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That new law is not going to change the number of spam calls most people will get, as they're not from properly registered businesses.
Applications each have their own FreeBSD jails, so they're isolated.
ZFS incremental replication on top of regular app backups provide a quick recovery process should the hardware of that machine fail.
Moving those apps to the cloud would cost orders of magnitude more, for benefits I don't need.
I store my pictures on a NAS jail. That directory is mounted read-only on another jail with NC and Memories. I like the guarantee that my gallery app cannot alter my files.
Also, many gallery apps don't allow browsing a directory tree. You have one level of "albums" and that's it. Memories support it. I have pictures 5-6 directories deep, following a system that makes sense to me.
I also have an OpenVPN as a backup option, running behind sslh. My same port on my router (443) serves both a webserver hosting photos, and that OpenVPN instance. This allows me to VPN into my home in most firewalled office networks.
I'm now using Vikunja, and Tasks.org for the Android side. That setup has worked for me wonderfully for a couple years now. Vikunja has a ton of features I don't use, and that's fine. They don't get in the way.
Also, turning pages is faster than with the stock reader of the device.
Top management defines a strategy for the company.
Each department (commercial, marketing, product, etc.) create department OKRs from the company OKRs.
The year/term starts.
Each department comes to the implementation teams (product, IT, BI, support, etc.) with a HUGE list of poorly defined objectives or tasks.
The implementation teams only have limited capacity and can only deliver maybe 15-20% of what everyone wants. No one actually thought of checking if the objectives have any reasonable possibility of being delivered at all during the term.
Optional drama to decide what's going to be actually worked on might happen.
When the term ends, and if communication isn't a disaster between the departments, some MVPs are delivered.
A new term starts, and either the previous objectives are continued, or they're simply forgotten in favor of new ones.
Rinse and repeat.
edit: formatting and typo.
I host 25-30 people on my couch each year, and I've had wonderful times with so many different people from different backgrounds. Some of my surfers had some weird stories about weird hosts, but I've never had anyone tell me anything about drugs, rape, or anything violent.
I remember the 90s and the 20s, when everything happened locally on the local hardware. It was quite easy to type fast, move the focus around in the various forms using tab and shift-tab, move from tabs and windows with ctrl/alt-tab; and there was keyboard shortcuts for most things. I remember being able to execute complex operations between multiple applications using only my keyboard and without having to use any brain power between each step.
Now most things are moved to cloud applications and we interact with them with web browsers. Keyboard shortcuts are (mostly) gone, and each click or operation triggers a request on the other side of the world with a high HTTP latency, and that prevents the brain from chaining them for free.
I remember being able to do almost everything using my keyboard. Now good luck interacting with a web console without switching back and forth from keyboard to mouse for 50% of the steps.
I guess that's also why many developers (including myself) still love the CLI environments.
This is why I've been using keyboards with nothing written on the keys since 2004. At the time, I was in high school and had no money to buy a professional keyboard, so I spray painted my cheap keyboard with black paint (fun fact: I'm still using that very keyboard to type this).
I've never looked at my keyboards ever since. I can type all letters and all symbols without thinking about it. As an IT person, I couldn't imagine how much brain energy I would waste if I were to look down and search for anything.
I've been working on dozens of projects since, and probably did thousands of commits. Some of the teams of those projects included dozens of developers working concurrently on the same codebases. We always merged the upstream branches into our development branches and never did any rebases.
I have NEVER ended up in a situation where I thought rebases would have been better. The git tools and IDE integrations of our current age allow me to find any information I need from the history without pain.
I NEED to be able to add my root cert to the list of certified authorities.
I don't need to change anything to the system provided list. I just need to add mine. It's my device, I'd like to be able to change anything if I want to.
I'm only replicating the data filesystems.
From what I see, sanoid looks quite similar to zrepl. Both tools are probably able to achieve similar results.
I do feel that zrepl has more features so far, though. But hey, if your setup is working and your data is secure, that's the most important.
I like the ability to incrementally send only the changes of an encrypted filesystem to a target server that never had the encryption key at anytime.
I'm using this to share backup space with my friends. We both push/pull our encrypted snapshot diffs every hour. I don't have my friends' keys so I can't read their data, and they can't read mine. In case of emergency, I can go to their place with my key, and recover my data from their systems.
So what we did is we wired one ourselves through the walls of every room, running ethernet cables from one balcony to the other. Every 6 room, we'd install a cheap fast-ethernet switch.
Eventually, we managed to connect almost all 300 rooms together in a giant single VLAN.
You can still see part of that mess in the history of Google Street View: https://goo.gl/maps/AQriNEJViMELQw8MA
That dorm ended up being a giant eternal LAN party. People would play games all the time, either from their own individual rooms, either after moving their PC using stolen supermarket shopping carts to other rooms for more conviviality.
You'd turn on your PC, and some custom scripts would tell you which games were currently being played, and the only thing left for you was to join the game of your friends, or the game of the total strangers from two floors down.
Fun times!
After a couple years, I had multiple of them failing. Some of them were replaced by the shop I bought them at, some of them were replaced by Seagate directly. Every time, the data was lost.
At some point, when the 5th drive failed, I realized that the failure was due to a firmware issue, that could be fixed by upgrading the firmware using a TTL connection and a serial console. I did exactly that, my data was accessible again, and the drive never failed again (it's still running now).
I was very angry at Seagate and other vendors for sending replacement drives with the old firmware when it was known that the firmware would cause the problem again, while the new firmware was out and working correctly.
The wikipedia page explains this well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)
Some freight trains do not have toilets for the drivers, and they ended up peeing at the back of the cabin.
The goal of the internship was: "find a way to deal with the corrosion on the floor induced by repeated urination from the drivers".
The Lineage build with power saving mode stays up 2-3 days with active use.
I'm extremely satisfied by it. Kudos to the Lineage team!