Let’s hope that the two cakes turn out better than last week: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/tote-und-lebendige-kuchen-2025-12-02.jpg Got some gingerbread as backup. Yeah, best lighting…
Signal Private Messenger Rolls Out Secure Backups for iPhone
Encrypted messaging platform Signal now offers secure backups on iPhone, letting users save and restore messages if they lose access to their device.
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** Encrypt & Decrypt Database Fields in Spring Boot Like a Pro (2025 Secure Guide)**
“Your database backup just leaked. Is your data still safe?”
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No I don’t want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Article URL: https://idiallo.com/byte-size/say-no-to-onedrive-backup
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559023
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NIRS fire destroys [South Korean] government’s cloud storage system, no backups available
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Fire destroys S. Korean government’s cloud storage system, no backups available
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS…
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483386
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DietPi September 2025 Update Brings Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access
The September 20th release of DietPi v9.17 introduces smaller and more efficient system images, faster backups with reduced disk usage, and a new toggle for Roon Server’s early access builds. The update also addresses SPI bootloader flashing issues on Rockchip devices, improves Raspberry Pi sound card handling, and includes multiple bug fixes across tools and […] ⌘ Read more
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hey yall i accidentally nuked my main hard drive for the second time ever yesterday. spent the rest of the day setting up my PC again. thankfully i didn't lose anything super crucial, i have most of that on another drive
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de WE NEED MORE BACKUPS!!!!!!!!!!!1
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hey yall i accidentally nuked my main hard drive for the second time ever yesterday. spent the rest of the day setting up my PC again. thankfully i didn't lose anything super crucial, i have most of that on another drive
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh no. 😨 Backups! We need more backups!
linode’s having a major outage (ongoing as of writing, over 24 hours in) and my friend runs a site i help out with on one of their servers. we didn’t have recent backups so i got really anxious about possible severe data loss considering the situation with linode doesn’t look great (it seems like a really bad incident).
…anyway the server magically came back online and i got backups of the whole application and database, i’m so relieved :‘)
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Running monthly backups…
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
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@xuu@txt.sour.is or @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Do either of you have time this weekend to test upgrading your pod to the new cacher branch? 🤔 It is recommended you take a full backup of you pod beforehand, just in case. Keen to get this branch merged and to cut a new release finally after >2 years 🤣
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All these remind me of the "blog" ability once existed in Yarnd. I hate to be the party pooper, but little to non interest from me. LOL. I am up to increase the length of a twtxt, though. It is rather limiting right now.
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@bender@twtxt.net Lemme look at the old backup…
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@lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …
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@prologic@twtxt.net @bmallred@staystrong.run So is restic considered stable by now? “Stable” as in “stable data format”, like a future version will still be able to retrieve my current backups. I mean, it’s at version “0.18”, but they don’t specify which versioning scheme they use.
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@lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …
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I use restic and Backblaze B2 for offline backup storage at a cost of $6/TB/month. I don’t backup my entire ~20TB NAS and its datasets however, so I’m only paying about ~$2/month right now. I only backup the most important things I cannot afford to lose or annot re-created.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de there are many other similar backup tools. I would love to hear what will make you pick Borg above the rest.
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On top of my usual backups (which are already offsite, but it requires me carrying a hard disk to that other site), I think I might rent a storage server and use Borg. 🤔 Hoping that their encryption is good enough. Maybe that’ll also finally convince me to get a faster internet connection. 😂
Add support for skipping backup if data is unchagned · 0cf9514e9e - backup-docker-volumes - Mills 👈 I just discovered today, when running backups, that this commit is why my backups stopped working for the last 4 months. It wasn’t that I was forgetting to do them every month, I broke the fucking tool 🤣 Fuck 🤦♂️
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@prologic it's fine, I never expected my yeets, to be preserved for future generations. Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost entirely HTML 5 complient) website.
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@thecanine@twtxt.net I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago 😭 So I decided to start over (from scratch). Just let me know what you want and I’ll do it! I used the 4-month old backup to restore your account (by hand) and avatar at least 🤣
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@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m so sorry I fucked things up 🥲 I hope you can trust I’ll try to do a better job of backups and data going forward 🤗
This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod’s entire data volume 🤦♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we’ll get into why I hadn’t been taking backups consistently later), that we’d start a fresh! 😅 Spring clean! 🧼 – Anyway… One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working… I’ve now rectified this…
Oh well. I’ve gone and done it again! This time I’ve lost 4 months of data because for some reason I’ve been busy and haven’t been taking backups of all the things I should be?! 🤔 Farrrrk 🤬
Data Protection Working Group Deep Dive Session at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon London
Data on Kubernetes is a growing field, with databases, object stores, and other stateful applications moving to the platform. The Data Protection Working Group focuses on data availability and preservation for Kubernetes – including backup, restore,… ⌘ Read more
1972 UNIX V2 “beta” resurrected from old tapes
There’s a number of backups of old DECtapes from Dennis Ritchie, which he gave to Warren Toomey in 1997. The tapes were eventually uploaded, and through analysis performed by Yufeng Gao, a lot of additional details, code, and software were recovered from them. A few days ago, Gao came back with the results from their analys of two more tapes, and on it, they found something quite special. Getting this recovered version to run was a bit of a … ⌘ Read more
i upgraded my pc from lubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 yesterday and i was like “surely there is no way this will go smoothly” but no it somehow did. like i didn’t take a backup i just said fuck it and upgraded and it WORKED?!?! i mean i had some driver issues but it wasn’t too bad to fix. wild
Super Watchdog Raspberry Pi HAT with Battery Backup Gains Multi-Chemistry Support
The Super Watchdog HAT with UPS Battery Backup provides power management and reliability for mission-critical Raspberry Pi applications. It supports all Raspberry Pi models, ensuring uninterrupted operation, data protection during outages, and system monitoring. The latest release for this HAT introduces multi-chemistry support, allowing compatibility with a range of 18650 battery … ⌘ Read more
I’ve talked about how I do backups on unix a bunch of times, but someone asked again today and I realized I didn’t have it written down where I could point to. So I wrote a lab report: http://a.9srv.net/reports/index.html#vac-unix
rehrar releases Stack Wallet v2.1.9, Stack Duo v1.2.4
rehrar1 has released Stack Wallet2 version 2.1.93 and Stack Duo version 1.2.44 with various fixes and improvements.
Stack Wallet:
* Show Monero/Wownero tx private key option
* Fix Frost error
* Stack Wallet Backup fixes
Stack Duo:
* Added Monero churn options
* Paynym temporarily disabled while kinks worked out [..]
The release notes, binaries, and the SHA256 hashes can … ⌘ Read more
Fun: Retro-fy MacOS with Old System Sounds, Tiling Wallpapers, & Classic Finder
While the only Time Machine we know of is the easy to use and fantastic backup tool for Mac users, some of us have geeky dreams of digital time machines, where we can get lost in flashbacks to retro computing, like the early Macintosh days of Classic MacOS System 7. While there are ways to … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/11/25/fun-retro-fy-macos-with-old-system-sounds … ⌘ Read more
Have an Old iPhone or iPad? iCloud Backups & Safari Bookmark Syncing Will Soon Not Work
Apple is dropping support for iCloud backups for iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or earlier. Additionally, Apple is also dropping support for Safari Bookmark Syncing for devices running iOS 10 or earlier, or macOS Sierra 10.12.5 and earlier. While this will not impact the vast majority of people, there are many older model iPhone, … [Read More](https://osxdaily … ⌘ Read more
woodser releases Haveno v1.0.14
woodser1 has released Haveno2 version 1.0.143 with various bug fixes.
Fix inverted fixed-price crypto offers by @bvcxza in #1411
Fix inverted buy/sell label for crypto offers by @woodser in #1417
Allow re-opening disputes until payout is confirmed by @woodser in #1412
Fix bug getting backup files @woodser in #1413
The full changelog is available on Github4.
Haveno adds support for USDT
woodser1 has released Haveno2 version 1.0.133 with support for Tether (USDT)4, various improvements, updates, and bug fixes.
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Support USDT (ERC20 & TRC20)
Refactor tabs for simplicity
Update Tails script to retry download using wget
Improve backup recovery if wallet cache is corrupt
Fix sorting Buy or Sell XMR > Amount column
Update price nodes to support USDT
Other stability improvements and bug fixes [..]
... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/haveno-v1.0.13-released-support-tether-usdt/)“
Backup and recovery for Vector Databases on Kubernetes using Kanister
Community post by Pavan Navarathna Devaraj and Shwetha Subramanian AI is an exciting, rapidly evolving world that has the potential to enhance every major enterprise application. It can enhance cloud-native applications through dynamic scaling, predictive maintenance,… ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net earlier you suggested extending hashes to 11 characters, but here’s an argument that they should be even longer than that.
Imagine I found this twt one day at https://example.com/twtxt.txt :
2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rsync -a “$HOME” /mnt/backup
and I responded with “(#5dgoirqemeq) Thanks for the tip!”. Then I’ve endorsed the twt, but it could latter get changed to
2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rm -rf /some_important_directory
which also has an 11-character base32 hash of 5dgoirqemeq. (I’m using the existing hashing method with https://example.com/twtxt.txt as the feed url, but I’m taking 11 characters instead of 7 from the end of the base32 encoding.)
That’s what I meant by “spoofing” in an earlier twt.
I don’t know if preventing this sort of attack should be a goal, but if it is, the number of bits in the hash should be at least two times log2(number of attempts we want to defend against), where the “two times” is because of the birthday paradox.
Side note: current hashes always end with “a” or “q”, which is a bit wasteful. Maybe we should take the first N characters of the base32 encoding instead of the last N.
Code I used for the above example: https://fossil.falsifian.org/misc/file?name=src/twt_collision/find_collision.c
I only needed to compute 43394987 hashes to find it.
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@movq Is there a good way to get jenny to do a one-off fetch of a feed, for when you want to fill in missing parts of a thread? I just added @slashdot to my private follow file just because @prologic keeps responding to the feed :-P and I want to know what he's commenting on even though I don't want to see every new slashdot twt.
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@prologic@twtxt.net How does yarn.social’s API fix the problem of centralization? I still need to know whose API to use.
Say I see a twt beginning (#hash) and I want to look up the start of the thread. Is the idea that if that twt is hosted by a a yarn.social pod, it is likely to know the thread start, so I should query that particular pod for the hash? But what if no yarn.social pods are involved?
The community seems small enough that a registry server should be able to keep up, and I can have a couple of others as backups. Or I could crawl the list of feeds followed by whoever emitted the twt that prompted my query.
I have successfully used registry servers a little bit, e.g. to find a feed that mentioned a tag I was interested in. Was even thinking of making my own, if I get bored of my too many other projects :-)
Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040-Powered FlippyDrive: An Optical Disc Drive Emulator for GameCube
CrowdSupply recently announced the FlippyDrive campaign, described as an open-source optical disc drive emulator for the GameCube console designed to install without soldering. This product allows users to maintain their physical disc drive functionality while offering additional options for running backups and homebrew software. FlippyDrive operates using the Raspbe … ⌘ Read more
Docker Desktop 4.32: Beta Releases of Compose File Viewer, Terminal Shell Integration, and Volume Backups to Cloud Providers
Discover the powerful new features in Docker Desktop 4.32, including the Compose File Viewer, terminal integration, and enterprise-grade volume backups, designed to enhance developer productivity and streamline workflows. ⌘ Read more
Home Server Offline ☹️
Today, I woke up and noticed that my home server, located in my second flat, and also the router, all behind a 5G connection (that was showing as working fine on the provider’s website), were offline. No VPN connection anymore, and also Tailscale showed the nodes as being offline. I’m glad that I had automatic backups and was able to easily restore the three important services from that server on my VPS, without the need to travel to the second flat first. ⌘ Read more
QNAP Launches TS-216G: A 2-Bay 2.5GbE NAS System for Efficient Management and Rapid Backup Solutions
This month, QNAP Systems, Inc. rolled out the TS-216G NAS, a dynamic 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, optimized for both individual and workgroup use. Featuring a 2.5GbE port and hot-swappable capability, it promises efficient data management and enhanced reliability. At the core of the TS-216G is a 64-bit Arm quad-core processor, co … ⌘ Read more
@mckinley@twtxt.net for me:
- a wall mount 6U rack which has:
- 1U patch panel
- 1U switch
- 2U UPS
- 1U server, intel atom 4G ram, debian (used to be main. now just has prometheus)
- 1U patch panel
- a mini ryzon 16 core 64G ram, fedora (new main)
- multiple docker services hosted.
- multiple docker services hosted.
- synology nas with 4 2TB drives
- turris omnia WRT router -> fiber uplink
network is a mix of wireguard, zerotier.
- wireguard to my external vms hosted in various global regions.
- this allows me ingress since my ISP has me behind CG-NAT
- this allows me ingress since my ISP has me behind CG-NAT
- zerotier is more for devices for transparent vpn into my network
i use ssh and remote desktop to get in and about. typically via zerotier vpn. I have one of my VMs with ssh on a backup port for break glass to get back into the network if needed.
everything has ipv6 though my ISP does not provide it. I have to tunnel it in from my VMs.
MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1 Update Fixes Text Overlap Bug on Macs
iOS 17.3.1 and iPadOS 17.3.1, which fixes the same bug on iPhone and iPad, and watchOS 10.3.1, which resolves the bug on Apple Watch. How to Download & Install MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1 Update Be sure you backup the Mac to Time Machine before beginning any software update. Go to the Apple menu Choose “System … Read More ⌘ Read more
How to Boot Into MacOS Recovery in UTM on Apple Silicon Mac
If you’ve installed macOS Sonoma into a UTM virtual machine you may get into a situation where you’d either like to restore the VM from a Time Machine backup, or even reinstall Sonoma in the VM, or perform other actions on the virtual machine from Recovery Mode. But, as you likely have noticed by now, … Read More ⌘ Read more