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"Gas-fired electricity two to three times costlier than renewable backups"
#Energy #Renewables #FossilFuels

Gas-fired electricity two to three times costlier than renewable backups
A study by Forum Ökologisch‑Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS), commissioned by Green Planet Energy, says electricity from gas plants could reach €0.67 ($0.78)/kWh, largely due to externalized costs, while renewable-based backups remain far cheaper.

@… Well, are we sure no intelligence agency is so interested in curl that they’re making backups of your emails as well? 😂

A lifetime of backups
#backup

Ich sehe bei mir im Log das hier:
2026-01-30 16:11:24.119 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.backups.manager] Freeze starting stage addons
2026-01-30 16:11:29.035 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.backups.manager] Thaw starting stage home_assistant
2026-01-30 16:11:29.037 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.backups.manager] Thaw starting stage addons
...
(wiederholt sich alles paar Sekunden)
Ist das normal? Muss das so?

#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3 weeks, and from what I see on https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-october-2025/1739/47, it's not clear w…

Meet.coop update October 2025
Me and Nick worked on the servers again today. Everything me and Nick have access to is now backed up now using encrypted backups (Restic and Borgbase). For anyone wondering this is the current plan with recordings: Can I recover my recordings despite service being down? - #3 by kawaiipunk Unfortunately we still don’t have all the access we need to complete our work. We are still missing: ssh/root access to ca.meet.coop Keycloak sso.meet.coop master realm access Hetzner account access - f…

OKAY OPEN SAFARI TABS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN IOS BACKUPS WHAT THE FUCK I’M FUCKED

On another unspecified social media, I joined a photography challenge called '52 flickers'. I'm supposed to take and post one photograph per week for the entirety of 2026. No archives, no backups, no spares, no descriptions - just a photo of any topic taken on a given week.
I typically shun this kind of challenges for millions of reasons, but since I take photos almost everyday, I decided to give it a shot. But to make it more interesting for myself, I decided not to use the most frequent categories of photos, i.e. reportage or stock.
Adding a thread here for backup purposes. Always tagging as [#]52flickers2026.
Here goes 👇
#photography #52flickers2026

Great, an amazing chain of events and maybe unfortunate UI design in #DAVx5 resulted in me deleting our shared #CardDAV addressbook - server side from an ancient #baikal instance, no backups (no mercy) of course…

​🚨 A massive cyberattack has crippled #Mikord, the key developer behind Russia’s Unified Military Registry, wiping out over 40TB of infrastructure, including source code and backups.
https://substack.com/@jaanika/note/c-1

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: CCC-Hacker fordern Bundesdatensicherungsspiele gegen Ransomware-Albträume

Found an issue with the Borg backup cron job, but got that fixed up and ran backups for today. Fortunately, this one didn't take 20 hours...lol. Backups are now verified but I'll feel better if the cron job works as expected tomorrow.
#homelab #borg

I got those new disks loaded into the TrueNAS server and have been moving things around to make more space on the primary pool.
I've got my home computers running backups to the NAS and most of the Macs also have Time Machine drives attached...
At this point I'm still missing off-site backups but I can look into that by placing a small NAS at the office.
#TrueNAS

@… I'd be willing to bet that the ownership of Medtech don't actually know where all their data is, e.g. backups. I'd be very surprised if no personal data is stored, unencrypted, offshore.

Client told DEV the changes looks good in test, deploy.
DEV told our support person, deploy the fix.
Me? STOP, CEASE, DESIST!
1. It is a Friday and we have three special set of 'apps' running this evening. They must run tonight!
2. There were zero backups that would allow a rollback if there are problems.
3. No process defined to verify the before and after.
4. NEVER DEPLOY FIXES ON A FRIDAY UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY!

Perhaps I'm not really using the right words.
I think I don't care about backups as much as I want seemless cloud file sync.
dropbox has not been seemless. Google drive does not seem to be working on KDE.
#ubuntu

I lost a lot of work by accident that I didn't push yet. 🥲
And I excluded them from #backups because I thought that I'd #push and publish them "soon" anyway.
All it took was a mistake when running #rsync

Broncos take care of business, secure No. 1 seed https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47507514/broncos-top-chargers-secure-afc-no-1-seed-playoffs

Great little story here about how a small town in Spain was hit with a ransomware attack, with the attackers demanding $5,000 in Bitcoin.
The town told the obviously small-time cybercriminals to go pound sand because they had sufficient backups to restore everything.
https://www.cryptopolitan…

Last week, backups on my @… laptop stopped working, because the laptop ceased to recognise when the backup drive was plugged in. The drive is an old fashioned spinning rust thing which plugs in over USB. I diagnosed a fault with the USB port. So I ordered another USB port from Framework; it arrived today, I plugged it in, and backup is running n…

While helping my mum with something recently, I've noticed that her #GMail started featuring a banner that she ran out of space, and mails will stop arriving in less than a month. As expected, she never even noticed it. On the other hand, I had two thoughts about it.
Firstly, of course, #Google are shameless assholes (Microsoft's even worse, as I boosted at some point before). Mom's new phone came with Google Photos preinstalled in place of vendor's gallery, and of course it automatically started making backups of her photos and movies in the "cloud", or as I'd like to call it, to pedophiles. The photos finally filled up the free space, and Google started doing everything to convince her to buy more space. I honestly doubt she'd be able to figure out that she needed to turn these backups off and wipe them; if anything, I suspect she'd just start hopelessly removing photos from the phone, which might not have helped at all.
Secondly, it's that if such a thing happened to me, I probably wouldn't even know, because I'm reading my mail via a mail client. So I wouldn't ever have seen their banner. Well, unless they also send a mail about it, and my mom missed it among all the spam.
#GAFAM

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: CCC-Hacker fordern Bundesdatensicherungsspiele gegen Ransomware-Albträume

✅ added a scheduled backup for my local forgejo
Everyone doing #selfhosting: think about your backups!

I can't spend 230 euros on a damn 8 TB hard drive. That's crazy. The AI race has driven up the prices of almost everything related to computing.
I need a new temporary strategy for my backups.

"Drei Jahre, um einen Bericht zu schreiben, wie man souveräner werden könnte. Und in diesen drei Jahren wird man unsouveräner. Das ist, wie wenn jemand jahrelang erklärt, wie man Backups erstellt, aber am Schluss selbst alle Daten verliert."
… schreibt @… in der DNIP-Weihnachtspause bei @…

@… #homeassistant when will we get the possibility to create custom backup automations with upload to Nabu Casa cloud? Or the possibility to exclude history from automatic backups to Nabu Casa cloud? I can't upload a 30GB file to the cloud stor…

Hab's irgendwie verpasst, daher war ich gerade umso mehr erfreut: In der @… ‑App gibt es auf iOS jetzt endlich Backups. Der Preis ist fair.

Kinda seems like dropbox is the easiest way to do backups on Linux? wild.

Nicht nur „Datenhoheit“, sondern grundsätzliche Offline-Handlungsfähigkeit ist nötig. Jörg Schieb zeigt: Powerbanks, lokale Backups und Offline-Apps sind einfache Schritte zur Resilienz – kluge Vorsorge statt Blindflug in die Cloud.
#Resilienz #DigitaleSouveränität

Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich endlich mal Samba auf OpenMediaVault aktiviert und wollte es für Backups der Endgeräte nutzen. Aber ich konnte mich partout nicht anmelden.
Tja …
> Why the login keeps saying access denied? This is more likely caused by two things: […] Out of sync password in between linux and Samba. This is very rare but it has happened. Test in ssh the following [tt]smbpasswd username[/tt] enter password and try and login again
"Very rare", aber in…

macOS is like "yeah we've got 100GB of Time Machine backups cached, but don't worry, if you need the space, we'll just delete them!"
Well, that was a lie.

I currently do backups by stopping the service, running #borgBackup, then restarting the service. This has several downsides:
- services are down for the runtime of borg, which can be considerable (minutes to hours) depending on the data volume and backup target.
- due to this slowness I haven't dared to back up to remotes over the network (which I absolutely should!), only to lo…

Who are Chris Oladokun and the other backup quarterbacks starting on Christmas Day? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911641/2025/12/25/nfl-backup-quarterbacks-christmas-day/

OK, why does MicroSucks wants to do 'discovery' when I tell it to to delete folders? Minutes wasted so it can delete files. Just walk through the damned FAT and mark them deleted.
Doing my monthly backup and purging old backups not needing to wait 15 minutes while it 'discovers' files/folders.

Homelab migration done, all of the VMs are on Debian which makes things easier to manage. Currently deleting the old mirrors out of storage and running a few backups at the moment. I think it's time to maybe play some vidya games and just enjoy the rest of Sunday.
#homelab #debian

It’s about this time of year I like to check my backups and download my archives.
One archive I download is the archive of my Mastodon posts. Pretty much the only one now I’ve left the corporate web really.
I also like to copy the contents of my public fediverse posts into my own diary within my vimwiki.
Keep it all in one place for easy and local search.
Here’s the script I use, it’s very short and just copies the content of every post in the archive into a new diary entry in the vimwiki diary.
If it finds something already there, it appends.
It checks if it’s already written this post into the diary to avoid duplicating it when you run it over and every again every month or year or whatever.
Paste it into a new text-file called toVimWiki.php, download and unzip your mastodon archive, and run the script with php, passing it the path to the archive’s outbox.json and the root diary directory.
My diary is honestly mostly just public posts these days. Ain’t much in it I won’t blab about on the internet for likes and lols.
#archive #mastodon #vimwiki #endOfYear

https://www.derbetakevin.one/blog/myrient-erista-schliessung

Which one would be better for backups of my NAS, restic or borg?