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by tlavoie 2y ago
One question, why use rclone for the Backblaze B2 part? I use restic as well, configured with autorestic. One command backs up to the local SSD, local NAS, and B2.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I've jumped around a few different applications and such, settled on Joplin. (Mobile & multi-platform, still own/sync my data, etc.) The key for me is that it's the first thing I open, and create a journal note for the da
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I'm in BC, with BC Hydro. The smart meter means that everyone can see their own daily usage and trends. I'm sure most won't look, though I do. What I found more useful is the paired device from Rainforest Automation, e.g. ht
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by tlavoie 2y ago
That's also where declarative package managers such as Nix and Guix shine. You can temporarily "install" packages that can be cleaned up later, garbage-collection style. Besides being their own distros, both can be used as ad
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I find the 99% isopropyl alcohol from the pharmacy works well, and it's cheap too. Also, I'd get funny looks buying hairspray, when I have very little hair.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
It's probably scanning most common ports first, so covering breadth of IPs rather than completeness of results. Out of curiosity, have you tried scanning your external IP with Nmap, enabling all ports?
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Went from software dev to infosec consulting here. Basically, one of the people I worked with at the prior job moved first, then asked, "if I knew anyone who might be interested." After not cluing in immediately, she asked again.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Good points, hadn't thought of contamination at that level.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
That's true! It hasn't been a huge issue, we tend to mitigate basically by filling some pots with water when a storm is coming. (Usual outages happen in high winds, we have overhead lines and many trees.)
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I've got a 1000 litre / 250-ish US gallon rainwater collection tank. While I wouldn't want to start there for drinking water, it would do for quite a while if I boil it. We do get power failures, so it's mostly been for
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Keep some oats, you can eat them raw.
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by tlavoie 3y ago
We do have the National Research Council, which does real research (and then spins off companies from developed tech.) Sounds useful to me.
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Related, The Information is an excellent book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_...
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by tlavoie 3y ago
There's a blast from the past! I worked for some years with Viewcall Canada, that had a very similar sort of service called BeyondTV. Same sort of box, more or less, and we did a bunch of work to basically import content from some prov
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Interesting paper, thanks. It does make some of the same distinctions I did, around smokers and smoke alarms. Another thing mentioned about newer construction is the improved blocking and stopping. For example, one old style of framing was
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by tlavoie 3y ago
That's probably more because of smoke detectors (and perhaps fewer smokers) than anything else. I'd love to get a sprinkler system retro-fit though, as that would make an impressive difference. All the lighter-weight joists made w
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Indeed, and it's a powerful combination. With "autorestic" as a bit of a front end, I have backups going to a local SSD, home NAS, and Backblaze B2. My B2 storage is under 200 GB so far, but has also cost basically nothing. F
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Our dogs are also also very good at picking up other cues. Not only can we not say "walk," but the "well..." as in, "well, time to take the dogs" gets the same reaction now. Our SPCA-special (shepherd / hu
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Sounds good, thanks. Running manually for the time being, I did see the deprecation warning for Python 3.9, meaning I should get around to updating this Raspberry Pi to Bookworm. (Or NixOS, like my laptops, then I can manage things with mor
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Awesome thanks, will give this a go! This makes much more sense to me than dedicating yet another, mostly-idle little system.
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by tlavoie 3y ago
One thing that strikes me a bit odd about HA is that it seems to really, really want to be its own install. Make it a Docker container, or a VM, or a full-on OS install. Can it be installed nicely on top of something else? While I have a fe
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Their Signals and Threads podcast is very interesting, and talks quite a bit about OCaml. https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Fail2ban can also work on ModSecurity logs, banning IPs that trigger a bunch of rules there. By the way, I have mine set to block for 12 hours, and some still come back. I suppose what I should look into is some sort of progressive extensio
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Is the unrelated stuff actually worse than the plague of fake-inspirational/aspirational bullshit? Other than perhaps meeting a recruiter for a job change, I can't imagine why one would really spend time there. It's always be
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Well, there were 14K hits from some list of leaked credentials. That likely means that someone was banging away for a good long time, mostly not getting in. While there could be a raft of IPs working in concert, there should be enough commo
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Persistent servers moved the goal-posts for problems at least. With stateless HTTP, maintaining state somewhere was always part of the challenge, so CGI programmers would be tempted to put too much into client-side cookies. That meant the u
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by tlavoie 3y ago
I would suspect that in a case like Reddit's /r/buyItForLife/, other users who are interested in the topic will point out issues. Maybe the same thing could work here.
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by tlavoie 3y ago
I think doors in BBS terms were essentially side-loaded programs that ran within the BBS framework. Different content, text games, that sort of thing. So the library would be something written to work within that specific BBS software.
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by tlavoie 3y ago
You might be thinking of Darcs, which is written in Haskell.
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by tlavoie 3y ago
Yup, and comes with an API (originally cloned from del.icio.us IIRC), so you can back up your data or use in other ways. I'm always archiving updates on mine, since he does joke from time to time about getting hit by a bus.

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