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garage was working fine in other scenarios but it really had pathological behavior with the small read/write with torrenting benchmarks. (see my previous link for detailed benchmarking)

The reason for me for trying this setup was to provide native S3 features for apps that support it, while still supporting POSIX semantics for other apps (we have a few), while replacing native RAID with a multi-server storage backend to extend available space, and potentially removing the need for backups for most of the non-critical data once it's replicated across different sites.

I never got NFS/SMB to saturate a Gbit/s LAN link, and other solutions like cephfs/glusterfs seemed more complex and did not necessarily have all the features (inotify/fsync).

I never tried rustfs but was particularly interested in garage for the "philosophy" of development: developed by academics with proper R&D, fully FLOSS, with low-end hardware and unstable links/sites in mind, aiming for technological degrowth. From the looks at the rustfs website, it looks like the opposite of that.

You are right i was trying to overengineer things. For now i still run RAID0 (+ backups for important data).

Thanks for the extra info, i will definitely come back to you when i have some results. It won't probably be until the end of the summer though, before i find the chance to put back online a test server.

Sure, a lot of countermeasures is possible. I will definitely consider it next time, but for this calendar which had sitted unused for years on this instance, i decided to just turn off the plugin. A random wordpress plugin is never only a DoS avenue but also a bunch of potential vulns.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I've been curious about ZeroFS. My usecase is running a real POSIX filesystem on top of garage for integration with non-S3 services. I've had very bad (short) experiment with JuiceFS (1). Is it worth benchmarking `zerofs mount` with garage?

My usecase is NAS storage of many small files + some big files (think big shared SMB for a non-profit). I need:

- fsync durability (as promised on zerofs homepage), including sqlite durability (so NFS is out of the question)

- inotify support for external script integration (did not find an issue/docs about this)

- support for reading/writing small blocks without hammering the CPU/disks (benchmarked with JuiceFS using torrents and was catastrophic)

Do you think ZeroFS currently makes a good candidate? If not, is the described usecase part of the ZeroFS roadmap?

(1) https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/issues/1021

Noone complained we can't discriminate DC IPs, though to be fair some (imo bad) operators did just that. This is not even about preventing bots, which has perfectly legitimate usecases (eg. Internet Archive).

This is about filtering out bad bots/actors who have no respect for your resources and will drain all of it causing bad experience for everyone. But because they know they don't respect robots.txt or even simple rate-limiting, they have to employ so-called residential VPNs. They're residential in that they route through real user connections, and so you can't block the IP/subnet without dropping a certain amount of legitimate human-driven traffic.

Personal example: some time ago, i had to disable a wordpress plugin on a site that was causing 100% CPU usage on the whole box (hosting dozens of wordpress instances). That plugin was a simple calendar, but a bot was repeatedly scraping non-existent (or rather, "no event planned for this day") pages for every date in the calendar that you can represent in the DB timestamp, clearing the cache as it went to try and find new events for 1000 years ago. Whoever operates this IP space doesn't matter to me, i'd just like to block them because they don't respect robot.txt… but i can't because they use a "residential proxy" and will change IP address every hour or so.

That does not explain why so many residential VPNs operate with so many IPs in countries where there are no social media bans. Here in France:

- i know many people who buy shady IPTV boxes from stores/markets for like 50€/year

- i know some people who use "smart lightbulbs" and other nonsense

- almost everyone i know plays free smartphone games, which as LWN reminded, may contain a shady SDK

I'm interested in what you mean, if you could develop. Would it kill tokenmaxxing because it's so bad? Because it's incredibly efficient? Because it's way too expensive?

That's true, but they also probably didn't think individual residence would become a norm (despite all the problems it generates), and probably didn't think secondary housing would become a normal for middle classes (vacations were a high bourgeoisie thing entirely until fairly recently).

Yes, but we usually use cars as a means to an end. Have you ever met a manager who setup gasmaxxing policies and criticized employees for doing their job instead of driving?

We used to have something similar in France: solidarity tax on fortune (ISF), abolished by Macron at the height of the gilets jaunes movement in a big "fuck you" move.

Now it's much easier for wealthy elites to not pay taxes at all, as outlined in the past year with the Zucman tax debates (which elites opposed for daring to propose a 2% floor tax rate for those who don't pay 2%), and lately with the ministry of Finance Amélie de Montchalin lying to the members of parliament about the existence of a note produced by her own ministry showing that over 13000 millionaires pay effectively 0% income tax.

I'm not advocating for going back to the stone age. But if work was sufficiently shared, we could all work less. A lot of "work" is actually useless in terms of production and social use (see Graeber, Bullshit Jobs).

that's not the world we live in

That's not a definitive conclusion. The world is constantly evolving, we just have to push it in the right direction.

Linear progression is unfair, just like for taxation. If you're going to make a law like this, it should be something like nlog(n) so that the big players that abuse the system pay more than the little guy.

Quitting is an individual action with potential adverse consequences (misery).

The political question is why despite productivity in economic terms (which i know is flawed) growing many times over, do we still have to work as much, get paid so little, and have so many unemployed people looking for a job?

Looks like without a parasitic capitalist class, we could share resources and work and have people live better lives and work less.

Many economists, already from the 19th century, claimed that technological progress would reduce the workweek. Some imagined we'd work 3 days per week, others only 1. Some imagined we'd work a few hours everyday.

I remember many people even on this very site claiming AI would help humanity. I think the most ridiculous the most ridiculous claim was helping fight climate change, but helping produce more leisure time by automating work was definitely what some people thought, or at least what they wanted us to think while pushing their crap.

Well i mean there is an obvious solution to homelessness: requisition the empty dwellings. That's not exactly a business plan for maintenance in the long term, but that's certainly much better than the current situation.

You don't want ambiguity in a proper engineering project. In a simple webpage denouncing the slop machine and their prevalent sloperators, I've got more than enough to know i appreciate the initiative. I'm personally considering an actual boycott of anything remotely involving AI.

The answer is "simple": invest your energy in a workers union. Respect working law, and don't let the boss/manager overstep boundaries. Depending on your jurisdiction, this may mean that you can refuse extra hours, that you have no obligation to answer calls/emails outside of working hours, etc.

You should document everything the bosses are doing, because in many countries firing people for not magically becoming more productive is highly illegal. And workplace harassment is highly illegal.

Build up your power with your colleagues, stay strong and solidarity will prevail!

Too bad the author left out the most interesting part: not how to produce slop books, but how to properly OCR original text in 2026?

Disclaimer: i think you'd consider me into degrowth

at least tripling the EU’s data centre capacity within the next 5–7 years

Who would that benefit? We already have too many of them treating too much data. Mom and pop shops don't need more data centers. Consumers don't need more data centers. Citizens don't need more data centers.

You probably know very well that any new data center will be used exclusively for surveillance technology and so called "artificial intelligence", which in my opinion are net negatives for society.

You seem somewhat confused about this issue. Degrowth has little to do with abstract economic numbers such as GDP, and precisely criticizes its very concept. Degrowth is an alternative to greenwashing, aka "green growth" destroying our planet in the name of saving it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth

Gitlab's UI changes every now and then, for seemingly no reason. The UI is very full of stuff (hard to find your way around), and very slow. Notably in the past months, they've changed the issues/tickets board into a "work items" board which feels infinitely slower to load, has such a vague meaning that nobody can find it (especially when translated), and brings exactly 0 use to anyone i know. They just seem to be doing that with every feature and every part of the interface.

On the server side, gitlab was always very hard to selfhost with many moving parts, many requirements, and using much resources. gitlab-runner is not very explicit about things when you're not in the happy path (why is it not picking up jobs?).

I'm not even a minimalist. I've been running gitea/forgejo for the past 8 years or so and it's been a miracle in comparison: lightweight server, easy setup/upgrades, and super simpler UI/UX that everybody understands on the first try. Forgejo (gitea community fork) learns from everything that Github historically made good (UX) without any enshitiffication in sight (developed by a non-profit). I highly recommend it.

Interchange in the EU is capped at 0.4% for credit cards

Still clients pay much more. To be fair, the prices i remember are from 15 years ago, and now there seems to be better offers for small businesses. For example, SumUp proposes 1.75% flat (no per-transaction fee). But yes, i'm quite sure that's not the kind of fees Carrefour or FNAC are paying.

Likely the main driver for this was tax avoidance.

It's not just that, though. It's common here in France for credit card operators to have fees in the 5-10% range (or 0.30€ per operation + 2% of the amount). That's why you often see signs « card accepted above 10€ », and that's why your local shop will probably not mind if you're missing 10 cents when paying cash.

It is closing Internet. The same companies that produced the ills of social media are now pushing for a non-remedy (that doesn't prevent kids, and doesn't solve the problems they created) that only benefit them and not society. It's just like tobacco: it's toxic and probably overall should be banned because it does not benefit society (or anybody except tobacco executives). Do we make a mandatory nation-wide electronic log of whoever buys tobacco in the name of age verification?

Our ancestors here in France literally fought the nazis so you don't have to have a nazi-approved « Ausweis » to go wherever suits you. We would be well inspired to follow their example.

TLDR: After a massive wave of slopware and a « number of unpleasant interactions with entitled submitters », Flathub has changed its policy and banned AI-assisted code. This is not retroactive.

This looks like slop from a slop factory. "SEO", "Agent-readiness". That's precisely what a good website doesn't do (to paraphrase the homepage).

Oh yes, it's produced by a Wordpress "SEO" expert and private investor using Claude LLM. What a surprise. A man who built a fortune destroying the internet we loved with advertisement slop now working on destroying whatever's left with LLM slop.

How do you get Consumer Reports to publish a fake product review?

No need. Just have dozens of companies produce hundreds of new junk products every year. Then there's no way all products can be reviewed, and no way they can be properly reviewed: what's interesting about a review is the failure mode of the products, which you have no idea about when you have 10 new Samsung smartphones coming out every year.

[Huawei] were starting to establish a brand and then regulatory destruction was imposed. selective enforcement gets imposed when someone undesirable is starting to look like a real challenger.

Yes, selective enforcement is the problem. Not regulations. Regulations are not strong enough. But they need to be applied evenly. Why is it legal for Apple and Samsung to produce junk, but not Huawei? (rhetorical question, please don't answer) We need proper consumer protection. Any company producing a product should have 10 years or 20 years warranty, and should be legally mandated to produce/sell spare parts for 20+ years (as in, real spare parts, not "replacement motherboard" which costs the entire smartphone).

Suddenly, the junk makers would produce less junk. Maybe there'd only be a new Samsung/iPhone every 5 years, but it would probably be as solid and repairable as older Nokias.

I can assure you many companies pushing junk are based here in France. Actual manufacturing may take place in China for many products, but Decathlon, Leroy Merlin and Carrefour certainly have executives and engineers here. Those executives and engineers pushing negative externalities to local consumers on one side, and to producers with bad social/ecological standards in foreign lands.

To be clear, i'm not against foreign products. But a french exec deciding to employ quasi-slave labor and destroy the environment on the other side of the world to maximize profits should 100% be jailed. That's already technically a crime.

Jail the executives and engineers cutting corners. For some reason, you can spend years in jail for cannabis possession or an online post criticizing Macron or the police, but people who actually commit murder and ecocide by cutting costs in engineering products, or who import such bad-quality products face exactly zero consequences.

Then we can't drink our water, can't eat anything from our soil, sometimes can't even breathe our air. But we are the only ones facing consequences while the rich fuckers are partying on yachts.