I am glad I bought 128gb of ram last year.
I am angry at myself for delaying the purchases of a mini PC about 4 months ago /:
If you buy now you can still brag about missing the next price increase when South Korea runs out of helium for chip production in 2 weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, was a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg)[a] of helium gas.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) transferred the reserve to the General Services Administration (GSA) as surplus property, but a 2022 auction[10] failed to finalize a sale.[11] On June 22, 2023, the GSA announced a new auction of the facilities and remaining helium.[12] The auction of the last helium assets was due to take place in November, 2023.[13] Though the last of the Cliffside reserve was to be sold by November 2023, more natural gas was discovered at the site than was previously known, and the Bureau of Land Management extended the auction to January 25, 2024 to allow for increased bids.[14] In 2024 the remaining reserve was sold to the highest bidder, Messer Group.[15]
Arguably not the best timing on that.
Me too, I was waiting for a good deal in a GMKtec EVO-X2, but that is not going to happen.
I have 1.5tb of ecc ddr4 and don’t know what to do with it. Work decom’d a bunch of servers and I took ram and storage
Use them as a form of currency at this point lol
And here I thought $399 for a 4TB Samsung NVMe 990 Pro was a bit too expensive. Little did I know. I’m so glad my friend talked me into impulse purchasing it last year. What I’m more annoyed about is not picking up HDDs for my NAS last year, I refuse to pay NVMe prices for HDDs.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to buy a few smaller ones and a PCIe card?
Same, I wish I’d bought two. Or even one.
Serious question, what does RAM help with in the context of self hosting? I recently bought 32G for my server, and it’s DDR3 ecc so it’s so cheap I could have afforded 64 but I just kept wondering what will I use it for? I rarely go north of 6G usage and that’s with half a dozen services, a Minecraft server etc… I just don’t know what kind of services are RAM hungry.
Probably not a lot.
My system idles at 3gb.
But then I do AI stuff and it needs 15-80gb. And I do data analyses that can use a lot.
Yeah i specifically don’t do any AI workloads on my server, that would be stupid slow with my old ass hardware. But my buddy (who’s a bit impulsive with money) bought two Spark GX10s and we’re likely to get some fun out of them :)
I bought 3 kits of ddr5 last January before i realized the approved vendor list actually mattered for this mobo (I’ve never had this happen before). I was too lazy to return them at the time because you can never have too much memory laying around.
Remember that if you get an idea, fuck around, find out, and write down what you’ve learned: you’ve literally just done science. Well, with computers, so it’d be computer science, but you get my point.
Honestly it’s never been easier to start doing things, and doing things is very fun. Good advice!
Also, how is the author using 1password for credentials on server? They have service accounts now, but is there a better way than just always providing a credential when asked?
What makes this worse is that git servers are the most pathologically vulnerable to the onslaught of doom from modern internet scrapers because remember, they click on every link on every page.
The especially disappointing thing is that, for the specific case that Xe was running into, a better-written scraper could just recognize that this is a public git repository and just git clone the thing and get all the useful code without the overhead. Like, it’s not even “this scraper is scraping data that I don’t want it to have”, but “this scraper is too dumb to just scrape the thing efficiently and is blowing both the scraper’s resources and the server’s resources downloading innumerable redundant copies of the data”.
It’s probably just as well, since the protection is relevant for other websites, and he probably wouldn’t have done it if he hadn’t been getting his git repo hammered, but…
EDIT: Plus, I bet that the scraper was requesting a ton of files at once from the server, since he said that it was unusable. Like, you have a zillion servers to parallelize requests over. You could write a scraper that requested one file at once per server, which is common courtesy, and you’re still going to be bandwidth constrained if you’re schlorping up the whole Internet. Xe probably wouldn’t have even noticed.
looks at slides
I see where the anime catgirl logo that Anubis uses came from.
I’m sorry, but this was too difficult to read, the author is kinda cringe.
“Please laugh”
Meant to be a watched talk though, not an article – some of the original tone is prpbably missing in the transcript.
Xe Iaso my beloved
For those who don’t know, she created Anubis, but she was already writing cool articles before that, definitely recommend add her to your RSS Reader!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters Git Popular version control system, primarily for code NAS Network-Attached Storage NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express SSD Solid State Drive mass storage ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
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