Posts made by zuphzuph

Hope you're alright @IRJ looks like quite the mess thus far.

@cakeis_not_alie said in Another Personal Storage Discussion:

@zuphzuph Why back up a whole system image? Back up data, configs and (maybe) installers. 2FA is the sort of thing every public cloud account that handles sensitive data should have, however, that doesn't remove the need to encrypt the local/NAS copy.

It's also good practice to encrypt what you're putting into cloud storage (be that OneDrive or any backup solution, such as Backblaze, Glacier, etc). Your level of trust/care about being party to Yahoo-style mass surveillance will determine whether or not you want to take the minimal effort required to defend against that threat. (I take offence to rational concerns backed up by evidence called conspiracy theories, BTW. There are enough of those out there without vilifying legitimate threats.)

I should also point out that your ability to solve your own personal storage needs by basically saying "meh, **** it, I'll take the risk" re: backups is pretty rare. I personally have at least three non-phone devices, certainly wouldn't relish rebuilding them!

"Personal use" can also include spouse, children, etc. It doesn't take much for running a household's IT to become as complicated as running that of a small business. More pressing, perhaps, as the angry users know where you sleep.

Also..."just keep what you need in the cloud account" isn't enough for some things. That's okay for my music collection, but I'm going to want better redundancy that that for my home pictures and my tax returns.

3-2-1: Your data should be on three devices, on two different types of media with one of those copies being offsite.

If your data doesn't exist in at least two places, then it simply doesn't exist. Being in OneDrive/Dropbox/etc isn't good enough. Public cloud services have had failures and they have lost data. So if you want to use cloud as your primary storage location, make sure you back that cloud up to another, separate cloud.

Alternately, keep a local copy that is really, really unlikely to go pfffft at the same time the cloud copy has an oopsie. Given how awesome cheap NASes are at this stuff today, proper layered backups should be achievable for cheap, even for the home user.

@DustinB3403

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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Really excited to be on vacation in a few hours! Bought myself a half ton pickup and I'm going to put my boat on the roof and head up to my parents. Enjoy some thanksgiving dinner with them, then out to the middle of nowhere to camp and fish and hike.

Pssh silly Canadians with their October thanksgiving.

Yeah, silly new world with their thanksgiving...

Convenient excuse to eat turkey - highly recommend.

Had that once, wasn't that great IMHO. But I'll give it another try.

Deep fried turkey is the way to go. We used to do several every US thanksgiving, much cooler then our northern neighbors. They have an excellent crispy skin while still being incredibly moist on the inside.

Do you guys try to convince me which turkey is better? Let's find out, you guy's can prepare some turkey when we visit 'merica some day

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Fixed a ton of BS theme issues in WP this morning. Just chilling not, 3rd to last day here!

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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Narcos S02E04

It's a grind to the end from there. I was actually incredibly disappointed with Season 2 as a whole.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/10725/moto-z-force-review
Love it personally.

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@aidan_walsh said in AWS Brings GPU POWERHOUSES to the Cloud:

Awesome, Amazon Password Cracking As A Service.

#truth

Messing around with Lubuntu.

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And in other news, @zuphzuph brings the much maligned shortened link to Mangolassi.it!

Which link shortener is it that will show you the target when hovering your mouse over the link?

None, because that's not how the technology works

I thought one of them would, tho it probably requires some client side processing to work.

Absolutely requires client side processing. A link doesn't just magically make the browser do things.

Yeah, I think this is a result of SolidWorks having their cloud hosted solution now. We'll probably see a package installer for SolidWorks on AWS in the next couple of days.

This is interesting. We have an old workstation with SW2010 on it and were looking at upgrading to the latest version (subscription model :()

http://www.solidsmack.com/cad/solidworks-online-edition-is-real-and-its-exactly-what-we-thought/

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So back onto the topic and answering the question at hand. (Tired of reading ML rants/conspiracy theories/arguments tbh.)

Doesn't Microsoft provide a 2FA service for their accounts? This would add an extra layer of security to your current onedrive account. I've recently setup LastPass with all Randomly generated passwords for security purposes. These have made my account far less "hackable."

As far as backing up the system you could use Veeam endpoint and sync up an S3 Bucket @ AWS if you wanted to. Problem with this is if the system does go down and you have a BMR backup you're still tied to that make/model of PC.

Just keep what is absolutely necessary/needed in the cloud account. (This is what I do.)

I don't have any programs/VMs that aren't entirely rebuild-able or mandatory for me to have. If my PC does one day take a turn for the worst I'll throw in a drive and configure what I need at that point. Yes cloud hosted system backups are a good idea but they come at a cost which to me isn't worth it rn.

I'm really happy I've never had a yahoo account in my life rn.

I spun up a trial account for testing and was honestly baffled at the cost. Maybe I'll give this another attempt in the near future. Lower pricing definitely gives them a competitive edge.

@scottalanmiller said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

@zuphzuph said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

@scottalanmiller said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

@zuphzuph said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

@travisdh1 said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

What if I work in Bash instead of PowerShell?

Can't fault you for that. But I'd call you bleeding edge.

BASH via CygWin on Windows is like 20 years old.

I was throw with the release of the BASH shell in 10, my b.

That's BASH on a Linux pseudo-VM running on top of Windows, not BASH on Windows itself. It's useless. Only working BASH is in Cygwin.

Good to know.

@scottalanmiller said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

@zuphzuph said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

@travisdh1 said in Show me the $PowerShell.:

What if I work in Bash instead of PowerShell?

Can't fault you for that. But I'd call you bleeding edge.

BASH via CygWin on Windows is like 20 years old.

I was throw with the release of the BASH shell in 10, my b.