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  • Email is often impossible. you can run your own server but you won’t be able to send email to many people because gmail and other larre providers will ignore everything from any ip address you can get. you endeup with email for only people on you server and the what is the point.

    just a warning there. Some do self host email but it is the most difficult to host. My life is much better now that I pay fastmail to handle my email.


  • Start small. The hard part isn’t installing a lot of software and getting it running. The hard part is keeping everything updated over time. So install one interesting service, and then figure out how the update process goes before installing another. Hopefully the worst thing that happens is you install services and use them only to have the computer fail in a few years after you depend on them and you can’t figure out how to get the data into the new version. There is also the very real possibility that your service is compromised by an attacker.








  • Nukes are a waste of money unless you already have everything else. The only time anyone would use a nuke is when they decide they would rather end the world than lose the war. You are generally much better off just planning to not lose the war in the first place because you have enough arms. Canada (unlike Isreal or Iran) is rich enough to do all needed conventional arms development themselves (or better yet share the development with allies: Australia and Europe)


  • My NAS is behind a firewall and doesn’t normally run the types of things you would compromise. (no web browser). They need to break many things at the same time to compromise it. I’m not saying it would be impossible to compromise my NAS, but is is very unlikely just because of how difficult it is. If I’m target of a state level attack I’m sunk anyway.

    though offline backups are always a good idea. However they by definition need several days to restore (if they take less than that they are too easy for an attacker to target)



  • Remember he is still in the first 100 days - traditionally the time when a new president has the most power. As time goes on congress (the house and 1/3rd the senate) will start looking at the coming election and make decisions that will get them re-elected. If that means voting against the president they will do it. However it will only happen if they think enough people care about the issue that they would turn out and vote against them.

    [if you are not an American you can stop reading here]

    Thus contact your representative now: it won’t change anything today but it will be put into charts staff gives. If you get enough people to write letters it will cause changes.

    What matters most are republicans and independent voters. The democrats won’t vote for the republican no matter what and they know that so they don’t care. However if they think the independents won’t vote for them; or republicans will either support a primary challenger or not vote for them (either stay home or vote third party - they won’t vote for the democrat). So get out and talk to As such get out and talk to people in your community




  • Just remember any backup is better than nothing. Even if the backup is done wrong (this includes untested!) odds are you can read it and extract at least some data, it just may take a lot of time. Backups that are done right just mean that when (not if!) your computers break you are quickly back up and running.

    There are several reasons to backup data only and not the full system. First you may be unable to find a computer exactly/enough like the one that broke, and so the old system backup won’t even run. Second, even if you can find an identical enough system, do you want to, or maybe it is time to upgrade anyway - there are pros and cons of arm (raspberry pi) vs x86 servers (there are other obscure options you might want but those are the main ones), and you may want to switch anyway since you have. Third, odds are some of the services need to be upgraded and so you may as well use this forced computer time to apply the upgrade. Last, you may change how many servers you have, should you split services to different computers, or maybe consolidate the services on the system that died to some other server you already have.

    The only advantage of a full system backup is when they work they are the fastest way to get going again.




  • Unions have earned their bad reputation in the US. Union management is more evil that corporate management, and corporate management is not very good.

    Yes corporate management isn’t always good, but they are not nearly as bad as union management makes them out to be. Meanwhile I’ve seen the sillyness that unions enforce (I can’t plug in a network cable - that is a union job) and I want nothing to do with them. Unions need to clean up their own act before trying to get me to join. I’m not against unions, but the way they work in the US I’m very against. Start looking in the mirror and seeing what the real world is like and not your strawman vision of what you think my issues are!

    Unions in other countries work very different. If you live in Europe, you have no idea what unions in the US are like, so stop.