2026-09-12 21:54 UTC
@CliffsEsport@mastodon.social I'm baffled as to how anyone could think I was serious, it's a copypasta snowclone of "STOP DOING MATH".
I don't run with swap on most of my systems because they have more RAM than they need for their workload, or can't realistically use swap (e.g. low durability flash), but this shitpost was inspired by a "don't use a swap partition, use a swap file" post I saw earlier today.
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@CliffsEsport@mastodon.social 2026-09-12 21:56
@ryanc@infosec.exchange Well for me I lacked the context, no idea what "Stop Doing Math" refers to so unable to see that connection. ^^
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@pt_ickle@mastodon.social 2026-09-13 04:16
@ryanc@infosec.exchange @CliffsEsport@mastodon.social thanks for the post im hear for the comments and confusion
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@qwertydotplus@mastodon.social 2026-09-13 06:49
@ryanc@infosec.exchange @CliffsEsport@mastodon.social the only case where i can really recommend against swap is in high security, "cannot write secret keys to disk, even encrypted" environments; see https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html for why you should probably have at least a bit of swap. (i provision all my new systems with 1 GiB minimum, and more if it's strictly necessary)