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  • Jeg er blevet færdig med Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything og fundamentalt har jeg ikke lært noget jeg ikke i forvejen godt vidste, men det er rart at have en stor bog om alle de små ting. Historien om Nauru og hvor de er nu. Hvordan verdens største naturfredningsorganisation faktisk bare var en olie magnat. Olie & Gas disinformation igennem årtierne helt tilbage fra 60’erne.

    Nu mangler jeg bare en ny bog. Anbefalinger?










  • I think it’s great you brought up RAID but I believe when Immich or any software mess things up it’s not recoverable right?

    RAID is not a backup, no. It’s redundancy. It’ll keep your service up and running in the case of a disk failure and allow you to swap in a new disk with no data loss. I don’t know how Immich works but I would put it in a container and drop a snapshot anytime I were to update it so if it breaks I can just revert.


  • I recommend it over a full disk backup because I can automate it. I can’t automate full disk backups as I can’t run dd reliably from a system that is itself already running.

    It’s mostly just to ensure that I have config files and other stuff I’ve spent years building be available in the case of a total collapse so I don’t have to rebuilt from scratch. In the case of containers, those have snapshots. Anytime I’m working on one, I drop a snapshot first so I can revert if it breaks. That’s essentially a full disk backup but it’s exclusive to containers.

    edit: if your goal is to minimize downtime in case of disk failure, you could just use RAID


  • My method requires that the drives be plugged in at all times, but it’s completely automatic.

    I use rsync from a central ‘backups’ container that pulls folders from other containers and machines. These are organized in

    /BACKUPS/(machine/container)_hostname/...

    The /BACKUPS/ folder is then pushed to an offsite container I have sitting at a friends place across town.

    For example, I backup my home folder on my desktop which looks like this on the backup container

    /BACKUPS/Machine_Apollo/home/dork/

    This setup is not impervious to bitflips a far as I’m aware (it has never happened). If a bit flip happens upstream, it will be pushed to backups and become irrecoverable.


  • They give you poorly disguised ads that you can’t unsubscribe from in the form of a “news letter”. These appear as emails in your inbox with special styling that sticks out. They’ve recently started pushing new features in the Calendar that you need to be the higher paying tier to use, but they still have special styling to make them stand out. If you try to use them, you get a huge popup saying you need to upgrade. They’ve been removing features from the lower tiers and demand you upgrade to keep using it.







  • I suppose it comes down to being offensive or defensive. I don’t think being defensive is worth my time. I’m not paying for bandwidth and compute-time is so cheap it’s irrelevant so I’m on the offensive. You can do both if you want. There’s definitely more ready-to-go defensive solutions than there are offensive (your own article, for example), but I think tinkering and adapting my own solution is fun. It’s like a game of cat and mouse but they have money to lose and I don’t.