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Comment · 16 hours ago
For people who absolutely need to run 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04 without any further subscription, I recommend installing the signed kernel from 22.04 (as of right now only available in the -proposed repo). Worked fine for some 16.04 examplary machines I had around that are stuck and bumps the kernel to 5.15 (soon EOL, but maintained by ... canonical, to get security patches).
Comment · 1 month ago
If they can block it, they should be able to warn about it with an opt-in option.
Comment · 3 months ago
You should _really_ check the legal implications because actors _will_ abuse your tool. And you likely dont want to have that responsibility on your person.

That being said, I miss the good old times of omploader and all the other hosting services like abload.de (which was very popular in german forums).

Comment · 3 months ago
You obviously are trolling. Your post starts with the very first sentence right wing extremists in germany bring on every boring conversation. It is a guarantor that an idiot is sitting in front of you and the conversation will end up doing nothing but burning ones braincells and energy.
Comment · 5 months ago
I think he should just retire for real (from rsync) and enjoy the time, who would take all the negativity and keep going for a volunteer project like rsync.

And this has nothing to do with AI. It seems to me that a significant amount of people in IT disconnected from reality.

Go throw a couple potatoes in the ground and see them grow or whatever. Your opinion most likely wont matter nor make any difference.

Comment · 6 months ago
You likely restored a compromised backup because the backdoor(s) were already laying there. Or you restored to a theme/plugin with a vulnerability and had it quickly exploited again.

There is some lessons to be learned from your way of trying to fix it. Suggesting not to use a software that is in its core pretty stable and safe, is not one of them.

Comment · 6 months ago
LibreOffice, VeraCrypt, WireGuard. 2 questions:

Whats next?

Is that a pattern?

Comment · 7 months ago
Google some time ago deleted all my 13 years of location history while attempting to migrate it to local storage on users phones. I used it to keep track of business expenses for tax and had to collect the data someway else. Plus lost a lot of places i had kept track of in foreign countries visited. Desaster that showed I should not rely on them. Made that mistake there while self hosting and self backuping the whole other stuff. Oh well.
Comment · 7 months ago
You inherited, its your choice. Thats alright.

But you basically ripped out a partial root grounding your family, your kids, their kids. Sometimes these roots give strength in difficult times. Thats just my opinion and self-observation.

Whats done is done. But I could not imagine myself doing that.

Comment · 7 months ago
10 is a lot given the circumstances. From which country did they originate?
Comment · 7 months ago
That is actually pretty cool. I started doing that with the photo collections of family members, but only to add explanations to the metadata of the pictures. I might reconsider that approach now.
Comment · 7 months ago
That is pretty cool, I would not have the time, creativity and dedication to start something like that. Wanted to donate a nice comment. Best regards
Comment · 8 months ago
I ran ejabberd, later prosody for a while. Eventually I stopped because the contacts went away and it was just not easy enough to set up for ordinary people.

Sad because the idea of running a federated chat service for your family and them having all their contacts there, is great from a data ownership point of view.

Went back to use a mix of WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Messenger because apparently there is always some people not wanting to use one or the other service, or only using one of them.

Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Wondering: Is there a good tool for centralized ACME cert management when one runs a large infrastructure, highly available, multi location where it makes little sense to run the ACME client directly on each instance or location?

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