{"id":11197,"date":"2024-04-19T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=11197"},"modified":"2024-04-18T08:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:16:38","slug":"random-short-take-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #93. If it&#8217;s old news can it still be called news? Maybe olds. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t had the pleasure of working with tape for well over a decade now, but it still has a place in the world. Even with hyperscalers. To that end, <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2024\/03\/21\/quantum-announces-i7-raptor-tape-library-for-hyperscalers\/\">Quantum recently announced i7 Raptor tape library for hyperscalers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I rave about how much I enjoy the Backblaze blogs, but that&#8217;s mainly because I do. If you&#8217;ve ever found yourself wondering about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/data-centers-temperature-and-power\/\">data centres, temperature, and power<\/a>, it&#8217;s worth checking this article out.<\/li>\n<li>In news that can only be considered both amusing and alarming, El Reg has reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/04\/09\/san_francisco_transport_floppy_replacement\/\">San Francisco&#8217;s railways will upgrade from floppy discs<\/a>. I love a good bit of &#8220;if it ain&#8217;t broke&#8221;, but wow.<\/li>\n<li>I thought it was just me, or something I did, but Jeff Geerling has confirmed my suspicions that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgeerling.com\/blog\/2024\/macos-finder-still-bad-network-file-copies\">macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In press release news, <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerspace.com\/hammerspace-expands-support-for-commodity-hardware-in-the-global-data-environment\/\">Hammerspace has expanded support for commodity hardware<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people get excited about the tech powering the platforms at Meta, Google, Netflix, etc. And a lot of people take their cues on how to do enterprise things from those organisations. This might be a mistake. You&#8217;re likely never going to hit that scale, or have those kinds of problems to solve. That said, I really enjoy reading the Netflix Tech blog, and found this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/netflixtechblog.com\/the-making-of-ves-the-cosmos-microservice-for-netflix-video-encoding-946b9b3cd300\">the making of VES: the Cosmos Microservice for Netflix Video Encoding<\/a> to be really interesting.<\/li>\n<li>This article over at AV Gadgets was amusing &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/avgadgets.com\/i-gave-up-modern-tech-for-a-month-and-i-lived-to-tell-about-it\/\">I Gave Up Modern Tech For A Month and I Lived to Tell About It!<\/a> There&#8217;s a lot I&#8217;d be going without, even though I have a house full of physical media.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, JB wrote about his enjoyment of <a href=\"https:\/\/cheeseburgergothic.substack.com\/p\/bomber-jackets-away\">bomber jackets<\/a>. Given the climate in Brisbane, I&#8217;m not sure just how much use it would really get, but I dig the look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #93. If it&#8217;s old news can it still be called news? Maybe olds. Let&#8217;s get random. I haven&#8217;t had the pleasure of working with tape for well over a decade now, but it still has a place in the world. Even with hyperscalers. To that end, Quantum recently announced i7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,135,25,5],"tags":[572,1339,1215,38,1348,1273,848,1274],"class_list":["post-11197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-computers","category-dataprotection","category-storage","tag-backblaze-2","tag-hammerspace","tag-macos","tag-nas","tag-netflix","tag-quantum","tag-random","tag-tape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}