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by m3nu 7y ago
In other news: SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son Lost $130 Million on Bitcoin
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Knowledge becomes redundant all the time. Look for interesting problems around you and build up useful skills. Maybe try Kubernetes and container tech as a bridge before building actual apps?
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I asked myself that question last November. Big project was finished and finances were good. I applied to YC Startup School to get into the "scene" and they accepted everyone by accident that year. I ended up doing a startup for b
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by m3nu 7y ago
Is the video in Korean for everyone or just me?
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by m3nu 7y ago
Surely their advanced machine learning would see such an obvious pattern?
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by m3nu 8y ago
I never get this notion of "jobs" being a bottleneck that's "created" by employers and how there are "not enough jobs" around. The real bottleneck are problems that can be solved in a profitable manner. An
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by m3nu 8y ago
Shameless plug: I built a backup service[1] just for Borg and the price per TB on the large plan is $5/TB. Not as cheap as "cold storage", but still better than rsync.net and the same as B2. Also worth pointing out that my st
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Rclone only copies stuff. It doesn't compress, deduplicate or version. Some backends to versioning though.
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I expect that Google will also charge for retrieval. Their egress is really really expensive. There may also be a minimum storage period, like Amazon has. Let's wait and see.
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Why not kick the panda guy out of the apartment? The lease wasn't in his name after all.
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> In comparison with non-smokers, average male smokers of cigarettes have approximately a 9- to 10-fold risk of developing lung cancer and heavy smokers at least a 2O-fold risk. I'm waiting for similar conclusions to surface for add
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by m3nu 8y ago
The real problem with VPNs is that they are sold as a full privacy and security solution to people who don't understand what's going on technically. There are some legitimate reasons to use a VPN. Those are far fewer than the mark
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I highly doubt all of those. Probably confounded with general junk food consumption.
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by m3nu 8y ago
Living in Asia, I tend to see news from an Asian perspective. So this piece of news from Singapore was interesting. Key quote: > In India, Mr Sreeram Chaulia, dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs, said many regard Brexit as
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Brexit chaos stirs bafflement in UK ex-colonies(straitstimes.com)
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Also using both. First more people used Paypal. Since emphasizing that credit cards are processed by Stripe, way more people use that. Maybe 75%. Converting and withdrawing is very expensive. Better to use the funds to pay for other service
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Actually we are running a Whatsapp group for solo-entrepreneurs. We have video-calls from time to time and share milestones or problems. I won't share the group link here, as it would probably overwhelm us. But if you do want to join,
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by m3nu 8y ago
I have the same thing as dirty Python script[1]. Handy to send notes or reports to clients as "nice" PDF. One could customize it to support additional markdown features, like footnotes, tables. To run: $ md2pdf some-markdown.md #
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by m3nu 8y ago
Currently it's on RAID boxes, but I'll move to CephFS soon. The data volume is getting too big to copy it around. Ceph allows you to nicely expand your storage over time and account for some failures on the way. Borg needs a &quot
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by m3nu 8y ago
No limits. Downloads are unmetered and free, as long as they look reasonable. Once you download your full backup every hour, I'll ask you for a reason probably.
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I recently launched a backup service for Borg – https://www.borgbase.com . Also big on monitoring (email, pushover, webhook), as this is a common concern for backups. It just lacks terminal-based registration. :-) You could use t
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by m3nu 8y ago
Not surprising so many IT people choose a "low tech" second career. Personally I'm looking into restarting mountain guide. Lower pay, but lots of healthy exercise in the outdoors.
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The $5 market is probably better served by those "AI logo generators".
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I went from San Fran to Chicago by train as a backpacker 13 years ago. Was a nice experience. Also got my first Macbook just before the trip and had some time to play with it. :-)
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You can still use a full access key to prune old data/old archives as needed. But you use it from a trusted machine or temporarily. Also: you still need to keep some data even under GDPR. Like billing data.
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Write-once backup media, like DVDs were even better. But they are getting out of fashion.
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Borg stores all data as plain files in 500MB segments. Every segment has a checksum, which you can validate using the `borg check` command. The actual data lies on a plain vanilla RAID array.
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This bugged me too last year. So I built a hosting service for Borg backups that can have append-only access keys. So the client machine can't change old backups. Ever. In addition you can lock your settings down with 2FA. https:&#x2F
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So true and a great way to think of it. I moved to weighing the benefits of proving someone wrong vs. ignoring and nodding. Will help to reduce the number of arguments you get into and make room for the important ones.
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This was the main reason why I built BorgBase[1] to host backups: You can set individual SSH keys to append-only. Then this setting can be protected by 2FA. This should give good protection against such cases. Many other providers still all

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