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by rsync 4y ago
"Sounds like `git annex` is file-level deduplication, whereas this tool is block-level ..." I am not a user of git annex but I do know that it works perfectly with an rsync.net account as a target: https://git-annex.bra
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by rsync 4y ago
"Yesterday, everyone was complaining about the 2.2:2.0 ratio, but now we're working with 3.15:2.05." What is the difference between todays announcement and yesterdays ? I thought we were just getting re-submitted headlines, b
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by rsync 4y ago
What a coincidence - that is actually the worst income stream I ever created. I was working at Software Etc.[1][2] in 1995 and used my employee discount to buy 12 boxes of Fallen Empires. I was certain it would make me (relatively) rich.
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by rsync 4y ago
"From the very start it was just Tesla penny-pinching." I don't think so. I think it was worse, and indicates a deeper (and more depressing) inadequacy: I think Tesla put the big screen (17" ?) in the first Model S as a
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by rsync 4y ago
Just to clarify … You are correct that burning a SIM card is not that expensive. However, your example of a text capable VOIP number is not a good one. FAANGs require a real mobile number and these texting services (twilio, for instanc
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by rsync 4y ago
Yes - they accomplish the same thing. --link-dest is just an elegant, built-in way to create "hardlink snapshots" the same way that 'cp -al' always did. But note: A changed file - even the smallest of changes - breaks th
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by rsync 4y ago
Working on it. It's complicated ... However, as with all things here, you can just email and discuss with a real person and we'll set you up the way you need to be set up wrt billing and pricing, etc.
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by rsync 4y ago
... username checks out - our target demographic :)
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by rsync 4y ago
I disagree - the service provider should be considered an adversary and their service - and your tooling - should make it possible to obfuscate every single bit of data and metadata that you store there. If only such a service existed. I
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by rsync 4y ago
If you search for it you will find a fairly recent episode of KQED "forum" that discussed this topic for a full hour.
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by rsync 4y ago
Forgive me, but your comment drops below any reasonable threshold of HN guidelines and I am forced to use strong language like “absurd” and “clownish” to describe what you’re asserting … The overriding market distortion, which trumps every
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by rsync 4y ago
I care a lot.
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by rsync 4y ago
The anonymity isn’t the problem - it’s the cost free aspect. Anonymous content can work very well if there are costs incurred…
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by rsync 4y ago
I'd like to learn more about this because it's genuinely interesting ... If you have a warrant for a building, or suite, and there's a bunch of little boxes inside ... what difference does that make ? It seems to me that a sa
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by rsync 4y ago
I have no idea. I don't think you can use too much tape. Suggestions that you can break fittings with too much tape are almost certainly incorrect - with either plastic or metal. I usually do 5-ish wraps with the thick yellow tape - a
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by rsync 4y ago
"My roommate had a "unlimited BTU" gas fitter license (Canada Class "A") and this for a living and preferred "pipe dope"" I do this kind of thing a lot as we own and maintain our own water plant. M
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by rsync 4y ago
"For people saying that this is a sign of the dollar dominance ending consider this ..." I think you are mistaken. The technical fungibility of dollars/gold/oil is irrelevant. The requirement to sell other assets to buy
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by rsync 4y ago
"Meaning we run a global reserve currency with no 'department' in charge of the global part." You are mistaken - there is an enormous "department" in charge of the global part: the US Navy.
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by rsync 4y ago
... charitably, I think your parent refers to underappreciation within the United States which I think is a fair assessment.
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by rsync 4y ago
I downvoted you because you complained about your downvotes. Don't watch the score and, especially , don't complain about it.
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by rsync 4y ago
Here is a step by step, keystroke by keystroke, howto for rclone with S3 buckets as an example target: https://rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html ... this HOWTO uses an rsync.net account as an endpoint/thr
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by rsync 4y ago
They are localizers. Their actual purpose(s) will be emergent and are still being discovered.
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by rsync 4y ago
I love being a UNIX sysadmin and there is nothing else I've ever wanted to do. However , if I were in your position and didn't want to do this work I think I would either get formally certified as an electrician and do electr
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by rsync 4y ago
"However in classrooms with a well designed ventilation system you can keep the CO2 < 1000ppm during the whole school day." Where does "opening the windows" fit in a scale of "well designed ventilation systems&qu
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by rsync 4y ago
One issue with carrier email-to-sms gateways is that they truncate messages at a relatively short number of characters. Twilio SMS API, on the other hand, does not have that limit and you can send long SMS messages with a single 'curl&
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by rsync 4y ago
"What is a billionaire gonna do once they get to Mars?" Undergo profound physical atrophy leading to organ dysfunction and eventually cancer ... ... since Mars gravity is something like 1/3 that of Earth.
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by rsync 4y ago
borg: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ A good description of how it works and why you should use it is here: https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ Here are a few r
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by rsync 4y ago
The very best answer: “I like trains.”
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by rsync 4y ago
I am literally never going to stop misusing this word.
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by rsync 4y ago
I think metafilter still does this ?

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