The Doctor

8 to 8, more like.

It’s not doing something dumb. It’s another power grab. We passed the stage where giving the benefit of the doubt is a reasonable thing to do well over a decade ago.

It’s pretty decent. They just released a Windows PDrive client, but Proton Drive is usable from pretty much any browser. I use it for keeping additional backups of a few things.

Weirdly, John Markoff didn’t write this article. I’d have thought he’d have jumped at the opportunity.

Unless you’re a seasoned sysadmin, hosting your own mail server is going to be more trouble that it’s worth. It’s a lot of work, and when that was a common thing (companies having their own mail servers) usually they had dedicated admin teams (when they bothered hiring more than one admin, that is) to run it. It’s a lot of work.

I migrated my domain over to Protonmail a couple of years back, and it’s the best money I’ve spent in a long time.

The FBI surveils targets prior to executing raids. It’s possible they deduced that there was some useful information available on the target’s laptop and acted in such a way to capture it easily.

Not really? If you’re trying to debug something, or if you’re gearing up for an upgrade (like the Mastodon upgrade this week that’s giving a lot of admins grief) it’s plausible to have one of your backups locally to mess around with. As an example of this principle, I run Part-DB-server to manage my workshop inventory. For various reasons I migrated from a hosted MySQL database to a local SQLite database, and I’m in the process of moving back to the MySQL database. To facilitate this I have a copy of the SQLite database that, as needed, I run SELECTs on to backfill details on entries. I have a local copy of that database on my laptop, in other words.

It’s also plausible that the kolektiva.social admin was mocking up a clone of the service on their laptop to test something.

Without more data (gentlebeings, start your FOIA requests) I’m not sure that it’s a good idea to speculate. We might learn something that we can use later.

As far as I know (which isn’t too far, because I’m not a Beltway bandit anymore), the Fediverse isn’t on the FBI’s radar in any meaningful way. It /might/ be on the radar of the information contractors they hire for bulk data gathering and analysis (Palantir, ZeroFox, Dataminr, probably others these days) but none of me have heard anything specific.

Alan Turing’s apple, I shoulda kept my big mouth shut.

Who do I have to let sit on my face to eradicate systemfail?

Honestly? I think Ubuntu’s userbase is about to get a lot bigger. The larger hosting companies (AWS and Digital Ocean are the two that come to mind immediately) support Ubuntu as a first-class citizen, so once the not-true blue RHEL distros take the hit migrations are going to happen.

Some of the older adventures (AD&D, first and second edition) were written as single-player modules, kind of like the adventure game books of the same historical era. They’re sort of like Choose Your Own Adventure books, but with RPG engines bolted onto the side controlling some of the paths taken.

Eich has a history of acting like a jagoff…

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/3/5579516/outfoxed-how-protests-forced-mozillas-ceo-to-resign-in-11-days

https://cryptonews.com/news/brave-browser-courts-social-media-rage-with-covid-19-comment-8706.htm

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

It did a great job of discrediting opening anything for public comment thenceforth. Which I really think was the long-term goal.

What have you been posting that’s getting moderated?

It’s the USian way.

This is really cool. Is there any way to integrate it into OpenWRT?

All of my servers have shell scripts that rsync important stuff to a subdirectory. Other scripts run database dumps a couple of times a day.

My primary server at home then rsyncs my servers’ backup subdirectories to its own, broken out by FQDN.

Leandra then uses Restic to back everything up (herself as well as the other servers’ backups) to Backblaze B2 on a two year cycle.

I think that’s the whole point. Look at the folks who keep saying “We are the only ones who can prevent The Terminator from happening.” They’re the same ones who’re pouring the most money into AI R&D and getting their APIs integrated into third party products. The whole thing is a smokescreen to ensure that there are as few competitors as possible.

Same. Our stash of respirator filters at home came in handy. Interesting factoid: KN-95 filters are available for automobile air conditioners as well. I make a point of asking for them at the dealership.