@cstross more of a ghoul, really

@Infoseepage @jwz @cstross @inthehands I also have two NASes, and since they both run ZFS they can use my zfsvault software to sync deltas with ZFS encryption to a pair of 14TB USB hard drives I rotate weekly to the office.

@inthehands It came up recently when Rui Carmo discovered Apple's Time Machine is largely untrustworthy. I'd recommend setting up a NAS appliance and Kopia, Borg or Restic (or if you only care about photos and videos, Immich is an excellent choice) but that probably fails the "non-technical" test, not to mention iOS and Android make it deliberately hard to run backups of your system.

@jwz @cstross @inthehands you need to take responsibility for your loved ones as well.

My wife lost a year's worth of photos when her iPhone was stolen. I used to have PhotoBackup (rsync-based photo backup app on iOS) handling this for her, but it hasn't been maintained for a while and its cipher set no longer has any compatible with a default OpenSSH installation so they basically failed silently.

I now switched her to the Immich app, but the damage was done. Another lesson learned is to use something like healthchecks.io to alert you if a backup hasn't successfully completed in N days.

@cstross won't Kessler Syndrome make space launch dead as a business long before that?

@gbargoud @cstross @tony it takes a special kind of creepy to weird even Epstein out.

@rogerb @angusm @cstross it's almost as if the British Empire they yearn so nostalgically for couldn't be made to work without the 50 trillion pounds it extracted from India over 200 years.

@cstross there are others, like Argo, or Streisand (linked in the README), but more annoying because they unnecessarily require you to have Ansible installed on your system.

@cstross you can run your own VPN, I’ve automated the process in https://github.com/fazalmajid/edgewalker

At that point, *you* are the VPN provider and in compliance. Until the next brain dead decision the parasites descended from thugs in the House of Drolls come up with.

@jon Iceland is a wonderful country with forward-looking legislation, but as a sparsely populated country like Greenland, it is vulnerable to invasion and occupation by bigger powers as occurred during WW2.

Do you have any contingency plans if Mad King Trump decides he'd like to add Iceland as a bauble to his empire?