Recent content by Daniel15

To be honest, I'm not sure how the backups are stored, just that they exist and are tested. I don't work on that part of the system. For my personal systems, I don't use LTO tapes, but I do at least use Borgbackup in append-only mode to prevent malware on the client from deleting the backups...

I'm amazed at how many companies (even large ones) don't do disaster recovery runs, where you try to fully restore everything (in a test environment) from backup. If you haven't tested your backups, you don't really have backups. I work at a big tech company and we do this a lot. We test...

Their usage of bad English and outlandish claims is intentional. It ensures that only the most gullable people reply, reducing the number of people they need to reply to before finding a successful victim.

They initially said that it was the "lowest price to date", which is easily disproven by looking on CamelCamelCamel or comparing to Microcenter. I know Microcenter doesn't have many locations, but they do still have this CPU for cheaper. Right now it's $399 for members (membership is free until...

Why would you need a high-end CPU for low-res gaming? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but that doesn't make sense. For low-res gaming, the $180 Ryzen 7600 would often be more than sufficient, depending on what you're playing. There's also the $300 7600X3D. (Microcenter prices - will be higher...

I recently used an ASUS ROG Strix B650E-I in a SFF build with this CPU, and it was $229. You can likely find cheaper boards in a standard ATX form factor. It's designed for gaming, not productivity. The description on AMD's site is:

It's a CPU that's primarily designed for gaming, with high base clock and a large amount of L3 cache. That's what the "X3D" means - it has 3D V-cache. The 9800X3D has 96MB of L3 cache, compared to 32MB in higher-end Intel CPUs. It's rare for games to rely on more than 8 cores, since that's...

It's $429 at Microcenter right now. $451 isn't a deal.

Why are they still using GIF files? Video files (like MP4 files) can serve the same purpose. They have higher fidelity video (not just 256 colours) with a significantly smaller file size. On a lot of sites these days, a "GIF" is really just an MP4 without sound.

I wonder if we'll ever get an email 2.0. There's still no widely-accepted email protocols that even handle two factor authentication - neither IMAP nor SMTP do. JMAP might, but it hasn't been widely adopted yet. It'd be nice to move to a stateless protocol too.

I'm not conflating anything. The point is that it can be used to store malware payloads. Instead of a script downloading the payload from a URL, it can be stored directly in a DNS record. Everyone is scanning URLs for malicious content, but I doubt many systems are scanning for malware directly...

That's easily bypassable by base64-encoding the payload.

Security cameras should always be on a separate VLAN that's isolated from the internet. Use VPN software like Tailscale to view them remotely. Not sure about the other two, but Reolink is a legit company that manufactures their own products (they're not just rebranding some cheap junk). They're...

Do you have some examples of common products which are cheaper in the USA than China?

Not always... A lot of the time, products are cheaper in China or Japan. With the Nintendo Switch 2, the US price is higher than some other countries, including Australia and the UK, and that's not factoring in the tariffs (Nintendo haven't announced a higher price due to tariffs yet). One...