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Comment #41709371
borgmatic's "spot" check (probabilistically) protects against both of those failure modes: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-lar...
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Comment #41709105
Sure thing! If you have any feedback on how it works (or doesn't) for you, please feel free to file a ticket.
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Comment #41708443
You may also be interested in borgmatic's (beta) "spot" check, which compares your backup archive's files to your source files: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/deal-with-…
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Comment #37665569
I actually had the opposite reaction to it, but I do think it's nice there are tools for every use case and preference.
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Comment #37662336
So is Podman, if you are to believe Red Hat's marketing on it.
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Comment #34916619
With component-based solutions like Mailu, the junk/non-junk categorization you do in your mail client (via folders, not flags) indeed does inform the training of the spam filter u…
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Comment #30410379
I can confirm that the online process for deleting an account still does not work! Gets into an endless loop sending repeated validation emails. (Firefox with all blockers disabled…
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Comment #28024185
Thanks for the shout out, Manu! I'll also plug an all-in one Borg + borgmatic Docker image ( https://hub.docker.com/r/b3vis/borgmatic/ ) that I've used to backup to both BorgBase a…
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Comment #22421350
A bunch of this resonates with me, having spent many years in climate tech as well. I laughed at the part about selling a pilot to a utility in three months though. That's like sup…
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Comment #21546210
That's the old way of doing things. And I've been there. Do I want Tomato Shibby.. or will this other weird ROM work better? Hmm, the home page isn't in English on this one. And th…
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Comment #21393398
Yup, totally understood about the second subscription. The challenge is getting that first subscription though, when a particular user hasn't yet signed up for (or even heard of) t…
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Comment #21380874
While this is pretty ingenious, and "solving" open source funding is a noble goal, there's a pretty practical impediment to GitRoyalty working in the real world: For new or existin…
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Comment #21296638
I can see how it seems that way (that self-publishing gets authors noticed by publishers), but it's actually pretty rare that it works out that way for any given writer. As I under…
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Comment #21163593
And xanthan gum, another example of this general process (perhaps without the "programming"), has been around since the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthan_gum
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Comment #20962978
Also check out borgmatic for configuring Borg. Works well with rsync.net: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
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Comment #20787464
Already exists for job descriptions! https://jobdescription.app For all I know, it could exist for haircuts too.
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Comment #20728436
What about the high level of oxalates in spinach, the over-consumption of which can result in kidney stones[1]? [1] https://nutritionfacts.org/video/oxalates-in-spinach-and-kid...
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Comment #20147915
That's true, although there are now a handful of BorgBackup remote storage vendors (rsync.net, BorgBase, etc.) that you can pay to run the server-side hosting for you. Probably not…
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Comment #20147869
I don't know about "should", but one way to do it is to put both the backup script and the cron job to run it into a single, separate, backup-only container. Then tell that contain…
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Comment #20147832
You might be thinking of Borg Backup, which is written in Python: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/