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Husband, Father, IT Pro, military service.

Don't assume, ask. Don't assume questions are statements or accusations.

I'd rather talk about difficult and nuanced topics in personal one on one situations over espresso or beer. Such discussion is very difficult in Internet written form.

I believe everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, but that doesn't mean I agree with everything or everyone.

I have conservative and progressive views. I believe people can be both.

  • AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support

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  • contract "options" are indeed normal. You could also lump in government contracts into the category your thinking about. I've never heard of a scenario where the vendor broke contract by not honoring the options. I also have never dealt with a vendor getting bought out and then not honoring existing contracts. Super fun to watch the corporate drama. I personally don't care for the private equity style business that seems to be an even bigger problem than the investor first/profit centric model that I thought was the worst thing.

  • IBM sues a Zurich-based startup over 'unlawful' use of mainframe technology

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  • It's pretty plain to see IBM afraid of loosing vendor lock-in, but running a software solution designed for an open or distributed platform shouldn't be that big of a threat, right?

    All their selling points for z series are the insane hardware performance, redundancy, and tuning.

    Isn't it unlikely you're going to get that on some virtual or abstracted mainframe platform?

    If I was one of the businesses that's been paying the fortune keeping IBM mainframe alive, I'd stay on it. They measure profits in the billions and saving some money going away from IBM and risking loosing countless dollars per minute seems like a risk...

    Oh wait, I forgot, all American Corps are currently (since the 80s-ish), worthless greedy fucks solely focused on short term profit and stock price regardless of long term consequences. Maybe they should save some money on one of the things that's helps make them billions...I bet that golden goose tastes amazing 😄

  • Election of Donald Trump ‘could put world’s climate goals at risk’

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  • I don't mean to downplay the environment, but I think we'll have a long list of worries... 🫨

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    Russia violates NATO-member Poland's air space in attack on Ukraine, Poland's armed forces say

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  • Well, there was a huge push after the cold war for globalization. It was supposed to be the next peace plan and war deterrent. It was for a while.

    I would have disagreed with you, but after Russia started acquireing land in 2014?, I would have been concerned. Then they kept up their moves towards where we are today.

    Now, I think everyone is a little late and reactionary.

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  • Well, it was done by someone who doesn't live there.

    Plus it was a former military member, as such, tend to be more supportive of military spending.

    I hopefully didn't suggest that the video is perfect.

    It was more than I had seen regarding western EU nations and their complimentary efforts/spending.

    There will likely never be consensus on a nation's spending. Best we can hope for is not too ridiculous...😀

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  • Agreed. I don't blame those countries for not spending tons of money on a military they didn't think they needed.

    Now, I'm looking at France cutting it's social programs to cover increases in military spending. Agree or disagree with the spending or their PM's choices, I hugely respect the idea that they keep a budget or try. The US hasn't done that for...25 years?

    I saw a good video analysis about France spending lately. I'm going to edit that in.

    Edit: https://youtu.be/s1iS6ib45Z8?si=Q3EoIyBvAQp545uI

    It's just another opinion, but I learned a lot.

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  • Do you live in Europe?

    I don't, but I get the impression that most European citizens don't have much interest in escalation.

    Turkey was mentioned. I'm my mind, they aren't really cut from the same cloth of much of Europe. They seem to be an outlier.

    EU/NATO countries are pretty cautious.

    There's some really good geopolitics related content from real life lore and task and purpose (just content people, not experts, might still learn something).

    Military stuff:

  • Murkowski, done with Trump, won’t rule out leaving GOP

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  • We need to stop being afraid of electing third or independent party candidates because the other side might win.

    We will keep losing in the end no matter what if we don't fight for a new political system. Most people agree this isn't working.

    Can we stop urging people to vote for a D/R and focus on independent?

  • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

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  • I would not have thought of this perspective if you hadn't mentioned it. Thx.

  • What is a good multirole server setup for a racked server?

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  • Just make sure it's HBA mode and it'll be fine. Sometimes called IT mode.

  • What is a good multirole server setup for a racked server?

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  • Google IBM m1015 hba, there's a ton on eBay for no money. It used to be TrueNAS go to. There's newer HBAs that are faster, but I don't think it will matter for you

    If you do TN, you MUST read the manual and look at their ZFS intro guide. Trust me.

  • Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers

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  • Imagine for a moment that the business world transitioned to Linux, and now there's enormous incentive for all adversaries from state sponsored to financially motivated criminals to spend all their time hunting through linux source code.

    • Do you think the ideas above stand up? (I'm not saying they dont)

    • Would linux vulnerabilities be found at a higher rate? I wonder if they aren't now because there aren't as many eyes on them. Sure there's corporate side project efforts and volunteers, just curious how that stacks up against the amount of research happening to break Windows systems.

    • NSA would definitely want to keep some linux exploits around if their adversaries were using linux instead of windows. I think the result would be the same regarding eternal blue.

  • US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

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  • Yes. 🤷

    Nobody wants to be spied on by their perceived enemies. Also, how do you expect us to maintain an appropriate level of hypocrisy if we don't constantly do hypocritical things?

    I wish we would go after foreign investment, ownership, and political meddling as much as tiktok

  • UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content

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  • I keep asking myself why I haven't blocked lemmy.ml

    I keep telling myself I'll lose ideas or comments from the good users there...

    At this point, I'll have just blocked all their users individually

  • YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions

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  • Good luck to you.

  • YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions

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  • Yeah, it's frustrating when people in turn can't find good medical insurance.

    The trade for sometimes higher pay or flexibility in assignments doesn't work when you can't afford insurance or other benefits.

    Assuming you were even being paid about permanent positions.

  • TrueNAS vs Debian

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  • TrueNAS is a propose built solution.

    You'll need to use it the way it's designed, which is extremely capable, but reading the manual is mandatory or you'll do it wrong and then it will suck. I know this.

    There's TN Core, and Scale. Ones based on FreeBSD, one's Linux. You can compare for your needs.

    TN can be an enterprise solution if that tells you the capability.

    Edit, it's meant to be a storage solution. Scale adds containers. It's not great IMO as a general purpose server OS .

  • Exposing a iscsi disk to vm in lan (good practices)

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  • Unless you are forced to use the same network interface, always use dedicated NIC, vLAN when possible.

    Like others mentioned, if the VM is on a hypervisor where you can use that to present the disk, you should try that.

    Examples would be NAS box with two interfaces, use second one for iscsi. Connect that to switch with different vlan. Connect something like proxmox second nic to iscsi vlan. Add remote disk in proxmox from iscsi nas. Add disk to VM.

    This idea spans all different tech.

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  • You have any idea the wide spread feelings on this?

    It sounds like that's what we should be doing in more countries,.US.