He created a throwaway account to ask the question without linking his profile to his identity, slipped and replied with the main account, then ran damage control.

I hope he'll take from that he isn't very good at the Jason Bourne stuff and, as "it takes one to know one," seek further confirmation about who paid a visit to his place.

I'm sorry, I really do think you should let the police handle the "who was that guy" angle before moving on to the technical one. It would take more than "drove a Mediacom truck, showed an ID and knew my address" before I concluded the guy Mediacom has no record of sending, and whose behavior violates their policy (and common sense), absolutely must have been either Mediacom or Jason Bourne.

Mark Zuckerberg and such?

Yes, it's called voting with your wallet. They are better at it that you or I presumably.

Voting with your wallet doesn't exist. Try to boycott Amazon by blocking the AWS IP ranges and see how unusable the internet becomes for everyday tasks. Corporations continue to push the personal responsibility narrative so they can externalize costs of unethical business practices.

how are you making them lose money by blocking their ip ranges? Your are pretty much giving them money because now they dont need to pay for bandwidth.

Dollars speak louder than ballots.

Posts such as yours — "most jews..." — help push forward the narrative that anyone critical of them is antisemitic.

> And the US could easily just keep destroying every asset in Iran

Could — and even more so: could easily — in an "if ifs and buts..." sense or materially? Wouldn't they run (weren't they running) out of resources? And having reached the point in which progressing with the destruction of assets requires killing the people encircling those buildings, standing on those bridges, wouldn't a new leadership be committed to revenge nevertheless?

In short: Deduplication efforts frustrated by hardlink limits per inode — and a solution compatible with different file systems.

The real problem is they aren't deduplicating at the filesystem level like sane people do.

From the article:

> [W]e shipped an optimization. Detect duplicate files by their content hash, use hardlinks instead of downloading each copy.

I meant TRANSPARENT filesystem level dedupe. They are doing it at the application level. filesystem level dedupe makes it impossible to store the same file more than once and doesn't consume hardlinks for the references. It is really awesome.

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/

I was talking about block level dedupe.

I thought you might be.

I just wanted to mention ZFS.

Have I mentioned how great ZFS is yet?

ZFS is great! However, it's too complicated for most Linux server use cases (especially with just one block device attached); it's not the default (root filesystem); and it's not supported for at least one major enterprise Linux distro family.

It's not as good as ed: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

File system dedupe is expensive because it requires another hash calculation that cannot be shared with application-level hashing, is a relatively rare OS-fs feature, doesn't play nice with backups (because files will be duplicated), and doesn't scale across boxes.

A simpler solution is application-level dedupe that doesn't require fs-specific features. Simple scales and wins. And plays nice with backups.

Hash = sha256 of file, and abs filename = {{aa}}/{{bb}}/{{cc}}/{{d}} where

aa = hash 2 hex most significant digits

bb = hash next 2 hex digits

cc = hash next 2 hex after that

d = remaining hex digits

All good backup software should be able to do deduped incremental backups at the block level. I'm used to veeam and commvault

That costs even more, unreuseable time and effort. It's simpler to dedupe at the application level rather than shift the burden onto N things. I guess you don't understand or appreciate simplicity.

This article shows it really isn't that simple and is easy to mess up. Who cares if your storage and backup software both dedupe?

For ZFS, at least, `zfs send` is the backup solution. And it performs incremental backups with the `-i` argument.

zfs send is really awesome when combined with dedupe and incremental

Never mind rethinking Copilot entrypoints; are users still forced to have a Microsoft account "for their own safety"? If so, the company isn't making much of an effort to deceive.

I'm replying to this using Hacki. Glider has treated me well too. Both are available on F-Droid.

Developer of Hacki here, thanks for your support!

Finally I found you! Thank you for making Hacki - it's perfect. The most recent updates enhance the quality quite a bit. Do you have a patreon where I can donate?

Thanks for the love! Simply a five star review on App Store/google play would be greatly appreciated!

Hack is also brilliant. Thanks for your work and continued maintaining it. But would you know why they never made an official mobile app?

I'd go for the discussion on Meeks' post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599305

Time, I would say. First, there's the sense that the poison will produce its effects, revealing itself in hindsight; of course, we'd rather catch it before it does, but that isn't always possible, and the best we can do is to limit the damage and apply an antidote as soon as possible. Second, time brings experience, which allows us to do that, recognize symptoms, early one and, with enough of it, enable us to do the closest thing to identifying it before it causes problems, by identifying patterns, comparing a potential skill with other skills which had turned out to be poisoned — hype can be a good indicator. I wish I could give you a set of rules by means of which you could know for sure beforehand, but I really do believe that this is a domain for heuristics, and subjective ones at that — insofar as a skill can be professionally valuable, yet dreadful at a personal level.