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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I’m using rustic, a lock-free rust-written drop-in-replacement of restic, which (I’m referring to restic and therefore in extension to rustic) supports always-encrypted, deduplicating, compressed and easy backups without you needing to worry about whether to do a full- or incremental-backup.

    All my machines run hourly backups of all mounted partitions to an append-only repo at borgbase. I have a file with ignore pattern globs to skip unwanted files and dirs (i.e.: **/.cache).

    While I think borgbase is ok, ther’re just using hetzner storage boxes in the background, which are cheaper if you use them directly. I’m thinking of migrating my backups to a handfull of homelabs from trusted friends and family instead.

    The backups have a randomized delay of 5m and typically take about 8-9s each (unless big new files need to be uploaded). They are triggered by persistent systemd-timers.

    The backups have been running across my laptop, pc and server for about 6 months now and I’m at ~380 GiB storage usage total.

    I’ve mounted backup snapshots on multiple occasions already to either get an old version of a file, or restore it entirely.

    There is a tool called redu which is like ncdu but works on restic/rustic repos. This makes it easy to identify which files blow up your backup size.






  • If you connect to the network and open firefox, it will display a toast to open the corresponding captive portals page. You can then login through that. Given that your VPN isn’t blocking unencrypted connections etc.

    Extrapolation of partial knowledge warning

    I assume the network advertises a captive portals url and identifies you based on your MAC address.

    The config is server-side (router).








  • This might very well become a setting for an upcoming P&P Campaign from me.

    The hook: You have been mysteriously receiving packets by a host calling itself <the-connochaetes>. The packets hint at the existence of an “ΛℵϚ∃⌊ζ” cult running large scale brainwashing schemes. Will you heed the call and free the world? Or will you use the chace to increase your influence? It all starts with you joining this IRC: <REDACTED>