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by witten 2y ago
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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by witten 2y ago
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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by witten 2y ago
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-very-lar.
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by witten 3y ago
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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by witten 3y ago
So is Podman, if you are to believe Red Hat's marketing on it.
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by witten 4y ago
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 used on incoming mail.
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by witten 5y ago
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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by witten 5y ago
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 and rsync.net.
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by witten 7y ago
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 super lightning speed in this industry.
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by witten 7y ago
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 this other fork was last released March 2011..
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by witten 7y ago
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) the service. At that point, it's a fair amount of f
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by witten 7y ago
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 existing projects, a big draw of open source is the
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by witten 7y ago
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 understand it, publishers generally don't look favorabl
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Show HN: borgmatic – simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers(torsion.org)
6 points by witten 7y ago|0 comments
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by witten 7y ago
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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by witten 7y ago
Also check out borgmatic for configuring Borg. Works well with rsync.net: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
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Writing Job Descriptions for Any Generation(jobdescription.app)
1 points by witten 7y ago|0 comments
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by witten 7y ago
Already exists for job descriptions! https://jobdescription.app For all I know, it could exist for haircuts too.
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A Developer Job Description Needs a Tech Stack(jobdescription.app)
1 points by witten 7y ago|0 comments
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Taplytics Engineer Job Description Breakdown(jobdescription.app)
2 points by witten 7y ago|0 comments
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by witten 7y ago
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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by witten 7y ago
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 nearly as cheap as, say, S3.. but it does get closer t
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by witten 7y ago
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 container (via volume mounts, etc.) what volumes to
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by witten 7y ago
You might be thinking of Borg Backup, which is written in Python: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/
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by witten 7y ago
Yeah, I haven't tried it with an existing importer, but I can't say I'm surprised. FWIW, it does work pretty well in combination with finance-dl (same author): https://github.com/jbms/finance-dl
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by witten 7y ago
> It's a bit annoying that you have to configure it with Python code but once you set it up it's pleasant to use. Not necessarily a good idea in every case, but if it's "just data" in the Python config file, you
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by witten 7y ago
It's also not too difficult to throw Fava and Beancount into a Docker container and host it on a web server, if that's your thing.
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by witten 7y ago
No. It doesn't support investment data at all.
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by witten 7y ago
I've actually found double-entry bookkeeping really useful for personal finances. Let's say I transfer money from one financial institution to another (say, a bank to an investment firm). With double-entry, I can track and reconci
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by witten 7y ago
Have you seen Beancount-import ( https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import )? It provides a web interface just focusing on the import and transaction reconciling/categorization piece, and includes a decision-tree-bas

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