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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • So I recently quitted Google Drive

    Congrats, great life choice

    downloaded all my data and hoping to keep it on Hard drives myself, They are external plug in types

    You have multiple external drives. Are they USB? How many?

    So when I plug it in

    Are they not usually plugged in? Is there a requirement to keep them air gapped between syncs?

    it copies/syncs the things on my computer, anyone knows somethign like that?

    Like others have said, a shell script that calls rsync is maybe the way to go and with some more information on number of drives, drive interface type, and air gap requirements it may change



  • lntl@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHow "secure" is your setup?
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    I operate SSH, nginx, and uvicorn like this:

    SSH

    • pubkey auth only
    • not on default port
    • AllowUsers var in sshd.conf is set

    nginx

    • runs as its own user
    • serves static files or forwards to uvicorn
    • rate limits are set
    • returns 444 on requests that aren’t in sitemap.xml (nonsense and probing)

    uvicorn

    • runs as its own user

    and a firewall runs on top of everything in a hardened kernel. I’m self taught, so I could be missing something obvious and this setup has been reliable for me for a few years.











  • Post programming questions online and you’ll inevitably get someone saying, “don’t reinvent the wheel.” Why is it so bad to step outside the box?

    Am I reinventing the wheel when I use ext4 as a key value store instead of Redis? Or a sorted fixed-width binary file to lookup a relation instead of Sqlite?

    I think for answering programming questions, the default answers are like a one-size fits all t-shirt. Yeah, they will always cover you up… but usually not “optimal.” Why is that? I think its because these are common solutions that everyone understands even though there are many ways to skin a cat.

    It definitely leads to cargo culting.





  • It makes me mad how people refuse to even consider alternatives and open their mind a bit. What do you think?

    I’ve experienced this. For me, it was important to be able to communicate w people AND to not give all my data to Facebook apple or google. Since I can’t make ppl care about privacy, the best I could do was stick w SMS/MMS.

    Obv, messages I send to ppl who use and android or apple device still get sent up to the mother ship by the receiving device… but I can’t control that.

    There are a lot of great apps out there and Signal is one of em. I think if Signal still sent SMS/MMS to ppl without it… I’d reinstall. But without that, I’d be using it all alone.

    Im getting rambly… what do I think? I think it would be healthy to move on