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Had a bit of an unpleasant surprise on Saturday. Luckily the disk is still in warranty, and UPS picked it up this morning. Let's see how well Toshiba's RMA process performs.
No smart warnings or other signs, though, it just fell off the bus, started making weird noises and never came back. And it's the newest of the 4 disks in my NAS, too. Really glad I bought this model from two different vendors now to avoid clustering risks.

I had a 14tb (enterprise) sata hard drive failing a few weeks ago. I bought it refurbished (it had already been used for about 6 years at that point), but with a 5 year warranty.
I thought for sure that when I RMA'd the drive, GoHardDrive would just refund my $140 and tell me to go buy another one at current market prices (hah). Because, y'know, the business model is likely built on drive prices getting cheaper over time.
I was pleasantly surprised that they sent me anoth…

🥳 Just released: Auto Encrypt¹ version 6.2.0
If at first you don’t succeed…
• Transient ACME server failures are now retried up to four times and obey the Retry-After header, falling back to exponential back-off if one isn’t provided.
• Vastly improved error handling.
• Some bug fixes.
Basically, Auto Encrypt now does its very best to provision you that certificate even when things go wrong.
Full change log:

auto-encrypt/CHANGELOG.md at main
auto-encrypt - Automatically-provisioned TLS certificates for Node.js servers using Let’s Encrypt.

Yesterday I scrolled through the accounts I'm following and was a bit surprised about the amount of accounts that haven't been active since 2024 :-(

The other day I was shocked that my favorite purveyor of hot sauces and OctoPrint maintainer extraordinaire @… was gone from my following list. Turns out her server had a bug and leisurely stripped her of a large swath of her mastodon.social followers. So if you think you follow her, double-check!
https://chaos.social/@foosel/116251218119152008

How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
https…

I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At… | Dr. Heïdi Sevestre | 62 comments
I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At 8:37AM, Nepal time, 100 to 200 million cubic metres of rock and ice detached from the north flank of Langtang Lirung at 5200m high, the equivalent of 90 to 175 Wembley stadiums, on Mohd. Farooq Azam's estimate at ICIMOD. Dan Shugar in Calgary and Jakob Steiner in Graz find from the satellite imagery that…

If you have problems with your Atlassian Confluence Wiki today (unable to change formatting of text, change tables etc.), then you might want to take a look at this ticket here:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-104454

Glyphosate is the key ingredient in professional-grade Roundup weedkiller,
and the most widely used herbicide in the world.
In recent years, it has been the focus of intense public debate
following more than $12 billion in lawsuit payments to people who say it made them sick.
Many labor and environmental groups oppose its use
—research has shown it likely harms most endangered species
—and so does a key part of Donald Trump’s base, the Make America Healthy…

We've identified California's Top 100 Roundup users. Some may surprise you.
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Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-experiments-with-data-center-robots/

Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.