Clearing caches, ok... But... And maybe its because I'm just a BIND 9.x guy... How do I lower the TTL for a Microslop hosted record? Even for records I host, changing the TTL doesn't force the remote caches to expire early.

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I run my own DNS. Google is not one of my forwarders, or even involved. If my server isn't authoritative, it goes to the root servers for the TLD, and tracks it down from there. Frogs can go surrender to my house dynamic IP. I'll accept Nouvelle-Aquitaine with land & titles, and let them keep Paris.

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Sitting here staring at the pile of DDR3 DIMM's/SODIMM'd/UDIMM's in my ewaste recycle pile... Has to be like 512Gb at least...

No low ballers! I know what I have! :)

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Most companies with less that 100k employees have outsourced their email. Even those above that head count have strong incentive to outsource. Email is actually kind of difficult to do right at scale. The people that know how have their own little community. Much of the software that used to be used to implement email at massive scale is no longer publicly available, or was always private (Yahoo & Gmail). MS Exchange used to have trouble breaking 1M inboxes, requiring hundreds of hosts. Sun's Comms suite was once the telco standard, hosting 100's of thousands of inboxes per server, has now been subsumed into Oracle Cloud as their messaging service.

There's been a distinct lack of innovation too. Most of the major innovators are now dead or well past 70. Core RFC's have languished for years and even decades. John Postel has been gone since the 90's, Ned Freed, who created much of the MIME extensions passed in the early 2020's. The other big names, Eric Allman, Wietse Venema, William Yeager, are all in their 70's & 80's. The protocols are considered mature, work well with the occasional hairball, and powerful interests have built walled gardens, and are content to print money with them.

Honestly, the whole Internet email ecosystem is ripe for someone to come along and disrupt things.

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Satya,

You misspelled "evil".

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I appreciate the tip. I've been self-hosting Gitea for three or four years, and have spent the last year wondering about some of the changes.

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While you techies ramble away about your favorite political motivations... Consider...

TCE used to be used in bulk by mainframe and mini operators as tape head cleaner. My Dad brought home a quart can from work with a stack of patches for my sister and I to use to clean our walkman's. (I know dating myself here...) And no he didn't wear gloves in his DC, and neither did we. It was believed to be completely harmless.

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I don't have to think about it, I'm 15 months into it... :-/

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Most people don't realize how much of a pig LLM's actually are. All the focus is on the big AI machines PSU's, multi kW fan boards, GPU's, etc... Most of them have maybe 8 2.5" disk slots. They're not storage beasts. But what they do have is HBM processors with multiple Tb's of registered ECC DDR5. The OS boots locally, and then the RAM receives the training data from a remote data lake. It gets loaded into RAM and stays there. Multiple Tb's per node.

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News for nerds? Just because of Insta?

While it was good info back in the day, I've used it myself. That blog is almost a decade out of date at this point. It has some updates, but it kind of needs a complete rewrite. Fully a 1/3 of the ciphers, MACs, etc... have been deprecated & replaced.

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That's really not how it's done. Seriously, you're distracting by trying to push the obvious.

I can't speak for other states, but here in Texas it's done under the auspices of counseling & mental health. When you enroll your kid in the local ISD, they have all kinds of parental consent forms. Two of these forms permit the school to offer your kid counseling, and the other is a medical consent form for the school nurse. That one is loaded, because it covers everything from simple knee scrapes to full blown mental health treatment. You have to read it very carefully, and only select the items you want to permit. We chose not to allow mental health counseling for both our kids and they hounded us about it for years. Our answer was always simple "We have great healthcare, if they need evaluation & treatment, we'll get the best care. But we're not going to substitute your opinions for ours as parents". And the thing is they kept trying, particularly for our daughter.

Many of her friends parents were not as discerning. Her friends all got counseling, wither they really needed it or not. The mental health evaluation have no curricula restrictions, they'll flat out ask if you're gay/trans, fell maladjusted, questioning, etc... Then they start steering the kids to various activity clubs to help them sort themselves out. Those activity clubs are where the grooming presumably happens. Worse still, as far as I can tell the whole sequence is profoundly homophobic, in that if you are gay, they'll push you to be trans. Out of my daughters circle of roughly 9 biological female friends from grade school... We have 1 trans-boy that committed suicide at the end of 8th grade, 1 non-binary who went so crazy her(?) parents moved her to a very rural county where she was completely ostracized by the religious wingnuts, 5 lesbians, and exactly two straight girls, one of which is my daughter. But the statistics alone are just completely at odds with the old 3 - 5% LGB numbers of even 20 years ago.

Honestly I don't know what else to make of it. I'm a Californian, I'm quite comfortable around the LGB community from the SF Bay area, but the T's seem to be predatory. I'm watching this go on right underneath most parents noses, in a very red state...

Citation needed, and SI units.

And just admit it... You got played and let your bias trip you. :D

Gen X sarcasm is just lost on the kids these days.

And yea 1343! That's like mid-October 1997?

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I've pondered what I'd do if I won a monster jackpot. I concluded it was just soul crushing money, and I'd leave the winning ticket in a church offering plate.

Still waiting for God to test me...

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