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selfhosted·Selfhostedbynamelivia

Making sure restic backups are right

I am quite worried about losing information and not being able to recover it from the backups, so I am trying to nail the best automated way to make sure the backups are good.

Restic comes with a check command, that according to the documentation here has this two "levels":

  • Structural consistency and integrity, e.g. snapshots, trees and pack files (default)
  • Integrity of the actual data that you backed up

In plain words, I understand this as: The data you uploaded to the repository is still that data.

Now my question is, do you think this is enough to trust the backups are right? I was thinking about restoring the backup in a temporary location and running diff on random files to check the files match the source, but I don't know if this is redundant now.

How do you make sure you can trust your backups?

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selfhosted·Selfhostedbynamelivia

App Idea: Location History

I like the fact that my Android phone records my location timeline from Google Maps, but the fact that this is stored in Google servers creeps me out.

I know you can download the entire location history database from Google so I was planning on building a custom app to store and browse this data.

I was also curious if there would be the possibility of making the phone send locations to this app instead of Google, but I don't know much about Android and I don't know if this would be possible.

What do you think about it? Is there already an app like this? Do you think this is a good idea?

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retrogaming·RetroGamingbynamelivia

Disney Renaissance. Was it for videogames too?

When I was a kid, during the 90s I lived what it is considered the Disney Renaissance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Renaissance

And I was wondering if this was happening with Disney videogames as well. Some very high quality games came to my mind, like Aladdin and The Lion King for 16 bits consoles, Hercules for the PS1? And so.

Do you think there was an equivalent to Disney Renaissance un games during the 90s? And if so, what games would define it?

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fediverse·Fediversebynamelivia

Why so many POST requests?

I've been running my self-hosted one user Pleroma (like Mastodon) instance. When I discovered Lemmy I started following some communities from it and also posted some comments.

Since then lemmy.ml makes one request per second to my /inbox url.

Can someone who knows ActivityPub explain why is necessary one request per second always? What are all these POST requests for?

On top of that, is there any way to tell a server or a relay to stop sending information to my inbox? Like if for example I followed someone in that server, but I don't follow them anymore, is there any way to tell the remote server to stop? If I start returning a 403 or something like that will it stop?

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fediverse·Fediversebynamelivia

Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey—I'm just going to use "Mastodon" as shorthand here; purists can bite me) for over a year now and have been doing so full time for about six months, following Elon Musk buying Twitter (since on principle, I decline to give Elon Musk money or attention). This latter part coincided with the "November 2022 influx," when lots of new people joined Mastodon for similar reasons. A lot of that influx has not stuck around. Everyone is very aware at this point that active user numbers of Mastodon have dropped off a cliff...

What do you think about this article? Have you perceived anything similar?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-outOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
madrid·Madridbynamelivia

La agonía de los bajos de Argüelles: de ser el mayor punto de bares 'heavys' de Europa a quedar sólo seis

En este artículo se describe la decadencia de los bajos de Argüelles, un lugar que solía ser el epicentro de la escena heavy metal en Madrid.

Antiguamente, este enclave albergaba una gran cantidad de bares y atraía a visitantes de todo el mundo que querían experimentar la concentración más grande de garitos heavys de Europa. Sin embargo, a lo largo de los años, estos locales han ido cerrando gradualmente, transformándose en lugares que reproducen éxitos actuales o simplemente cerrando sus puertas.

Actualmente, solo quedan seis bares heavys en funcionamiento. Los propietarios de estos establecimientos lamentan la disminución de la asistencia a conciertos y la caída en la facturación, especialmente agravada por la pandemia de COVID-19. Además, señalan que las nuevas generaciones no muestran tanto interés en el heavy metal como antes, lo que contribuye a la incertidumbre sobre el futuro de los bajos de Argüelles.

A pesar de esto, algunos dueños de bares prometen mantener viva la esencia heavy hasta el final, mientras otros temen que la gentrificación y los conflictos con los turistas que se alojan en la zona puedan causar problemas en el futuro.

https://www.elespanol.com/madrid/sociedad/20230628/agonia-bajos-arguelles-mayor-punto-bares-heavys-europa-quedar-solo/774672995_0.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world