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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

    You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

    Here is a suggestion:

    Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

    Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

    1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
    2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
    3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

    At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

    Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

    As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

    The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.






  • I mean, it is fair for the company leadership to decide on what is said through their channels.

    I don’t really see any issues with them limiting what can be said when representing their company.

    However, any coworker should be able to post, comment and like what they want on their own personal social media pages without it affecting their employment.

    I remember various attempts by employers to force employees to represent the brand and company at all times, that is just idiotic.

    I will only accept that my employer will have me say “no comment” when asked about company opinions or details in my free time.


  • I am currently in the final phase of building my first own built NAS.

    (I have an oooooold Intel NAS, that I don’t really use anymore…)

    I need to populate the case with storage drives, I need to add an Intel GPU, a 10gbit NIC, and possibly add an HBA to add two SSDs for VM storage.

    Currently I have a:

    • Jonsbo N4 case
    • Asrock B550m Pro4
    • AMD Ryzen 4600G
    • 32GB RAM
    • Kingston boot SSD
    • Corsair SF750 PSU

    I am running TrueNAS on it, that was just installed to make sure that it is working, but I am planning on running it going forward, as I am mostly looking to run the server as a filserver.









  • I am also working on building a new NAS, I didn’t realize it was going to be so damned expensive though…

    Currently I am thinking of going for ZFS with six drives, four pure storage, one parity and one hot spare, I would also need another drive as a cold spare…

    I am interested in ZFS due to it’s bitrot protection, I have already seen some of my photos affected by bitrot…