Relaying gigabytes of traffic per user costs serious money. Rely on them to do it, and they are either going to charge you or are just waiting to charge you when their VCs come knocking.

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Make Canada post a military division? Heh

Alpine Linux can boot in a few seconds. Stick to something extremely simple like nfs or samba and nothing else in the boot. Or use suspend to ram with your regular OS.

Not that I know of. I still use wallabag just for my “read it later on kobo” button.

Does the app clear storage space on your phone ever? Last I looked, it only mirrored pictures to Immich, so everyone’s phone eventually fills up storage. Had to stick with Nextcloud because it deletes after uploading.

Most motherboards support wake packets sent over Ethernet. They only work on your lan, but they will start a machine or wake it from sleep. Sending a packet from another machine is fairly simple, it’s old tech. I’ve seen simple web servers that have a “send wake” button, but you could probably trigger it from a variety of things

Yes. It archives a copy of the page locally that you have access to forever.

Standard is fantastic! The books are better quality than what they charge for on “marketplaces” and can be read for free or downloaded wholesale for a song. Add to that they host an opds catologue that fbreader can browse and you have incredibly convenient public domain books right to the ereader.

And let’s leave off the 60hz flicker. That used to bother me so much.

That said, very happy with runbox. Their web mail interface is clunky but works. Mostly using local clients though. Even switching to using a client with Gmail will drastically reduce the behavioural data google collects on you.

I’d suggest seeing if you can fully switch to a local mail client on your devices. That way you know, when you are shopping for a mail provider, whether you care about their web mail client, or whether you just want standards compliant imap/smtp.

That, and most traditional dairy consuming European cultures never actually drank milk. They made cheese and butter, then poured the remainder in the pig trough to turn those calories into pork.

For privacy reasons, I have finally fully disabled dynamic dns updates and closed the last holes in the home firewall, moving to 100% proxying via a VPS for publicly available stuff, and a tailnet (headscale) for everything private. The only real cross-over is Nextcloud - mountains of private data, but I want it publicly available for file shares. Fortunately, Nextcloud has a setting to whitelist IP addresses that allow log-in, so I can restrict that to just the non-VPS tailnet addresses. From the public internet, only public shares are accessible.

I set up a L4 proxy so that the encryption for Nextcloud happens at home and the VPS just passes encrypted packets. Then it occurred to me that a compromised VPS could easily grab a SSL cert for my Nextcloud subdomain via a regular-old http-challenge and MITM access to all my files, defeating the point.

Then I found a neat hack that effectively disables http-challenge certs for subdomains by requiring a wildcard certificate - which can only be created with a dns-challenge. I was able to also disable all other certificate authorities. Obviously, I have /some/ trust in the VPS I administer - it’s on my tailnet network - but no longer have the concern that it could easily MITM Nextcloud. https://www.naut.ca/blog/2019/10/19/mitigating-http-mitm-possibilities-with-lets-encrypt/

I understand that COW file-systems can do snapshots at “instantaneous” points in time and KVM snapshots ram state as well, but I still worry that a database could be backed up at just the wrong time and be in an inconsistent state at restore. I’d rather do less frequent backups of a stopped VM and be more confident it will restore and boot correctly. Maybe I’m a curmudgeon?

Do you actually need 100TB instantly available? Could a portion of that be cold storage that can be booted quickly from a WOL packet from the always-on machine when needed? With some tweaking, you could probably set up an alpine-based NAS to boot in <10 seconds, especially if you picked something that supported coreboot and could avoid that long bios post time.

You get the best of both worlds if you have a pad and just, kind of, “doodle” -draw pictures, write short sentences or words while primarily paying attention to the lecture. They help you process, and then place the content of the lecture when you do the reading or assigned work.

Indeed. The Luddites the high-skilled technology workers of their time! And were the first bloody chapter of the labour movement, nearly erased from that history by their oppressors. “Blood in the machine” by Brian Merchant is a great history of this.

The description is so vague, that a few ashes in the garbage and someone claiming they saw the note and it’s contents would fit it.

Pundits literally make you less aware of what is happening in the world. Their whole job is to fill the space between an event, and actual, verified information about that event, with wild guesses. Any truthful journalist will admit the limitations of what is known during that time.