Rob Bos

Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.

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  • It became a running joke (at least in my circles) that if you want to spot a Canadian, look for a Roots bag or MEC gear. Only Americans would wear a Canadian flag. Though this was before Roots enshittified and offshored all their manufacturing to China, and before MEC dissolved their co-op through evil shenanigans and went privately-owned.








  • It’s not even that it’s low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it’s been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.

    It’s the pig-ignorant newbies thinking “hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech”. Hard drives are also 1970s tech.

    They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They’re not well suited for situations where you can’t guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.

    But for some situations, it’s indispensable.











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    10 days ago

    Yeah. For wildcard DNS from letsencrypt, you can’t do HTTP validation, only DNS, which involves creating a TXT record.

    Your DNS provider needs to run an ACME server, which runs an API that’ll add the required TXT records on request.

    As I understand it.