I think all these measures are designed to slow the flow, spread the storage of the rain across more places so it can cope with the larger downfall in the short-term, buying time for it all to flow away once it has passed.
There are similar ideas in UK with reintroduction of beavers who transform land into spongey floodplains that can tolerate much more rainfall before spilling over.
I mention https://lemmy.ca/c/linuxphones in case you’ve not found it already. It’s not like an authoritive, central forum where everyone goes but maybe it’s a start.
I assume they hope that their added license condition of an ‘obligation to retain the original product logo’ is a ‘reasonable…author attribution’ (AGPL section 7b). Hmm.
They invite the FSF to judge:
If FSF determines that our license and project align with AGPLv3, we will continue as an open-source initiative. However, if the decision goes against us, we are ready to consider other options.
Little bit more on it here:
Minimal wrapper for Syncthing on Android. Unlike Syncthing-Fork, it does not use Android’s Storage Access Framework to avoid performance degradation. The intention behind this project can be found here. This one needs more vetting from the community to determinate if the developer is trustworthy.
For example filesystems like btrfs can be very sensitive to errors in ram due to all the checksumming. On the positive side you’ll know about it fast!
They messed up on this only days ago! Has been fixed though:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/
Not used bacula myself, couldn’t say.
You might also want to keep an eye on vykar which is promising all the best bits from restic/borg:
For restic:
Rick Astley’s birthday is 6th Feb 1966, just saying
I like your thought so I wondered if there is a site to help people pick a distro and found this:
For a windows gamer type of person it came up with Linux Mint
https://distrochooser.de/en/d59f9b3e7b9b/
…at the top of a long list of other choices. Not bad!
NY is next
New York Senate Bill S8102A goes further. It “requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance” to check all users’ ages, and provide this info to “all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications” – as well as app stores.
At 5mbps it should take about 1 hour for 2GB. It sounds like your actual speed is 2-3x lower. Can you take that up with your ISP? Are you certain your machine has the best connection within your control, i.e. directly wired into the router? Network equipment is not faulty? Have you tested with iperf within your network? Just in case there’s another issue beside the slow external speed…
Another thing that springs to mind is to use a backup tool like restic that will not only compress but deduplicate your data into hundreds of small files that might make upload faster. Dedup can save significant space and you can try it out locally first. Just do restic init then restic backup PATH.
Restic can use rclone as a backend also and upload straight to google: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services
Finally there’s sometimes nothing faster than physically moving data. A person jogging with a 100gb drive has great bandwidth! Is there a location with better internet within reach? A library or school perhaps?
Have you tried comaps? Once you login to OSM via settings it’s not too bad to edit places directly.
If curious:
Tap quickly twice anywhere on the map, but don’t lift up a finger after the 2nd tap.
Move your finger up or down to zoom out or zoom in.
Managed to find a capture on IA that has s_me content_
The source article:
https://www.ft.com/content/dca3f034-bfe8-4f21-bcdc-2b274053f0b5
Archived:
Three distinct factors are at work here…
…a shared culture that values the privacy of one’s own home
…the planning regimes in all six anglophone countries are united in facilitating objections to individual applications
…Anglophone planning frameworks give huge weight to environmental conservation, yet the preference for low-density developments fuels car-dependent sprawl and eats up more of that cherished green and pleasant land.
The author’s conclusion:
Ultimately, whether the goal is tackling the housing crisis, protecting the environme or boosting productivity, the answer to so many woes in the English-speaking world is to unburden ourselves of our anti-apartment exceptionalism.
Here’s where they link to find out more:
What can you do with Strudel?
- live code music: make music with code in real time
- algorithmic composition: compose music using tidal’s unique approach to pattern manipulation
Reminds me of the ‘totems’ in Inception, except they were to prove to yourself you were not in a dream.