Postmortem April 26th, 2019 Downtime

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Fastest recovery of a site I’ve seen in awhile! Great jorb
 
I downloaded Brave for my phone; when should I expect to start getting BATs? Just want to start paying back the last 4 years of laughter Null helped give me.

EDIT: nevermind, got a bit this morning. More to come, dear Erverlord!
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3dpd said:
AFAIK you can't run chromium, you can run chrome which is not entirely open source, or you can run ungoogled chromium which is always behind on patches - meaning security assumed to be fucked.
That said, if you want completely private browsing experience you can use Tor Browser, but good luck accessing any worthwhile site on the surface web.

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Brave is the only browser that absolutely does have to phone home to implement their business model
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Personally, I do my sketchy browsing on my PC at home. That's staying Firefox/TOR browser. I'll use Brave on my new Galaxy A8 for all my 'browse in public' shit throughout the workday. That's all fine with me, they can hoover up that useless data all they like if it gets Null some e-shekels.
 
repentance said:
How are y'all earning rewards in Brave. I've been using it for a couple of days and nada. In settings, it just shows this

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Bon Bon said:
I've had it on (without adblock) for a little while with pretty normal browsing habits and I've got nothing so far.
Thanks!
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You're not doing anything wrong. BAT ad opt-ins are currently only available for the desktop version of the browser and aren't an option for mobile yet, supposed to be an added feature for Android sometime in the next few months.
 
moocow said:
Hard disks are the fucking bane of my existence. No component in modern computing fails nearly as often as they do. You can expect pretty much every component in a system (desktop or server) to last at least five years, and even then it's probably going to be a stupid fan that dies, or maybe a power supply. But disks are so unbelievably bad that nobody buys them anymore expecting them to last. Even enterprise disks are shit. They just have longer warranties.

They're so awful that the industry has standardized on the only feasible solution (so far) that satisfactorily avoids losing data: keeping three fucking copies of everything. It's what GoogleFS, AWS, OpenStack, Ceph, etc. all do. If a disk fails, there's still two copies of the data left, and they immediately begin copying it again somewhere else to get back to three. All that just to make sure spinning rust doesn't eat all your data.

The modern hard disk. A product so shitty you have to buy three of them to get the benefits of one.

I can't wait for something more reliable to become space and cost competitive. SSDs have wear problems too, so although prices are coming down fast, they're still not too reliable either.
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I agree - to elaborate further on SSDs, SSDs are relatively speaking much more reliable than physical hard disks - since they're not mechanical, you don't have to deal with head crashes, etc, and you're not going to have to replace them as often as mechanical hard drives.

The big problems though are
a) The rate of uncorrectable errors are higher with SSDs than mechanical hard drives. They'll just develop bad blocks and there will be nothing you can do.
b) The optimal failure mode for the SSD is for it to just stop allowing writes and go read-only (this will invariably happen if you use an SSD long enough). However, there is always the possibility that the drive just stops working with no fucking way of recovering the data at all (unlike physical hard drives, where data recovery is usually possible if the disk fails, even if the failure mode is your laptop sinking to the bottom of the sea.)

You're less likely to run into the scenario where one day, you boot your server, and it just doesn't boot because the hard drive is totally fucked with an SSD - but you're more likely to lose data because of random bad blocks.

So in conclusion hard drives suck and you should always back up your data.
 
MakeItRain said:
You're not doing anything wrong. BAT ad opt-ins are currently only available for the desktop version of the browser and aren't an option for mobile yet, supposed to be an added feature for Android sometime in the next few months.
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Sorry, unclear, I'm on desktop, but I think it's because even though I'm in a Ireland, which by companies is usually considered part of the UK, which does have ads available, I think I'll have to wait until Ireland specifically gets supported. Thanks though!
 
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The Un-Clit said:
Personally, I do my sketchy browsing on my PC at home. That's staying Firefox/TOR browser. I'll use Brave on my new Galaxy A8 for all my 'browse in public' shit throughout the workday. That's all fine with me, they can hoover up that useless data all they like if it gets Null some e-shekels.
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That's fair.
You can use whichever browser you like as long as you understand how your "free" browser is monetized.
I understand that (((Brave))) is currently a lifebelt for KF, Brave can still kiss my ass.
 
MakeItRain said:
You're not doing anything wrong. BAT ad opt-ins are currently only available for the desktop version of the browser and aren't an option for mobile yet, supposed to be an added feature for Android sometime in the next few months.
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My understanding is that the only platform it's not available on yet is iOS, while it actually is available on Android.
 
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