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New comment by kjs3 in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

kjs3 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:15:58 +0000

If you really need to enumerate examples you can just say "does it have FTL travel? Don't look Aperocky! Your head will explode!". Plenty more examples...

New comment by kjs3 in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

kjs3 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:08:54 +0000

That's fair, and I agree (hope?) if it was customer impacting there would be a miraculous allocation of scarce resources to move platforms. But in my world I'd get asked "why are you still screwing around with a vendor that clearly sucks" even if it was for a non-prod playpen of no consequence. YMMV.

New comment by kjs3 in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

kjs3 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:37:25 +0000

Tenable makes some "read only" adapters for hard disks (SATA, PATA, SCSI & FW at least). They're usually sold as part of a forensic analysis kit. I have a couple and they definitely work. I believe there are a couple of other vendors (Wiebetech?) make similar devices.

The alternative (tho not practical in many cases) would be RO media like RW-DVD.

New comment by kjs3 in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

kjs3 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:28:59 +0000

I'm not "voting against" anything. I genuinely done care and don't need to. I don't need IPv6, never had a single thing I needed[1] not work being IPv4 only, and moving just so I can prove "I have satisfied camgunz edict that nothing other than IPv6 can possibly work" isn't grounded in reality.

Those billions can move right along doing what they're doing. They don't bother me; I don't bother them (other than you, it seems). Considering how "IPv6 exclusive" has worked for the last 25 years, I'm quite confident I'll be dead before I reach the point of caring about it (and even if I make it, I'm equally confident I'll be able to manage both stacks).

This sort of tiresome sophistry really gets old. "But what about camgunz nearly religious need to pretend IPv6 is the One True Way and all others are heretical" is not more relevant to the wider world than "but what about kjs3's ISP".

[1] Emphasis on "that I need". I'm a network engineer and architect. Passed tests even. I've done IPv6 in prod, and I can contrive all sorts of "that only works if you're IPv6 only" scenarios and have had to work around some of them. They aren't relevant to my ISP or me.

New comment by kjs3 in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

kjs3 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:56:28 +0000

Wait...this has been going on for 15 months without resolution or recompense and you haven't pulled up stakes and moved to almost anyone else? I get "it's a lot of work to move" and maybe "we hope they'll figure this out so we don't have to move", but in my world that excuse runs out waaaaaay before 15 months. The people I'm accountable to would have hauled me out back and put me out of their misery after, maybe, 6 months on the outside.

New comment by kjs3 in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

kjs3 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:01:13 +0000

My experience, indeed reality, says different for all values of "work" that matter to me.

New comment by kjs3 in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

kjs3 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:07:25 +0000

I should dismiss my ISP that's worked for something like 20 years, works now, and will in all likelyhood still be working in 20 years (baring M&A nonsense or the apocalypse)?

Sorry, IPv6 is absolutely not the hill I'm going to die on.

New comment by kjs3 in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

kjs3 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:41:26 +0000

Seriously...don't read any other science fiction stories. The things they write about that we can't indulge you by proving how they could possibly happen will make your head explode.

Edit: spelling

New comment by kjs3 in "Usenet Archives"

kjs3 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:16:17 +0000

I suppose I should be happy you didn't make out like we caused cancer and premature hair loss.

New comment by kjs3 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

kjs3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:54:24 +0000

I think you touched on the point: people who don't actually care about music think musical pablum is 'good', because it slides in their ear and out without challenging them with actual 'listening'. This guy even assigns a genre to his slop while clearly knowing (and, really, caring) nothing about what he claims to like listening to.

New comment by kjs3 in "Usenet Archives"

kjs3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:44:45 +0000

We all did.

New comment by kjs3 in "Usenet Archives"

kjs3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:37:40 +0000

it was binaries. That's what killed Usenet.

Which is why most of us stopped carrying the binary hierarchy[1] way, way before Usenet 'died'.

New comment by kjs3 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

kjs3 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:40:31 +0000

We tried this (and M$ sold it hard) and never went to production with it (except for a couple of niche use cases). It was obviously not going to meet expectations before we were half way through the PoC.

New comment by kjs3 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

kjs3 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:49:56 +0000

Thanks for the lecture. My point is that people often confuse PPC in the embedded space (still in production) with Power in the enterprise space (where noone I know refers to it as 'PPC' other than historical artifacts like 'ppc64le' (we run mostly AIX), and haven't since the G5 days). Same/similar ISA, very very different performance expectations. YMMV.

New comment by kjs3 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

kjs3 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:52:43 +0000

Is there any 'guide' to this ecosystem...because 'odd niche communications gear' is always interesting.

New comment by kjs3 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

kjs3 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:48:02 +0000

I don't think that would change if the underlying architecture changes; IBM has been committed to backward compatibility for a long time. Some hypothetical future mainframe class IBM ARM would undoubtedly be able virtualize a 360/370/390 without breaking a sweat. And ARM will undoubtedly enable IBM to add custom emulation hardware to their spin on ARM if they need it.

New comment by kjs3 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

kjs3 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:42:58 +0000

It's what Intel did with x86 a few decades before the modern smart phone.

New comment by kjs3 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

kjs3 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:40:55 +0000

Are you guys sure you're not confusing product lines? PPC is a PowerISA architecture, but hasn't been pushing desktop/server level performance for, what, almost 20 years? It's an embedded chip now, and AFAIK IBM doesn't even make them any more. Power (currently "10th gen"(-ish)) is the performant aarchitecture, used in the computers formally known as i-Series, formerly known as RS/6000. It's pretty fast, not not price competitive. They aren't really the same thing.

New comment by kjs3 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

kjs3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:31:28 +0000

I think we have a new high water mark for "false equivalence".

New comment by kjs3 in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

kjs3 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:19:04 +0000

As opposed to the one that has no clip to hold it in, and shears off the whole connector when you trip over it. And I can use the ethernet cable without the tab.

Some people will embrace any absurdity to pretend to be right.