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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…

In a post on X on May 18,
Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon,
announced that the United States would pause its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD)
to “reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”
The under secretary pointed to Canada failing to make credible progress on its defence commitments as well as to Canadian rhetoric,
a jab at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davo…

Canada and America Are Drifting Apart. The Pentagon Just Made It Official | The Walrus
A surprise defence decision reveals the depth of the political rupture

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 :-(

Any idea about why, sometimes, DNS over UDP might fail with a specific ISP?
So, I have been having random problems with the network at home and, you won't believe that, after hours researching it, turns out it was DNS. Surprise. The problem is that, apparently, my ISP, or my ISP's router, is dropping UDP packets, or failing.
PS: I have already tried checking in my router's configuration if there is anything like "UDP flood prevention". I cannot find anything…

Just pulled a now empty PDU and tidied up a few cables. Main IT rack is looking pretty good now.
Everything below the 1GbaseT switches (except the PoE injector) is pulling a combined total of just under 1 kW; the rest isn't metered yet.

Server updates have grounded the pirate ship. 🛠️ Change of plans: We are streaming Valheim on the Linux rig instead today! Come watch me trade the open ocean for a freezing mountain side (and probably get crushed by a falling log): https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsu…

Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip
Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct ...

in awe at this sweepstakes form not going through because the server ran out of space

I've got the growing feeling that DevOps/SRE Microservices was a surefire way to slow down any business almost to a halt.
If you followed that route you likely have many small teams that need to coordinate with each other for every change you make. Nobody can make decisions or talk authoritative on overall things anymore because everything has been decomposed and shifted left to the poor developer doing everything now.

Ticket, please!
#RIPMichaelByrne