Jim Salter

The steam forums were a mistake. **Effectively** moderating that many tweens, teens, and hardcore gamerzzz who never grew up would likely require more active, expert effort than Valve's entire management operation requires now.

How many *millions* of gamer(gater)s use that platform?

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I think I'm going to have to go with "I appreciate that you pulled up your pants and got Kyle off the hook, and I MIGHT forgive Benj the lapse in judgment regarding using AI due to COVID... But I don't think I can forgive the lapse in judgment AND violation of a very clear and long-standing policy.

Found Benj's statement. He took responsibility. Not sure how I feel about the "but I had COVID" excuse. A fever can absolutely fuck up your decision making, but there was a very strong policy in place ALREADY forbidding the use of AI generated content unless 1. for demo purposes and 2. DISCLOSED.

Jim Salter (@jimsalter@fosstodon.org) 3.7K Posts, 49 Following, 1.98K Followers · Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka "the biggest ZFS stan on the planet." I am *not* Jim Salter, the Associated Press reporter based in Missour...

Btw the only reason I actually saw this is because I logged in to favorite Kyle's statement on the matter, and this is where he is. I ended up on mastodon by (strong) preference.

No algorithmic feed, for one thing. Federation and actual human moderation, for another.

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I do still have friends there. That is not standard policy. This is an EXTREMELY big deal and I'm waiting for a detailed post mortem on exactly how it happened and why it won't happen again.

That may realistically take a week or two, because there is HR and a union to get through. But I'm waiting.

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2.5 Admins 277: Battering RAM

The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and monitoring users’ usage on a network.

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2.5 Admins 276: Very Prudish Network

What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is released, and using a single database vs one DB per application or VM.

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2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking

Allan tells us about the OpenZFS Summit, mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard keeps partially dead drives usable, upcoming 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe rust drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work.

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2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.

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Even if you don't need me to tell you "stop trusting email," you might find it handy to have the reasons why not to trust email written out and easy to refer *other* folks to, instead of having to make the argument from scratch every damn time.

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2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster.

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2.5 Admins 270: Storage Shortage

It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much longer, the arguments against self-hosting, and setting up a server for virtualization and containers.

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2.5 Admins 269: End of 10?

Windows 10 is officially end of life but Microsoft extends free updates for Windows 10 in Europe, it gets even harder to use a local account in Windows 11, and whether repurposing old server hardware is worth it.

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I agree with you that 4chan did a lot to incubate the kind of shit we're talking about. My point is that it certainly didn't *originate* with 4chan, and that quite a lot of the original community were shocked as the gestalt slid inexorably away from "tongue in cheek brainrot" to straight fascism.

What if I told you those beliefs were already "everywhere" in the 90s

And 80s

And 70s

And...

But I didn't personally know that until the 90s, because that's when I was in the Navy and both getting deployed away from the SE USA (eg Philly) and working closely with people from all over.

4chan didn't exist in 1980s Alabama, and guess what these fuckers sound like?

Every damn time I think I'm done being surprised by these bastards, I swear to fucking God...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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My laptop grenaded itself on slide 17 of 27. I delivered the rest of the talk blind, with no notes, infinitely repeating ext4 journal recovery errors parading majestically across the big screen.

Alex got one!

That was one to remember. I'm still hoping somebody comes forward with a picture! 😅

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2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy

A Red Hat breach leads to a leak of lots of sensitive customer data, Synology backs down on allowing third-party drives but they are removing features, and managing ZFS properties during replication.

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2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache

The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.

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2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations

Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.

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I'm much more active on Mastodon these days.

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2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust

Matrix shows how painful DBs can be to restore, the TLS cert system doesn’t make sense in 2025, using S3 object storage outside of the cloud, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.

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2.5 Admins 262: It’s About Control

Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

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2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets

Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.

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2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email

AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.

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