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  • Back in my early school years, I attended a school built on top of a hill, it had an exciting school yard, it had a wooded area, a small field, two football pitches and a secluded steep stone staircase where few teachers could see you.

    Anyway, during one winter I was down at the bottom end of the staircase playing during recess, and there was a brown plastic pipe leaking warm water coming out of the ground.

    I was fascinated by how it melted the snow, so I started playing with the water, it went on for a few days, possibly a week, only then did I suddenly see a tissue paper and brown stuff coming out of the pipe…

    Yeah, it was a pipe with raw sewage that I had played with, shortly thereafter the pipe was dealt with by the school.

    I am 37 now, and I was seldom sick as I grew up…





  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoCybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksHow bad is this?
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    Here is a reminder for all US citizens.

    Your social security number is simply a serial number with zero checksums or any logic built in.

    If you want another valid social security number you can simply pick a number before or after your own.

    The social security number was never designed to be a general ID number, and should not be used as such.


  • Since I can afford them, I have only considered new drives.

    I would consider refurbished drives for a less critical application, say if I ran several several redundant several redundant servers.

    I would not use general 2nd hand drives for anything other than experimental/homlab use, with refurbished drives you will at least have some knowledge of the general reliability of the drives, with simple used drives, that is not the case.

    I have already had bitrot ruin a few of my personal photos, witch is why I want double protection on my storage, I am considering having my NAS run read verification of all files two times a year, if data get’s corrupt, the NAS can use the double parity data to restore the lost data, running it twice a year should be enough to deal with my stuff, while not adversly affect the lifetime of the HDDs in any meaningfull way.