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  • To me, there are two reasons we’re doing it too soon;

    • We don’t really have technology needed to build a self-sustaining colony anywhere outside Earth; say, a colony on Mars is inherently dependent on Earth’s supplies, and will quickly die out as Earth does too; the technologies needed can largely be developed on Earth;
    • The chance of some asteroid obliterating Earth in the coming millenia is so minor we might as well focus on much more real threats.


  • As if we didn’t know this already.

    Space launches disrupt ozone layer, contribute to air pollution and global warming, waste a lot of resources, and produce tons upon tons of space debris.

    We should be careful with this industry and technology, and use it when it makes sense. But hey, why not launch billionaires and their cars into space for leisure and launch hundreds of satellites under different brandings all promising the best Internet ever or whatnot?

    Also, massive launches such as Starlink should be approved by international bodies, not national organizations. Cool, US has greenlit the launch, but now it’s a global headache.



  • Allero@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldRough draft server/NAS is complete!
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    11 days ago

    I would argue either RAID 5 or ZFS RAIDz1 are inherently unsafe, since recovery would take a lot of read-write operations, and you better pray every one of 4 remaining drives will hold up well even after one clearly failed.

    I’ve witnessed many people losing their data this way, even among prominent tech folks (looking at you, LTT).

    RAID6/ZFS RAIDz2 is the way. Yes, you’re gonna lose quite a bit more space (leaving 24TB vs 32TB), but added reliability and peace of mind are priceless.

    (And, in any case, make backups for anything critical! RAID is not a backup!)











  • written before reading the article; it get the topic from another, more interesting and less imaginary, angle

    Do we explore it post-Google or post-anything that would take its place?

    Because those are two very different scenarios. There are plenty of Big Tech corps that are willing to take Google’s place.

    If we actually mean no one does search with targeted advertising and stuff, my bets are on more indie sites popping up, and Fediverse getting stronger as well.

    We’ll have more link indices, and more relevant search results hosted on different corners of the Internet.

    On the negative: unless open-source projects step up their game, usability and quality of web interfaces will suffer dramatically. And without truly massive Fediverse or at least decent webrings, finding basic information and connecting to others might actually get harder.