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Troika! Hello from a friend in London :)

How is it different to pip-chill[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/rbanffy/pip-chill

You took the words from my mouth :) Selling tents to clueless SV customers with disposable cash, with a not-so-veiled promise they can rent them out on Airbnb.

It's the lime scooters of "housing": no permits, no safety, lawless, convenient, short-sighted.

The guru guy, and his tasteless leveraging of someone's personal tragedy to his own grift is incredibly out of touch – provided even that is not made up.

We use a loose version of it in my small company.

It helps with two things: - 1. A little easier to be consistent across projects so not to reinvent the wheel every time - 2. The prefix increments as new folders are added during a project, painting a convenient picture of “progress” as things move along.

We tend to have: 10 to 19 reserved for admin stuff, like Admin, Incoming, Outgoing, Documentation, Meeting notes, etc.

Then anything from 20 onwards is ad-hoc per project

We also timestamp children of Incoming and Outgoing, with an ISO prefix. This is very useful to keep track of what was received and shared and when.

Overall the goal is to have as little protocol as possible to prevent total chaos. Anything more than that is usually too much to ask or doesn’t stick longer than a single project.

  10. Admin
  11. Incoming
    2023-10-12 sender, subject
  12. Outgoing
    2023-09-01 Estimate
  13. Documentation
  20. Design
  30. Production
  40. Blah

I say FruitMaster

We use and swear by Opalstack.com, which is made by some of the same peeps that worked for the may-as-well-be-defunct Webfaction.

Full SSH access, generous limits, very active community.

Their engineering prowess is also demonstrated by their website’s butter-smooth scrolling performance. /s

I was looking for discussions mentioning this app on HN, but didn’t find any. I am not affiliated with it, just thought I’d bring it to the community’s attention as I have been using for more than a year with my NAS, remotely over SFTP. It is a rare example of a very well thought through application, thoroughly executed: all it does is transfer photos to or from my devices and any thinkable destination. Highly configurable.

Like I suppose many of us, I had a conversation with an artist friend about this very topic. They are concerned about it. Some of the generated results are impressive and surely can sufficiently replace some subset of the current human output.

But! Seeing DALL-E artwork from a bird’s eye view, I am more and more convinced that it’s just another tool, not a replacement: It is amazing good at producing unexpected results, and just like GPT3, it does so by regurgitating what is already out there, remixing it in somewhat interesting ways. This is an especially useful tool to quickly produce mood boards, or communicate an artistic intent. However it is not a replacement for the kind of thinking required to produce good artwork.

I was moved by the message on the last GH release for Meld macOS. So tragic and sad, and I will pray for your brother Youssef.

  Dedicated to Osama
  If you use this software, please pray for my brother.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111375038/osama-abu-kwaik-was-a-refugee-born-to-an-orphan-who-died-in-christchurch-the-city-he-loved

https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases/tag/osx-19

We must have met then. Hi! Cesar was studying with me in London (RCA) and Tokyo was our “school trip” that year.

Reminded me a lot of Animal Superpowers by Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada (2007) https://chriswoebken.com/ANIMAL-SUPERPOWERS

Kenichi's Wide Eyes: https://web.archive.org/web/20180223030034/http://www.kenich...

And lastly, Meiwa Denki, a Japanese artist and performer who made some beautiful head+eye gear experiments on a similar vein, which I had the fortune to try in his Tokyo studio back in 2008… but can't find any online reference for :/

True, a for a good part it is that "maybe" that makes me (and others) do it, but I can see how it's akin to choosing not to make a choice. There's a tangible cost to this however… which is manifested quite clearly in this very comment thread.

All I am saying — to myself mostly — is that to learn to be OK with skipping a few beats when it comes to archiving digital artefacts is just as important as the archival strategy.

On the one hand, I find myself aligned with many ideas exposed here. On the other hand I fight myself constantly to avoid keeping too much around, or to prevent the archiving process from becoming more important than the archived material itself.

Unlike others I ended up consolidating everything into a big dumb set of folders on my NAS just because it’s cognitively easier to keep track of than a smattering of online services.

But then again… what is worth keeping, really? How often do we go back to old photos? How often do we need a 10y old bank statement? How hard is it to redownload some film or music?

The menu is not fixed for me, it scrolls with the rest. It’s just permanently “expanded” as a vertical stack, but perhaps that’s intentional. (iOS latest, iPhone 8)

Like many others in this thread, I have been using alias-to-subdomain remapping with Fastmail since time immemorial. Having this trick automated to some degree can be convenient for less geeky or fastidious users than I :)

Other than thinning my online identity to make any assumed attempts at correlation harder, in a couple of cases over the years I had the pleasure to "Gotcha!" companies selling (or losing) their users' email addresses. In other cases I also received unrelated spam on addresses as a result of undisclosed or less-publicised security breaches.

I found NextDNS to be relatively convenient and easy to set up even for a lay audience. Definitely easier than a PiHole or a custom `dnsmasq` setup, and it offers mobile configuration client apps.

What I do not know is if it will work also when apps begin using DNS over HTTPS… I suppose not?

My approach these days:

1. Hot live data on my laptop.

2. Archive dir on NAS.

It’s either 1 or 2, no overlap.

Then:

1. Backup whole laptop to USB bootable drive “when I fancy”.

2. Backup home dir to NAS using duplicacy. This is accessible via SFTP, so it works no matter where I am.

3. Backup the Archive dir of the NAS to cheap cloud storage.

Ideally I should add an external drive for the NAS to backup #3 locally, too.