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.

Backups… fine

When’s the World “test you can restore” day?

Ok, didn’t think about “unlimited” actually being slower - thanks for the insight.

I’m running a pfSense f/w at the edge, so split horizon DNS and haproxy are already sorted… I’ll check out wireguard - should be straight forward

Thanks

I’m considering going this route - just to hide my (static) home IP.

What’s the rough sizing I’d need for a VPS? I’m guessing the smallest possible, but with the best / unlimited data usage?

🤯 I can generally follow the gist of that, but, wow, how the hell do these people work this stuff out

Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?

Or install Linux 👍🏻

Dunno how long you’ve been online, but you should’ve seen searching before Google came along… it’s still better now.

But, there was not much tracking back then…

+2 for the “coffee with ex-colleagues”… that’s how to really open doors.

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know

A friend almost got a new position created (for me) in a company that wasn’t even hiring!

Yeah, it’s a weird concept that I’m not sure how I feel about it…

On the one hand, I’m paying towards something which makes cleaning the ocean more cost effective

On the other hand, when I’m done with the shoes… do I… burn them?

Depends… if you use an offline password manager ( like keepass), you can ask it to autotype your credentials into anything… if that’s what you ask it to do (ie it’s not a fault)

Main point though: don’t reuse the same credentials across different sites.

They’ll get 1 site, but not all the rest of them…

Was that the one with the vertical task bar that couldn’t be changed??

Or is it better now…?

Proton VPN for Vivaldi is only available for desktop at the moment. We hope to include it for mobile in the future. https://vivaldi.com/protonvpn/

1. Agreed
2. Well, if it’s the free tier option, then I guess not a lot…?

I’m all for revenue income to support these tools - as long as I’m not the product - I just won’t be using this option.

Yeah, just read a bit more, where it’s implied that Vivaldi recommend you share your Vivaldi account recovery with Proton, which was the problem recently:

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/proton-vpn-for-vivaldi/

Allow Vivaldi to share your account’s recovery email address with Proton (only shown during first use).

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/vivaldi_proton_vpn/

Proton VPN is operated by the same company behind the encrypted email service, Proton Mail. The business found itself in hot water in 2024 after complying with a legal request to hand over the recovery email address for a Proton Mail account.

Hmm… this doesn’t sound good to me.

Yeah, I gave it a try and gotta admit, I really wasn’t sure what I was looking at when the results came back.

Reminds me of old 90’s search engines before Google (the good one, before it went evil) reinvented how a search engine should return results.

I’ll keep with them for a while as I believe in their goal (I installed the addon… not sure what it does…) but it’s a tough sell to anyone else at the moment…

Yeah, but -54DegC?! Minus fifty four!

Does it really get that cold in Finland?

LOL

Yeah, backups… Ok, cool, I’d not looked at Hetzner storage boxes. Thanks

I know this is a little off topic, but what’s a good alternative to Backblaze?

I actually think BB are doing good things, ie with their harddrive reports, etc. But, still, I’d like to consider somewhere more local for my data…

Aha! This is the way.

I tend to reply with “Hi” at the end of my day when they’ve gone offline.

Tomorrow, I’ll either get the real question, or, it goes another day… they’ll learn… eventually