Rules dropping out of the blue around flight tracking, not being able to link to other social media sites, the confusing verification issue with all the fake/parody accounts, mass banning of journalists for linking to reporting he didn’t like etc. Old Twitter had none of this.

Meh, private company. He can do whatever he wants. Don't like it? Leave.

> I don't want to be that person that's not reachable but more and more, I'm thinking about closing Slack and opening it 2-3x a day.

What's wrong with this?

Also, learn to mute channels we have thousands too, I'm in about 20-50 at a given time between pruning. Out of those I only keep important, low noise channels unmuted.

We had to support ie.

We're talking about hackers getting access to users accounts, that's not a Google problem, that's an everyone problem.

Yes, I am well aware of that. I have been on Hacker News since 2009 under my Mz handle and I have a Certificate in GIS from UC-Riverside, the most respected GIS program in the world at the time that I attended (2002, IIRC).

I don't try to crow about being some kind of tech genius because for the HN crowd I'm not. But I'm not poor due to being mentally retarded or something. I have an incurable medical condition as does one of my adult sons.

Perfectly average geographers on HN represent! I feel like seeing another GISer in the tech world is like seeing someone from your country while on vacation. You’ve just got to say hi because it feels so rare.

Edit: thanks! Solved. I’ve deleted this part of the comment because I always feel very socially awkward and afraid I’ll make others feel awkward.

Sorry for the pain

If you have been in hn so long you do know the numerous times people have lost accounts by not having backup to 2FA. TOTP is the only option.

I'm sure plenty of people would rather live with the small chance of a hacker even wanting to gain access to their account than the very large chance of eventually losing access to the account entirely.

Although they probably wouldn't want to live with all their emails being discarded because gmail becomes so easy to hack and everyone assumes gmail accounts are spammers.

Huge amounts of spam already originate from gmail addresses, so I don't think this is a good example. That's not to say that I think security should be weakened, though - it should not, but for other reasons.

I already assume all mail I receive is spam, Gmail or no.

Back at the start of 2FA rolling out it used to be an absolutely massive issue where the attackers would call up support and tell a sob story and have the account reset and in the control of the attackers.

As a user it doesn't matter how well you manage your own security when that can happen.

Sounds like you want Borg

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

My two 80% full 1tb laptops and 1tb desktop backup to around 300-400G after dedupe and compression. Currently have around 12tb of backups stored in that 300G.

Incremental backups run in about 5 mins even against the spinning disk's they're stored on.

Python programmer here, but I actually prefer Restic [0]. While more or less the same experience, the huge selling point to me is that the backup program is a single executable that can be easily stored alongside the backups. I do not want any dependency/environment issues to assert themselves when restoration is required (which is most likely on a virgin, unconfigured system).

[0] https://restic.net/

You can also take a look at Kopia (https://kopia.io/).

I've been using Borg, Restic and Kopia for a long time and Kopia is my personal favorite - very fast, very efficient, runs in the background automatically without having to schedule a CRON or anything like that.

Only downside is that the backups are made of a HUGE number of files, so when synchronizing it can sometimes take a bit of time to check the ~5k files.

Highly recommend Kopia that has a nice UI and can work with rclone (so any cloud back end)

I’ve been using Kopia, I recommend it.

No, I distinctly don't want borg. It doesn't help or solve anything that Syncthing doesn't do. The obsession with borg and bup are pretty baffling to me. We deserve better in this space. (see: Asuran and another who's name I forget...)

Critically, I'm specifically referring to code sync that needs to operate at a git-level to get the huge efficiencies I'm thinking of.

Syncthing, or borg, scanning 8 copies of the Linux kernel is pretty horrific compared to something doing a "git commit && git push" and "git pull --rebase" in the background (over-simplifying the shadow-branch process here for brevity.)

re: 'we deserve better' -- case in point, see Asuran - there's no real reason that sync and backup have to be distinctly different tools. Given chunking and dedupe and append-logs, we really, really deserve better in this tooling space.

> borg et al and "git commit" work in essentially the same way. Both scan the entire tree for changes using modification timestamps.

But git commit doesn’t do that. If you want to do that in git, you typically do it before commit with “git add -A”.

I don't think GP was talking about backups (which is what Borg is good for) but about synchronization between machines which is another issue entirely.

They work together. I use syncthing to keep things synchronized across devices, including to an always-on "master" device that has more storage. Then borg runs on the master device to create backups.

Hyperbole requires intent and exaggeration, can you point out either? I'm not seeing it.

It's also 100% on topic. You not liking the discussion doesn't change that.

You believe the US intel operation is comparable to the Stasi?

Lets do the actual comparison , shall we? Which metric would you like, amount of information stored, people spied on, which are not accused of any wrongdoing, speed of retrieval, operational efficiency? In every comparison US intel wins hands down.

The comparison is a little unfair to the stasi, they did not have modern computers. .

But only US could place a microphone in every household and make people pay for it. Stasi wouldn't think of this.

If you are convinced it's incomparable, present some metric we can measure where US sysyem looses.

The Stasi would be very proud of themselves if they constructed something on the scale of what the USIC has managed. I’m honestly a little surprised anyone would quibble with that point.

In term of capabilities? Yes.

Completely? Of course not. On the grounds mentioned above? Yes, of course.

Stating comparisons isn't hyperbole just because you don't like the comparison. Neither is it a conspiracy theory. Five eyes shitfuckery is extremely well documented.

I've been starting to think the bible and other religions have their place due to this. Plot people on a bell curve, that's a lot of people that can't grasp basic nuance and critical reasoning.

And thank fuck for that. DWR is disgusting, horrible stuff.

Stop using DWR. Buy frogtoggs or Columbia outdry and leave this stuff behind.

Outdry is lighter stronger, doesn't wear off after three outings, and the material breathes better than a wetted out goretex jacket ever will.

Unless you're in snow, goretex is next to useless.

Shakedrys don't use DWRs, and not all DWRs use PFCs. "Wetted out jacket" also isn't a thing that happens to shakedry apparel. By all means, criticize use of PFCs for environmental reasons, but there's no need to fabricate criticisms.

Outdry extreme is exactly the same as shakedry, it's just one layer goretex (or equivalent PTFE membrane). The non-extreme versions laminate on extra fabric layers for durability--just like other more traditional 2 and 3 layer goretex gear. Outdry is the same as goretex just not licensed from the company.

Motivation.