2.5 Admins 288: HDD Tourism

Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.

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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

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We were asked about ZFS and VMs in the homelab.