and encryption. I have better throughput using sec=krb5p than with samba signing and encryption. I don't know if it's because Samba uses GNUTLS but the transfer speeds are always awful.

My beefs with NFS is MacOS being extremely quirk with settings. That and the extremely misleading error messages.

>Dev1: Here's a great idea! Let's run an insecure network server in Kernel space!

>Dev2: OMG! You're so smart! Let's also exclude any encryption!!!

If it wasn't such a cool idea they wouldn't be doing it again, this time with direct access to memory: https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/smb/ksmbd.html