Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Internal RAID1 as first line of defense. Rsync to external drives where at least one is always offsite as second. Rclone to cloud storage for my most important data as the third.

    Backups 2 and 3 are manual but I have reminders set and do it about once a month. I didn’t accrue much new data that I can’t easily replace so that’s fine for me.







  • I’ve carried a knife in my pocket everyday for the past 35 years or so. It’s a useful tool both for actual work and mundane tasks like opening boxes/etc.

    A few weeks ago I was hiking near a lake and found a bird entangled in fishing line. It would’ve been very difficult to free it without some type of blade. Hell, it took almost 15 minutes even with the knife because it was so wrapped up and distressed.




  • Can confirm this. I teach a programming class and about two years ago my brain exploded when I was helping a student debug a problem said “o, you tried to reference the file but it’s actually up one directory and inside another one so you’ll need to include the full (relative) path”

    The blank look of “what the hell are you talking about” threw me for a loop. So, then we talked about file systems for awhile…