surfrock66

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[–] surfrock66 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I have a philosophy of sticking close to reference implementations and upstream in the homelab because it forces me to learn principles rather than implementations. I use bind9, but that upstreams to pihole on a different port. It is hard to configure for sure, editing zone files in vi, but I learn a lot analyzing the reference syntax to understand features. I also use isc-dhcp-server for DHCP, again manually populating dhcpd.conf.

Bind can peer with other instances; right now it is it's own ipam vm on my proxmox with bind/isc-dhcp/pihole docker, but I'm looking at dropping some hardware at a family member's for a site 2.

[–] surfrock66 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] surfrock66 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The vibes of Agatha and Wanda vision being totally unique each episode are a lot of fun

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[–] surfrock66 12 points 1 week ago

It's really nice to have a low-stakes show. And the campiness right before halloween is refreshing, it's good vibes. I'm tired of shows like Secret Invasion being like 'this show will determine if the planet survives.' It's nice to just have a fun character show in a shared universe.

[–] surfrock66 117 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I'm super happy and excited for GIMP 3.0. I hate that this info was presented in a youtube video. I can gleam what I want to know from an article with bullet points (which I could find) but I'm sick of half the information I search for being returned in a video, with a fixed time commitment and imprecise "scrolling" to skip. I feel like in search and link aggregators, more and more content is video instead of text and I'm not here for it.

[–] surfrock66 2 points 2 weeks ago

I totally agree...the best solution for the specific problem. "Cloud" was the buzzword solution to every problem for a few years and it wasn't great in a lot of cases. High I/O home grown apps to be used from a single campus don't need to be in the cloud. Bulk archive storage doesn't need to be in the cloud, things like lecture recordings from 10+ years.

[–] surfrock66 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand your disbelief here, the 2 major players in online email and account mgmt (for education) are Google and Microsoft and both are 0 cost, but the bait and switch is the limit lowering mid cycle, not even on the academic calendar. Now that exchange on-prem is essentially dead and Google and MS control email via blacklist politics, it's a captive market.

[–] surfrock66 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

We had been a university with office365 for several years, and the price change came well after the product comparison and decision was made. Once you are in an ecosystem like that the cost of changing is astronomical when you include migration labor, training, and loss of productivity during the transition. When you are a university with thousands of student, staff, and alumni accounts, and the office, mail, and authentication environments are integrated, it's realistically functionally impossible to migrate.

The student A1 licenses are 0 cost without upgrades, which is why it was chosen, but the storage change was a blindside. We had hundreds of accounts using over the 100GB of data (which was within TOS) and had tons of data in onedrive which had to be moved or we had to fork out per account. This was a bait and switch, plain and simple, and that is the issue with "cloud for everything" is you are at their mercy.

[–] surfrock66 22 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Completely disagree. This last March, Microsoft changed the storage limit per user on OneDrive for education from 1TB to 100GB, and users either had to delete a ton of files or pay for increased license/space. We ended up standing an on-prem file server back up shortly thereafter because we could not get our users and faculty to delete research data and could not afford to nearly double our cost expenditure. In my experience doing IT budget for years, cloud has meant that you cannot predict your yearly expenditures, Especially if you use your services that are funded in part by venture capital. Let's say you start using some cool research presentation project and suddenly the economy dips and they lose funding, the cost goes way up. Life cycle management has gone completely out the toilets in my experience with cloud products.

[–] surfrock66 74 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

Cloud. Businesses went all in on cloud under this illusion of stable costs, but costs go up and contol/support have gone down, and I'm seeing businesses spin on-prem back up.

[–] surfrock66 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes she, happily cleaning herself wrapped in garbage, as one does.

[–] surfrock66 27 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Man if she has the proof, she should show it then ask him to prove he had bone spurs.

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