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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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homophobia, ablism I haven't posted a for a while. So here's one. Last night I dreamed I wrote a book called Silly Chilly Billy, in which Billy gets a croak in his throat 'cuz he wouldn't wear a coat, but smarter Carter wore his garters. However, the book launch was being protested because apparently the book contributed to the feminization of boys by suggesting that they might need to wear coats when it's cold outside. The book lead to all books by people with disabilities being banned, because true men aren't disabled, and so all books by the disabled are homosexual propaganda. I was then required to publicly apologize for attacking masculinity, and admit that coats are a crutch for the inferior. As people booed and threw things at me, I woke up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nicr9 Also, advertisers want to put everyone into similarity buckets. And that's what AI can be extremely good at, if it's using data of billions of people. It's not recommending the content you would like most. Instead, it's trying to find other people who are most similar to you, and push you the content they like. There's a subtle but important difference. As a blind person, I feel this a lot. I consume a lot of content about video games that happen to be accessible (Forza, Hearthstone, The Last of Us, etc). So big tech pushes me content about other video games people play, but those games aren't accessible. The AI has dropped me into the "video gamer" bucket and assumes I like the same kind of things other gamers do. And advertisers can now target me with generic video game content. Whereas distributed, personalized AI would just be focused on learning about you as an individual, instead of trying to decide what massive bucket you fit into.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Also, apparently I was wrong about the CPU. according to lscpu:
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 6
Socket(s): 1
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes This is initial. Destination started off completely empty.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes However, I do know that stuff that doesn't need to read or write to the filesystem is just fine. Like, there's no lag typing into SSH. But if I try to write to a file, then there is.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes I do not. At least, not off the top of my head.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel It sure is! An organization I used to work with had a code of conduct new members had to agree to, but it was always shortened to C O C. So occasionally I'd get to hear slack messages like "Hey, have you accepted the coc yet?"
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes The destination disc is a solid state NVME drive.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes rclone sync --interactive icloud /Family/backups:/mnt/backups
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Nope! Debian 12 directly installed on a server right here beside me. It's on 3 gig symmetrical fiber, with 64 gigs of ram, and a quad-core AMD CPU.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @ireneista I'm using rclone sync to move a little over 900 gigs, of files between 20 kb and 5 mb in size. It's nowhere near maxing out CPU, bandwidth, or memory. But it brings the server to its knees anyway. Anything other than rclone that wants to do any IO takes multiple seconds.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel check the spelling, you have it wrong LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel www.kagi.com
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @ireneista So my understanding is that rclone mounts the cloud using fuse, then treats it as a virtual filesystem. So when sync is touching files to get time/date/size etc, you get high iowait, slowing the entire system.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Eggfreckles Yeah, I think I'll do something like that next time. This copy only has 17 hours left, so not a huge deal; the other users on the machine can wait a day or so.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ireneista Isn't the issue caused by how slow the remote end is, though? Because Rclone is pretending to be a filesystem, so the kernel slows IO down because it's constantly waiting for data from rclone. So writing to disc isn't the actual bottleneck.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@crmsnbleyd This was exactly the discussion I was looking for; thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I hate the way doing large syncs from slow cloud providers slows my entire machine to a crawl, but because of the way iowait works and how rclone works, I don't think there's a good way around it? Has anyone found anything I missed?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hey : does anyone know what channel.org actually is? Is it providing a useful service for someone, somewhere? The homepage makes it look like enterprise big-tech marketroid nonsense, but for nonprofits. It seems to boost random posts to random hashtags with bots. Is there a purpose other than fake engagement here? Or should I block it to save my notifications from random noise.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@RegGuy I know they have their own index and their own finetunes apparently. What a lot of the AI folks are missing is that when you require users to ask in full sentences, you're not "freeing" them. Instead, you're forcing them to define what they want in more detail, and that very act of defining causes people to narrow down and focus, often in ways that are not helpful. I'm thinking of how a lot of the stuff in "How to ask questions the smart way?" (www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) mostly involves getting people to stop asking the wrong questions entirely. I just kind of vaguely know I wanna know stuff about "rclone caching"; when I'm doing a search like that, I'm not even quite sure what exactly I want to know, yet. Does rclone caching exist? How does it work? Are there settings? Can I turn it on and off? I'm not ready to define the questions, because I know nothing about the thing.
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