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Danie van der Merwe

How having an online backup saved my home server today

I have a physical server running at home that has a few services running on it, including Nginx Proxy Manager to route external network traffic to an OpenWebRx SDR that I host at home. The server boots off its own NVMe internal drive, but has two 4 ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/how-having-an-

A Western Digital and a Seagate IronWolf hard drive side by side, both displaying their labels and specifications.
GadgeteerZA · How having an online backup saved my home server todayI have a physical server running at home that has a few services running on it, including Nginx Proxy Manager to route external network traffic to an
#backups#storage#technology
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Danie van der Merwe

4 reasons you may want to use Virtual Hard Disks instead of partitioning storage, or not

This is quite interesting, but something not mentioned is performance of a virtual hard disk.

I’m familiar with virtual disks from using virtual machines like VirtualBox, QEMU, etc. But what I found was that if I made a separate macOS or Windows ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/4-reasons-you-

A Western Digital and a Seagate IronWolf hard drive side by side, both displaying their labels and specifications.
GadgeteerZA · 4 reasons you may want to use Virtual Hard Disks instead of partitioning storage, or notThis is quite interesting, but something not mentioned is performance of a virtual hard disk.
#harddrives#storage#technology
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Abimelech B. 🐧🇩🇪| wörk ™️

"Data centers contain 90% crap data:

We need to talk about the data. Crap data. We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, never-to-be-read-again reports, files and drawings from cancelled projects, drafts of drafts of drafts, out of date, inaccurate and plain wrong information, and gigabytes and gigabytes of poorly written, meandering content."

#datacenters #crap #storage #cloud
gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers

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N-gated Hacker News

😱 Oh no, another *shocking* #security flaw! This time it's Apache Parquet, because who doesn't love a good #data #storage scare? 🙄 But wait, first you have to enable #JavaScript and #cookies to even read about it—because security is all about user inconvenience! 🍪🔐
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu #flaw #ApacheParquet #HackerNews #ngated

BleepingComputer · Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache ParquetBy Bill Toulas
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