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NBN sheds jobs as 'death spiral' worsens
  • I know a few folks in that situation - likely people who the originally designed fibre roll-out would have hit, but instead got a substandard connection.

    I'm not so sure it's a full death spiral though, one would hope that the fibre retrofit can catch a lot of these up.

  • 200,000 users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires
  • Deadloch would like to have a word.

    But seriously, I can imagine 50% of people saying in the abstract they would like more locally produced content, though I'm not sure that it would actually affect purchasing behaviour.

  • Shadow of the Colossus - has it aged poorly? [spoilers]
  • It's been quite a while since I played through SOTC, and maybe it's the passage of time but I recall the frustration being a minor part of the play and ultimately balancing itself nicely with the thrill of actually taking down the Colossus.

    With that said even when I was playing it maybe 10 years back (so long after release) a lot of the control and feel had not aged well so I get where you're coming from.

  • what is everyone using for photos?
  • Photoprism, running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I'm just running it as a single user, and it's been working well for that. A couple of notes:

    • Video transcoding is a bit iffy on the rpi, but I'm running it under docker and might just move it all to a mini pc at some point
    • I don't have it accessible publicly, but get to it online via Tailscale
    • No app, but the Web interface is good.
    • I'm currently running it in "read only" mode (mainly out of initial paranoia when trying it out, but it seems fine) so I have syncthing backing up the photos from my phone wirelessly and occasionally do an import of new images in.
  • Are you exposing any ports on your home server?
  • I've got a very similar setup now. Only recently adopted tailscale and was previously port tunnelling over SSH to access anything on the local network. SSH is still open, and am just waiting a bit to see if theres any cases where I need it before closing that out too.

    Short story: If you don't need stuff open to the general public, just having Tailscale will probably cover you.

  • Victoria to axe Commonwealth Games plans due to financial concerns
  • I agree it's probably the right thing to not host, especially given the ROI is bad (at least according to some other states...)

    But even though I think it's a good thing, it is an embarrassment.

    Announcing that you're going to host, putting money / effort state-wide into preparing, and then dropping it is embarrassing. It sends a message that you can't adequately plan for large events, and that your commitments aren't worth much. I can't really blame the opposition for trying to make some hay from it.

  • How do you guys back up your server?
  • Same setup here. I've got a really basic script running nightly from cron. B2 is cheap as, and having an encrypted backup that's versioned is great for piece of mind.

    At one point I was away from home and my (little rpi) server wasn't accessible, but with the restic repo up on B2 I was able to easily find a file I urgently needed remotely. It's awesome.

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