Gabriel Adrian Samfira

https://mastodon.samfira.com/@gabriel

Cloud engineer @cloudbaseit / containers / containerd / Linux things / Windows things / All the things.

I wrote a couple of slightly interesting open source projects like powershell-yaml and https://github.com/cloudbase/garm.

Github: https://github.com/gabriel-samfira

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2026-07-09 08:26:17 CEST

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best small local model I tried was gemma 4 (27B params). It does a decent job and with speculative decoding, has decent token generation.

2026-06-27 06:18:55 CEST

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all Russia has to do is turn around and go home. Live in their own country as recognized by international law (that means leaving Crimea as well). And all of this stops. They are not backed into a corner. They are the ones attacking. And we have nukes, too (nobody will use one).

2026-06-11 12:28:26 CEST

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samba does have some posix_xattr support:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_Share_Using_POSIX_ACLs

2026-01-30 23:28:28 CET

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Chrome Auto browse is great. It's my favorite thing after scarlet fever.

2026-01-10 20:30:34 CET

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limiting free speech to protect it. That's like f***ing for virginity. Isn't it?

2026-01-03 17:49:46 CET

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I wouldn't be surprised if this stunt help raise Trump's approval rating.

2025-10-30 07:18:57 CET

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the market isn't rational anymore. This can just be another meme stock like Tesla. With a 250 P/E ratio.

2025-08-30 08:37:39 CEST

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On the bckp site, you can periodically squash the (initial)full backup and it's immediate child bckp to keep the number of backups constant.
To restore, you can compose a raw disk file from the base backup and apply each incremental backup on top. This can be optimized if you walk through the state files, and take only the final offsets of blocks to the point in time you want to restore to and apply them on your base backup. If bkup 1,2,3,5 all changed block X, you only neex blk X from 5.

2025-08-30 08:35:03 CEST

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sadly, I don't know of any already made solution, but if you have the time, writing one is not impossible. Veeam backup, most likely uses Windows VSS (volume shadow copy services) which creates a copy-on-write snapshot of volumes. If it's block level backup you're looking for, then it probably chunks the entire volume, takes note of empty chunks, copies non empty ones, creates a state file in which you save the ID, use that ID in the next incremental backup to get only changed blocks.

2025-08-12 19:31:20 CEST

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glad I still use Firefox. And if that goes on the same path, I'll probably go back to konqueror or epiphany.

2025-08-02 10:27:14 CEST

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This all sounds like harassment. Can't you press charges, get a restraining order, etc?

2025-07-12 18:28:51 CEST

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interesting. I followed:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04
And it worked fine even for 24.04.

2025-07-12 18:11:28 CEST

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conflicting with another ppa?

2025-07-12 17:43:56 CEST

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I use the mozilla ppa (not the snap) with ubuntu 24.04 and YouTube works well. No captcha problems either.

2025-03-21 12:16:23 CET

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The good news is that Cognito (and the like), have alternatives that can be integrated in a cloud, as a service. One amazingly good example is the ecosystem from Ory:
https://github.com/ory/kratos?tab=readme-ov-file#ecosystem
Other AWS projects have similar alternatives. So I guess the challenge is integration of those services in a seamless manner so that developers can consume them. Also, marketing to raise awareness about them(?)

2025-02-22 19:36:57 CET

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my wife formed a community that knits. They get together every Saturday and they knit for a few hours, making toys, clothes, hats. It's useful and group therapy at the same time. The community keeps growing every month.

2025-02-21 23:15:28 CET

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Ouch! That's some achievement in just 1 month.

2025-02-04 22:47:02 CET

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Martial law for peaceful protests? That sounds extreme. I mean, we cleaned up after the protest. There was less garbage on the streets after the protest than before :). I am not talking about riots.

2025-02-04 22:43:08 CET

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How are people not protesting this? We were 700k in the streets of Romania when the Gov tried to legalize corruption. Compared to what is happening in your country, that is like the Capybara of issues.

2024-11-16 20:18:56 CET

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The way replies work irks me quite a lot.

2024-10-27 11:26:34 CET

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that is true 😅. And breaching the underlying cloud that the VM is hosted on is a nontrivial task. If however you get there, only finding 18 TB means you're most likely in a honeypot.

2024-10-27 11:11:42 CET

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18 TB is barely 1-2 servers. In a 32 server hyperconverged setup, you can easily have 3-4 PB of available data. Something doesn't smell right.

2024-10-20 17:48:38 CEST

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to be honest, even that is better than a huge list of favorites :-D.

2024-09-06 17:52:09 CEST

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Hey @npub1sfg…fqh4 , any chance we can get firmware updates through fwupd ?