David Cross @david@mastodon.crossfamilyweb.com

@SamUpstate Welcome to the party! :)

@masto @TechConnectify I've had those cool-mist ones for years. They keep breaking. I just need to get one with a wick. I originally gave up on them because of the perceived maintenance costs (water additives, wicks) and fear of mold. I think it is time to reconsider.

@tykling @scanlime 😒 😆

@tykling @scanlime I've had many times more data unavailability due to ZFS than I have had with other filesystems. Just within the past month I tried to remove a cache partition from a running ZFS system (that was idle at the time, even though it shouldn't matter), and it locked the entire filesystem, and because of where the lock was zfs wouldn't unmount and I had to hard reset). I hit these issues *all the time*. Tried to import an exported zfs set and randomly some wouldn't import

@tykling @scanlime I use stock UFS with or without journaling (but always with softupdates) depending on usecase (for example, databases are self journaled, adding journaling on top of journaling only adds additional write load.. and journaled write load is synchronous, so you take a double hit in a very expensive operation for no benefit). I find ZFS to be wildly unpredictable in terms of performance (combination of ARC interactions and lack of preservation of file locality) and (1/2)

@gavininny Welcome to the fediverse!

@scanlime I have used ZFS since about 2007 (when it was added to FreeBSD). my take on ZFS is that it in many ways is like IPv6. It is an ivory tower design of what a filesystem 'should' be, and is neither practical nor pragmatic on what a filesystem needs to be. It is over-complicated in the wrong parts (and yes, I know this makes me an absolute heretic in the #FreeBSD community)

@pamela wasn't it orange?

@a2_4am What killed them? (how did they die? motors? bad caps?)

@scanlime AFTER?! I didn't wait until after. I remember giving myself ludicrous resources and credits in Star Control II and X-Com: UFO-Defense!

@scanlime (oh, and thanks)

@scanlime Ugh, we got so close to actually getting this right; I think there's still value in having host ports (though you could argue being a router is a process...), but imagine if network addresses could grow organically with the network underneath them how much better things would be.

@scanlime wait.. what's the origin of this? I'd advocated for variable length network addresses for forever as a better alternative to NAT... was this in the original and I just missed it? (I just loaded RFC791 and didn't see it.. which leads me to believe this is either something else.. or a really good spoof)

ugh, letsencypt cert failed to renew... ya-know if we can actually get DANE to take hold we can kick this whole CA bullshit to the curb.

well.. at least it wasn't DNS this time

fighting the most infuriating bug I have faced in a long time. Works locally, doesn't work in higher environments, but SAYS it works. logging says it is working.. but output isn't there.

Also. Device Orchestra does Eye of the Tiger https://youtu.be/V-53yjduQiE

I think I could go for a nice glass of merlot tonight... no reason.. just feeling like it