I self-host. And then I backup everything to my RAID6 NAS. And then, though irregularly, backup to offline media.
I sometimes read comments on this very forum, that hosting your own email server is risky and requires lots of work. I agree it's not for everyone - you need to have some knowledge of how to run and secure your service on the internet. I self-host since roughly 2011-2012 and cannot say I spent tons of time on it.
It does cost some money though, I pay $5 monthly to run my Nanode (on Linode), and then something around $30 a year to keep my domain.
When I was attending school, I remember it to be more of a survival camp and adjustment to structures than anything else. I hated it with passion and yet I was expected to bring good grades. As a result I developed need for isolation and other psychological issues and it took me more than decade to realize and partially self-cure.
That's why I'm striving to give my kids happy childhood and schooling that they can enjoy. They learn to obtain knowledge and experiences, and not to game the system. I am not building safety cocoon around them, we do have crisis's and we go through them together, not ignoring them and pretending nothing happens. I know, that when they reach the age they will take initiative and assume responsibilities.
Hi all, I was recently going through pg_upgrade of my project and came up with this tiny utility. Sharing here in case anybody would find it useful too.
Hmm... I listed available presets with `-F` option, and then downloaded various different presets (actually, examples have this nice option to download and merge all available audio presets `yt-dlp -f 'bv*+mergeall[vcodec=none]' --audio-multistreams `). All of them sound like from within a cartboard box when played in vlc, much worse than when I play it on youtube... This is very notable around 00:00:50 of the clip.
Maybe I misinterpret logs but I checked and I can't see anything that would suggest the audio is resampled
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Silly me. I had VLC audio effects enabled and that was resulting in song sounding different than on youtube. Sorry!
I can't tell if my hardware was not compromised (most likely it was not), but for the data I store on my SSD - I keep it fully encrypted with boot stored on hardware aes-256-encrypted USB drive. Laptop won't boot without the USB plugged in, and USB won't unlock unless correct key is provided. Not too sophisticated but enough for my humble needs (that is I'm the only one who can boot the laptop, and I know my data will be safely forgotten if my flat gets robbed or if I forget my laptop on the train etc.).
Long time ago I was working for UK company who was hiring for remote roles around Europe. This was pre-GDPR era and it worked well both for the company and for the contractors. We engaged on B2B basis.
When GDPR came in we adjusted operationally and continued, I left the company but as far as I know they are still afloat and still operate in the same way, so it's definitely doable.
After reading this review [1] I'm not sure about this book. I see this book gets so many positive ratings, in the same time this single review stands out and brings many worrying points... Is this reader just frustrated person expecting too much? Or are the points raised valid?
I fall asleep a few minutes after I lay down on bed, does not matter if it's day or night. If I can't fall asleep at night and I know I have to be fresh next day, I focus on each muscle in my body and consciously relax it. I start from muscles above my eyes, my jaw, my neck, upper and lower arms (one after another), all fingers, then same with legs. Once I'm done with all parts of my body I start again. Sometimes I also imagine black velvet during this exercise. I usually fall asleep after second round of relaxing my muscles.
I was considering to incorporate in UK (not for tax reasons but for transparency of their laws compared with the place where I live). My accountant told me that recently there had been laws introduced making it basically impossible to become significant shareholder unless you relocate. I have not confirmed this myself as I'm yet to review regulations.
This website is hilarious! Thanks for sharing! I thought the place where I live is expensive, used the website to compare with Tallinn and found place where I live is actually cheaper in most areas :)
I meant traditional public school, it's what I referred to as "classical" ("classical" in a sense what I believe most of us went through), though I understand there are private schools that in principle operate in similar way.
> On the other hand, I also have a notable lack of respect for authority figures.
I went through "classical" education system (with lots of aggression, as somebody else already mentioned in another thread here) - and can tell I also obtained no respect for authority figures. School taught me to survive school by tricking those teachers who had no respect to pupils. Give them what they want and you'r going to be fine - even if you don't learn anything useful. Same when it comes with relationships with other pupils, especially those aggressive ones. I observe my kids who I send to Montessori and can definitely tell they are not easy when it comes to disagreements - and I like it that way, it keeps reminding me that I have no right not to treat them with respect even when I'm tired or in hurry. I see teachers putting lots of attention to mutual respect as well.
Asking as somebody who does not really get this law jargon - if you distribute your software, which might be a little bit of glue code putting together some freely available open-source libraries, then would you be liable for auditing only this glue code or libraries as well? (since you would have to distribute them with your glue code, otherwise your product would be incomplete)
This feels like trying to match physical-world regulations to software products... I'm skeptical about this legislation, it feels like another step for policy makers to conquer software domain which is still very open for anybody to enter... I remember living in London and talking with friend who is electrician, the amount of papers he needed in order to be able to do his job was mind boggling...
I wonder where would be the boundaries in case such legislation was pushed through. If my software is python-based then would python itself would have to be audited too? If I run my software in Podman containers then should Podman be audited too? What about operating system I execute my software on? Lets say thousand of companies use dependency X - would that dependency have to be audited 1000 times independently? That would be huge waste in my opinion..
I don't know that, I don't work for Meta. Would be nice if you can share source to back your claim, if Meta is paying whole package to somebody who only worked for 2 days then that would be entirely different story for that guy.
I can't see the article to mention if he gets this package, remembering a few situations from my life I'd expect him not to get any package since he only worked for 2 days..
There was a time I was working in very toxic environment. Imagine situations like seeing manager shouting angrily at your coworker and you being unable to do anything about it. Or manager being passively aggressive towards you, making personal comments or treating you as his menial (bring-me-some-tea kind) without reason. And I was in worse situation than you as I could not leave at the time, had to line something up first. But once I left I literally felt the burden sliding off my back, best feeling ever.
I find it funny that when I go through my network I often end up taking projects where I have to pivot to new niche and build something innovative which becomes a core of the business. Many come back to me years after our ways part and ask to join them again. And yet, each time I go and take interview through recruiters I almost never find successful path through the grinds. Recently, when I'm contacted by recruiters, I ask for details of recruitment process and if it consists of too many stages I don't continue with it. I'm probably one of hundreds anyways so it does not feel worth the hassle.
I'd add to this comment - many options is certainly better than not many options. I personally prefer to have rich and colorful set of options to use depending on my current needs than to have to choose from, say, 2 options (presumably delivered by google and ms?)
I like to read comments, sometimes I'm reading comments under years long conversations. I like to discover what other people have in mind, some comments are pure quality and it feels like I find little gem. Same reason why I sometimes chose to leave a comment, when I feel I have something interesting to add.
Problems related to privacy are making wider circles, more people who would normally not care are being made aware and this is changing the society on scale which is hard to imagine.
> It is only a matter of time until governments will start prosecuting us en masse using the results of always on surveillance.
I know many who chose not to opt in to technical means allowing surveillance, and I come from the country where people were historically going very far to protect their freedom, including ending up in torture room... we have this in our blood. Many will simply stop using or even owning devices mandated by government, even if the price is very high.
Hacker will not gain access to your data if there is no data, that's what article is really advocating.
With regards to not caring about free speech, I am trying to picture myself being in this hypothetical situation: lets imagine I was ran by a car and was denied the right to do or say anything about it because the driver was some prominent person, I'm picturing myself in such situation and I'm glad we still have free speech...
I'm running my mail server on Arch Linux since 2011 (so since Arch was in its quite early days) and I applied principles outlined within CISSP. Particularly I was focusing on reducing plane of attack to absolute minimum, ensuring I know exactly what each config option results in and keeping my server up to date. This has served me well and let me go through more than a decade.
I see some posters saying it's not good practice to run Arch, but I think distro alone is not an answer to your security concerns.
I, like you, don't like it the way it is when it comes to remote IT job market, but it's very clear how this works. In country X average full stack developer charges Y dollars, recruiters know what average pay is so they will only offer pay within same range (or sometimes slightly more, like 5% more). Companies look for cheap labor and will not pay more than they really have to.
Where I live now the top pay is around $100k per year (fully remote full stack, but similarly dev/ops). Extremely rarely (maybe once in a year) I see an advert paying $200k and since everyone wants to earn this much the competition is enormous. This also applies to FAANG who don't pay more than average market rate.
I don't know if my observation is close to reality but from what I see better paid positions are usually not going through public job boards but through word of mouth and through networks.