If you use zfs for docker, dbs and vms you don’t have to shut down anything. Just snapshot and send/recv to sync snapshots to another ZFS drive.

You can even mount and copy the latest snapshot to the cloud with rsync/rclone; probably also borg/restic/kopia. Each applications state will be internally consistent if the snapshot is performed for all data at the same time. If you’re paranoid you can stop everything for a few mins to perform the snapshot, but it’s not really necessary.

This is basically guaranteed under late stage capitalism. As the richest of the rich accumulate a greater proportion of wealth they just buy more and more assets (when they’re not buying politicians, lobbyists, media empires, etc), artificially inflating the value of those assets well beyond what was ever possible in a competitive market.

They command so much wealth that they can increase the value of their existing assets just by buying more, driving up the value of those assets via reduced liquidity and artificial scarcity (see housing). It grants them greater and greater opportunity and power to manipulate markets and extract greater and greater profit margins from everyone poorer than they are. It’s a cruel, psychopathic system structured to benefit the most immoral, unethical, and undeserving of criminals.

Companies are built on deterministic, predictable processes and workflows. A stochastic tool which randomly hallucinates correlations as fact, absent of critical thought, introduces a huge amount of risk/uncertainty; especially regarding data security.

It’s not surprising most corporations aren’t seeing a productivity boost, because the product, tooling, and ecosystem are simply not at a level of maturity where they can be trusted with any core or critical tasks. When you add in the potential for significant future price increases, and other unknown impacts outside your control, choosing to voluntarily make your business dependent on some 3rd parties ever changing product sounds completely insane.

Don’t trust backblaze or any service that claims “unlimited”.

The overwhelming feedback I’ve seen is to “KISS” and use some combination of restic/borg/kopia and rclone to sync data or local backups to cloud storage like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/.

Restic/borg are more for whole system backups, where kopia is more for data (a central kopia server/repository can deduplicate and version data from multiple machines). Rclone is good for syncing local backups to cloud services, or perhaps e2ee synchronisation between machines (though it doesn’t do versioning and multiple machines will cause problems).

This is the most flexible, long-term, as you can just update the storage backend and transfer or re-upload everything as necessary.

It’s like the wedding or funeral tax, where all items cost extra for no reason, other than exploitation.

America has been rotting from the inside since WW2 (MIC, FBI and CIA terrorism, etc), then supercharged with Reagan. Frankly, it’s surprising it took this long.

The 200+ hours a month sitting at a desk, in front of the tv, or doom scrolling, are probably far more damaging than the 40 hours in traffic.

Member how the metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives, but they just spent dozens of billions on a shitty VR sim, renamed their whole company over it, then fired tens of thousands of workers when it flopped, but still jerked zuck off for his capitalist prowess?

He’s worth hundreds of billions more today! Capitalism is a fucking clown world.

What you’re calling lies are false positives. To lie you have to know the truth. AI’s are ignorant. They don’t know what anything is, as all they “know” is mathematical patterns in 1’s and 0’s.

They would only be lies if Google engineers explicitly overrided the model to output the false information. What most implementations of LLM’s are is weaponized incompetence, for-profit. Capitalists know they output false information, and they don’t care, because their only goal is profit and power.

You can always tell who the vibe/shit/non coders are by the way they pontificate AI as some revolution that completely changes software, instead of yet another tool that has significant tradeoffs…

“But mongo DB is web scale!?!” — dunning-krugers

It’s to funnel users into propaganda bubbles and voids, making it harder for them to see alternate content and viewpoints. It’s been pretty obvious with how aggressively they remove and discipline antifascist politics.

Surveillance-capitalism fascists unite!

At least the developed world is dropping the charade and making it crystal clear that we live in corporate dictatorships.

That would be best case scenario; the trash taking itself out, so nobody else has to get their hands dirty.

I’m not picky, though. Nazi lives don’t matter.

I’m really looking forward to the day someone shoots that nazi in the face.

Surveillance capitalism will continue the fascist takeover until the whole planet is a totalitarian company town and we are all slaves to big brother; paying a daily subscription to breathe.

I’m not even joking.

Ah yes. When i read the fascist FTC head sent the letter — a criminal who threatens antifascist media for political speech — I was certain consequences will only apply to debanking fascists.

By the way our corporate dictatorships are speed-running totalitarianism, I’d say before the decade is done. I will choose to be an antifa terrorist before I accept fascism.

This is actually the least invasive form of age verification for Apple users. Apple already has a credit card on file for something like 90+% of the user base.

The alternative the political whore class are promoting is apps individually verifying with a multitude of data brokers “ID providers”.

This is the illusion of choice under the surveillance capitalism of corporate dictatorships. Rather than regulate capitalists, the gov colludes with them to exploit and enslave consumers.

Laws under capitalism are like religion; for controlling the peasants. As long as you commit crime for-profit against the peasantry, behind the liability shield of a corporation, you will be protected by the state.

America is a fascist dictatorship now and the entire planet is in denial.

Great advice, but I’ve been doing cocaine rarely for decades. Think I’ll be right thanks.