This should have many more upvotes. The security incidents quoted at the start of this article have no relation to its actual topic, i.e. the hypothesis that there may be increased fragility of supply chains as a result of AI adoption. While it’s plausible this may happen, the article makes it sound like this has happened when it clearly hasn’t. In other words: it’s little more than “hurr, durr, AI dangerous”.
Except AI is trash at doing what it’s advertised to do, it makes everybody dumber, and its shills will blame you once it inevitably mucks everything up.
We don’t even have “AI”. We have LLMs, aka chatbots, aka glorified digital parrots that, just because they’re eloquent and sound competent, management with little to no technical expertise feels can replace large parts of the workforce.
If we just called it “cyberparrots” instead of “AI”, maybe more people would their limited utility and the utter folly of having these take over ever larger portions of business procedures.
If you’ve got that experience under your belt, you’ll be just fine. I haven’t tackled zfs myself yet (I’m lacking the RAM, plus I was put off by the ECC RAM recommendation). But I know it unifies a lot of the things you’re already familiar with under one roof (volume management and journaling) and adds more cool features (snapshotting, RAID, encryption, bitrot protection) without you having to combine and manage several different technologies (mdadm for RAID, LVM, LUKS, …). I did that on my main rig and it turned out to be rather complex. Hence the switch to btrfs to at least squash a bit of complexity.
If you’d rather continue working with the storage technologies you know and avoid zfs, you may want to look into other OSs than TrueNAS (because that is zfs only). Two I’m running and can recommend are
Props for the powerful DIY! You’re right about the pre-built models. I’m coming from a QNAP one, and while they’re good for learning the ropes, they’ll become pretty limited after a while. That, and the shit they’re trying to pull with proprietary HDDs.
A self-made rig gives you a lot more flexibility, although it requires you to learn a bit more. But seeing that you’re already getting comfortable with GFS, I guess you’ll manage just fine!
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“Give me liberty or give me death!” Classic!
Same. Scored two 16TB drives and a 4GB in summer of 2025 (by pure chance though). They’re now 150%-200% the original price. Cannot wait to see this bubble pop.
SSDs were first, actually, with HDDs now following suit.
That’s a much more sophisticated setup than mine! It may even be overkill (depending on what it is you want to host, and to how many).
I’ve been running two enterprise-grade Toshiba 16TB drives in a btrfs RAID1 since last summer. No SSD for caching (though the OS and my Docker containers run on one, with regular syncs to the slower spinning drives). No complaints so far.
The worst part is that we don’t something, and by saying something, I mean boycott them.
Boycott is under way. In my bubble, people are ditching American goods and services left and right, including Windows. The combination of “Murica first” (fascist edition) and big tech overreach has prompted people to make good use of their middle fingers.
Go Toshiba. If American companies got us into this mess in the first place, fuck American companies!
DON’T give them ideas!
None of them looked into it because facts don’t matter to far-right populists and the sheep voting for them. They just make up shit that fits their simple narrative of the moment and makes people angry. And when (not if) it is debunked as a blatant lie later on, they have already captured their audience with ten new lies, so the implosion of all the older lies won’t register with them.
I get that perverted ‘logic’. What confounds me is that so many people seem to be falling for this shit. I had a more optimistic idea of people’s intelligence on average. And: I don’t like what this finding means for future-proofing our democracies, if we’re going to save those.
Yeah, it’s a weird way of spelling “liberation”.
In fact, you’re already likely renting rather than owning in many different areas. Your means of communication are run by Meta, your music is provided by Spotify, your movies are streamed from Netflix, your data is stored in Google’s data centers and your office suite runs on Microsoft’s cloud.
Not this one, no.
This one has never had a single Meta-owned account because it values privacy.
It has never subscribed to Spotify or Netflix because it values ownership and control.
It has, since the Snowden revelations, successfully cut Google and Microsoft from its life and replaced them with AOSP and Linux.
It has started to build servers from hardware old and new, running FOSS services that rival and replace most big tech solutions people feel they “need” nowadays.
And it has started to help others take control of their data and computing, move to software and services that respect their rights, and to see value in privacy, ownership and freedom.
It may not be much. It may not scale. And it may not provide “AI” capabilities. But it’s a start. It’s a lighthouse that shows this dystopia is not inevitable.
We need to answer the push towards centralised consumption with a refusal to consume, and a counterpush towards decentralised cells of resilience. If datacentres aren’t profitable, there is very little incentive to only build and sell hardware for them exclusively.
This one has built its lighthouse.
When will you?
With billionaires now openly buying politicians (instead of greasing their palms under the counter), I’d say the odds of such a law have become even worse.
Naw. This is clearly just 1 monkey.
This. Big tech is complicit in the fascist takeover of the U.S. Ditch their services where you can, and where you can’t leech and starve them using tech like this.
Right.
So HOW IN FUCK’S NAME is it that Nigel Farage and his party are leading the polls? You know, the very same Nigel Farage who was pushing the lie and admitted on television the very morning after the referendum that it was a lie?! Help me make sense of this, dear UK!
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Boris’ Bus of Lies with the caption is even in the thumbnail
Appreciate the call to reason. Yet, though this may have been sharply worded, insulting it was not.