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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I use restic extensively, and it works really really well… until it breaks. Then there’s next-to-nothing you can do to fix the repo.

    Rustic, on the other hand, has lock-less design, and repair options, so I end up using it to fix things. However, it has a number of rough edges: it uses its own wacky config file, its include/exclude options are wildly different and a bit painful, and to use a bunch of repo backends (like S3), you need to install, configure, and use rclone, which is poorly documented by rustic.


  • Agree on the creepy side, though there’s other possibilities besides facial recognition, namely:

    • They buy data from a data broker. Said data broker bought (or got) location data from any number of apps you have installed on your phone that monitor your location data.
    • They associated your phone’s Wifi MAC (even if you don’t connect to their Wifi) or a bluetooth MAC (of bluetooth headphones, watch, or other device) to you previously, then saw it again