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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • The major issue is to complain to/about your provider, not mess around with the workaround solutions.

    That said once you have the list of packages, you can download them on your phone and seamlessly transfer them to your pc with Syncthing.

    Have a look at dnf-automatic to do downloads only. I’m not sure how many retries it allows.

    There is also the option of limiting your bandwidth on the PC so that it doesn’t choke.

    Ultimately the ISP has to provide a working service.





  • (half replying to other comments as well as yours)

    If you have a look at the btrfs mailing lists post that introduced RAID1c34, they were created because RAID56 were not considered viable or fixable. It’s in couched language but reasonably clear. I don’t think you’re thinking of using those (RAID56) but don’t.

    Never had any btrfs problems that weren’t self generated or date from a really sticky period in btrfs’s history (years ago, 4.13 or maybe 3.13). I’ve used RAID56 until RAID1c34 became available and RAID10 where I could.

    Haven’t tried LUKS - btrfs though, although effectively no worse than putting btrfs in a VM (which is fine if slow at the time), albeit a bit more computationally intensive.






  • that’s unrelated - AES-256 for example can be executed just fine on either a 32- or 64-bit machine. in theory there’s nothing stopping you from running it on an 8-bit or 16-bit CPU (although other considerations related to the size of AES’s lookup tables make this unlikely). from some random googling, here is an implementation of Chacha20, another 256-bit encryption algorithm, for 8-bit microcontrollers.

    I started out programming a 6502a in 1980, 680X0 a little later in 87, so I get that bit, but it’s easier doing operations on a larger register. I remember writing code for 8 bit multiplication of 32 bit floating points.

    I enjoyed and understood the rest of your prose though. Didn’t do much/any programming/low level after say 2005, and regret it now. Trying to re-learn but things have moved on so much.

    I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).







  • Thank-you for your kindness. And it is really kind!

    I’m old so my view of prop software is rooted in the change of early Microsoft et al bringing real change to the dubious parasitic entities that they are today. I watched it slowly happen and have been delighted and contributing in a small way with Linux since the turn of the century.

    RedHat had been sold to the ‘no-one ever got fired for buying IBM’ (I still can’t believe that they believed that that was a winning slogan). In these trying times the love for open source isn’t translating into enough cash; average people are stretched.

    I can’t wait for the leaders in my country to stop pandering to the world’s oligarchs and serve the people that elected them.