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Roots r not comming out yet buth repot or wait until spring?Gardener (All For Gardening)
Israeli troops are killing unarmed Palestinians in West Bank operations
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5634481/israeli-troops-are-killing-unarmed-palestinians-in-west-bank-operations?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Switzerland to reduce F-35A Lightning II fighter jet order to stay within CHF 6 billion budget after cost rise
Switzerland will reduce the number of F-35A Lightning II fighter jets it plans to buy from the United States in order to remain within the original budgetBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
That asshole is full of RAID privilege. He probably has an array of >30TB HDDs and a RAID controller with an obscene amount of cache that can do over 500 MB/s write speeds.
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Christos Argyropoulos (@ChristosArgyrop@mast.hpc.social)
First #Intel came for the #PCIe lanes in the i7s and you didn't talk. Then they did away with the extreme I7/I9 but you didn't talk.Christos Argyropoulos (HPC.social Mastodon)
Usigrai e CdR Approfondimento: a rischio “il Fattore Umano”
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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‘Il fattore Umano’, programma Rai d’inchiesta che si occupa di diritti umani violati, è “a rischio”. Lo dicono in una nota congiunta Usigrai e CdR Approfondimento dove si ricorda che la trasmissione,
Burros tail got knocked over - All For Gardening
I have all the leaves set up to propagate. What’s your best tips on most of these making it? The little pot to the right are some stems that broke off. TheyGardener (All For Gardening)
asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group,
is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom project,
which already has involved razing the East Wing,
until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental assessments, public comments and congressional debate and ratification.
Trump’s project has prompted criticism in the historic preservation and architectural communities, and among his political adversaries,
but the lawsuit is the most tangible effort thus far to alter or stop the real estate developer-president’s plans for an addition that itself would be nearly twice the size of the White House before the East Wing’s demolition.
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When I first got this book I was completely overwhelmed
It’s a great feeling now six years later to be able to understand and even properly use it a little bit
#botany #naturalist #NativePlants
Slovenia draws up first climate vulnerability, risks assessment for energy sector
The main threats to the energy sector in Slovenia are floods, fires, storms, landslides, sleet and wet snow, heatwaves, and drought.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Liberal justices warned that a ruling sought by the administration to overturn the decision known as Humphrey’s Executor would give the president, as Justice Elena Kagan said, “massive unchecked, uncontrolled power.”
mississippifreepress.org/us-su…
US Supreme Court Majority Poised to Expand Trump’s Power, Let Him Fire Independent Agency Board Members
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday seemed likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members.Mark Sherman (Mississippi Free Press)
How Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado escaped Venezuela
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5642538/how-nobel-prize-winner-maria-corina-machado-escaped-venezuela?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The problem isn’t the metric itself, it’s whether you’ve internalized the metric as part of your identity.
If you think of yourself as “someone who writes 500 words per day,” missing a day becomes an identity crisis…
joanwestenberg.com/is-it-a-met…
Is It a Metric or an Obsession?
I’ve been thinking about why some people can track their progress on goals without going insane, while others turn into the guy who weighs himself four times a day and has a panic attack when his Fitbit dies… You’d think there’d be some obvious pers…JA Westenberg (Westenberg.)
Old divides in a new Syria
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5629152/old-divides-in-a-new-syria?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Dubrovnik Shines on the Thames as Croatia Unveils Record-Breaking Tourism Growth and Sustainable Travel Innovation
Dubrovnik truly shone on the River Thames as Croatia unveiled its record-breaking tourism growth and commitment to sustainable travel innovation. The event,BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Legislative committee agrees to give Elections Alberta extra $6.7M to handle recall petitions
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-recall-petition-funding-9.7014278?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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RE: mastodon.social/@timberwraith/…
This entire thread is some of the hardest earned truth we all need. Seriously.
Society isn't built for us. Institutions, traditions, capitalism (and communism!) - all of it, it's been built by dead men to appease their ideas of 'proper' or to establish their legacies. Their families, their ideals, their wealth. We're all just trapped in it, stuck in their trauma machines.
The thing about trauma is, you can carry a shit ton of trauma with you and have no clue that you have that trauma in the first place. Part of living in a world that fosters and generates trauma, is that these systems invest a lot of time and energy in shaping you to think these systems have never traumatized you. That is the nature of the abusive systems in which we exist.
Alberta signs extension on child-care deal with Ottawa, but only for one year
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-federal-provincial-child-care-agreement-one-year-extension-9.7014073?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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in reply to Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD • • •@ChristosArgyrop@mast.hpc.social I stopped caring about „RAID Controllers“ in the early/mid 2000s and by the end of that decade I stopped caring about classic RAID and started to adopt ZFS. Nowadays I even use it for external storage on my desktops, allowing me to reconnect it from Macs* to BSDs and even Linux without having to worry about crappy support of „other vendors filesystems“ like UFS, EXT4, HFS, APFS, NTFS.
* exists for Windows too. Don’t have any 1st hand experience with it though.
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in reply to Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD • • •@ChristosArgyrop@mast.hpc.social didn't miss that, but felt pointing out that it doesn't require a "RAID controller", esp. with all the problems that they come with. Also, any data that is worth spending money to store deserves attention to its integrity. IMHO.
Contrary to common myths, ZFS is actually fast. Being the filesystem instead of just an (additional) abstraction layer on the block level helps with that.
Screenshots of a spinning rust storage server I build a couple of months ago.
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in reply to Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD • • •@ChristosArgyrop@mast.hpc.social depends. Disclaimer: the machine in question is in production, so even during times with very low load, there's always some activity, even if it's less
Sequential read is about 1900 MiB/s, sequential write is around 800 MiB/s. random 4k read with properly configured zfs recordsize for random 4k access inside a larger file (say, VM "containers", databases) got me about 450 MiB/s this morning. While I did the write test some client started some