While not exactly a bouncer, I like Quassel

For Google money I’d do it too…but I wouldn’t do a very good job of it

Well I use key-based login for security; obscurity just keeps the network congestion down

You can use any port for ssh. When I switched from 22 to 1337, brute force attempts at logging in stopped

The best book is either Consider Phebas by Iain Banks, or Fine Structure by Sam Hughes.

Oh, you meant programming books. Maybe still try Sam Hughes, it’ll probably be more blog post than book, though

And that’s how you get the Thompson hack

I’ve found a couple plugs “upgraded” to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.

Ah, the good old reverse polarity bootleg ground.

Fun fact: RPBG is the one fault that those plug-in outlet testers can’t recognize

Edit: Wait, no, that would be hot bootleg ground, they should catch that. RPBG has the hot and neutral switched, and also a bootleg ground to the neutral that’s actually hot

Reminds me of a story about magic

That is madness. I love it

I’ve found SMB to more frequently have connection issues with my Linux clients, and often be slower. It’ll work, but if you’re mainly supporting Linux clients, might as well set up NFS if you like toying with things anyways

SMB for the windows clients, possibly NFS as well for the others. *nix will talk with SMB fine, but NFS may be faster. Windows’ NFS support is shit though.

Running both daemons won’t really add much overhead

Flac for storage, turn up the compression level. Transcode to an appropriate format when copying or streaming to a device

when people google that they want immediate relief

Well, bad news as far as ‘immediate relief from depression’ goes.

Though I suppose there’s always ketamine.

Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.

I love the Jargon File

Well that sounds cool

Well fuckin thank you for that concise explanation, because I’ve been planning to build a NAS and Jellyfin box, and have been wondering

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/itappmonrobot

The biggest issue I see is edits percolating through the network slowly or not at all, but I’m sure that’s not an insurmountable problem

rsync.net and learn to use Borg; they’re stupid cheap if you’re technically proficient enough to handle the Borg setup yourself. Like, charge by the gigabyte, but it’s 1.5¢/GB at the most expensive, and cheaper in bulk

We’re reposting Bash.org quotes now?

Not that this is a bad one