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  • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtftopolitics @lemmy.world•Iran preparing missile attack on Israel, White House saysEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Here we go again.

    It was actually a mildly heartwarming incident last time around. Seeing the whole region collaborate to defend Israel against the Iranian attack inspired some hope that maybe things weren’t quite so bad over there and that broad support for resisting Iran’s axis of influence in the region was achievable.

    It’ll be interesting to see how it turns out this time around. British and American defensive support can of course be counted on, but I wonder if Israel’s actions in liquidating Hamas, Hezbollah, and PFLP members will have soured their neighbours on resisting Iran.

    Regardless, fingers crossed that their attack fails.

  • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtftoTechnology@lemmy.world•should i do a raid configuration or is it riskyEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’d suggest it depends on your hardware setup. If you have sufficient disks and care about availability and/or performance of your data access, RAID is rarely a bad idea.

    If you choose to do a software RAID in Linux without Intel RST, you have three main options: mdadm, LVM, and ZFS. You can explore those options on your own, but my personal view is that ZFS is wonderful to work with and comes with tons of benefits itself alongside its ZRAID implementation, making it my preferred choice.

    edit: I forgot btrfs! I have no experience of it but I imagine its RAID implementation is as similarly awesome as ZFS/ZRAID.

  • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtftopolitics @lemmy.world•Pigs Fly; George Will Endorses HarrisEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m not sure it’s a ‘pigs flying’ moment. Despite being an ultra-committed conservative, he’s been a critic of Trump since the beginning (and other unserious Republicans like Sarah Palin) and voted Democrat in 2016 and 2020 accordingly.

    Honestly, fair dues to him. He’s from an elder era of more serious politics, and — as incongruent as it may sound when referencing those with a libertarian slant — an injection of that sort of seriousness is exactly what the American right-wing sorely needs. Like with Dick Cheney, I agree with him about virtually nothing — apparently except for the continuation of American democracy that’s tragically on the ballot this November.

    I wish there were far, far more Republicans willing to act similarly.

  • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtftopolitics @lemmy.world•Taylor Swift endorses Kamala HarrisEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I love the focus on the ‘childless cat lady’ line.

    I think that line epitomises the pointless spite that epitomises MAGAism. The constant bullying and insults are entirely unnecessary to their agenda but they just can’t stop themselves, and if we end up post-November with them wondering how things might have gone had they not insulted tons of voters this way then I’ll find that delicious.

    I suppose the counterpoint is that the insults and bullying might well be necessary, that their ‘othering’ and painting opponents as lesser, more ridiculous, less human enemies is a core part of how such populist fascist movements gain traction. “The cruelty is the point,” as some say.