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Budget: investir pour un cadre de vie sain, plutôt que de se restreindre sans solutionner
La France n'a jamais eu un PIB aussi haut. Donc nous n'avons jamais été aussi riches. Et pourtant, ces 20 dernières années, nous vivons de plus en plus mal. Que ce soit les catastrophes que nous avons commencé à subir (incendies, inondations, canicules...) et qui ne vont que s'accentuer avec le changement climatique, les problèmes de santé avec en tête le cancer et l'infertilité, dus à notre environnement de vie de plus en plus toxique (pas un mois ne passe sans un nouveau scandale, du thon au mercure au PFAS en passant par l'eau naturelle contaminée, la réintroduction des pesticides, etc, etc) et à un quotidien déprimant et un futur sans espoir (plus de 10 millions de personnes prennent des antidépresseurs en France !!!), tout va dans la mauvaise direction. Le 1er objectif de l'État, son rôle majeur, sa raison d'être, est de protéger sa population, de lui offrir un cadre de vie sain. Et on aimerait nous faire croire que réduire les investissements, les normes, les aides, c'est la solution ?
Cela revient à grimper sur un tabouret quand une inondation arrive, au lieu de construire une barque. Ça prend moins de temps et moins de bois, ça marche un temps, et puis on boit la tasse.
La solution est d'investir massivement, maintenant, pour nous adapter et nous protéger. Dans les énergies renouvelables, dans la remise en état de nos logements, mais aussi dans une agriculture durable, et surtout dans notre éducation, à tous les âges. Cela donnera des citoyens mieux capables d’appréhender les enjeux de notre monde, cela créera de l'emploi et donc permettra à terme de réduire notre dette (puisqu'apparemment c'est ce qui effraie tout le monde si fort), mais surtout, cela donnera espoir à nous toutes et tous, qui ne comprenons absolument plus pourquoi nous devrions trimer tous les jours pour "gagner" de quoi survivre alors même que le fruit de notre travail ne fait que dégrader toujours plus notre environnement et donc notre cadre de vie en enrichissant toujours plus quelques hommes déconnectés du monde, là-haut.
Mr Bayrou, faire des efforts, oui, mais pour rendre nos vies plus saines et belles, certainement pas pour maintenir un système qui détruit notre monde chaque jour un peu plus, au profit de quelques uns.
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ICSPWI Call For Mobilization On The Occasion Of Martyrs’ Week 2025 In India
The ICSPWI (International Committee to Support the People’s War in India) calls on MLM organizations and parties, all communist organizations and parties, revolutionaries, progressives, and sincere democrats, to mobilize in support of the People’s War in India and its leading party, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), on the occasion of Martyrs’ Week 2025 (July 28th – August 3rd).
The blood shed by the Indian revolutionary martyrs who fell for the New Democratic Revolution in India, the first step towards Socialism and Communism, must be honored: it is the blood shed by our comrades who are ready for the ultimate sacrifice to free India from the semi-feudal and semi-colonial yoke and from bureaucratic capitalism in the service of imperialism.
India is not only the largest country in the world, with approximately 1.5 billion people, but it is also the country ruled by Modi’s Hindutva (fascism with Hindu characteristics) regime and the main bastion of Yankee imperialism as well as the main supporter of the Zionist regime in South Asia and the world.
The Indian revolution (Protracted People’s War) has been active since 1969. Over the decades, it has succeeded in liberating millions of proletarians, peasants, and tribal people from feudal and caste oppression in the areas where it spread, covering an area inhabited by over 50 million people from the far north of the Indian subcontinent to the southern states of Kerala and Karnataka.
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is virtually the largest armed revolutionary party in absolute terms by number of comrades, mobilizing sectors of the masses through trade unions, women’s organizations, environmental organizations, and adivasis (tribals) and casteless groups. The PLGA numbers approximately 20,000 armed men, not counting local popular militias.
This great revolution is now entering a crucial phase: Modi’s Hindutva regime, through a brutal and genocidal military operation supported by imperialism and Zionism (using know-how and drones supplied directly by the Zionist Israeli state), Operation Kagaar, which involves tens of thousands of police, paramilitary forces, and the army, declares it will “defeat Maoism” in the country by April 2026.
As this deadline approaches, Operation Kagaar is intensifying: last May, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) himself, along with 27 other comrades and guerrillas, fell in combat after resisting a two-day encirclement by over 2,000 paramilitaries.
In recent months, hundreds of people, not only revolutionaries but also villagers and tribals, have been massacred during this military operation.
Indian civil society has called on the government to immediately stop this “war against the people” and accept the CPI (Maoist)’s proposal to initiate negotiations, but Modi’s Hindutva regime not only continues its course but also labels these activists “urban Maoists,” repressing them as well.
Fourteen years ago, on July 1st, Comrade Azad, a member of the party’s central committee and political bureau, was killed in a fake encounter. He was arrested and subsequently killed in cold blood.
A few months later, on November 24, 2011, Comrade Kishenji, a member of the party’s political bureau, was martyred in another fake encounter.
The martyrs of the Indian revolution are the best sons of the Indian people who sacrificed their lives not only for the liberation of India, but of the entire world, from exploitation, contributing to the World Proletarian Revolution.
Since October 7, 2023, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has actively supported the Palestinian resistance, despite the difficulties it is experiencing, organizing support and propaganda actions in India.
It is therefore an internationalist duty to support this advanced revolutionary experience and remember its martyrs, who are also ours.
ICSPWI therefore calls for mobilization in all countries of the world on the occasion of the CPI (Maoist) Martyrs’ Week from July 28 to August 3, and in accordance with the specific objective and subjective conditions in each country, organizing:
Actions and protests at Indian embassies and consulates
Support meetings
Propaganda actions in factories, workplaces, among struggling workers and peasants, in working-class neighborhoods, and in universities
The martyrs of the revolution are immortal!
The revolutionaries of the CPI (Maoist) are our comrades!
Comrades Basavaraj, Azad, and Kishenji, leaders of the new democratic revolution in India, will never be forgotten; their example will inspire future generations of revolutionaries!
Stop operation Kagaar! Immediate freedom for all political prisoners in India!
Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!
Long Live the People’s War in India!
For more information and materials, contact: csgpindia@gmail.com
"The ICSPWI (International Committee to Support the People’s War in India) calls on MLM organizations and parties, all communist organizations and parties, revolutionaries, progressives, and sincere democrats, to mobilize in…"
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“Folks, this is the captain speaking, if there are any medical professionals on board, could you please make yourself known to the crew?”
What timing. Her first flight since becoming a doctor, and she was about to find herself in the hotseat. Still, she was confident in her abilities, so didn’t hesitate to stand. Was everything she’d learned about to be tested? Time would tell.
She tapped a flight attendant on the shoulder.
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She was brought to row 9, where she was introduced to a gentleman in his late 50’s, who was clearly in some distress.”
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“I am…I have…” he struggled to speak.
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“Erm I er…”
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The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals. -- Johann Most
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Kick US Troops Out of Oyster Bay, Out of the Philippines!
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the brazen US military takeover of the Oyster Bay in Palawan. The once peaceful community of small fishermen has now been overrun by US soldiers with their giant war arsenal.
The Oyster Bay now serves as a forward base for US imperialist provocations against China. It is just one of the latest in the long list of locations the Marcos regime has handed over to US armed forces, putting Filipino lives and livelihoods in even more danger.
Since 2020, the US has been quietly upgrading its facilities in Oyster Bay. Working with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the US developed the Oyster Bay Naval Detachment where it can dock, repair and resupply its naval warships. On March this year, the US Congress authorized the release of up to $5 million to complete repairs to the naval detachment so it could fully serve US manned and unmanned surface vehicles.
Hundreds of local fisherfolk have lost their sole source of livelihood as US warships and military exercises turn Oyster Bay’s waters into a toxic playground for US war games. Rich marine life and fragile coral reefs, the lifeblood of Palawan’s fisheries, are being destroyed. The environmental damage from US naval waste is both permanent and unacceptable.
Oyster Bay is now being used as a launchpad for so-called “freedom of navigation operations” of US military forces in the South China Sea. It serves the joint naval exercises being conducted by the US with Australia and Japan, in conjunction with operations from Subic Bay.
Oyster Bay now serves as a key node in the sprawling US military web across the Philippines—a network of military bases and facilities, ports, airfields, as well as storage facilities and factories for war. The recently announced plans to manufacture drones and produce ammunition in Aurora and Subic will further deepen US military entrenchment in the country.
The rapidly increasing US military presence in the Philippines is absolutely not about defending the country’s sovereignty. This is about turning the Philippines into a fortification for US imperialist hegemony and a springboard for the so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy, positioning the country as a key link in the US “first island chain” strategy to contain the growth of its imperialist rival China.
The Marcos regime’s gross subservience to US geopolitical strategy has allowed the US to drag the country into its hegemonic schemes and war plans. Marcos’ betrayal of the nation’s sovereignty has placed the country’s security in jeopardy. Regional security is under threat.
The Party firmly unites with the Filipino people in the fight against US imperialist aggression in the country. It is imperative that we raise our voices to make a powerful demand for the immediate dismantling of all US military bases, and the expulsion of all US forces from Oyster Bay, all of Palawan, and the entire Philippines. We must hold Marcos accountable and make him pay dearly for this betrayal.
The Filipino people must act now as nation’s sovereignty and future are at stake.
BREAKING: Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to 'step up deep strikes on Russian territory' and asked Zelensky if 'he could strike Moscow', according to Financial Times report.
“Reform #Capitalism: Tax the Rich” Well, let’s see what “reform” means, but we’ll analyze it with an example. #Slavery. Towards the end of slavery in #US, in the North there were two trends. The #revolutionary one that called for the complete abolition of slavery and then there were the “reformers”. What did they demand? Better food and better clothing for the slaves. But there would still be slaves. So? Are you still in favor of the petty-bourgeois reform of Capitalism?
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"The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the brazen US military takeover of the Oyster Bay in Palawan. The once peaceful community of small fishermen…"
Daily Beast reports CNN polling analyst Harry Enten has never seen Americans so unified on how much they dislike Trump, particularly Trump's handling of the Epstein files.
ο υφυπουργός Παιδείας Κωνσταντίνος Βλάσης αποκάλυψε ότι η αφαίρεση κειμένου μου για τα παιδιά της Γάζας από αναγνωστικό βιβλίο της Γ’ Γυμνασίου έγινε ύστερα από παρέμβαση του Κεντρικού Ισραηλιτικού Συμβουλίου.
Ο Υφυπουργός Παιδείας K. Βλάσης αποκάλυψε ότι το κείμενο του Π. Παπακωνσταντίνου για τη Γάζα αφαιρέθηκε από το βιβλίο της Γ' Γυμνασίου έπειτα από παρέμβαση του Κεντρικού Ισραηλιτικού Συμβουλίου.
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
*Close To the Machine* is Ellen Ullman's classic memoir of writing software in Silicon Valley at the start of the dotcom bubble; it was originally published in 1997 and reprinted in 2022 for the 25 annniversary by Farrar, Straus and Giroux's MCD books:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
This 25th Anniversary Edition of Close to the Machine, featuring a new introduction by Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, resurfaces Ellen Ullman’s astonishing account of computing and the ways it shapes our very existence.
“I’m filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law,” Poitras said. She filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2013.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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*Close To the Machine* is Ellen Ullman's classic memoir of writing software in Silicon Valley at the start of the dotcom bubble; it was originally published in 1997 and reprinted in 2022 for the 25 annniversary by Farrar, Straus and Giroux's MCD books:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
This 25th Anniversary Edition of Close to the Machine, featuring a new introduction by Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, resurfaces Ellen Ullman’s astonishing account of computing and the ways it shapes our very existence.
I somehow never read Ullman's book; having read it now, it's easy to understand how this beautifully rendered snapshot of life at the end of the 20th century became a touchpoint for multiple generations of coders and technologists, and why it's still in print, 27 years later.
Ullman's subtitle for the book is "Technophilia and its discontents," and therein lies the secret to its magic. Ullman loves programming computers, loves the way they engage her attention, her consciousness, and her intelligence. Her descriptions of the process of writing code - of tackling a big coding project - are nothing less than revelatory.
She captures something that a million technothriller movies consistently fail to even approach: the dramatic interior experience of a programmer who breaks down a complex problem into many interlocking systems, the momentary and elusive sense of having all those systems simultaneously operating in a high-fidelity mental model, the sense of being *full*, your brain totally engaged in every way.
It's a poetics of language that meets and exceeds the high bar set by the few fiction writers who've ever approached a decent rendering of this feeling, like William Gibson.
These glittering moments are fleeting, though. No code project survives contact with the computer, a brutal and unforgiving cognitive partner that ferrets out every error in your thinking, every trap you've unknowningly fallen into.
Here again, Ullman shines in her renderings of the ferocious mental combat that programmers must do with their computers, grueling matches that are made all the worse by the certain knowledge that the only way to win the bout is to discover and fix your own flaws.
These set-pieces make for great branching points into the three other components of Ullman's classic: first, there are the stories of high-tech institutions.
We follow Ullman - a contract programmer who is hired to assemble teams to run specific projects - as she works on a gnarly all-in-one tool for matching people with AIDS with a spectrum of public services; and when she is brought into a failing startup as part of an abortive turnaround attempt.
All of this is happening just as the web and the internet are devouring all high-tech projects, and Ullman - a techie who is an old hand at networked communications, but it professionally part of a breed of coder who specializes in standalone and modem-based services - finds herself sitting opposite glittering new-breed hackers who have arrived to eat her lunch.
Here, too, Ullman absolutely *nails* the experience of a technologist who has transitioned from surfing the cutting edge to being decapitated by it. This sequence is made all the more poignant by a series of scenes in which Ullman confronts the impossible knot of writing code that benefits marginalized, at-risk users (people dying of AIDS) while satisfying the political and bureaucratic imperatives of multiple charities, government agencies, and advocates.
Ullman has finally wrestled all of these stakeholders into a stable configuration, only to have these shiny young people show up and tell her that she - and everything she's done and everything she stands for - is obsolete. It's a gut-punch of a scene.
That's the third component of Ullman's memoir - the workplace culture of a programmer who must answer to (and assuage) a variety of nontechnical people who flip from awe to seething resentment of you and your work.
Ullman, who lives the simultaneously precarious and lucrative life of a high-paid, much sought-after freelancer, is at the mercy of so many people who have terrible power over her, little empathy for her, and an almost total lack of understanding of what she does (imagine Dilbert, but written by a smart and aware person, not a humorless asshole).
The final quadrant of Ullman's book is the memoir itself - the story of her life growing up in the shadow of a driven, striving Jewish immigrant in New York City whose manic entrepreneurship and minimal self-awareness transforms him into both a source of inspiration and an object of pity for Ullman.
Ullman's personal life in San Francisco is painted with equal fidelity, from her bisexual, polyamorous romantic life to her camaraderie with other hackers (some of whom end up in her bed).
Ullman introduces us to characters that are instantly recognizable today, from the cypherpunk who dreams of setting up an anonymous digital cash system that is financed by an offshore porn empire to a semi-libertarian young man who can't imagine why the law would set limits on when a worker can be treated as an independent contractor.
These are timeless avatars for the kinds of people whose live "close to the machine," whose brains are easily and productively ensnared by digital computers and their pitiless logic. Despite that, this volume is also a perfect, high-fidelity capture of Silicon Valley at the start of one of its many (many, many) bubbles.
I was there, then, working as a contractor (what else?) for a Unix shop and learning on the job as we tried to figure out whether our customers would expect to access our tools through a browser rather than at the console of a quarter-million dollar SGI machine. Though I'm a generation younger than Ullman, I was in the same place, time and milieu as she was when this book was written, and all of it rings utterly true.
What's more, Ullman's work here preserves and reveals the extent to which the best and worst aspects of tech culture have been present since the earliest days, and gestures at the causal relationship between those aspects and the intrinsic nature of the work of programming computers.
While Ullman doesn't advance an explicit theory relating the attitudes and conundra of her field to the nature of computer programming, this work is implicitly webbed over with gossamer threads joining all these phenomena.
That's something I've tried to do in my own fiction, particularly with my Martin Hench novels, which visit different moments in Silicon Valley history (the 1980s, the 2000s, the 2020s) through the eyes of a forensic accountant who unravels tech scams and, in so doing, traces those same threads:
This 25th anniversary edition features a beautiful introduction by Anna Wiener, author of the extraordinary 2020 Silicon Valley memoir *Uncanny Valley*. Wiener is the perfect choice to introduce this volume, connecting the present moment with the first days of the commercial internet:
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
I showed up a year too late to be one of those shiny (or savvy: Ullman) folks in the dot-com gold rush. I owe my career more to SFBay relatives with couches for me to crash on than good timing, but also to the learning community of the Silicon Valley Patterns Group who wanted to figure out new and classic software tech and how to best understand and use it, and the people I met from there.
latest #distrochallenge candidate idea for me, keeping my no-systemd rule, thus keeps many distros ruled out, if i also add, none of my standard dependable 4 (artix, devuan, gentoo, void), what would i go for? yus, still bedrock... but perhaps also could limit it to static libs distros and bsd style packaging and init... CRUX, i imagine as the hijack core i'd build around, as i figure out what other exotic lesser-known distros fit.
KISS, Carbs, joborun, spring to mind too. As does stali, but, that's not really a distro, and long abandoned.
maybe if i limit respins and distros based on other distros, so even carbs and joborun are out. i know carbs is independent, and has its own package manager, but, it's nearer KISS than guixsd is to nixos, or funtoo is to gentoo. joborun too, impressive and appealing an independent direction it's taking, is still basically an arch derivative, not sufficiently distinct again from the likes of parabola, artix, obarun and the arch respins for my tightened criteria here (~ otherwise, it'd make a strong 2nd most used stratum).
and i've had the idea of all the little distros already (my post on this just prior, 19 days ago)... so it's not that kind of thing i'm going for here.
they may be little, but, not the cute little, if you know what i mean. (not slax, slitaz, puppy, dsl, tinycore, etc)
like ideally they're focussed on a solid core, and their minimal system's top priority, and comes available as a rootfs tarball ready to deploy as a stratum. ... heh, maybe that should be the only criteria.
well, it's fun to think about, but shant be making any hasty moves on this today.
... okies, food will be burning if i dont hop afk to it now.
Osaisko kukaan vinkata aurinkorasvaa, joka ei haise eikä tee iholle niin hengittämätöntä kelmua, että rasva nostaa jo lämpöuupumuksenkin riskiä, kun iholta ei haihdu mikään. Mulla alkaa olla suojakertoimen 50 hajustamattomat mömmöt testattu ja hylätty pitkäkestoiseen rasitukseen soveltumattomina. Onko pienemmän kertoimen rasvat yhtään vähemmän vesieristetyyppisiä?
En haluis ihosyöpää, mutta lämpöuupumus on myös vaarallinen tila.
@Duusi Kiitos, ohuen oloinen kuulostaisi lupaavalta. Mä olen käyttänyt naamatököttejä niskaan ja käsivarsiin (muut paikat mulla yleensä on suojattu vaatteilla), mutta yllättäen osa kalliimmistakin naamarasvoista muuttuu kovassa rasituksessa kalvoksi, jonka sisällä pää paistuu, kun hiki ja lämpö ei tunnu poistuvan iholta kunnolla.
At the supermarket buying stuff for lunch (can't do shit while Windows fucks itself updating Visual Studio). Just saw an employee (I suspect massively autistic) finishing stacking the mandarines so perfectly the thing looked like a giant orange corn cob.
I was about to take a picture when a fucking sheboon appeared out of nowhere, took a bunch of mandarines and the whole thing fell apart. Fucking niggers, I fucking hate niggers, but I think the the guy will start to hate them even more, 'cause his face was like a tomato
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Ξέρετε τι θα πάρει η Ελλάδα από την επόμενη ΚΑΠ (Κοινή Αγροτική Πολιτική) ε; Και είναι προφανές γιατί η ευρωπαϊκή εισαγγελεία θέλει να βρει όλες τις απάτες τώρα και να μην μας ξαναδωσουν χρήματα στο μέλλον.
Hello there! Here's the thing: I got some old HDD for my Debian home server, and now that I have plenty of disk space I want to keep a backup of the OS, so that if something accidentally breaks (either SW or HW) I can quickly fix it.
now the question is: which directory should I include and which should I exclude from the backup? I use docker a lot, is there any docker-specific directory that I should back up?
How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?
good point: I guess if the problem is that I messed something up I may just run the backup script in reverse? if the problem is HW then I'd have to reinstall and then restore the backupped directory probably is there a "standard" way?
I usually only keep documents and media. Programs can be redownloaded and reinstalled (and it might be better to reinstall them in case you move to a new OS anyway to ensure compatibility).
For docker specifically, only keep stuff that's specific for your instance; which you normally setup as an external volume anyway. Docker is designed such that you should be able to nuke the container, and all persistent data is restored via an external volume on the host. If you're not doing that, you should immediately go and set that up now (to get the data out safely, setup a volume connection such that the container path is new - that way you don't accidentally destroy what's there, copy the stuff you need out, then readjust the path so it's correct)
thanks for the reply! Yes for sure I'm backing up all the /home directory, but I'd like to preserve also important configurations like ssh, cronjob etc, but I don't really know which directories are important for this and which are not
Don't forget to grab any /etc configurations you've made to adapt the system to your hardware or services. You don't need all of /etc, just whatever you've changed to not be default.
I back up all user data, for me that's some folders in /var, all of /etc (don't need everything, but it's small enough), mysqldumps and pgsqldumps of my databases and the output of dpkg --get-selections. And the backup script itself.
Everything is rsynced to a server in another location.
I want to switch to Borg backup but haven't found the time yet.
I recommend Borgmatic, a declarative way to set up borg backups. I find it much nicer than a having a backup.sh script and the configuration is really straight-forward.
I want to switch to Borg backup but haven’t found the time yet.
Since you haven't switched yet, perhaps consider restic too. I looked into Borg when I was trying to decide which backup software to use, but ended up deciding on restic instead and using resticprofile to ease implementation.
Only the first backup, after that with most backup software it will do incremental backups with delta transfer, so will only send the data that has changed since the last backup.
Why? I have a hard time imagine a use case where restoring the OS itself would be appropriate.
I can imagine restoring data, obviously, and services running with their personalization ... but the OS is something generic that should be discarded at whim IMHO. You probably chance few basic configuration of some services and most likely that's stored in /etc but even then 99% is default.
You can identify what you modified via shell history, e.g. history | grep /etc and potentially save them or you can also use find /etc -type f -newerXY with a date later than the OS installation and you should find what you modified. That's probably just a few files.
If you do back up anything beyond /home (which should be on another partition or even disk than the OS anyway) you'll most likely save garbage like /dev that might actually hinder your ability to restore.
So... sure, image the OS if you actually have a good reason for it but unless you work on archiving and restoring legacy hardware for a museum then I doubt you do need that.
You need to make your own plan about what's important to you. Don't waste time backing up stuff you can quickly download again - like docker images. Just know where the stuff is that you care about (such as any mounted volumes in docker with your own data on) and back that up, and make everything automated. If you do it manually, chances are you'll gradually stop doing them.
I wrote some things about properly backing up data that may be of use.
Backing up your important data is essential. I’ve built many systems over the years, and this is one system that I’m currently using, having thought a great deal about it.
I have used a combination of rsync and borg to backup to an external drive. Then I was feeling adventurous and tried borgbackup2. It was a mistake. Then I learned of rdiff-backup. Easy to setup, but even incremental backups of my home dir took many hours to complete. This is no solution to have regular backups for me.
I decided to go with btrfssnapshots instead. I recently reinstalled everything and I have finally btrfs. I bought a new external NVME drive for my backups where all the snapshots will go. Btrfs has even a parent-option to copy incremental snapshots to another filesystem (the parent snapshots being on both filesystems).
I did not finish my setup, so I cannot share any scripts yet.
It is a question I've spent a lot of time trying to work out. Can't speak to docker.
Some of the specifics of Keeps and Dontkeeps depend on details of your system. You have to find out where the distro, DM and other apps keep the following:
Dontkeeps: - trashes - temp files - file indexes .. IMHO these dont backup properly if you leave them in and will prevent you from completing the task - device files
Keeps: - list of installed packages --- explicit and deps separate if possible - config files: /etc, ~/.config, ~/.* on a case by case basis... I say remove the obvious large temp dirs and keep the rest by default for simplicity - for the system configs I've had a tool called etckeeper running for a while because it was highly recommended but I've never actually restored from it... - personal documents and other files such as typically kept in the home directory - /root occasionally has something you need
Ways to investigate: - use a disk usage utility to find out where your storage is being used up ... It'll help you find large Dontkeeps - watch for recently modified files - dirs and files that are modified all the time are usually temp dirs. But sometimes they have something useful like your firefox profile.
Most backup solutions are ONE of the following:
User files
System files
Don't spend too much time crying about needing two solutions. Just make your backup today and reach perfection later.
Remember: sync isn't backup. Test your backup if you can (but its not as easy as it sounds). Off site your most precious files.
I think most options have been covered here, but I'd like to consider some other bits...
User accounts & file permissions:- if you have >1 account, note that the UserID is internally numbered (starting from 1000, so Bob=1000, Sue=1001) and your file system is probably setup using the numerical UserID... so re-creating the users in a different order would give Sue access to Bob's files and vice versa.
Similarly, backing up /etc /var etc... you should check if any applications (ie databases) need specific chmod and chown settings
Rsync, tar, etc can cover some of this, you just need to check you rebuild users in the correct order.
Maybe Ansible is another approach? So your disaster recovery would be: 1. Install plain OS on new drive 2. Get Ansible access to it (ie basic netwroking) 3. Rebuild OS and instsll applicstions automatically with Ansible 4. Restore application & home folders (again with Ansible)
When you get this working, it's amazing to watch an entire system being rebuilt
I'm prepping popcorn already! Also chilling beer and looking for a movie to watch, since I don't expect any revelations there, but I guess I'm digressing 🤣
Soaring temperatures are pushing us towards environmental crises that the Government is doing little to prepare us for, argues Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay
Και να και όχι. Είναι ψιλό αποθήκες και παίζουν πολλά φορτηγά που φορτώνουν. Αυτά τα καφέ γενικά παίζανε τότε για κόσμο να πηγαίνει να τρώει, τώρα έχουμε τα φρανσαιζ που υπάρχουν παντού, coffee berry, coffee Island κτλ
Meanwhile, ο πορτοκαλί φασίστας προσπαθεί εναγωνίως να απαγκιστρωθεί από το θέμα Epstein, που ήταν κυρίαρχο στην Qanon cult που τον ανέβασε στην εξουσία...
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva has defended #fossilfuel exploration, saying he would not unilaterally halt exploring #Brazil ’s riches to the detriment of the nation’s development.
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Hey do you guys think Atlantis is a real place or just Plato's thought experiment kind of thing? When you read about Troy that was thought to be just a story from Homer's Iliad until it was actually unearthed, it kinda makes you wonder 🤔
I am not sure Atlantis is the right name, or Plato's description is valid, but I firmly believe there was a global seafaring culture that was largely destroyed towards the end of the last ice age.
Visiting Peru is what solidified this theory in my mind. The Nazca pyramids, mummies, and religion share too many similarities with ancient Egypt to be a coincidence.
@ILoveAmericaNews oh there absolutely was transatlantic trade of some sort in the storage. After all, how else one could possibly explain the "cocaine mummies" in Egypt. If you're not familiar with that stuff, look it up. Fascinating shit, really
@Meachamus_Prime I disagree. The Eye of Africa has a vague visual similarity, but it's in the wrong location, and it's something like 100 times too big.
Have you watched Randall Carlson's series on Atlantis? It makes the best case I heard, and he thinks Atlantis is the Azores. There are around 5 videos in the series. Here's one.
Carlson is a fun guy to watch in general. He's brilliant and hates liberals.
Check out Randall's - Plato's Atlantis "Back to the Source" VoD presentation on howtube: https://www.howtube.com/12513Two 3-hour lectures available On Demand...
BBC Sounds is getting ready to lock anyone out who's not in the UK next week. Fortunately there are VPN providers that let you route all your traffic through London (or Manchester, or Leeds, etc.) Google Maps helpfully shows you the post code for any address in the UK.
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