FrederikNJS

Well… That depends entirely on your threat model…

In my setup, the backup is encrypted locally, and then uploaded to Backblaze. If I leak my encryption key, then yes, Backblaze and any state actor that can compel Backblaze, might be able to read my backup (and the same goes for an encryption vulnerability). But since the connection to access the backup is also authenticated, the rest of the public would not be able to read my backup. If I leak my access credentials, then everyone could get my encrypted backup data, but not be able to decrypt it. Of course if I leak both the access credentials and the encryption key, then yes anyone that obtains both can read my backup.

Many regular people use Microsoft Onedrive or Google Drive, which offers even less protection, but it’s certainly sufficient and well enough protected to keep your dissertation protected.

In most backup services you have the option to choose what gets backed up, and what does not. But sure, it entirely depends on who you want to protect yourself from.

If your main concern is state actors, then yeah… You probably shouldn’t use something like Backblaze. You should keep everything on your own hardware. And convince a friend or some family to have a NAS sitting somewhere that can host your backup destination.

For my case I’m mostly concerned about data continuity (not losing data). But privacy is certainly also a concern, and here I have chosen to believe that the encryption is sound enough, and that my ability to keep my encryption key safe, is sufficient for the data it protects.

Nice to hear… However I haven’t figured out how to get my HTC Vive to behave nicely on Linux…

1. Find online backup service
2. Pay for subscription
3. Install backup software
4. …
5. Still have your data

I use Backblaze myself… But there are many other straightforward and easy backup solutions out there.

Then against the Factorio devs publicly said they much prefer that you pirate the game over using a shady grey market key seller…

And when you set up a multiplayer server there’s even a checkbox to choose whether it should validate that players have a user account… Untick that and you can play with anyone who pirated the game.

To me it’s a pretty clear from the devs message: If you want the game, and want to support the developers, and can afford it, you buy it at full price. If you don’t want to support the devs or can’t afford it, but still want to play, you pirate it. And they even have a free demo, so you can try the game before making your purchasing decisions.

If I remember correctly the OP of this network traffic graph figured out that their network equipment were accidentally misattributing the traffic to the washer, and it was actually some other device that had caused the traffic.

I would frankly prefer a thick accent, and some subtitles… Even AI generated subtitles with a quick proofread pass, is vastly superior to AI voices IMO

To me it’s definitely worth it. Many of my favorite creators are already on there. I get exclusives and early releases, high definition, and no ads. And the nice fuzzy feeling of knowing that my views result in the creator receiving some actual money.

I still use YouTube quite a lot… But I find that I’m using Nebula more and more as time goes by.

Yes. But also entirely ad-free, and with lots of quality creators. And it’s quite a bit cheaper than pretty much any other streaming service.

Yep

I realised a while ago that it’s way cheaper to hunt for second-hand intel NUCs, and the resulting machine is way more powerful… And the RAM and storage is upgradeable, if the NUC didn’t come with plenty of storage or RAM already…