Happy Silent Sunday, #Fediverse Happy Silent Sunday, #BSDCafe Happy Silent Sunday, #illumosCafe #Photography #Photo #SilentSunday #NaturePhotography image
Just got back from the local @npub1lu0a...q9t4 distributor with a load of "toys" for a new job for a client. The next few days are going to be fun! #Networking #MikroTik #Router #Switch #IT #SysAdmin image
In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters. Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters. The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life. So much for owning your data. So much for decentralisation. Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes. Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard. Always Own Your Data. #OwnYourData #SelfHosting
Bologna, two years ago today #Photography #Italy #Photo #Italia #Bologna #EmiliaRomagna #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag image
Happy yellow Silent Sunday! #SilentSunday #Photography #Photo #Autumn #Leaves #Fall image
As expected, on some well known news sites my latest blog post also drew some interesting comments, offering a few things to think about. On average, the readers who replied see "Linux" as the opposite of macOS or Windows, basically an anti something. Not because of its strengths, but because of the flaws they associate with its "competitors". They also focus entirely on the desktop world, which I can understand. Many of them also confuse popularity with quality. The fact that other operating systems such as the BSDs or illumos are less widespread leads them to assume they are less "interesting". That is an ideological contradiction, because by the same logic Windows and macOS would be far superior to everything else simply because they dominate an enormous share of desktop systems. #ITNotes #OS #IT
Why I (still) love Linux I usually publish articles about how much I love the BSDs or illumos distributions, but today I want to talk about Linux (or, better, GNU/Linux) and why, despite everything, it still holds a place in my heart.
Why I (still) love Linux - IT Notes
 #Linux #OwnYourData #Server #SysAdmin #Workstation #OpenSource #ITNotes
Happy #SilentSunday ! #Photography #Photo #Picture #NaturePhotography image
"The contrast with Docker is striking: while the Docker container required 100% CPU to reach peak for the HTTP and HTTPS throughput, the FreeBSD jail delivered the same speed with ~60% of the CPU sitting idle. In terms of performance cost per request, Jails are drastically cheaper."
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared - IT Notes
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