I leverage btrfs or ZFS snapshots. I take rolling system level snapshots on a schedule (daily, weekly, monthly and separately before any package upgrades or installs) and user data snapshots every couple of hours. Then I use btrbk to sync those snapshots to an external drive at least once a week. When I have all of my networking gear and home services setup I also sync all of this to storage on my NAS. Any hosts on the network keep rolling snapshots stored on the NAS as well.

Important data also gets shoveled into a B2 bucket and/or Google drive if I need to be able to access it from a phone.

I keep snapshots small by splitting data up into well defined subvolumes, anything that can be reacquired from the cloud (downloads, package caches, steam libraries, movies, music, etc) isn’t included in the backup strategy. If I download something and it’s hard to find or important I move it out of downloads and into a location that is covered by my backups.

SpaceX has a very robust management system that manages musk and keeps him out of the day to day. That’s the most impressive thing about them IMO. Tesla used to be better about this as well, but with the whole eDumpster (aka cybertruck) fiasco that system seems to have largely fallen apart.

Titanium has been abandoned for years. Swift backup is what I switched to, or DataBackup on GitHub if you want a free option.

Check out netbird and tailscale if you want secure remote access

We call those externalities, the taxpayers will handle them if we ignore them long enough that they become a crisis

Quick someone draw duckbutt

The real question is how were they faked? These demos almost never use the real production technology, they’re just scripted to appear to

Whoosh

There’s definitely an opportunity for someone to run their own curation service for personalized feeds based on a user’s activity on other social networks.

I tend to just check All periodically for the first couple of months and follow tags and people that suit my own interests and build my own feed from zero. But that takes effort and time, and for folks who want an option further toward the convenience end of the privacy/convenience spectrum I suspect it would be a fairly popular option.

I will give bluesky credit for their focus on moderation. Hopefully some of that design is cloned by the Mastodon folks sooner than later

Leaving one privately run garden for another sure seems like a choice 🤔

I’ve always had to sign my vote by mail ballot envelope in CA. They keep a signature on file from when you last registered to absentee (not vote at your polling place) vote and compare the two to see if someone else is trying to vote in your name.

It’s possible to go after both. M$ has some fucked up practices that trick the user into using edge that shouldn’t be okay

Get ready for corporate announcing the layoff of 67% of the workforce

More secure legally. You generally can’t be compelled to disclose a password that incriminates you (unless it’s already apparent that you’re guilty of wrong-doing) but a thing (physical key, fingerprint, etc) isn’t protected in the same way and can be demanded by the court.

Whether biometric are secure or not is another question, they can be stolen like any other data or a motivated attacker could just take you or your fingers.

The real benefit of super high refresh rates is the decrease in latency for input. At lower rates the lag between input and the next frame is extremely apparent, above about ~144hz it’s much less noticable.

The other side effect of running at high fps is that when heavy processing occurs and there are frame time lags they’re much less noticable because the minimum fps is still very high. I usually tell people not to pay attention to the maximum fps rather look at the average and min.

+1, I only have a yt music sub because it’s grandfathered in with my yt premium subscription and extra drive storage. YT music recommendations are mildly terrible compared to Spotify, but I’m not throwing $15/mo at Spotify when I only use it a few times a year.