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mgbmtl commented on Ask HN: How do you backup your Android? · Posted by u/Openai2

zx8080 · 8 months ago

> I used Nextcloud sync in the past, but found it unreliable.

What was wrong about nextcloud sync? I'm just about to set it up for myself.

mgbmtl · 8 months ago

The sync would stall and I'd have to go retry, or it would fail with no error clear message. In the end, I had no idea what had really synched correctly. The app was unhappy if I deleted a photo too quickly.

With Syncthing, I sync to a directory that my Nextcloud user can access (a read-only mount), so I can still easily share photos using Nextcloud, for example.

(although it's unfortunate that the Android syncthing app is being retired. h/t for the heads up and the recommended alternatives)

mgbmtl commented on Ask HN: How do you backup your Android? · Posted by u/Openai2

seszett · 8 months ago

My device is rooted and I use NeoBackup to backup apps with all their data (including what the app developer marked as "should not be backed up", often data that they would like you to backup on their own cloud instead).

Syncthing synchronises these backups to my home server automatically, as well as the phone's user data (photos, mainly).

The photos are additionally sent to Photoprism.

I avoid Google's cloud as much as I can.

mgbmtl · 8 months ago

My device is not rooted, but I use Syncthing as well. I mainly sync my photos and my TOTP tokens (Aegis). The rest I don't care about.

I used Nextcloud sync in the past, but found it unreliable.

mgbmtl commented on Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/DanAtC

Fizzadar · 9 months ago

We really need a competitor(s- ideally) to CF because it’s heavily centralising the internet and this highlights exactly why that is a problem.

mgbmtl · 9 months ago

I'm all for competition, but smaller players would have been completely blocked by Privacy Shield, whereas they cannot block CloudFlare completely without breaking a lot of other sites.

And CloudFlare went to court. Most companies would not be able to afford it.

mgbmtl commented on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

derwiki · 9 months ago

It was maybe only nerds in 1994, but by 1998 everyone at school was asking their parents for the internet so they could talk on ICQ—not just the nerds!

mgbmtl · 9 months ago

ICQ was a way of texting friends so that you could go party. At least for me, and I'm a nerd. I remember even "normal" friends were using IRC as a way to hookup. Cell phones were not very common.

Looking at my non-nerd 17 year old, they meet maybe once a month, and it's to cook food together during the day. Nobody drinks. They just see it as a waste of money. Maybe not the most normal sample. They love biking and also go to circus school together (Montreal).

mgbmtl commented on Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers? · Posted by u/gorkemcetin

mgbmtl · a year ago

I like icinga's model, which can run a small agent on the server, but it doesn't run as root. I grant specific sudo rules for checks that need elevated permissions.

I find it easier to write custom checks for things where I don't control the application. My custom checks often do API calls for the applications they monitor (using curl locally against their own API).

There are also lots of existing scripts I can re-use, either from the Icinga or from Nagios community, so that I don't write my own.

For example, recently I added systemd monitoring. There is a package for the check (monitoring-plugins-systemd). So I used Ansible to install everywhere, and then "apply" a conf to all my Debian servers. Helped me find a bunch of failing services or timers, which previously went un-noticed, including things like backups, where my backup monitoring said everything was OK, but the systemd service for borgmatic was running a "check" a found some corruption.

For logs I use promtail/loki. Also very much worth the investment. Useful to detect elevated error rates, and also for finding slow http queries (again, I don't fully control the code of applications I manage).

mgbmtl commented on Shoe prints lead FBI to suspect couple involved in multiple New Mexico wildfires nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/geox

motohagiography · a year ago

Canada has a legit wildfire season, and electrical and accidents obviously occur, but it also has an arson problem apparently because the fires drive a set of other narratives. eco-terrorism has its own internal status system that incentivises it. It's a source of chaos for its own sake. The irony is that instead of dealing with the crime, police mainly protect these "activists" from the communities they harass and the impunity from traditional consequences just makes them worse.

mgbmtl · a year ago

I mean, sure, you could blame the climate crisis on the petrol companies that have doubled production in Alberta in the past 10 years, or you suspect "eco-terrorists" which, as far as I know, is a Maxime Bernier conspiracy theory that has never been proven, despite the fact that environmental groups are constantly under CSIS watch? (https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230609-canada-wildfi...)

mgbmtl commented on Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old? · Posted by u/hersko

danielheath · a year ago

Proprietary tooling that doesn’t work the way you want is unfortunately a great introduction to hardware work :/

mgbmtl · a year ago

The Crunchlabs agent seems to be based off the Arduino Agent, so I'm surprised they don't support Linux.

My teenager never had any issues with using Linux since the age of 10 (old laptop with Firefox and Minecraft), and never used Windows (school uses Chromebooks). Hopefully this works with just a standard editor too, although the Crunchlabs IDE looks nicer for learning.

mgbmtl commented on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023 miamiherald.com/news/nati... · Posted by u/apsec112

spacebanana7 · a year ago

Cuba’s ability to trade with the rest of the world severely impaired by the US embargo.

Most international banks get very nervous about facilitating transactions involving Cuba and even tourists who visit Cuba can have their travel to the US restricted.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/usa/entry-requireme...

mgbmtl · a year ago

Cuba rarely stamps passports to avoid those problems. They give you a piece of paper with a stamp, that you return on your way out.