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Cake day: December 21st, 2023

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  • Wait til your table with all the checksums gets messed up on an “older” btrfs install. Happened to me on a VM because I didn’t know copy-on-write should be disabled for large frequently partially updated files. It also slowed that VMs IO down a lot.

    Like most file systems, BTRFS is great if you know the edge cases. I recently moved to ZFS on my new work system, which has been a great change in terms of in-line snapshots and the like.

    If EXT4 meets your needs, that’s awesome. If you understand how to use a different FS well or are willing to learn (and risk), I would also encourage other options as well.





  • I see this as both a win and a potential problem for the app’s reputation:

    As soon as you take away a hard link to a real-life identifier, the sketchy people come out of the woodwork and trade images/video of child exploitation.

    Signal has not had this problem like some platforms (e.g. Kik), and I suspect two reasons:

    1. Lack of searchable chat rooms
    2. Concrete link to a phone number that anyone who contacts you must know (and make it easy to identify you to authorities)

    Up until now signal has been an excellent secure replacement for text messaging between parties that know each other. I hope they don’t go the “chat groups” route, though I doubt they will. But I suspect this change will make it a preferred way for abusers to exchange images and videos nearly anonymously


  • I see this as both a win and a problem:

    As soon as you take away a hard link to a real-life identifier, the sketchy people come out of the woodwork and spread images of child exploitation.

    Signal has not had this problem like some platforms (e.g. Kik), and I suspect two reasons:

    1. Lack of searchable chat rooms
    2. Concrete link to a phone number that anyone who contacts you must know (and make it easy to identify you to authorities)

    Up until now signal has been an excellent secure replacement for text messaging between parties that know each other. I hope they don’t go the “chat groups” route, though I doubt they will. But I suspect this change will make it a preferred way for abusers to exchange images and videos nearly anonymously.