hwesta

hwesta, 9 days ago to linux

What do folks like for Linux offsite backup providers?

I have a Linux desktop with 1-2 TB of data that I want backed up on someone else's servers. I'm currently using Crashplan but my primary use case is data corruption which leads to lost files, and crashplan won't show me a list of recently deleted files that I need to restore. (also they're more business than individual focused now)

Willing to pay, looking for recommendations.

#linux #archlinux #backup #offsitebackups

hwesta, 12 days ago to random

Out for a late night drive to find dark skies and hopefully aurora!

hwesta, 2 months ago to boardgames

Played Wingspan for the first time in a while. There's so many cards with all the expansions! A lot of new and fun stuff came in with Oceania and Asia. Somehow I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it.

#boardgames #wingspan

hwesta, 2 months ago to knitting

The start of a sock!

Started twice since the first attempt was way too big. That's fine, the second attempt is going better since I'm more used to ribbing stitch, magic loop, and now purling. (I think they're still going to be big but the next size down was listed as child sized!)

#knitting #socks

gvwilson, 2 months ago to random

should I stay or should I go?

hwesta, 2 months ago to boardgames

It's TCTC time! 🎉

Tried Bunny Kingdom and enjoyed it more than I expected. Looks like a family game but the drafting and different strategy options give it more depth. Would play again but won't buy it since I don't think my regular gaming group would like it.

Taught Twin Tin Bots which I haven't played in forever and had fun. I probably should have played differently, since I beat the newbies a little too much.

#TCTC #TerminalCityTabletopConvention #boardgames #Vancouver

hwesta, 2 months ago to knitting

Knitting during meetings: success!

I have a hard time staying focused in group meetings and have to resist getting distracted on my phone or with other work. Knitting seemed to hit the sweet spot of letting me pay attention and participate

Bonus: almost done my second square!

#knitting

hwesta, 3 months ago to knitting

I'm trying out a new hobby: knitting!

I was doing ok until I tried to tension the yarn through my fingers and became all thumbs. How do you hold the needles??

Learning mostly from the internet so far but I have some local knitter friends to ask for help too

#knitting

gvwilson, 3 months ago to random

Maybe I'm thinking about https://third-bit.com/2024/02/17/concurrent-examples/ the wrong way. Maybe what I should do is built some mocks to capture the socket send of the requests library and pass that text to mumble mumble http.server, then captures the HTTP response text and gives it back to requests. That'll single-thread things for batch reproducibility. Has anyone done this? If so, code would be very welcome. Thx - G <- programming while feverish

hwesta, 3 months ago to MountainBiking

Took my bike in for a tune!

Started biking almost exactly two years ago. (I'd biked as a teen but not as an adult) I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I do.

First ride was 2km downhill and I could barely walk when I arrived. Now, there and back is an easy, low-effort outing

#biking #bike

hwesta, 3 months ago to Birds

The two categories of bird names

#birds #birdnames #meme

Other things if they were named by ornithologists: * banana labelled Wisconsin Lemon * car labeled Five Wheeled Bridge Traverser * tomato labelled Green Salad Fruit * three brown horses of decreasing size labelled Greater Horse, Least Horse and Chestnut-flanked Neigh-neigh

hwesta, 3 months ago to Celeste

I started playing Celeste on a whim and I can't stop thinking about it. I love the assist mode options - dash assist brought it from "extremely frustrating, you should stop playing this if you're not having fun" to "challenging and I have to take breaks regularly but I want to keep playing". The pixel art and music are beautiful, and it has a very puzzle-y aspect to getting through rooms. Only partway through, but it's doing something interested with the story too.

#celeste #videogames

hwesta, 6 months ago to til

#TIL some good news about BC Labour Laws around pay transparency! https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/gender-equity/pay-transparency-laws-in-bc

tl;dr

• employers can't ask you how much you make currently
• job postings open to BC residents must include pay range (as of Nov 1 2023)
• it's illegal for employers to Make Problems™️ for you if you share your salary

Bonus: over the next 3 years, all employers with 50+ employees will have to release a Pay Transparency Report (details pending)

#LaborLaws #PayTransparency #BC

gvwilson, 7 months ago to random

Also read "Mammoths at the Gates" (volume 4 in Nghi Vo's excellent "Singing Hills" cycle) and really enjoyed it.

hwesta, 7 months ago to linux

Long shot, but does anyone know about #XFS #filesystem #recovery?

My Arch #Linux desktop crashed during an update and now has a corrupt XFS. Mounting fails because of the corruption. xfs_repair can't fix it because of unapplied log changes.

The XFS partition is on top of a pair of LVM-mirrored drives. A different XFS partition on the same drives mounts fine.

I'd rather not destroy the log and take the data loss but that's the next step I'm looking at.

Looking for suggestions or resources!

Photo of a monitor showing

brainwane, 8 months ago to random

#COVID19 #COVID cautious folks:

Carrying a CO2 monitor helps me check how safe the #AirQuality in a space is, and lower or raise my cautions accordingly. (Details: https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/my-current-covid-risk-approach/#ventilation ) Super useful.

I use and like the #Aranet4 #CO2 monitor. The #Aranet 4 is usually USD$249. It's on sale, direct from the manufacturer, till September 17, for $184.35, with free shipping in the US.

https://shop.aranet.com/north-america/product/aranet4-home

Or from Amazon for $197: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07YY7BH2W/ref=nosim/0sil8 (Might be today only - Sept 7th.)

Aranet CO2 monitoring app screenshot from one week in May 2023. Almost all readings are in the green range, under 1,000 ppm. A few hours in the yellow and red ranges, about 1,000 to 2,100 ppm, are during airplane travel. The 5,905 ppm peak is during a car ride.

gvwilson, 8 months ago to random

RIP Jimmy Buffett :-(

hwesta, 8 months ago to python

Question involving #python #sqlalchemy #factoryboy #postgresql #pytest

Currently, we run end-to-end API tests against a sqlite DB, which takes about 2 seconds. I want to switch to postgres (what we use in prod) but that makes the tests take a lot longer, about 12 seconds.

Is there a way to improve this?

What might be causing the slowness? Where can I look? Is it networking to the docker container? Postgres enforcing constraints? Running flush after every DB fixture? Something else?

hwesta, 9 months ago to boardgames

Played my 100th game of #SpiritIsland We played vs England 6 with Breath of Darkness Down your Spine, Shifting Memory of Ages (Mentor), and Serpent Beneath the Island (Locus). Highest difficulty we've played against and we absolutely destroyed them. Extremely satisfying!
#boardgames