I wish there was a good GUI for Restic so I could have non-technical people using the same thing I do.

QOTD: How do you back up your files?

I asked this one almost a year ago and I started using Restic shortly after that. When I started, I was only backing up my home folder to the repository over NFS. Now, I’m backing up the entire root filesystem to a repository using the REST backend so I can run Restic as root without breaking the permissions.

I’m working on automating it now and I’m trying to come up with something using pinentry but my proof-of-concept is getting pretty obtuse. It will be spread out in a shell script, of course, but still.

systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch restic --password-command='su -c "printf '"'"'GETPIN\n\'"'"' | WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 pinentry-qt5 | grep ^D | sed '"'"'s/^D //'"'"'" mckinley' --repository-file /root/restic-repo backup --exclude-file /root/restic-excludes --exclude-caches --one-file-system /

I’m curious to see how everyone’s backup solutions have changed since last year.

Went out in the cold and noticed that taking photos half an hour on top of the drafty summit is not the very best idea. Not suprising that I freeze if there is snow. Gloves would have been actually great, I only wore my beanie. But it was a very good afternoon and evening. Looking at the snowmen, there must have been heaps of snow on the ground earlier this day.

I came across several different birds and two deer. 36-38 shows the same one, one meadow further, another deer jumped across the road. That was cool.

The focus often wanted to do its own thing, unfortunately. 25 shows the flatness of the Kaiserbergsteige (literally “Emperor Mountain Steep Road”).

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https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-21/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Vobis doesn’t ring a bell. I looked them up, but still nope.

Yeah, HDDs aren’t the fastest things in the world. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net Sadly true. :-(

A quiet Sunday, with family, my dog 🐶, house cleaning, preparing for a travel tomorrow…

That’s all the twt

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Goes to show how arcane that system has become. 🥴 I saw in another video today that Microsoft Office used names like PMWord and PMExcel.

There was a time when Vobis (you remember them?) sold PCs with OS/2 pre-installed. Those were the days, man! 😂

It’s already very quick.

That’s because it’s not running on a hard disk but a Compact Flash card. 😅 My Warp 4 box is on an HDD and scanning directory trees takes quite some time there. 🫤 Spinning rust is crazy slow.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de hahahaha! Accurate, 100%. 😩

@movq@www.uninformativ.de pfff, your code is “break-proof”! All looking good, so far. 😊

Me feed just rolled over. Let’s see if something breaks. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org https://pixelfed.de/p/islieb/656813914793363318

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting. Never came across the term presentation manager in my life, but I also never used OS/2. :-)

Yeah, stopping the scanning thread is more a learning experience than a necessity. The scanning message is hardly visible in your videos. It’s already very quick.

I’m with you, @bender@twtxt.net, weekends are way too short.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’ve never had a use for Syncthing but I hope I get one at some point so I can see how it works. Do three-way merges work on Keepass database files?

I have been up, and ready to go for hours. Partner is still in bed. She takes such a long time to wake up on weekends! Past noon already, and we need to get food for the elders, and come back to tidy up things to get ready for the next weekly cycle.

Ugh! Where did the weekend go?!

@dfaria@twtxt.net well, your “original twtxt” is an example of anything, but social. It is more like an echo chamber. If I am going to follow someone, I seek interaction. Language isn’t a barrier, lack of engagement is.

@prologic@twtxt.net Your position doesn’t make any sense: it’s closing down and arbitrarily limiting the use of the Twtxt protocol. One more reason not to use https://twtxt.net/

Oh, you finally did implement multithreading, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. Cool, cool. :-) https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-04-21/0/POSTING-en.html Just in case you want to keep working on PMdusage, my suggestion for a future upgrade is to make the scan abortable. 8-) By the way, what does “PM” in “PMdusage” stand for?

Always great to see that bugs are quickly fixed.

There’s a tiny typo in the second to last paragraph: “Windows NT is something that I had no contact with…”

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Good points 👌

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This ☝️

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! 🙇‍♂️

@mckinley@mckinley.cc Haha, interesting read.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Nice, I can confirm it’s now fixed. I reckon the Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 did the trick. Something in the twtxt client must have incorrectly guessed ISO-8859-1 or something along those lines when there was no charset advertised in the response header.

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Agreed, looking heaps better. <3

@mckinley@twtxt.net Do you have an alternate proposal? What we want to avoid really (if possible) is the idea of “1-ay posting” or “posting to the void”. As an obvious example, the idea of syncing your Mastoon toots to Twtxt twts that you never see replies to is well umm just silly 🤣 and thus creates unwanted noise as it’s just like talking to a “brick wall” 😥

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net You must live in the southern hemisphere? 🤔 It doesn’t ever snow here in Brisbane 🤣

I use KeePassXC because I really only use one device. I imagine it would be challenging to rsync the database around if I needed my passwords on more machines. It’s probably fine if you’re deliberate enough, but I don’t think it would take long before I’d lose a password by editing an outdated version of the repository and overwriting the main copy.

I like the simple architecture of Pass, and it would indeed lend itself well to a Git repository, but I don’t like that service names are visible on the filesystem. pass-tomb might mitigate this somewhat but it seems messy and I don’t know if it would work with Git without compromising the security of the tomb.

What’s so good about Bitwarden? Everyone seems to love it. I like that it can be self-hosted. I certainly wouldn’t want a third party in control of my password database.

@prologic@twtxt.net This seems like it would drive a wedge between Yarn.social and the people on regular old twtxt.

Apparently it’s snowing in some places now

@bender@twtxt.net This is what I fell over and bunged up my shin 😱

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@test@aelaraji.com Looks fine to me? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net LOL no 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net is that the one that hit you in the shin? 😬

6x4 Medium Duty Smooth Floor Box Trailer For Sale Brisbane good lightweight trailer 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com No worries! We can work this out, Unicode is hard™ at the best of times 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is Like it’s pretty easy to use really:

prologic/go-htmx-demo: A simple Web App written in Go using htmx on the frontend to drive a single-page-app (SPA) experience. - go-htmx-demo - Mills

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Can you perhaps setup a temporary/test feed, link me and let’s debug this together? Maybe it’s a bug in Jenny? 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com The only thing I’ve observed so far is your server isn’t setting a charset. e.g:

$ curl -v -o /dev/null https://twtxt.net/~prologic/twtxt.txt 2>&1 | grep 'content-type'
< content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com a bit on the tangent, what font is that one on your screenshot?

@prologic@twtxt.net Thank
you! and here’s a twt with the said random characters, since I’ve been
cleaning them up manually, earlier before scp-ing my twtxt.txt file. And
maybe a screenshot of how things look in my editor?

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Those new lines are added automatically as I type (except for the ones
after the screenshot.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’ll inspect your feed later and see if I can work out wtf is going in 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is How about we just refactor the existing UI with it? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Sounds good!

@bender@twtxt.net I usually am actually 🤣 Only way to improve things is to “dog food” right?! 😅

Its quite nice. I have been half tempted to make a twtxt client with it

@prologic@twtxt.net I noticed you were using the mobile app. Such a brave soul! 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net it makes absolute sense for a Yarn.social user. I propose the following formatting change:

WARNING:

You are about to follow a legacy feed, which may not have any kind of engagement. Do you want to continue?

Err I meant @bender@twtxt.net and I (Mobile app doesn’t have auto-complete for @-mentions 🤦‍♂️🥲😢)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah we use the Unicode new line character to represent “new lines”

@bendwr and I discussing something along the lines of:

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I.e: How to deal with or reduce noise from legacy feeds.