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I think it had its uses in the past, specifically if it had the memory backup to prevent full array rebuilds and cached data loss on power failure.

Also at the height of raid controller use (I would say 90s and 2000s) there probably was some compute savings by shifting the work to a dedicated controller.

In modern day, completely agree.

I’m sure I’ve seen paid software that will detect and read data from several popular hardware controllers. Maybe there’s something free that can do the same.

For the future, I’d say that with modern copy on write filesystems, so long as you don’t mind the long rebuild on power failures, software raid is fine for most people.

I found this, which seems to be someone trying to do something similar with a drive array built with an Intel raid controller

https://blog.bramp.net/post/2021/09/12/recovering-a-raid-5-intel-storage-matrix-on-linux-without-the-hardware/

Note, they are using drive images, you should be too.

The OP made clear it was a controller failure or entire system (I read hardware here) failure. Which does complicate things somewhat.

Well. You’d need to avoid windows, tea, people with umbrellas (OK not directly Russian, but soviet era eastern europe), aeroplanes, cars. And if they really want to get you, they’ll go old school and use a gun, or perhaps even a missile if you annoy the right people enough.

I’d just skip Moscow as a whole personally.

It does, at least now. It was the 11th.

Just post that you think it’d be impossible to port to rust and linux. Then someone is bound to do it :P

I think cheques were almost irrelevant in the 90s already. For sure I remember the two things I had to write a cheque for. DVLA for the olde tax disk every year, and the speeding fine I got in 1996.

Until around 2005, I was using my 1994 issued chequebook, crossing out the 19, initialling the change and writing in the full year.

I still have the chequebook issued in 2005 to this day.

Yes, chip and pin has been the established norm for decades now. Wait until we tell them about the last time most of us wrote a cheque (check)!

I have auto redirect to 443. But --nginx works fine. I think it overrides stuff for whatever the specific url used is.

There’s a certbot addon which uses nginx directly to renew the certificate (so you don’t need to stop the web server to renew). If you install the addon you just use the same certbot commands but with --nginx instead and it will perform the actions without interfering with web server operation.

You just then make sure the cron job to renew also includes --nginx and you’re done.

It makes sense that they issue short certificates, though. The sole verification is that you own the domain. If you sell/let the domain lapse and someone else takes it over, there’s only a limited time you would hold a valid certificate for it.

That’s got to be extremely rare. Not much you can do in that case. But they will hit many problems with that approach.

I mean, while they can block most things, to give people a usable experience they’re going to allow http and https traffic through, and they can’t really proxy https because of the TLS layer.

So for universal chance of success, running openvpn tcp over port 443 is the most likely to get past this level of bad. I guess they could block suspicious traffic in the session before TLS is established (in order to block certain domains). OpenVPN does support traversing a proxy, but it might only work if you specify it. If their network sets a proxy via DHCP, maybe you could see that and work around it.

I did have fun working around an ex gf’s university network many years ago to get a VPN running over it. They were very, very serious about blocking non-standard services. A similar “through” the proxy method was the last resort they didn’t seem to bother trying to stop.

But, I think they should not accept dual nationality. Make them burn their passports at the border!

Yeah, my point is, comparing them to constitutional amendments doesn’t make too much sense for the rest of us.

But you know, I think they do have trial by jury. Just, I think like the elections there, the jury gets told the result, before they decide it.

If they want to own guns, no problem. The government will supply them, and even provide transportation to a place they can use them. (I hope the /s is implied here).

I’m not sure if that story is onionesque or real. Now, that uncertaintly is a problem with the modern world.

Dude! They only work if they’re on tight!

Well, most countries aren’t going to have the same constitutional rights as the USA has. In the same way, the US doesn’t give their citizens the same rights as those in other countries receive. As such, I’m not sure if there’s too much point comparing the two.

Otherwise. Yes, it’s not going to be a nice place to live, and anyone that chooses this option has only themselves to blame when they realise they made a deal with the leopard that has a history of biting faces off.

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Hmm, the only issue I had was because it was using the DoH (which I don’t have a local server for). Once I disabled that, it was fine.