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Fix this stupid fucking issue already

14 points by azeirah 12y ago

ljw1001 12y ago
how many shitloads in a fuckton? i forget
- deeviant 12y ago
  Let's see here. * 1 shitload = 1.68 shitslugs * 68.5 shitslugs = 1 fuckton So, there are about 40.77 shitloads in a fuckton. Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy.
  - junto 12y ago
    > Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy. You should never mix hairy and shitloads. That one fuckton of clagnuts.
riffic 12y ago
wait, wait.. You want to use your phone as your portable home directory? Does anyone else see why this is a potentially horrible idea?
Nadya 12y ago
Er.... Gulp tasks & local hosted Git?
- deleted 12y ago
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- azeirah 12y ago
  This fixes nothing. > I don't want to make a fucking github repo to sync everything > The learning experience here is that people DO OR CAN NOT ALWAYS BACKUP. Even seasoned people can be in a hurry sometimes. With that I meant, do not always have the time. It should be fully transparent, no setup required.
  - andrewchambers 12y ago
    I'm working on an open source tool which is designed to be a zero config right click context menu with a two entries, "snapshot" and "restore". When you are offline or online it works with a single click, then syncs to a server once internet is restored. It never deletes old versions, you always have the whole history. It also is encrypted client side and has data de-duplication. (The deduplication means you can keep snapshotting directories on a timer, and only changes are uploaded) It is not exactly what you described, but I can ping you when it is ready for people to test.
  - __david__ 12y ago
    He said he doesn't want a github repo. A local git repo is one "git init" away. That's easier to do than getting a remote file system mounted. Pushing and pulling from local computers is also dead simple (do people really not have ssh set up?).
    - NeutronBoy 12y ago
      It sounds easy, but try doing that across my Ubuntu laptop, Windows desktop, Android phone, and iPad. Not going to happen. I mean, do you set up a scheduled task to commit and pull every 5 mins? What happens when you get conflicts? Can you even do that on an iPad? The closest I've gotten to this nirvana is setting up OwnCloud on my own server, as a personal Dropbox. Can access it locally, or remotely over my VPN
      - db48x 12y ago
        could git annex assistant, it does all that for you.
  - Arcsech 12y ago
    One could probably script a customizable text editor (Emacs, Sublime Text, etc) to automatically init and commit on save to a local revision control repository. That's kind of a hack though. OS X's Time Machine feature sounds similar to what you want, if it watched for changes constantly instead of every time period (hour I think?). Does anybody know of some open source project similar to Time Machine? I imagine it could be adapted to such a task.
serve_yay 12y ago
Sounds simple, you should do it! :)
- azeirah 12y ago
  I can't. I don't have the discipline to finish anything.
- allending 12y ago
  It's trivial. I'll do it later ;)
zck 12y ago
Isn't Dropbox or similar programs a solution for this issue? You don't have to do anything after installation, it works cross-device, and you have the history. It doesn't have the "my phone is the server" feature, but neither does it have the never-requested "I just dropped my server in the toilet" feature.
- geoelectric 12y ago
  How else are you supposed to flush the cache?
frio 12y ago
Using the phone as a permanent store is an interesting concept. I'm excited to see tools like ipfs, Camlistore and others emerging in this space, because this is a problem I have too :). Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/) is neat, but lacks support for iOS.

14 points by azeirah 12y ago

ljw1001 12y ago

how many shitloads in a fuckton? i forget

deeviant 12y ago
Let's see here. * 1 shitload = 1.68 shitslugs * 68.5 shitslugs = 1 fuckton So, there are about 40.77 shitloads in a fuckton. Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy.
- junto 12y ago
  > Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy. You should never mix hairy and shitloads. That one fuckton of clagnuts.

riffic 12y ago

wait, wait.. You want to use your phone as your portable home directory? Does anyone else see why this is a potentially horrible idea?

Nadya 12y ago

Er.... Gulp tasks & local hosted Git?

deleted 12y ago
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azeirah 12y ago
This fixes nothing. > I don't want to make a fucking github repo to sync everything > The learning experience here is that people DO OR CAN NOT ALWAYS BACKUP. Even seasoned people can be in a hurry sometimes. With that I meant, do not always have the time. It should be fully transparent, no setup required.
- andrewchambers 12y ago
  I'm working on an open source tool which is designed to be a zero config right click context menu with a two entries, "snapshot" and "restore". When you are offline or online it works with a single click, then syncs to a server once internet is restored. It never deletes old versions, you always have the whole history. It also is encrypted client side and has data de-duplication. (The deduplication means you can keep snapshotting directories on a timer, and only changes are uploaded) It is not exactly what you described, but I can ping you when it is ready for people to test.
- __david__ 12y ago
  He said he doesn't want a github repo. A local git repo is one "git init" away. That's easier to do than getting a remote file system mounted. Pushing and pulling from local computers is also dead simple (do people really not have ssh set up?).
  - NeutronBoy 12y ago
    It sounds easy, but try doing that across my Ubuntu laptop, Windows desktop, Android phone, and iPad. Not going to happen. I mean, do you set up a scheduled task to commit and pull every 5 mins? What happens when you get conflicts? Can you even do that on an iPad? The closest I've gotten to this nirvana is setting up OwnCloud on my own server, as a personal Dropbox. Can access it locally, or remotely over my VPN
    - db48x 12y ago
      could git annex assistant, it does all that for you.
- Arcsech 12y ago
  One could probably script a customizable text editor (Emacs, Sublime Text, etc) to automatically init and commit on save to a local revision control repository. That's kind of a hack though. OS X's Time Machine feature sounds similar to what you want, if it watched for changes constantly instead of every time period (hour I think?). Does anybody know of some open source project similar to Time Machine? I imagine it could be adapted to such a task.

serve_yay 12y ago

Sounds simple, you should do it! :)

azeirah 12y ago
I can't. I don't have the discipline to finish anything.
allending 12y ago
It's trivial. I'll do it later ;)

zck 12y ago

Isn't Dropbox or similar programs a solution for this issue? You don't have to do anything after installation, it works cross-device, and you have the history. It doesn't have the "my phone is the server" feature, but neither does it have the never-requested "I just dropped my server in the toilet" feature.

geoelectric 12y ago
How else are you supposed to flush the cache?

frio 12y ago

Using the phone as a permanent store is an interesting concept. I'm excited to see tools like ipfs, Camlistore and others emerging in this space, because this is a problem I have too :). Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/) is neat, but lacks support for iOS.