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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • The general idea is that you use it to take notes on research papers or websites (optionally though it’s Zotero integration), then when the time comes to write a technical paper, you can research from the comfort of your Zettelkasten, directly cite the research you took notes on and automate proper citations with BibTex, write in raw markdown if preferred, create tables natively, embed charts and graphs directly and properly track them using figure notation, do full layout templates in LaTeX, support LaTeX math equations, and a lot more.

    Basically it solves the fragmentation problem researchers have had for a long time by integrating all the standards instead of trying to centrally replace them or declare them unnecessary.



  • I’ve heard from multiple independent 3 letter agency associates (past and present) that hackers often often get frustrated and quit US Gov work due to the strict “rules of engagement”, that limit offensive operations to critical US infrastructure and government systems.

    Often times they know that adversaries are going to attack well in advance and even send advance notice (or retroactive notice) to important targets in some cases. But their operations are, according to them, limited to non-disruptive (though impressive, thorough, and highly specialized) information gathering.

    No guarantees that all hands of the government are playing by the same rules, but at least those people’s story was pretty consistent.



  • SHR (hybrid RAID) doesn’t really have a good open source alternative unless you’re game to try something bleeding edge like seaweedfs.

    The most recommended strategy to replace this is to use snapraid + mergerfs, which absolutely does work and scales but has it’s own drawbacks, namely that it’s a lot more management, it lacks bitrot protection like big players such as ZFS (though SHR also lacks this from my understanding), and it’s offered protection is limited after files change.

    In most cases I highly recommended biting the bullet and going with ZFS. It’s a world class solution. With your mix of drives you’d end up using ZRAID-10, which uses more disk space but is flexible to upgrade and offers superior data protection and performance. There are a few push button solutions for ZFS including Proxmox and FreeNAS.

    If safety isn’t as important as storage space, stick with Xpenology.