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Earlier this month, the RTBU said its workers had intended to refuse to work only on coal and mineral trains, and the government had extended cancellations to passenger services.

That sounds suspiciously like the government exacerbating the situation so they can get the public to put pressure on the unions.

Pretty damn cool, which is what the temp was this morning. 14 degrees, yuck.

You're thinking of wearing a beanie tomorrow, aren't you? 😐

Oh yeah, I'm old as shit.

RIP me 💀

I've been using rsync and cron as a backup for like... 20+ years? Always had n+1 hard disks, with one accessed read only by a script that writes a copy to another drive once a day. I've got files from circa-2000 still floating around so the system has been working...

But figured it was time for a deduplicating setup since my data is blowing out a bit. After some trial and error have opted for Duplicacy. Back up running on my home server, and pushing the chunks to my work server (read: server at my workshop as opposed to "work server" as such). Went with a 20:2 erasure coding for that par2-esque bitrot protection.

Somewhat worried since using a program to maintain archives means you rely on that program existing 5ever, and not corrupting anything.... but I figure unraid with 2 parity drives is pretty resilient in terms of hardware failure, and I'm already using Crashplan for remote backups so I've got a fallback.

By homelab standards, I am a very small fish. I just prefer not to delete stuff.

My Dell setup is all second hand enterprise gear I bought just before the price rises. Dual Xeons and 512GB of RAM which burns a lot of power and has approximately 800% more computing power than I need. But it is fun to watch the blinking lights.

My other setup is made up from old PC hardware I had laying around. Basically just collected the case that best suited lots of hard disks, the highest rated PSU, the best matching sticks of RAM etc... Probably should have cleaned the case out properly in hindsight. Because its all SATA / SSD / NVME it actually draws basically nothing. The spinny drives all shut down when not in use - which is most of the time. The SSD cache has more than enough space to keep up with daily activities.

Started a back up running on my main storage drive last night.

It started "indexing" around 9pm. It is now 9am and still hasnt finished reading all the files. Pretty sure its around 10TB or so from last time I ran du. File count would probably be in the millions somewhere because there's a healthy mix of documents, photos, videos.

My photography drive backup is currently running - ETA to completion 15 days at 50MBps.

Initial seed was always going to suck. Should be fast to keep up to date though.

Well, this will certainly be interesting. Prosecuting a Jewish person for anti-Semitism? What's the charge? Stop hitting yourself?

I love when you bust Gemini (or similar) telling you porkies and its like "haahhah oh yeah, I made up that up, sorry".

I wish you could set the confidence level for stuff. Like for tech projects where you just want it to read the equivalent of man <application> and then make it so you can ask questions in natural language I want it to be 100% confident of the answer because it exists in the documentation, not made up because reasons.

The strait of delosgutz is well and truly open by the sounds

It involves Brisbane now that you've created a second hole in the ozone layer directly above us

I think its like the dunny rolls during covid... If there's a temporary reduction in availability but people compound it by panic buying, it exagerates the scarcity to the point where it affects pricing.

I'm sure PHON and LNP are pissed that its come down a bit. Whinging about how "Albo" isnt doing anything about fuel prices was about their biggest marketing ploy and now its gone.

Sushi train for Sunday dinner - karate chicken is best chicken