Nothing wrong wth BackBlaze as a storage solution. Just switch backup programs.
I use Duplicati with BackBlaze B2. Works very well for me.
I have never trusted when I had to use both backup software and backup storage from the same company. I always thought it would lead to abuses like this.
So I use a third-party backup software - I have had great success with Duplicati - and back that up to BackBlaze B2.
Dogs only exist in the moment. Any correction that isn’t delivered within 1-3 seconds is going to have greatly diminished effectiveness, and anything beyond 5-10 seconds (depending on breed) is going to not be connected with the behaviour that caused you to provide the correction.
There are many breeds where, in general, the drive is so high that “force-free” training will be the fastest path to the euthanasia table. German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, and many other herding breeds in particular. Sure, you might get lucky and score a “low drive” dog, but that is relative to others in the same breed – by comparison it will still make any golden retriever look like a high-as-a-kite stoner slacker. But a high-drive dog can and will get itself into situations where treats, toys, and other positive incentives will be utterly ignored. Trust me when I say that under those conditions, there is nothing in the “force-free training” arsenal that can or will reach these dogs to break them out of their focus. And when that focus involves aggression against pets or people, balanced training is the only thing that will keep your dog from being euthanized by the authorities.
Start training at an early age. Even as young as 8 weeks. Sit, heel, recall and others are vitally important in being able to control your dog without a leash, or if they slip the leash. Try to find a MSRP-priced version of Successful Together, as it will do wonders in laying down a good foundation of training.
Look for the videographer MK9Plus (can’t tell if British or Australian), they have lots of excellent reels on how to understand your dog’s body language. Method k9 is another one.
Manhandle your dog, especially when they are young and easy to handle. Don’t hurt them, but do get them used to being strangely handled, especially in cases like when they are at the vet.
Do not take your dog out on extended runs for the first year of life, their joints will thank you for their entire life.
Do not spay or neuter your dog, their lifespan and overall health will thank you for their life. Instead, consider vasectomies and hysterectomies instead, as these leave the hormone-producing gonads in place, leading to longer and much healthier lives.
I hope this helps.
And that’s why we call them the Parasite Class.
Because no-one accumulates that much wealth without parasitizing off of the working class.
And it’s definitely a “Him,” no other pronouns required. I’ve never encountered a female audiophile.
I have. Although TBH they were both on the spectrum, albeit not in the same way. One was even back in the early 90s, and had a bangin’ car audio system as good as any peacocking young man.
the other is the 1812 Overture that skips when the (Actual! Real!) cannons go off.
Oooo… insufficient vibrational isolation. That’s a low bar to cross with turntables; you either get or build a dedicated stand (not difficult), or your deck has that isolation tech built-in (upper midrange or higher). The easiest way to check for built-in is to tap the platter (from the side) and see if the entire deck shifts or wobbles in the case. If it does, it’s vibrationally isolated. Although how well it is, is dependent on a number of other increasingly technical factors.
Of course, this also predicates upon having this system in a space where you can crank the sound up to 11 without having the cops knock on your door with a noise violation in hand.
Woman of mass destruction
Ah, these are rather common. Divorces are their weapon of choice.
More often than not, the man has his post-alimony earnings and net worth rolled back twenty years or more. Most never return to their prior economic level unless they’re young enough to compensate, and then they remain severely behind their peers, as well. Only the truly wealthy men - think $10M of net worth or more, and $250k+ earnings - can bounce back from a divorce like it’s nothing.
And the worst part is, in most cases these cords are hidden behind the equipment! It’s not like you can even peacock with them!
You do cable management correctly, and all you can do is, “trust me, bro, I have these skookum cables that cost a shitton hidden back there…”
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Imagine being dumb enough to invest into the military industrial complex of a country that’s actively threatening to invade you.
And to buy defensive weapons that can be summarily and remotely shut down by that invading country.
That would be the most moronic decision possible.
The Gripen may not be a 1:1 match with the F-35, but neither was the Sherman a 1:1 match with the Nazi Tiger tank. It took an average of 8 Shermans being KO’d to take out a single Tiger. But when 10, 20, or even more Shermans could be fielded for every Tiger that hit the field, victory came down to numbers, not technological superiority. As has been copiously demonstrated across nearly every conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries.
And instead of 88 F-35 aircraft, that exact same dollar value could buy us 420 Gripen aircraft, at even less on-going maintenance costs on an overall basis.
True, even with 420 Gripens we don’t stand any chance of defending ourselves. But effective defense is not the goal… the goal is to make any invasion as prohibitively expensive for America as possible. And 420 Gripens that cannot be remotely shut down is that answer.
Considering that all other alternatives are either
I consider Signal to be the best option out there. It’s not perfect, but nothing is. It simply is the best general option out there, by far, for a general audience.
Yes, you can be totally secure, untraceable, and ultimately unfindable. But being cut into pieces, with each separate piece entombed in its own barrel of concrete, and each barrel dropped into a different oceanic trench, tends to be a bit beyond what I consider to be reasonable to achieve that.
Okay, so I was not specific enough. Let me rephrase:
“Name me any popular media that centres around a husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend dynamic, where the man isn’t a moron…”
There we go. Happy?
And notice the term “likely” in my prior comment. Don’t ask me to pick grains of sand off of a beach when you have the entire beach in the first place. I’ve got better things to do with my life than working through Brandolini’s Law; gesturing to that beach is as far as I am going to go.
Aside from distressingly rare well-written examples of healthy relationships such as Babylon 5, the “foolish husband, responsible wife” trope is almost everywhere. It even figures prominently in a majority of advertising that features couples interacting with each other.
And this is far from an exhaustive list. But it’s telling that this is a widely-known and ubiquitous trope, whereas its flip-side opposite is pretty much nonexistent.
In fact, the only references I could find were on the “foolish husband” tropes:
And Star Trek should not be on your list:
Plus, the argument can be made that a few of your other choices don’t have a husband/wife relationship as a central/recurring feature between main characters, and as such are also ineligible.
The only solid mark that I see in your favour is Babylon 5, with Sheraton’s relationship with Delenne and Ivanova’s tragic relationship with Cole being exemplary examples that are shockingly rare in media.
AI is a solution in search of a problem.
The problem being CEOs asking themselves, “how do we acquire labour without having to pay for said labour, in order to maximize our own profit margins?”
AI was always meant to allow wealth to access labour without allowing labour to access wealth.
I, for one, am designing an entire production line of guillotines for when our capitalist system finally collapses. And for those in bunkers: a way of discovering air exchangers and all emergency exits so they can be filled with cement to turn bunkers into tombs. We need an effective method of culling sociopaths from our civilization, after all.
Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. “That kills the whole system,” Deeks said.
If insurers are going through extreme lengths to remove AI output from the list of things they will insure, this says everything about its future.
Because nothing says “effective risk management achieved” like an insurer signing off on, or forbidding the insurance of, an entire class of materials.
It’s a canary in a coal mine, like how insurers are now removing any ability for Floridians to insure against hurricanes or sea level rise, despite flat earthers screaming their heads off that climate change is a conspiracy and isn’t real.
(Note: I have seen the term “flat earther” starting to be used as a catch-all term for anyone who vehemently denies reality in spite of copious evidence that shows they are wholly and completely wrong)
Racists gonna be racist. All they need is the colour of a person’s skin.
Finland facepalms furiously in the corner, gesturing vehemently at the homeless solutions it has proven as being wildly successful and undeniably effective
What a great way of identifying racists and other societal undesirables.
Nationalize healthcare. Build a web of regulations that set regional funding on population metrics, prevent government interference, and lock in funding in ways that are impossible to politically interfere with. Use efficiencies of scale to trim the fat at the top even more.
Also make it illegal for any healthcare org to charge the consumer for any essential service, and make it illegal to discriminate where consumers come from. They can only triage based on medically-basedl rules.
That just defeats the IP part of the KVM and in that case you’d better stick with a traditional KVM.
Video cables and USB cables were never designed for a 20m run. Most have difficulties beyond a 2-5m distance.
My servers will be in my basement, at the other end of the house. My C&C machine will be in my office. The entire purpose of remote KVM is such that I don’t have to hoof it all the way down into the basement just to do something quick. Or go back-and-forth if there is something in my office I have to reference while doing the work.
In fact, I suspect that network KVM is exceedingly useful for anyone whose machines are more than five steps away. Even across the room makes a hell of a lot of sense.
You totally misunderstood the comment.
If all the KVM units were on an airgapped system, there is no way to reach those units other than physically sitting down at the C&C workstation that is meant to interface with them and display their output. Because that machine is also on the airgapped network, and is not reachable from the Internet.
It’s no different than a traditional KVM at that point, aside from that C&C machine being anywhere where Ethernet can reach (traditional KVM units being rather distance-constrained).
Now, if you need mobile/off-site access to this system, you put a second NIC into that C&C workstation. First one for the KVM network, the other for world+dog, and then you use a trusted remote-access system to access the C&C workstation, and block it off from anything else on that second Internet-accessible network as best as possible.
I mean, you want secure? Truly secure? Then disassemble all your computers, put each individual part into its own barrel of cement, and then drop each barrel into its own deep-oceanic abyssal trench. THAT is how you get true security.
For everything else, there are reasonable trade-offs that discourage all but nation-state players or people with wrenches.
