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Before you fry a whole 12bay drive array and backplane let me tell you this:

6 pin EPS and 6 pin PCIe power cables are not the same. Even though the connector may fit they are not the same pinout.


Looks the same? Should be fine.

uh oh

Then after realizing my mistake and connecting the correct EPS connector I lost an additional 3 drives trying to test if the backplane was still ok.

Double uh oh.


It's worth mentioning that last time I checked encrypted ZFS was not considered production due to obscure file corruption bugs that were unpatched.

This was a while ago so it may have changed but then changes can introduce new bugs...


Part of the problem is replicating fs bugs that take months/years to occur is nearly impossible... people still sell USB to SAS/SATA adapters that cause large file corruption in hardware too.

ZFS does have bit-rot checksum detection/repair, but the encrypted file feature was a bit of a YOLO feature for awhile. Not sure where it is at these days, as ddr5 ram prices skew away most of ZFS best key features. =3


Bigger issue was that native encryption doesn’t (didn’t?) have a maintainer, so even though most bugs got fixed, it’s not a great thing to build on. Some of the key storage is also a bit outdated.

IMO use LUKS unless you really need the features of ZFS native enc.


The laws of supply and demand apply to labour as well.


Don't worry, supply is there. Because the US is actually increasing visa caps for some of these workers. Might also be because they work at the properties of a certain person.

Need to keep those wages down, it would be terrible for profitability if he had to hire Americans you know!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/06/12/trump-or...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/h2b-visas.htm...


"Instead, what they all have in common is a vague underlying fear of being displaced, or sense that something owed to them is being taken."

This is true for both the citizens and the immigrants.


This comment is itself a perfect example of what I was talking about.

Nobody feels entitled to a visa. It’s aspirational, like applying to a job. People do it because they want a better life, knowing full well they could be denied, or that it may well be temporary.

But if you believe immigrants could take something from you, like your job or housing, then it makes sense you’d project this idea of entitlement onto them. As if by applying they’re implicitly laying claim to something owed to you, a citizen.

In reality the economy is not a fixed pie and nothing is being taken from you. Immigrants take jobs, but they also spend money, pay taxes, start businesses, and need houses built, all of which leads to more jobs. It’s a positive feedback loop that benefits everyone, and a big part of how America’s economy grew into what it is today.


> This comment is itself a perfect example of what I was talking about.

Except it's not. It's just an observation of these comments. I don't have a dog in this race. I am not a citizen or a resident. Both residents and citizens are sounding entitled IMHO.

> Nobody feels entitled to a visa. It’s aspirational, like applying to a job. People do it because they want a better life, knowing full well they could be denied, or that it may well be temporary.

For those applying for a new visa I would mostly agree. For those extending their Visa I would disagree heavily.

> But if you believe immigrants could take something from you, like your job or housing, then it makes sense you’d project this idea of entitlement onto them. As if by applying they’re implicitly laying claim to something owed to you, a citizen.

If there is no genuine concern over this then why are applications/quotas for work Visas even a thing? Just offer automatic residence to whoever in the world can get hired by any company that operates in the USA. Infinite GDP glitch.

You are right that government of the USA doesn't owe citizens a continued quality of life. The preamble is very clear on that. When it says "promote the general Welfare" that is interpreted as the welfare of residents and citizens alike.

> In reality the economy is not a fixed pie and nothing is being taken from you. Immigrants take jobs, but they also spend money, pay taxes, start businesses, and need houses built, all of which leads to more jobs. It’s a positive feedback loop that benefits everyone, and a big part of how America’s economy grew into what it is today.

I mostly agree but "benefits everyone" is not true. There are winners and losers and negative externalities. GDP isn't a happiness score. Cynical me thinks that the difference between a USA resident and a citizen is basically non existent for the average USA citizen in terms of rights (arguably worse in terms of responsibilities for non politically active people who don't work with/for the federal government) but the permission to reside indefinitely is one of those rights so a government denying residency is a way to artificially give value to the citizenry without actually giving or improving anything.


Maybe compare it from point of asian phd, who follows all rules, spends thousands of dollars, and years applying for job and visas... and much better treatment of people, who move to US illegally.

I stopped traveling to US, because during covid goverment, could not be even bothered to clarify entry rules (what sort of booster shots were needed etc). At the same time south border was widely opened. Clear rules and fair game, are the bare minimum!

There are fixed number of jobs, fixed number of houses to rent... it is not infinitive baloon.


The immigrants have something very specific and real on the line.


So do the natives.


It's funny that when you offload the work to agents they still find away to monopolise each other's time with meetings.


They were trained on human patterns and behaviour - soon they will self organise into a scrum and spawn a scrum master.


On a serious note I think that this fact is not understood by many.

There is no such thing as common sense without shared assumptions. So if those shared assumptions are incorrect or not given at all the output of the models will be nonsensical. In order to truly act human there is a need to experience humanity from the first person.

This is why I think technology will get more and more invasive. Meta glasses now, personal agent devices later and neural implants after that with data sharing enabled.


It's all by design to. People call for social media regulation without realizing that it is by no coincidence these companies have been able to grow so large. The security state has been outsourced to private industry.


3. Emotion motivates everything that we do. It's just a question of what emotions are you considering and what emotions are you prioritizing.

Reasoning is taking all emotions into context and focusing on actions that align with certain emotions.


Haven't the SLMs been distilled using the LLMs?

If this is correct I see a future where the hyperscalers are funded by the businesses integrating siloed SLMs in their software.

Also the defence/intelligence industry will always want to keep an edge so don't be surprised if they stick around and we see favourable regulations for them similarly to how the government turns a blind eye to social media platforms because they increase the footprint of mass surveillance.

I wouldn't be surprised if the hyperscalers became software auditors and any piece of critical software was required to have a regulated security audit before it could enter production. Selling the poison and the cure is a great business model.


They have been doing this for months.

No sound playing but the audio would change like the microphone was being activated. I checked permissions to make sure there was no mic access and figured that they were fingerprinting.


I had noticed it before but I was browsing AE a lot today and i got fed up with it. What browser and OS are you using?


It was happening when I was using Chrome on iPhone and Windows 11 with Chrome. I can't remember what was causing it since the headphones (Bose Quietcomfort SE) are synced with both devices. For the last couple of months I've been using Android and I haven't noticed it. The headphones seem to work better with Android. IOS is a bit weird with sharing them with my PC.


Simple smart watches make sense for people who want accurate time who don't want to pull their phone out of their pocket for things that can be answered by looking at their wrist.


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