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backupbear

@backupbear@aus.social

Enterprise tech worker focused on ethical advancement of the industry. Heavily into #DataProtection – of the storage/availability kind (particular emphasis on #backup and #recovery). Blog and publish books on it, just for ongoing nerdery on the topic.

Also a huge #PowerPlate fan & user.
Posts are my own, unassociated with any employer. Links at https://linktr.ee/backupbear

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backupbear, to random
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I am so damn angry with being an endless run of doomscrolling where people have been hit by mass firings, interspersed with onanistic self-congratulatory posts from the businesses those people used to work for boasting about their multi-billion dollar quarter financial results. It’s sickening.

backupbear, to random
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Congratulations, Japan, for getting the plan underway for eliminating the use of floppy disks!

https://www.engadget.com/japan-will-no-longer-require-floppy-disks-for-submitting-some-official-documents-212048844.html

backupbear,
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@jpm I have enjoyed following this story. A colleague in Israel had described how over there it took a lot of effort to get government processes off faxes and then I explained the Japan/floppy situation to him...

backupbear, to animals
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Cino was pretty happy today with the cushion options.

backupbear, to random
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Few things are more rage-inducing to discover after spending half an hour debugging weird DHCP & DNS issues to realise the network cable's clip has broken and it's wobbling in the switch.

backupbear,
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@jpm It's a 20m cable, don't have a replacement. So currently held in place with sticky-tape until a replacement is sourced.

backupbear, to random
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Contemplating blowing away the FreeBSD install I’ve got running on an old NUC and replacing it with HaikuOS for shits & giggles.

backupbear,
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@jpm Plan9 before Solaris these days :D

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"Based on 481 ransomware attacks from the Dutch police and a Dutch incident response party, we arrive at a number of key insights: Insurance led to a 2.8x higher ransom amount paid, without affecting the frequency of payments. Data exfiltration led to a 5.5 times higher ransom amount paid, without affecting the frequency of payments. Organizations with recoverable backups were 27.4 times less likely to pay the ransom compared to victims without recoverable backups.

Press release: https://www.utwente.nl/nieuws/2024/1/1318314/ut-brengt-besluitvormingsproces-slachtoffers-ransomware-in-kaart#belangrijke-inzichten

Full article by Tom Meurs and colleagues: https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/324702475/Ecrime2023vPREPRINT.pdf

h/t,

@allan @brett @lawrenceabrams @ecrime_ch @GossiTheDog

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@jpm @PogoWasRight It is remarkable how effective a well protected backup system is in these instances.

Unixbigot, to random
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Well, at least we don’t have to listen for the other “Microsoft buys GitHub” shoe to drop any longer.

ETA: context https://mastodon.social/@tef/111803405697618231

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@jpm @Unixbigot What about something powered by commands that end with double exclamation marks? Then it can be gitty gitty bang bang.

backupbear, to microsoft
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Dear :

I have wasted orders of magnitude more of my life having to stop & answer the question when exiting your apps "do I want to keep the clipboard contents because that may make it slower to exit the app?" than I'd have wasted having the app take an extra 1-5 seconds to exit based on the size of the clipboard.

Signed,
Every MS Office User.

backupbear, to random
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Following the latest inspection from our independent auditor, we’ve spent the evening sending a terse yet detailed “fix this fucking shit ASAP” email to our builder.

backupbear,
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@jpm Hopefully nothing major, but many mid-level issues, some to do with waterproofing.

backupbear,
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@jpm Yeah I’m very glad we went down that path in the end.

backupbear, to llm
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Tell me your has been trained using cishet data, not vetted for diversity & inclusion, without telling me your LLM has been trained using cishet data & vetted for diversity & inclusion.

backupbear, to random
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Found this straightforward explanation on easily running LLMs locally using LM Studio. In the entire time I’ve had my M2 this is the first time it’s felt even slightly warm to the touch.

https://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/generative-ai/how-to-llm-local-mac-m1/

backupbear, to random
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Achievement unlocked: first household bill for new house. Still two months or so away from completion/moving in, but we have our first water bill.

backupbear, to random
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“Copy and paste have been disabled by your Administrator because they despise productivity."

backupbear, to ai
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I asked an AI model: “Explain how someone might use interpretive dance to demonstrate the value of backups. Describe the sorts of movements they would do and the music it would be set to.”

Thus spake the model:
That is a very creative and unusual request. I am not an expert on interpretive dance, but I will try to imagine how someone might use it to demonstrate the value of backups. Here is one possible scenario:

  • The music is a dramatic orchestral piece that alternates between calm and tense sections.

  • The dancer wears a costume that represents their data, such as a colorful dress or suit with symbols or words on it.

  • The dancer starts by performing graceful and confident movements, showing that they are happy and secure with their data.

  • Then, the music changes to a more ominous tone, and the dancer faces a threat, such as a masked figure that represents a hacker, a fire that represents a disaster, or a scissors that represents an error.

  • The dancer tries to escape or fight the threat, but they are overpowered and lose their data. They fall to the ground, expressing despair and hopelessness.

  • The music becomes silent, and the dancer remains motionless for a few seconds, symbolizing the loss of their data and the impact on their life.

  • Then, the music resumes with a hopeful and triumphant melody, and the dancer rises up, revealing that they have a backup of their data. They show the backup, such as a flash drive, a cloud icon, or a paper document, and perform joyful and relieved movements, showing that they have restored their data and their happiness.

  • The dancer ends by holding the backup close to their chest, expressing gratitude and security, and looking at the audience, inviting them to backup their data as well.

The moral to the story? If can get this creative about , there's hope for us yet that 2024 might be the year when a TV show or movie finally uses in the plot in a way that doesn't make a expert cringe in horror.

backupbear, to random
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Also, got myself back up to a 3 minute plank on 50hz vibration. May have said a particular swear-word favoured by Australians a number of times in the last 20-25 seconds.

ojala, to random
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backupbear,
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@ojala @bplein also the ongoing combo of:

media: <this worker once stole a loaf of bread to make ends meet, we must hound them to death> and

media: <this business-owner found a creative way to underpay staff by millions for decades. worship him>

backupbear, to random
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Pet theory: the paywalling of valid, useful information while misinformation is freely available everywhere is a leading contributor to our societal problems.

jodiem, to random
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Ugh Melbourne rain already, so we can be free of this humidity

backupbear,
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@jodiem ’tis so messy at the moment.

backupbear, to random
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This whole 30º at 20:07 can GTFO.

backupbear,
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@jpm It’ll be another aircon-all-night deal here.

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