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Hard Drive Smart Stats and Failure Rates

mmh0000 — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:23:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-hard-drive-smart-stats-and-failure-rates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071811

Points: 3

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New comment by mmh0000 in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

mmh0000 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:54:42 +0000

Wow! Somebody with ChatGPT discovered the concept of browser headers, then for some odd reason made the verbiage really ... weird "We chose not to tell you"... okay...

Anyway, if you really want to know what your browser is sending:

https://browserleaks.com/

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

New comment by mmh0000 in "Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy"

mmh0000 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:05:23 +0000

As always, there's an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by mmh0000 in "Only 173? Tesla Cybertruck RWD Recall Reveals Low Sales"

mmh0000 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:00:27 +0000

I'm honestly a little surprised that many people bought the RWD-only CT.

If you're looking to buy a CT and have the money for one, considering the price difference after taxes and other fees.

The RWD-only CT didn't make much sense when you could get AWD for a few thousand more, which increases range, torque, and speed.

New comment by mmh0000 in "It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs"

mmh0000 — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:46:34 +0000

It very likely is, but someone is going to have to pay lawyers tons of money and wait for years for it to go through the courts to stop it.

New comment by mmh0000 in "File System Wars"

mmh0000 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:46:22 +0000

The author's praise of ZFS fell 3 checksums short of acceptable.

ZFS is not a filesystem. It is a lifestyle. A covenant. A snapshot of the soul. Everything else is basically a USB stick with dreams.

I will be reporting this to the [author]ities, HR, and my dad.

/s for the /s impaired.

New comment by mmh0000 in "Trump's push to cut interest rates has echoes of 'banana republic', says Yellen"

mmh0000 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:49:07 +0000

I'd like to sell you a brand-new sarcasm detector.

New comment by mmh0000 in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

mmh0000 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:28:58 +0000

Context, a few days ago, this was a very popular article on HN:

  Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883

TL;DR: Spain blocks A LOT of CDNs during footy matches, including ALL of Cloudflare, thus breaking most of the internet. All in the name of stopping "pirates".

New comment by mmh0000 in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

mmh0000 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:27:13 +0000

I love tmux! It's perfectly usable! You only need a 400-line custom-built configuration file[1]!

[1] https://doc.xn0.org/.tmux.conf

Disclaimer: I am being silly but serious. tmux is absolutely not user-friendly out of the box. It is, however, extremely nice after an absurd amount of tweaking, which is either an endorsement or a damning, depending on your perspective.

New comment by mmh0000 in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

mmh0000 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:43:21 +0000

"War Crimes" only apply to the loser of the war and are prosecuted by the victor.

Meaning whatever horrors are done on either side, only the horrors committed by the loser will be "crimes". The inclusion of AI doesn't change that.

New comment by mmh0000 in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

mmh0000 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:37:41 +0000

It's weird to me that this is "suddenly" an issue.

It has been known for decades that Red Hat Inc's largest customer is the U.S. Army[1]. It's a very large part of the reason why Red Hat took over development of SELinux and made it on by default in their distros.

And the Army isn't exactly known for handing out cupcakes...

[1] https://unixdigest.com/includes/files/Army-RedHat-Whitepaper...

[1] "Red Hat’s partnership with the U.S. Army spans 10 years starting with the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2002 and, to this day, the U.S. Army remains one of Red Hat’s largest customers by volume."

New comment by mmh0000 in "Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks"

mmh0000 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:08:14 +0000

I thought you might be.

I just wanted to mention ZFS.

Have I mentioned how great ZFS is yet?

New comment by mmh0000 in "Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks"

mmh0000 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:59:33 +0000

Filesystem/file level dedupe is for suckers. =D

If the greatest filesystem in the world were a living being, it would be our God. That filesystem, of course, is ZFS.

Handles this correctly:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/

New comment by mmh0000 in "Sens Ask Gabbard to Tell Americans That VPN Use Subjects Them to Surveillance"

mmh0000 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:48:12 +0000

To be fair… this has been known for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

New comment by mmh0000 in "Age verification now required for DNS resolution"

mmh0000 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:18:46 +0000

I know this is a joke. But, with the way the world is headed, this seems "likely".

My question is, say a law was passed that effectively outlawed unauthenticated and unlogged DNS access.

Could that be implemented today with something like DoH and client certificates?

I found this draft that seems to cover some possible future implementation:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-tjjk-cared-00.html

and:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1n5vji7/is_dns_...

This might be a fun weekend project for me... Ugh rabbit holes.

New comment by mmh0000 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mmh0000 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:08:28 +0000

It actually works really well if you suck up to the AI.

"Please do x"

"Thank you, that works great! Please do y now."

"You're so smart!"

lol. It really works though! At least in my experience, Claude gets almost hostile or "annoyed" when I'm not nice enough to it. And I swear it purposefully acts like a "malicious genie" when I'm not nice enough. "It works, exactly like you requested, but what you requested is stupid. Let me show you how stupid you are."

But, when I'm nice, it is way more open, like "Are you sure you really want to do X? You probably want X+Y."

New comment by mmh0000 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mmh0000 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:09:09 +0000

TL;DW: skip to 17m55s for the important bit

[1] https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?t=1075

New comment by mmh0000 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mmh0000 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:51:26 +0000

The Clbuttical problem[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

New comment by mmh0000 in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

mmh0000 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:59:18 +0000

Make a better system, and we'll consider using it.

A Terminal + Bash/ZSH is soooo sticky because they are VERY good at what they do once you learn the basics and quirks. And now with LLMs, CLIs are even better because LLMs talk in text and CLIs talk in text.

Microsoft tried with PowerShell to design a better system; it "technically" is better, but not "better enough" to justify the cost of switching (on Linux). The same is true of nushell; it is "better", but not better enough to justify switching for most people.

I believe we're at "peak input method" until someone invents Brain<->Computer interfaces.

Altar of the Demo Gods

mmh0000 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:13:03 +0000

Article URL: https://demogoats.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353046

Points: 1

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