#Online backup services for servers

[opendrive134]

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[the-64th-gamer]

I feel like the last year has been a great push for me to slowly detach myself from giant companies and ensure what I do is in my control and ownership

Finally switched over to linux permanently

switched to firefox

enabled adblocker, sponsor blockers, and tracker removers

disabled autoplay and the recommendations sidebar on YouTube (highly highly encourage, though I still keep the homepage open so I can choose when to browse new suggested content rather than it pestering me)

downloaded all my tumblr posts and now host them parallel on my website (stuck here until we find some decentralized way of doing social media right)

cleared out 99% of my online storage to now be on multiple hard-drive backups

downloaded locally all my music

removed myself from basically every data tracking social media platform except this and YouTube

And now currently I'm trying to consolidate all my feeds into just an RSS reader.

It takes a long time and a lot of planning, but its very rewarding to take control over what you want to see, how you see it, how its formatted, ect. I find these are my steps to an easy transition off a certain service:

Download all your data and back it up. Now your account can be deleted at any time with no remorse.

Find browser extensions that enhance and modify the experience to what you might need. Use that to tangibly guide your preferences. Go ahead and remove the app on your phone if its there.

Research every alternative service and try them out. Begin moving certain activity exclusively to the alternative. Take time getting used to it and see if its better to try more alternatives.

Completely jump ship, delete the account, move all feeds or settings over.

Its an ongoing process but there's still probably a few more years of this to go through. Future plans are:

Completely remove all prior emails and self host a new one

Get off Discord entirely except for running the wiki server. It sucks that Discord is so prevalent. Probably move to various forums. Maybe look into some sort of forum management software such as how RSS feeds tame articles and videos into one place.

Setup adblockers directly into my router so ads won't even appear on phones.

Setup my phone to just straight up also run linux. There's a few mobile-designed linux platforms to look into until I decide.

[oldschoolfrp]

Around July 3 at least 32 small wargaming businesses lost their websites to a server crash. Their shared service provider evidently left for a cruise the following day, then later declared that there were no surviving backups. Many small businesses lost access to their business email, purchase histories, and longstanding forums. Some have struggled with little or no income for a month now.

Karwansaray Publishers has been tracking the known affected businesses and providing some alternative contact information on their Wargames Soldiers & Strategy site. The list includes the venerable Hinchliffe Models, Kev White's Hasslefree Miniatures, and many others well known to the wargaming and RPG communities.

Some have come back online with new hosts, but some of those are still rebuilding their stores from scratch. TooFatLardies announced this morning that their store is back up, though they no longer can confirm past PDF purchases for unlimited future downloads. I've been meaning to pick up some of their Lard Magazine PDFs for some skirmish gaming inspiration, so I'm filling up my cart now.

[dibudani]

your 3DS is OFFLINE . . .

(mucho texto below)

On April 8th, 2024, the online services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U were shutdown. This affects online play across all games, and SpotPass, used in apps like Swapdoodle; this renders online-required games unplayable, most notably Nintendo Badge Arcade.

As of the date I'm writing this not aaall online features are unaccessible, Friends List seem to be working, Pokémon Bank is still running, usable for free and compatible with Pokémon Home, and you can download updates and games from the eShop (only if you bought them before the eShop shutdown from March 27th, 2023...), but there's no guarantee those will last much longer.

anyways Pretendo Network is a replacement for Nintendo Network that not only aims to restore online play, but also other abandoned features such as Miiverse and the Wara Wara Plaza.

Setting up Pretendo is pretty easy, there's a guide on its website for both Wii U, 3DS and their respective emulators, and you don't even need modding on Wii U for it to work (with some limitations), but you might as well do it since it's so easy (Wii U modding guide - 3DS modding guide)

Currently Pretendo is in a beta state and active development so it's not really a fully realized replacement yet, but a couple of popular games are supported well enough at the moment, like Mario Kart 7, Splatoon and Super Mario Maker (personally i care more about pokemon gen 6 and mh4u and idk if those will be supported aaaa oh well).

Since this is technically a whole different server, some things don't carry over from you Nintendo Network ID to your Pretendo Network ID, like your badges(you should backup your badges before using Pretendo on 3DS) or your Friends List... so I gotta fill it up again! my new 3DS Friend Code is 3878-6726-5312 and my PNID is dibudani (for Wii U), add me right now !!

"Why is the little wifi guy so happy?" idk. why was toad happy when Club Nintendo was discontinued?

[mariacallous]

Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates the country's main national TV stations, was targeted in a massive cyberattack on Monday that a Ukrainian government source said Kyiv's hackers had caused.

The website of VGTRK, the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, was not loading early on Monday and its Rossiya-24 rolling 24-hours news channel was not available online. "Our state media holding, one of the largest, has faced an unprecedented hacker attack on its digital infrastructure," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, saying VGTRK was working to overcome the consequences. "Specialists are working to find out all the circumstances, to understand where the traces left behind by those who organized this hacker attack on the critical infrastructure object lead." VGTRK’s news channels provide many Russians with news on the war in Ukraine. A Ukrainian government source said Ukrainian hackers were responsible for the incident, which coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday.

Hackers ‘congratulate’ Putin

"Ukrainian hackers 'congratulated' Putin on his birthday by carrying out a large-scale attack on the all-Russian state television and radio broadcasting company," the source told Reuters, asking not to be named.

Russian news outlet Gazeta.ru cited an unnamed source as saying that the cyberattack had targeted the online and internal services of VGTRK, which also owns and operates radio stations and many regional TV channels.

"Online broadcasting and internal services are down and even the Internet and telephony are not working. It's going to take a long time to fix," it quoted the source as saying.

"I heard they (the hackers) wiped everything from the servers, including backups. They've been working in lockdown since six in the morning."

Speaking in Moscow, Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, did not say who was behind the attack but told reporters that Russian media had long been targets for what she called "the collective West" and said what had happened was part of "a hybrid war".

Moscow would raise the cyberattack in all international forums, including at UNESCO, the U.N. agency which promotes freedom of speech, Zakharova said.

[dollsonmain]

I'd rather have been asleep at 1:40am instead of laying there thinking about how uncertain and scared I feel right now, but I was laying there feeling uncertain and scared and realized I have no idea what people that work in offices DO.

I've only worked retail/customer service outside of the military and even while working in an office in the military, I had nothing to do.

At first I was put in one office that didn't need me so they just said "Here... Manage these files." and I was like "..... how, exactly??" and ended up retyping the labels for all of them because some were wrong and there was nothing else for me to do.

Then they gave me the personnel database. I rebuilt it and made it accessible in two days, and that was it. After that, I filled out orders for one person once. The only way I had anything to DO was by becoming the mail clerk which is another customer-facing, cyclically repetitive task that is never done and needs redone in the same way every day. After the mail was done, which took about two hours, I would leave or go sit in my office with nothing to do because the database was my whole job and it was DONE. It wouldn't need changed until the software was updated and that wouldn't be for years.

I had a once-a-week task of making a physical copy of the server which meant going into a closet, popping a tape into a machine, and waiting. I had to sit there with it. There was nothing else to do. I got in trouble for coloring in a coloring book while waiting for the backups to write and I was like "........ What am I SUPPOSED to do, then?????" "Work on the database!" "It's DONE........"

If it's SQL stuff do people sit around until the boss says "Hey, I need to know how much we spent on avocado toast this month." and then whip up a report real quick and wait for the boss to want a report on something else? What about when the boss doesn't need a report?

What do IT people do when things are working smoothly?

I can understand data entry, that would be like "Here we have all these waivers that were signed for the indoor trampoline business and these need plugged into the database manually because the online one was down so they're on paper." or something like that but what about when the online waivers do work what do they do then?

?????

It's like that episode of Seinfeld where George gets an office job but just sits there all day because he has no idea what he's supposed to be doing, no one tells him, and he eventually gets fired because he didn't do anything.

[psycheterminal]

Ask response:

"If you answer this ask (you don't have to), can you block my name? I'd rather be anonymous, but I wanted to ask if you know of any good places to host media like Discord? Or just place where you can leave and label the stuff? Because I have discord servers that contain my own story ideas and pictures to go alongside it, and while I can store it all on a USB, I'd rather have it all in one place where I can access. Sorry, I know I'm not really phrasing this well, but do you know of anywhere you can store ideas, text, pictures, links, etc, that are simple and easy to use? Like I can load it up, log in, or whatever place a picture I have for a certain story full HD, and it stays there forever until I delete it never looses its quality or the text I place can be edited and added to"

My apologies for the inconvenience of not having anon asks on, I got hazed by some people back in the Homestuck days and once was enough. Some people are cruel cowards and I won't subject myself to such harassment again.

There's several. I recommend using multiple sources:

Google Drive. Basic space is free, but it's Google. Storage is at least cheap, if you need more. I won't link this.

Dropbox. The OG online storage backup. Cheap.

OwnCloud. It's simple to get up and running. There's a cool markdown text app called qownnotes that can hook into this, too!

Github and its competitors. You can make a repository with all your stuff and folders, mark it private.

Use a wiki service. There's a few FOSS wiki solutions! DON'T USE FANDOM!!

Neocities. If you pay 5$ a month, you're doing a good deed and you can make your own funky website, too.

Archive Of Our Own, aka Ao3 for your text. You can set it to only you can see it! If you have hosting space, you can actually fork the software for it! It's an archive! It's what it's for! It has an original work section!

BACK UP YOUR STUFF LOCALLY! Big local storage has gotten way, way more affordable. You can get a 2 tera solid state external drive for under 120 dollars, a spinny disk external drive for under 70$. If you don't want to use Amazon, check out Best Buy or a local computer shop for options.

You're most likely gonna use money. I know money's really, really tight for a lot of people and the situation just plain sucks. I can't do much but offer options for people to ponder.

My recommendation is to back up your stuff to a physical location, and to rent online storage space with multiple vendors. If you don't mind using google for now, use both GDrive and Dropbox for simplicity. If you don't mind doing more and learning some things, use Dropbox with OwnCloud, and post your text to Ao3.

I do NOT recommend Imgur for photo backup.

I do NOT recommend Apple services unless you already have an iPhone/Mac device.

[squishylemonbubbles]

anyway not to be smug or anything but outages (server-side and otherwise) as well as fic deletion are the reasons i am an avid fanfic downloader. the option is available on every fic as far as i'm aware, coming in a few different formats. pdf works nice, so does epub if you've got something like calibre.

just because it's online now, you can't assume it will be forever. like i know the slogan "everything that's online is out there forever" exists but that depends on copies being made and passed around.

i don't know if the wayback machine is allowed to pull from ao3, but even if it is, i would highly doubt there's a copy of literally every single uploaded fanfic. plus, even the wayback machine can go down, and i'd argue it's important to let it be more than just a fanfiction backup.

so if you'd be devastated to lose the chance to read it, save it yourself (when the site is available, obviously). it's free, there's a button right there for it at the top of the page.

if you're on a mobile device that just takes you into a separate page with the file, but doesn't download it automatically, you can do that yourself by hitting the little "share" arrow (or whatever it is on your device) and from there you should see options to save it to your downloads, to a cloud service of choice, etc.

[opendrive134]

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[dipta-d]

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[managedserversus]

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[digitaldetoxworld]

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[jeveashley]

5 key Trends in INFORMATION and COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

In today's ever-changing technological landscape, staying current on the latest trends is critical for both individuals and businesses. These patterns influence how we communicate, connect, and complete tasks in both our personal and professional lives. The following are five key trends in ICT that are making waves now, along with examples to demonstrate their significance.

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Examples:

- Smartphones: Combine various functions like calling, browsing, and photography.

- Smart TVs: Integrate television with internet browsing and streaming services.

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Examples:

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5. CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud computing has transformed how we store, access, and manage data. Users can utilize remote servers hosted on the internet to store data and access apps from anywhere in the globe. This tendency has resulted in enhanced productivity, scalability, and collaboration, particularly in the corporate sphere.

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These developments demonstrate ICT's dynamic nature and tremendous impact on our lives. These trends, whether they improve connectivity, enable accessibility, or revolutionize data management, are altering the future of technology in previously imagined ways. Staying educated and flexible to these trends will be critical to success in the digital age.

Passed by: JEVE ASHLEY C. SUAGA

[spnfanficpond]

Weekly Pond Newsletter

The third "airaversary" of the last episode of the show is coming up, and here at the Pond, we're working hard to stay in denial about that! Nothing on Supernatural ever really dies, and since Supernatural happened on Supernatural, we figure that goes doubly hard for the show! So, everything's fine! We're fine! It's all fine!!

Old Business:

Secret Santa 2023 - Signups are open! If you like to both give and receive fabulous fanfics, then this fic exchange is right up your alley. You fill out the form, and we match you up with someone compatible with you based on your and their answers. Click here for more info on how to get involved! Click here to see last year’s masterlist!

October's Angel Fish Awards - The post finally went up! Click here to see all the fabulous fics that were nominated! Remember, we accept nominations all the time, but the deadline for entries into the raffle is the end of each month. Click here for details about how to participate!

SPN Rewatch: Fanfic Edition - We had another great chat, this time about episodes 1.05 Bloody Mary and 1.06 Skin. We also added a few new thematic docs to The Archive, like Dean is a giant nerd and No chick-flick moments. Links to thematic docs are at the bottom of the masterlist! (Some of the new docs are still under construction, but help with construction is always welcome! All of the docs in the Archive are set in suggestion mode so anyone can add to them!)

Last week's #TweetFicTues prompts -

New Business:

Fishing For Treasures - Next weekend is FFT weekend here at the Pond! November's theme is Gen fics! No romance here! Fics can have pairings, but the main plot of the story can not be the romantic relationship of the pairing. Click here for more information!

#CreationHON - Next weekend is also the Hawaii convention weekend! If you're attending the convention and want to find fellow Pondies to meet up with, we have a channel for that in our Discord server!

Expanding our reach -

We've heard the rumblings about Automattic stopping all but maintenance services to Tumblr and how this will spell the end of the Tumblr platform. We've also been very aware that Twitter is also dying, it's just taking its sweet time about it. Since these and our Discord server are the only platforms we're on, it seems like we might need to branch out to another platform. Please fill out this super short survey to let us know what other platforms you use and what platform you think might be best for us. We will stay on Tumblr until the lights go out, but it's never a bad idea to have a backup. Let us know what you think!

(Divider by @glygriffe!)

That's all for this week! To see all Pond events, and also other SPN-related things like conventions and online concerts, check out our Google calendar! Click here for a static view in Eastern US/Canada time (desktop only, no mobile app access, sadly), and click here to add our calendar to your own Google calendar! We try to keep it as up to date as possible. If there's something you want to see on the calendar that's not there (maybe a convention we missed, or cast birthdays, or something similar), send us an ASK and let us know!

Hope you have a great week! - From your Admins and Manta Rays, @manawhaat, @mrswhozeewhatsis, @mariekoukie6661, @thoughtslikeaminefield, @katbratsupernaturalwhore and @heavenssexiestangel!

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While I don't have a wii u, I played luigi's mansion dark moon online with 3 others around the world, we all stood together for a photo by making luigi smile, we spammed Hey! Hey! (i didn't have space on my phone for a photo though, but I written down everything to hopefully make a drawing with their usernames for each luigi color varient they were to capture that moment) and we all spammed "thank you very much!" Before servers didn't let us in on the final floor. 3ds network's closed earlier than splatoon but I watched Jaymoji and Dude play splatoon in the last hours, and then someone else plsy until the thing actually ended-ended for good.

I was someone who won a wii u for my summer camp (and it was a trivia that was based on things i'm knowledgeable about) and they had a backup incase I wasn't there. I didn't get to keep the extra one, nor the one I won, but it had splatoon on it. I got to play it now and then,but never splatfests. So I participated by watching them online, and hoping my team won. I didn't get to play it too much because everyone else wanted to play mario kart and smash bros. :'3

Splatoon 2 may be my home since I played it most (but I only got to play repeatfests and the mushroom vs star fesr), and Dark moon's getting a remake:

Splatoon 1 and Dark moon on the 3ds were something so magical to experience. Yes there's pretendo but I waiting on a new 3ds to hack since mine has personal photos I want to download and print before I hack anything. I hope to also get a wii u and participate in the pretendo fests, you don't need to hack anything to play wii u's pretendo service.

But still. That magic of being there in that moment. Both games mean so much to me.

ALL OF THAT IS SO SWEET~!!!

That's one of the magical parts of these games, so many people experience them in different ways, everyone has their own stories for how they were introduced to these things, and I find that it makes everything that much more special!