There was a time when I had an old desktop packed full of spinning hard drives in my living room under a CRT television! Yes that works, but a NAS in the furnace room that is accessible from “smart TVs” and everyone’s mobile devices is pretty nice. No more fan noise either.
While true, neither backups nor checksums are exclusive to hosting anything.
Mainly just multi-device access.
I see that cosmos advertises running your apps on a vpn built-in. That might be worth looking into. When I switched to self-hosting everything on my “tailnet” and closed incoming ports, a lot of the nice features of Yunohost for maintaining DNS and certs for the various apps stopped being that useful. In this day and age, I think being able to self-host and experiment within a safe VPN environment instead of on the open internet is the way to go.
Hot take: For personal use, I see no value at all in “availability,” only data preservation. If a drive fails catastrophically and I lose a day waiting for a restore from backups, no one is going to fire me. No one is going to be held up in their job. It’s not enterprise.
However, redundancy doesn’t save you when a file is deleted, corrupted, ransom-wared or whatever. Your raid mirror will just copy the problem instantly. Snapshots and 3,2,1 backups are what are important to me because when personal data is lost, it’s lost forever.
I really do think a lot of hobbyists need to focus less on highly available redundancy and more on real backups. Both time and money are better spent on that.
lol. Tor isn’t sustainable? it’s been running for decades. There are plenty of other sustainable projects with big hosting bills; Wikipedia, Debian, Arch, Openstreetmap, etc. If you take VC money, though, they come knocking. It’s a ticking time bomb.
Indeed! Ever since XMPP was argued to be superior to everything else, I’ve come to just say “build it and show us.” No one cares about having multiple chat apps on their devices -if it’s good enough, it will be added along side Signal first, then replace it only when it’s clearly better.
Unless things have changed, calls on signal between you and people on your contact list are p2p. This is necessary to have a call experience like what people are used to. The latency of going through a relay makes conversation more difficult. Yes that does mean that someone on the network can see that there is a signal call between the 2 ip addresses (but they wouldn’t know the identities of the users) https://signal.org/blog/signal-video-calls/
democracy doesn’t work when people vote based on vibes or propaganda feels.
That is the line of reasoning that leads to anti-democratic authoritarianism. Humans use heuristics and emotion to make decisions the vast majority of the time. We might call that a values-based judgment if we are being charitable.
The current leadership uses notions of loyalty and in-group/out-group membership, and their MAGA supporters are swayed by disgust emotions manipulated by propagandists. However, I’ll admit that I’m driven by sense of fairness, or even moral outrage at naked corruption and abuse of power, waste, etc. We all do it. When people are hurting, you have to give them a solution that feels good -feels like it will make things better. Sending a strong message that crony capitalists are siphoning all the wealth off the middle-class to make you poorer, and they need to be taxed into the dirt feels like vindication and something that could work, for example. You have to hit both sides of the human coin.
They also don’t care he just took a wrecking ball to part of the White House. They don’t care that he has crashed the economy or broken the government. They are coward sycophants.
Absolutely! I should have said both the dns and certificate are subdomain wildcards. Thanks for clarifying.
In addition to a reverse proxy with mandatory TLS and some IP filtering, I have headscale running on a sub domain (subdomain dns is a wildcard). The main domain is a different, static web page, so anyone scanning IPs for headscale wont see its a headscale machines unless they can guess the subdomain. I figure that might be useful in case theres a zero day that pops up. It just looks like a regular web server to drive-by script kiddies.
This is how they deal with rape in those communities - make the girl marry him. Then all sins are forgiven.
Yunohost for sure. And start simple. One service
Which shows that wholesale, data subcriptions are probably a few dollars a year.
Automated license plate readers (both fixed abd mobile) means old cars are tracked as well.
My thoughts exactly. It’s a clickbait headline targeted at anyone who doesn’t realize that a third of people believe literally everything is “god’s plan.”
Are these not locked-down corporate-type machines? Same with school chromebooks, they likely make it very hard to escape the control.
I would generally keep sync and backup separate, but if you are using a cow filesystem like zfs on your unraid machine, it could take reliable snapshots.
This comment prompted me to look for a picture of it. Nothing I can find, except in the background behind a baby picture of my now-in-university baby when I was apparently debugging the network connection: