Hopfgeist

I was going to say, "burnt" seems like a bit of an understatement. It even blew the engine block to pieces.

It's over 1,000 km from Ukraine; I don't think they have anything with that range. That is beyond even the elusive Taurus in its original form.

Yes, literally called "Flakpanzer" in German. Or "Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer" in its full form.

Edit: expected delivery, may 2024… well shit.

Yes, so not for this winter. Sh*t indeed. They really need them.

I think the Gepard is probably the most cost-effective way of shooting down Shaheds. These fly low and slow, exactly what the Gepard was designed for. I didn't know Jordan had so many of them, but this is good news and will help protect Ukrainian infrastructure during winter, together with additional Patriot and IRIS-T from Germany. I hope they can also secure enough ammunition.

Sure, SCSI disks will show their defective list ("primary defects", as delivered by the factory, and grown defects, accumulated during use), and they all have a couple hundred primary defects. But I don't see why that would affect the reported geometry, given that it is fictional, anway. And all disks have enough spare tracks to accommodate for the defects, and offer the specified full number of total sectors, even for long list of grown defects. Incidentally, all the 4TB disks are still "perfect" in that they have no grown defects.

And yes, ever since LBA, nobody has used sectors and cylinders for anything.

I'm not touching that post again. But a small rant about typesetting in lemmy: It seems there is no way whatsoever to put angle brackets in a "code" section. In an overzealous attempt to prevent HTML injection, everything in angle brackets is just removed when posting (although it remains there in preview). In normal text, you can use "<", but not inside "code" segments, where it will be retained verbatim.

Very unlikely. The West has enough sources in the Kremlin. We would know when he died. Things like this cannot be kept secret.

If you're as paranoid as me about data integrity, SAS drives on a host adapter card in "Initiator Target" (IT) mode with write-cache on the disks disabled is the safest. It will degrade performance when writing many small files concurrently, but not as badly as with SATA drives (that's for spinning disks, of course, not SSD). With a good error-correcting redundant system such as ZFS you can probably get away with enabled write cache in most cases. Until you can't.

RAID is generally a good thing but don’t get complacent, follow the 3-2-1 method

To expand on that: Redundant drive setup and backups serve completely different purposes. The only overlap is in case of a single disk failure, where RAID (or similar) may save the data.

Redundancy is all about reducing downtime in case of single hardware failures. Backups not only protect you from data loss in case of multiple simultaneous failures, but also from accidental deletion. Failures that require restoration of data almost always involve downtime. In short: You always need backups (unless it's strictly a local cache, and easily recreatable), but if you want high availability, redundancy may help.

3-2-1-rule for backups, in case you're unfamiliar: 3 copies of important data, on 2 different media, with 1 off-site.

I had no idea that the North-Koreanification of Russia was already that far advanced. Propaganda and music so hilariously over the top that nobody could possibly believe any of it, and yet everyone must pretend to.

At first I thought "Yes". Everyone helps defending the country. But thinking about I have to agree with you 100%. Children must be shielded from war and given a normal childhood as far as possible. Don't lie to them when they ask why they have to run for shelter, or where their father is, but don't involve them in hating and killing other people, no matter how justified it may be.