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It is still possible to find torrents on RARBG

http://rarbg.to/torrents.php

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My Windows cluster is working

I had many problems getting the hyper-converged fail-over cluster to work. First i tried to convert a Windows server standard to a Server datacenter cluster node. Something went wrong. Every time i shutdown a node all volumes went offline. They should only be degraded, but still available. The slabs were placed wrong. It was like Storage spaces direct placed slabs anywhere without caring about both must not be on the same node. I started over from scratch. Wiped all drives with Linux wipefs. You cant wipe a storage space drive in Windows. This time i could shutdown a node and the volumes got only degraded. It takes a long time to re-synchronize the volumes. Next problem was that a NVME SSD was not automatically used as cache. I tried to set it as journal with a powershell command. It changed to journal, but no space was used on it. I tried to remove it and add it. Then i remember that i had a Samsung NVME SSD that was used as storage spaces direct cache in another. I removed the Kingston SSD and put in the Samsung. Immediately storage spaces direct turned it into a cache drive. I dont know why it did not like the Kingston. I noticed that writing to the cluster volumes were slow. Turns out that storage spaces direct turns off disk caches if the drives dont have Power Loss Protection. Even a NVME SSD gets slow without write cache.

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Nobody needs 24bit audio at home

Sonos has announced that it has expanded its relationship with Qobuz by offering its customers a 24-bit Qobuz high-resolution streaming option.

Cepro

16bit audio have close to 100db signal/noise ratio. Why would anyone want more. Ordinary people will not care about this. People who understand audio thinks it is stupid. You have to turn up the volume very high to hear any noise from 16bit audio. They probably needed some feature to sell something. 24bit audio could be useful in audio production when they process audio.

https://www.cepro.com/audio-video/sonos-introduces-24-bit-qobuz-streaming-to-s2-platform/

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Facebook reminds me of the Depeche mode song “Flexible”

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

Turkey was demanding the social media giant block Facebook posts from the People’s Protection Units, a mostly Kurdish militia group the Turkish government had targeted. Should Facebook ignore the request, as it has done elsewhere, and risk losing access to tens of millions of users in Turkey? Or should it silence the group, known as the YPG, even if doing so added to the perception that the company too often bends to the wishes of authoritarian governments? It wasn’t a particularly close call for the company’s leadership, newly disclosed emails show. “I am fine with this,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No. 2 executive, in a one-sentence message to a team that reviewed the page.

Propublica

Money
Can have strange effects
I ask myself
Is it a sin
To be flexible
When the boat comes in
Open the window and out go ideals

Flexible

Maybe the YPG was dangerous terrorist anyways. Facebook have many enemies

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Soon only the truth will be allowed on Facebook

Now posts, pages and groups containing such falsehoods will be removed from the platform entirely. “Building trust and confidence in these vaccines is critical, so we’re launching the largest worldwide campaign to help public health organizations share accurate information about Covid-19 vaccines and encourage people to get vaccinated as vaccines become available to them,”

https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/02/08/1920221/facebook-says-it-plans-to-remove-posts-with-false-vaccine-claims

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Switching from xorg to Wayland moves very slow

Last month was the delightful news that Ubuntu 21.04 is aiming to use Wayland by default for non-NVIDIA systems on the GNOME desktop rather than the X.Org session.

Phoronix

I want this to be over soon. We should not have to think about if we use xorg or Wayland. I try to use Wayland, but i have to switch to xorg for some things. Maybe it would move faster if Wayland was faster than xorg, but sadly it is not. I believe xrdp have to be fixed. And nvidia is also complicating this for reasons i dont understand. Why must nvidia be so difficult.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-21.04-Wayland-Plans

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The chinese are ahead of us

The reason for the ban is obvious for experts. HTTPS connections negotiated via TLS 1.3 and ESNI prevent third-party observers from detecting what website a user is attempting to access. This effectively blinds the Chinese government’s Great Firewall surveillance tool from seeing what users are doing online.

Slashdot

They already keep track of what their citizens do. Europe is behind. EU still dont know what every EU citizen writes on the Internet. To stop hate speech we must verify the identity of all internet users and check every website. Wrong think must be punished.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/08/09/000209/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-that-uses-tls-13-and-esni

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Windows Storage spaces works better than expected

I have not lost any volume or files. It is slow. Transfer speed much less than the hard drives max speed. I have started using tier mode. If i have 50GB on a SSD it becomes faster. It looks a little strange in the Server manager. One column is empty and another just say Unknown. I wish Microsoft fixes that someday. There is a check mark for tiered mode.

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Why must it be so hard to get Windows Hello for business working

I have done a lot of things. I have installed AD Federation Services. Changed group policy to turn on Hello for business. Created SSL certificate for ADFS. Checked status for device registration. Turned on authentications in Azure AD. Added entries in DNS zone file. I can now see the login options fingerprint and PIN, but neither works. Now i dont know what is wrong. I get some error message about not being available in my organization. Some error code 0xc00000bb.

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It was unexpected that Americans would be anti free speech

In a move that is not very encouraging, Biden’s top tech policy advisor, Bruce Reed, along with Common Sense Media’s Jim Steyer, have published a bizarre and misleading “but think of the children!” attack on Section 230 that misunderstands the law, misunderstands how it impacts kids, and which suggests incredibly dangerous changes to Section 230. If this is the kind of policy recommendations we’re to expect over the next four years, the need to defend Section 230 is going to remain pretty much the same as it’s been over the last few years.

Techdirt

Lots of people wants to decide what is allowed on social media sites. Will the first amendment be next to be repealed. Both democrats and republicans wants to decide what we can read on websites.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201208/17023245848/bidens-top-tech-advisor-trots-out-dangerous-ideas-reforming-section-230.shtml