World Backup Day
World Backup Day
Be prepared against data loss and data theft. March 31st is the day to backup and better protect your data.World Backup Day
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Imapsync - Installation and use
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You can remap IMAP source folder to destination folder. It's very likely that sent folder needs to be remapped between different hosts.
I suggest you to use the dry-run option and examine the log to see if the folders are correctly mapped.
More in detail, I created an user just to run imapsync as a good practice in Linux.
Then downloaded imapsync in a subfolder of the user home directory, created two very simple scripts, one with the imapsync command with all the parameters I needed and one for the token.
Lastly, using crontab -e, I added two entry one for each script.
You don't need to put imapsync into etc, it is not a binary and, as far as I know, there is no package that you can install with a package manager, it's just a script that you download and execute. Anyway, where you put that, its up to you.
Yeah I did some dry runs and the folders maoped but I think its something about the labels .. Ill dig further.
That info about running via cron is really useful.
Co-op Group pledges to price-match Aldi on 100 essentials
Co-op Group pledges to price-match Aldi on 100 essentials - Co-operative News
Co-op Group launches price pledge and extends home shopping partnership with Uber Eats as it looks to grow its membership to 8 millionMiles Hadfield (Co-operative News)
NZ Herald owner NZME reveals talks to buy Stuff newspapers
NZ Herald owner NZME reveals talks to buy Stuff newspapers
Those talks have now been paused due to a board takeover bid at NZME, the stock exchange has been told.RNZ News (RNZ)
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Reddit Plans To Lock Some Content Behind a Paywall This Year, CEO Says - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit is planning to introduce a paywall this year, CEO Steve Huffman said during a videotaped Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Thursday.tech.slashdot.org
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Import from Instagram has been re-enabled!
We're working on improving support for older archives, with our update expected next week!
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Repairs on bears and much more
www.guardianonline.co.nz/news/repairs-on-bears-and-much-more
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Foundations laid for new Aviation museum
www.guardianonline.co.nz/news/foundations-laid-for-new-aviation-museum
The new and improved Ashburton Aviation Museum is well underway, with the foundations set to be finished by February.Building committee chairperson Owen Moore said a bit more money has come into the bank, which has been welcome.“We were initially just…
Foundations laid for new Aviation museum
The new and improved Ashburton Aviation Museum is well underway, with the foundations set to be finished by February. Building committee chairperson Owen Moore said a bit more money has come into the bank, which has been welcome.Daisy Hudson (Ashburton Guardian)
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Today in 1974, 51 years ago: in Shaanxi (China), a farmer discovers part of a red-baked clay warrior. It is the beginning of the most important discovery of the century for China, this humble peasant discovers in his lands, the tip of the iceberg of the Terracotta Warriors.
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@RaccoonForFriendica I'm seeing a lot of new users from Google Play's statistics, even if the app is not yet in the production channel. Welcome everyone, I hope you'll enjoy #friendica and #raccoonforfriendica!
Thanks to all the translators who continued to work on the app UI and store description, your dedication is really appreciated. @Fitik @Cătă @TamilNeram @Ricky-Tigg
To old users, I've added two new big features: swipe navigation which allows you to navigate between posts from the conversation detail and the "shortcuts" section, where you can explore other instances and see their local timeline "as if" your were registered there. Plus, as usual, small fixes and enhancements listening to your continuous feedback.
Have a nice weekend and #livefasteattrash
#friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject
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I think it's a "feel" issue more than a "functional" issue. I went to double check but the app is just stopping on me. Might be my phone''s being difficult.
I think the account switch is maybe a bit too far out of the way to be readily available. The menu opens up to access the account dropdown, and then you switch to the other account and the menu stays there.
My first thought is that switching to the account should acknowledge the change and then retract the menu. It took me a while to guess my way into swiping the menu to the side to dismiss it.
I was able to switch between Friendica and Mastodon well enough, but maybe there's a way to float that switch up to the top a bit more.
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@xinit ok I'll add a message in a snackbar to acknowledge that the change has happened and close the side menu.
You can also switch the account from your profile screen using the top right button, even in that case I'll add a snackbar when the change happens.
Thanks for explaining it to me.
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Bluetooth chat app for flights
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The last session of Day One of #fluConf2025 will be @coopcloud's
"Co-op Cloud: Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federation"
fluconf.online/sessions/co-op-…
hosted as a livestream via their cooperatively operated Owncast instance, starting in 15 minutes (at 18:00 UTC)
Co-op Cloud: Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federation
FluConf 2025 contributor profile for Calixfluconf.online
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Russian language Satellite TV
I think its great that independent media is available via satellite tv for Russian speakers. My thought - Should we be including a rqnge of russian language entertainment in those packages to attract audiences?
denisdiderot.net/svoboda-packa…
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That is a fair point, I see where you are coming from and I agree on a abstract level.
I guess it's more that I personally don't believe the majority of russian want to change. Platitudes about "peace with Ukraine, but also we continue to occupy 20% of your country and continue to eradicate Ukrainian culture/language/identity) in the occupied terroritories" notwithstanding.
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Sure.. so you need to work away at changing minds which never really works if you are just yelling at people.
I think the opportunity is to demonstrate that Sat TV could be the space (sic) where people.might prefer to go to get away from wall to wall news.
I think this article is an interesting read...ridl.io/how-the-war-changed-ru… and a quote "Some entertainment and infotainment programs were removed from the broadcast schedule." - That is something that external broadcasters could fill.
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I am not arguing against this initiative and to be honest I support it even though I don't believe in it. I am just sharing my own perspective and it's not meant to be a critique of this post (even if it comes off that way). FWIW, I upvoted this post after reading the linked page.
I don't believe there is any point in engaging with russians (be it yelling at them or any kind of dialogue revolving around what I see as platitudes). This is not because they are inherently bad or incapable of change or anything like that. They are very much capable of change, not to mention that framing their behaviour in essentialist terms in many ways allows them to avoid responsibility.
Based on the facts on the ground, the lack of information is not relevant when discussing broad support for genocidal imperialism among russians. They are adults, they full well understand that invading another country, annexing their territories and enforcing their language and culture is wrong. The stuff about "nazis in Ukraine" and NATO/BATO expansion is all a ruse and the russians who promote such polemics know this.
For someone to change their mind, there has to be some sort of driver or incentive. Ethical and humanist arguments cannot change minds when a strong majority (at the very least) of the population explicitly endorses and supports a genocidal imperialist position (while also engaging in duplicitous messaging in order to whitewash their crimes in context of the world at large).
One has to be honest with russians and explicitly tell them their ruse is not going to work. That they will be treated as genocidal imperialists until they change their behaviour (end of occupation, extradition of all russians involved in war crimes, compensation for all killings and damage). Tell them that they are welcome to play the victim, lie about russophobia or support putin or do whatever; they will be treated based on their actions. If you do evil things, you will be treated as evil people, no one is buying your lies.
Now you might say this approach is unreasonable, unrealistic or lacking in pragmatism. To that I will answer; look at it from a more long term perspective. Over the last 110 years, 16 nations have de jure liberated themselves from the yoke of russian imperialism (I am not even counting Warsaw Pact countries). Reagan took an explicit position (evil empire) and lo and behold, the USSR did collapse.
I simply don't believe the vast majority of russians have any interest in changing their views (based on ethical arguments). They know what they are doing is wrong and they still support it. They need real incentives to change their tune.
Regarding the BBC article, I will point out that the Nazi regime was defeated by military force. Denazification was implemented via multi-decade allied occupation aimed at limiting any hint of revanchism both via positive initiatives such as the marshal plan and long term education initiatives. Unfortunately, this is not viable when it comes to russians.
Like I said earlier, this just my opinion and I do think it's a well meaning initiative. I would be glad to be wrong regarding the above-mentioned arguments.
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Using Aurora Store to access Apps in other regions
Of course I prefer to use #Fdroid but for some apps I would love to be able to access a few apps that for silly reasons have been restricted to Google Account in other regions. (I Travel often)
Is it possible to use #aurorastore to access these apps? If so - how?
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That seems to be available on APKPure, which I've used in the past without any apparent issues. Keep in mind third-party APK websites like this can be used to distribute malware, although my searching hasn't found any incriminating evidence against APKPure. Proceed at your own risk according to your acceptable threat-level.
Also, this is just for my own curiosity, why do you want a Spanish grocery store's app if you're not in Spain? 😅
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in reply to CosmicTurtle0 • • •If you're doing incremental backups it should be nearly instant if nothing changes. But yea ignoring garbage like cache is always nice
I don't consider it excessive since stuff like rsync -a --inplace --delete on a giant directory will be nearly instant if nothing changed, even with terabytes of data (of smallish files) since it isn't going to copy anything except changed things.
borg used to have an issue where it took forever even with nothing changed but it looks like it is mostly fixed so not an issue now. I moved to restic backup years ago though (which is basically borg without those issues) also proxmox has the proxmox backup server that does similar for all the vps/containers
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in reply to GrumpyDuckling • • •Sorry to be that guy but replicating / syncing isn't really backing up.
You need snap shots or versioning.
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in reply to 486 • • •Backups... fine
When's the World "test you can restore" day?
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in reply to irmadlad • • •Yep, hence my comment...
You should see the fear on people's faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.
My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.
That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies... if needed.
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in reply to 486 • • •In a life before a TBI and subsequent seizure condition robbed me of a functioning brain, I actually ran the IT dept for a company which I worked for as a mech eng, estimator, designer, and project manager. This one gentleman who was a field super and his wife had been trying for years to have a child. They finally did after many miscarriages and rough times, and as you can imagine, they took so many pictures of their baby. He called me one day in a panic about his computer and so I rushed over to his house. Long story short, his HDD had suffered a major crash for whatever reason, and everything was gone. No backups of his baby pictures, nothing. I sent the HDD off to see what could be recovered, but apparently it everything was toast.
Even tho it wasn't my pictures, it hurt me to my core, that all these pictures and memories this man and his wife had accumulated, were gone forever. It really did a number on me and I think about it from time to time even tho that has been decades ago.
Make backups folks. It might take you the better part of a Saturday afternoon to get everything backed up and secure, but do it anyways.
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in reply to irmadlad • • •Yes, and keep a copy offsite! A good friend’s house burned down in the recent Eaton Canyon fire. He and his family lost absolutely everything. Photos, letters, memorabilia — the story of their lives. A devastating loss. He had plenty of backups, but none stored elsewhere and the ones in his house were also thoroughly toasted. Friends are working to find copies of photos, but that is just a fraction of what was lost.
It isn’t hard to do backups, just a chore. I by a thumb drive every few months. A few terabytes is not too expensive and it is small. I backup to it and mail it to a family member. I know it is safe. Daily backups are better but more cumbersome. I back up weekly to hosted disk drives at a small Internet service provider.
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in reply to David J. Atkinson • • •Right, and since now we have devices that can store thousands of pictures and data, and SSD cards that do the same, people tell themselves, maybe later, later, later until later catches up with you and you loose everything. It's been at the end of last year, but my lady friend was riding my ztr and her phone fell out of her pocket. Next thing I saw was iphone bits blasting out from under the mower deck. Now luckily, I am very fastidious at backing up her phone, but shit happens and I've always been one who adhered to the 3-2-1 rule. In fact, on my daily driver computers, the only thing that is on their HDD is the OS, and maybe a app or two that I wanted to check out. They really are like thin clients. Otherwise, everything goes to storage and that is backed up daily.
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in reply to 486 • • •Eh, I'm not sure if the world can be picked backup, it's been knocked down pretty hard. I'm always down for trying though.
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