note that you probably need to trust the remote household with your data
Probably not actually. Borgbackup (and any sensible encrypted backup system really), does client side encryption. So the data should be encrypted before it’s even sent down the wire. The remote household shouldn’t be able to access the data without the encryption key/password.
I mean, they will have to trust the remote household not to destroy the data, but that’s pretty much an unavoidable limitation.
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keep-daily = 10
keep-weekly = 4
Daily backups are cheap because of de-duplication. I keep a few weekly backups in case it takes me a bit to notice something went wrong. I don’t usually back up logs.
I could probably drop the weekly backups without much risk, but I’ve got the space.
I really hate that that comment is getting upvoted.
People love to hate on things a lot more than they like to understand how things actually work.
To make your point more explicit, CEOs often don’t have to sit for depositions because they legitimately aren’t the people who know the facts the cases turn on. When the CEOs are the right ones to talk to, courts don’t hesitate to make them show up.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate big corporations plenty. Don’t get me started about Meta or Microsoft. But can we please hate them for actually good reasons instead of making reasons to hate them up?
It’ll be really interesting to see how this dynamic changes post-midterms.
Right now it’s pretty clear Trump is doing his best to just avoid having Iran in the news.
After the midterms, incentives change a lot. Trump will never be up for re-election, and I’m not sure at that point if he cares much about public opinion. In some ways, he’ll have a lot fewer constraints. But… he’ll probably lose congress. He likes to ignore congress though.
I don’t know how this is going to play out, but I think we’re in for a real shit-show after the midterms.
I think people are right that the solution here isn’t to try a different project.
Instead of being confrontational about it, though, I’d recommend a different aproach.
evelyn: .lol 😜
you: I know! I know. The branding is pretty silly. But this really is the right tool for the task. Unesco and Wikimedia use it. And we can do our own branding for $50/month. 🤷
A lot can be fixed by just acknowledging people. They’re trying to evaluate something they don’t understand, and having a reaction. It’s not even unreasonable. The right thing to do is just acknowledge and move on.
Usually that’s all it takes. Don’t let yourself be embarrassed when you’re being reasonable. If they won’t move on, that’s the point where I start thinking about job applications somewhere else.
I really like the infographic, but given the amount of disinformation out there, some sort of source is really needed here or I have no idea if I should trust this.
I mean, it’s probably not Russian propaganda with these numbers, which does improve confidence a bunch. But still - it’s bad information hygiene. We should have a norm of not trusting unsourced data. If our side doesn’t care about sources, it makes it easier for the Russians to ignore them too.
In his “defense,” the plan to sanction the ICC came before the Nobel. Some of the reporting even claims that the Nobel committee chose to give the prize as a response to the threatened sanctions.
He’s sanctioning the ICC because they’ve stood up to him in the past on issues like Netanyahu.
Every time I think we’ve hit maximum “cartoon villain” with Trump, I find out I was wrong.
I’d add that traditional search can’t reasonably hope to compete with AI in this environment. If you’re running a traditional search engine right now, there’s a real argument that the best business decision is to accelerate the enshitification to capture as much value as you can from your remaining audience while you still have it.
This is the usual cycle with these sorts of technologies - once a replacement arrives, the natural choice is to shift from growth to exploitation.
This is going to get worse before it gets better.
I’ve always treated my home server with public facing services as presumptively compromised. I don’t put any data on there I wouldn’t want to see become public, and any data I actually care about losing is backed up to the cloud with an append-only key. The NixOS config lives in a git repo not on the server. If something bad happens, I can wipe the machine clean, redeploy the image, restore my backups, and we’re back to the status quo.
So, my threat model hasn’t changed much!