James Y🎃ung / is on Nostr

He/him, runs mefi.social. @PronoiacAdmin is me with my admin hat on.

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2025-03-18 05:34:26

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@nprofile…93ny heads up, I'm still seeing
> The office hours stream is currently live
On lobsters

2025-02-08 20:20:02

Surely someone's looked into this: if I wanted to store millions or billions of files on a filesystem, I wouldn't store them in one single subdirectory / folder. I'd split them up into nested folders, so each folder held, say, 100 or 1000 or n files or folders. What's the optimum n for filesystems, for performance or space?
I've idly pondered how to experimentally gather some crude statistics, but it feels like I'm just forgetting to search some obvious keywords.
#BillionFileFS #linux #filesystems #optimization #benchmarking

2025-01-21 17:18:56

MefiWiki's been getting hit by spam bots for a couple of weeks now, sometimes intensely enough that it was sporadically unavailable, like an hour or two ago.
I think we're in better shape now. Instead of whack-a-mole with individual accounts and IP addresses, I notified and blocked a Canadian server company that was hosting the bots.
#MefiWiki

2025-01-21 01:00:43

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@nprofile…7nxw huh. It looks like https is borked, but the http version redirected ok

2025-01-06 23:25:31

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@nprofile…2qzq @nprofile…0ftr you might find @nprofile…q5wq and his book "Run Your Own Mail Server" - https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools - of use, and he might have relevant opinions on email clients.

2024-12-15 22:11:54

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@nprofile…srrn I just checked how a couple of things render Markdown tables, and, well, GitHub and Bootstrap use tables

2024-12-15 22:11:54

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@nprofile…srrn I just checked how a couple of things render Markdown tables, and, well, GitHub and Bootstrap use tables

2024-11-17 02:57:47

Throwaway gag in Fantastic Four, written by Ryan North #RyanNorth #FantasticFour
https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/496/043/853/086/015/original/1f251829b143c9a9.jpeg

2024-10-29 01:25:29

I blogged: Used drives are ok, but I tested them for defects and capacity first. My notes: https://pronoiac.org/misc/2024/10/testing-new-drives/

2024-09-02 00:42:32

More fun with way too many files: archiving and compressing. So, much, compression.
https://pronoiac.org/misc/2024/09/file-systems-with-a-billion-files-archiving-and-compression/
#BillionFileFS

2024-06-21 22:29:17

Hey folks, a new season of Shoresy dropped on Hulu! #Shoresy #Letterkenny

2024-04-30 14:19:38

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@npub1jqc…3mpt Ivory renders it as you expected in the timeline, but if I click through, it's all to the left. I'm not sure whether to bring it to the developers' attention.

2024-04-24 14:21:21

This is on the same timescale now as compressing a terabyte drive image, like, gzip -9.
https://social.restless.systems/@ncommander/112326302357962568

2023-04-30 05:25:21

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@npub1f6a…pnql it might be nice to link an example generated image, to compare with what we see in, say, Mastodon.