And they will be my brothers.

As soon as they war is over they return all lands and prisoners, and pay full reparations.

Otherwise, we need to help Ukraine kill as many of their kids as possible, and we should watch the videos and laugh. :)

https://www.bea.gov/news/2019/direct-investment-country-and-industry-2018

The TCJA generally eliminated taxes on dividends, or repatriated earnings, to U.S. multinationals from their foreign affiliates. Dividends of $776.5 billion in 2018 exceeded earnings for the year, which led to negative reinvestment of earnings, decreasing the investment position for the first time since 1982. Tables 3 and 4 provide information on the country and industry breakdown of dividends.

By country, nearly half of the dividends in 2018 were repatriated from affiliates in Bermuda ($231.0 billion) and the Netherlands ($138.8 billion). Ireland was the third largest source of dividends, but its value is suppressed due to confidentiality requirements. By industry, U.S. multinationals in chemical manufacturing ($209.1 billion) and computers and electronic products manufacturing ($195.9 billion) repatriated the most in 2018.

Have the rack mounted one, I usually roll my own router but I’m glad to have someone else making sure I don’t do anything stupid for security.

It’s not perfect, but it’s peace of mind.

Zfs on Debian on bare metal with nfs server. Edit: and it hosts the worker vms

Vlan for services with routed subnet

Sriov connectx4 with 1 primary vm running freebsd and basically all my major services in their own jails. Won’t go into details, but it has like 20 jails and runs almost everything. (had full vnet jails for a while which was really cool but performance wasn’t great).

1 vm for external nginx and bind on Debian vm on isolated subnet/Vlan and dmz for exposed services

1 vm for mailinabox on dmz subnet/Vlan

1 Debian vm on services vlan/net for apps that don’t play well with freebsd, mostly dockers, I do not like this vm, it’s basically unclean and mostly isolated.

Few other vms for stuff.

It’s a Dell r730 with 2 2697(or 2698? 20c/40t each) with 512gb. Edit: v4 so broadwell

12x16tb hgst h530s with 2 nvme drives and 2 Sata ssds, somewhere in there is a zlog and l2arc.

Can’t figure out how to fit a decent GPU in there so currently it’s living on my dual Rome workstation, this system is due for an upgrade, thinking about swapping the workstation to a much lighter one and push the work to the server, while moving the storage to a dedicated system, but not there yet.

Love freebsd though, don’t use it as my daily driver, tried a bit, it worked but there was just enough trouble to not make it work, but freebsd has moved on and so have i, so it’s worth a shot again.

Decent i/O, but nothing to write home about, think it saturates the 10g but only just, I have gear for full 100g (I do a LOT of chip startups, and worked at a major networking chip firm a while) but it takes a lot more power, and i have PGE so I can’t justify it till I can seriously saturate it.

Also I’m in process of moving to Europe, built a weak network here and linked via wire guard, but shit is expensive here and I’m not sure how to finish the move just yet, so I’m basically 50/50 including time at work in the valley.

ZFS, hands down, it doesn’t even begin to hurt the SSDs, it’s basically the best choice, just try to not fill the whole volumes or it starts thrashing like crazy.

ZFS has encryption, but LUKS is fine too.

I’ve run Raidz2 for well over a decade, never had data loss that wasn’t extremely my fault, and I recovered from that almost immediately from backed up snapshot.

He wasn’t successful at anything.

He slashed the corporate income tax and due to an effective amnesty on repatriation many large MNCs brought stashed offshore cash and cut R&D to register massive earnings for his last 2 years.

Ironically, this started to dry up right around Q1 2020… Then COVID drowned out everything.

His response was to just pump $4T to employers with almost no documentation, thank god we didn’t see a massive wave in inflation out of that.

Actually, it was the Palantir Gotham threat model… which has a backend to a private chatgpt model :(

Your reply has a lot of Yamcha energy.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

Putin was brilliant, his moves until 2008 were a perfection of geopolitical chess.

After that he completely lost the plot, his terror at the rise of China completely broke his mind, he felt he had to show strength less Russia become a vassal state and resource depot for the CPC.

And he wasn’t wrong, but his response was stupid, and relied on Europe continuing to follow Merkel’s ‘nice doggy’ policies.

Now he thinks he can act anyway, because his sponsored right-wing groups will cause enough dissent that nobody will stop him from taking the baltics.

He 100% will or has done that, remember the secret protocol was secret.

The other shoe always drops later.

Power levels are bullshit.

Feckoin.

They aren’t rational, otherwise they would have waited to invade Ukraine till 2024 while cashing fuel checks.

They’re Russian, stop trying to bring reason into it.

I’m sure they genuinely think that now the US will attack Europe and they can invade on 2 fronts.

Russians are just insane morons.

This isn’t for Ukraine.

This is for Europe.

Yeah, there were other countries to ban, but those 2 cut my attacks down 90%.

Also consider a honeypot that triggers when anyone tries to ssh it at all.

3090 has 24gb and rolls the 38b models beautifully.