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deeloweon CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers

I don't know the specifics of signal. Can you elaborate?

deeloweon CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers

In every instance where I've been privvy to government partnerships, the version of the solutions we deployed were modified to meet regulatory standards.

deeloweon Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

I'm 4 years into having to use outlook after switching jobs and no longer being able to use google workspace. I continue to be frustrated by the confusing and arcane processes required to do basic stuff like fine previously declined meetings, book an out of office that doesn't spam everyone, use search and actually have it find stuff, automatically place emails into folders in a sane fashion, actually accept/decline a meeting and not have it randomly stay as "tentative" and so on.

Comparatively, outloook feels like a complete mess.

deeloweon 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure

Having worked on the infra side of azure, I'm not surprised. Network is centrally managed and that team was a nightmare to deal with. Their ticket queue was so bad they only worked on sev 1 and the occasional 0. Nothing else got touched without talking to a VP and even then it often didn't change things.

deeloweon Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

I bought it day one. The marketing was great and I had I ton of fun with the game! Congrats on the success.

deeloweon Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Apple has been advertising security and privacy as a top feature for years now. It would make sense for people to get upset if those features were removed.

deeloweon Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Then Vance should do something about the 5 eyes which is likely the source of this sort of thing.

deeloweon DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days

How many times have we been down this path? Tcp/IP, dos/windows, Linux, virtualization, and on and on. Open platforms always seem to find a way to usurp everyone else. In the end, it's better to be a service provider.

deeloweon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments...

There should be plenty. 48-54 VDC is the standard for OCP powershelf designs. Hyperscalers such as Google have been working for nearly two decades now to eliminate voltage conversion steps. When I left, the power plane within the server PCB ran at the busbar voltage, which could float up to 54VDC. Given this, I'd expect them to convert from 48-54VDC down to 3.3 directly or at most something like 5VDC and then use smaller VRs near components such as ram and cpu.

deeloweon Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

Ahh. That % would depend on fleet size. AFR should be under 1% for most drives.

deeloweon Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

I assume by "cycle" they are referring to mtbf/afr

deeloweon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

Voltage regulators. Voltage regulation technology is extremely advanced as even very small efficiency gains can save billions for hyperscalers. Unfortunately, I don't know of any specific products to share as power isn't my domain. I'm only familiar with the space because we sometimes have to pull telemetry directly from the VRs when doing system level RCAs. Some of our BMCs can do this directly via I2C.

deeloweon Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

Drive manufacturers often publish the AFR. From there you can do the math to figure out what sort of redundancy you need. Rule of thumb is that the AFR should be in the 1-2% range. I haven't looked at BB's data, but I'm sure it supports this.

Note, disk failure rates and raid or similar solutions should be used when establishing an availability target, not for protecting against data loss. If data loss is a concern, the approach should be to use back ups.

deeloweon Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

> I am becoming more and more convinced that hard drive reliability is linked to the batch more than to the individual drive models themselves.

Worked in a component test role for many years. It's all of the above. We definitely saw significant differences in AFR across various models, even within the same product line, which were not specific to a batch. Sometimes simply having more or less platters can be enough to skew the failure rate. We didn't do in depth forensics models with higher AFRs as we'd just disqualify them and move on, but I always assumed it probably had something to do with electrical, mechanical (vibration/harmonics) or thermal differences.

deeloweon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

No one uses transformers anymore. VRRs are basically mini PCs now. They run firmware and report telemetry and are crazy efficient.

deeloweon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

48v is basically already the standard for hyperscalers with power shelf rack designs.

deeloweon Google kills diversity hiring targets

I am a former hiring manager at Google and we were specifically told by hr that we could hire 2 people on one headcount if one of those people met specific dei criteria and there was a list of races and genders that met the criteria. One of my peer managers grew his org twice as fast as me by only hiring females with engineering degrees. He got promoted shortly after. Within 2 years his entire team was disbanded for being completely ineffective. Google ended up getting sued over this practice and they lost. This is not the only example I have. The worst of all was Eric Schmidt literally saying to us that diversity was "strategically important" as it helped to "increase the talent pool" and "keep salaries competitive." This was never about doing the right thing for employees.

I'm very pleased to see this all coming to an end. I've witnessed what can only be explained as outright racism. As a white male, I've been called a blue-eyed devil in team meetings and I've been accused of sexual harassment. The most disappointing thing of all is thinking back on people's careers whom I know were affected by all this. Some of my best directs were denied transfers and promotion opportunities simply because they weren't the right gender or race. I even know one person who literally faked being non-binary so they would stand a better chance of getting hired and it worked.

It wasn't all bad. Some of the training I had to take I still use today and learning how to practice allyship absolutely made me a better leader, but this got way too out of control and I'm not at all surprised people got tired of it and started pushing back.

deeloweon Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

Don't think so. Does cgnat use private IP space? I'm not familiar with how it works.

deeloweon Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

I'd be happy with 1080p.

deeloweon Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

Its not that. I'm on a lg c2 with a modern Chromecast (or whatever name Google is calling it now) plugged in. Its all new stuff.

deeloweon Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

I LOATHE peacock. I don't know what checks they do at the start of the stream, but they always peg me at 720p or lower resolution despite having over 300mb. Its not an issue on any other streaming app and they give you no option to set it manually. Streams look like a dog's breakfast on my 4k TVs.

deeloweon Apple Invites

Just because Facebook created a walled garden that doesn't mean everyone else should too.

deeloweon Apple Invites

I'm not a fan of either doing this. I'm watching all open protocols slowly disappear and it's killing innovation in the industry.

deeloweon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

Dcs will start generating power on site soon. I know micro nuclear is one area actively being explored.

deeloweon So you want to build your own data center

Hyperscalers use colos all the time for edge presence.

deeloweon Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third

> Too bad that we are currently doing the exact opposite (cutting down more forest than is regrown).

This is not true. Sustainable forestry practices have been increasing forest coverage for some time now.

deeloweon Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

I was just looking for something like this. Awesome!

deeloweon Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi

Not really. I live in the suburbs. We get a lot of thunderstorms, tornados and hurricanes here (southeast).

deeloweon Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi

I don't know. Seems like where I live the cell network is about as reliable as power. Its why I switched to starlink as at least that stays up/comes back quickly during storms.

deeloweon Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi

Could the idea be to use satellite cellular as that becomes more commonplace?