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tothrowawayon Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?

I use arq as well. Some things I don't like about it are:

1. There's no information about what it is doing (which file are currently being backing up, what's the current upload rate, what's the estimated completion time, how much data is left, etc)

2. Large files (like VM images, or crypto containers) block small files from being backed up. Essentially, your backup frequency can be no more than largest_file/upload_rate (well, it's more complicated than that because of deduplication)

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Well done! The content is excellent and I like the design. "Happy, Profitable, Efficient and Green". That's something I can get behind. Subscribed.

tothrowawayon California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

Another way to get out of subscriptions is to change your billing credit card to one generated by a service like Privacy.com. Then just close the card out.

Some sites/services are getting more savvy about pre-paid cards though (DigitalOcean won't accept one). I tried to use a burner card on a snail mail advertisement offering a $50 gift card to sign up for a trial of a magazine subscription. Didn't work.

tothrowawayon Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file sharing service?

https://send.firefox.com is another one.

tothrowawayon Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust

Took me a minute too. "pie crust".

tothrowawayon Ask HN: What sites have you seen that have great typography?

https://www.phaxio.com comes to mind. I'm not a designer, but I always thought it looked polished.

tothrowawayon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

nip.io and xip.io can do this:

mysite.com.127.0.0.1.nip.io mysite.com.127.0.0.1.xip.io

Your server must route the request to the appropriate vhost though (e.g. ServerAlias mysite.com.*.xip.io).