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Use Vorta GUI for Borg backup on a network drive. Runs a weekly backup and it’s been fine so far.

On another machine use an external HDD to backup periodically. Have restored from it without issues.

You can mount each of the snapshots and copy individual or the whole backup to your selected directory.

Right? It’s pretty customisable as well. It’s great!

Have a look at this project - Degoog.

I’m self-hosting mine but there are public instances as well. I find it to be pretty impressive and the lead developer seems like a super dude.

Release Notes

Warning: Do not use this release with an „AI“ Coding Agent of any form. The tool‘s output may confuse the agent and make it do unwanted things. See the paragraph in the user guide for details.

It’s like lighting a cigarette in a petrol station and being annoyed that they didn’t make it fire risk proof.

Also, what kind of security is applied nowadays that text can become an executable and no one bothered to put safeguards in place. This is like 90s internet, raw dogging data, no firewall, no encryption just pure unaltered and blind faith that it’s all dandy.

That’s before enshitification sets in and tech companies start jacking up prices and delivering a poorer service. “AI” will become more and more erratic as inputs become polluted with generated slop. The firehose of human knowledge will reduce and so the capabilities of LLMs. Golden age of “AI” is now

Yes, exactly my point. How can an insect feel pain when they’re devoid of the complex machinery that allows them to have pain emotion and connect the pain experience to a self.

I took more issue with the use of “feel” as that’s normally associated with a human experience of feeling. An insect lacks “hardware” to approximate a human experience of feeling.

Trying to bring the difference between nocioception, experience of pain and having a subjective experience of pain. Different physical and emotional phenomena.

Does a crab look like it’s feeling pain when it yanks one of its claws out? Mostly seems unphased and it has a far more complex biology than an insect.

For example, when under anesthesia and having skin pricked without being made aware/conscious that the skin has been damaged and the body is working to restore it. This would be viewed as “feeling” pain as the body adjusts and focuses resources in addressing it. However, the experience of pain was not possible due to lack of awareness impeding a conscious representation of reality.

“Feel” is something that requires consciousness and a sense of awareness that the pain being experienced is self-related. Consciousness requires complex systems and a nervous system which insects do not possess. Whilst reactive and reflexive actions are performed, whether they experience pain as a personal subjective phenomenon is something that isn’t tested. Reaction isn’t a proxy to consciousness.

Would a bacteria “feel” pain because it reacts to the environment?

I say this as someone that has almost a Buddhist approach to respecting living creatures. However, the science of consciousness and a physicalist approach inform my views.

Without paywall

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Ads and jacking up prices. Netflix anyone?

Rather than becoming ewaste, reuse the kindle by jailbreaking and getting koreader. Been using a kindle keyboard for some time after replacing the battery. Works well and can read anything in there plus not giving money to the Epstein Island cadre.

Thought I was in the shitposting community.

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All this shit because a few thousand yanks in key states have epistemophobia. Levels of retardation beyond belief, the biggliest retardation the world has ever seen. Never so many have been so impacted by a bunch of absolute morons. Back in the day they’d have been given a wedgie and been hanging off the coat hanger. But no, let’s listen to the idiots with money. Dumb fucks

Some countries are all-in on the digital transition and for a lot of things shops don’t even accept cash anymore. Digital QR code transfers are preferred. Be thankful that the banks that you deal with haven’t gone down this path.

2 factor TOTP exists and is secure enough for corporates to have adopted long time ago. Banks can adopt similar authentication methods but choose not to.

On the OP, not sure what the solution could be. However, going down this path seems flawed.

In a lot of counties banks are becoming mobile first. Want to login in the browser? Authenticate with your mobile app to approve. Don’t have a mobile phone with the requisites of the bank? Well, go to the branch, take a ticket, wait and then tell them what you want to do with your money. It’s not just about paying, banks are moving online authentication to be dependent on Google or Apple, whatever poison you pick.

This seems like same shit different flies. Still dependent on some centralised approval which doesn’t help openness and security. We need alternatives to the duopoly but this ain’t it, chief.

Boils down to not looking into it and being focused on other matters. This one seems quite straightforward and took five minutes to get it up.

Lost Highway VHS got pretty worn out back in the day