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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Not at all. There is a huge difference in proving a positive (i.e. that God exists) than prooving a negative (i.e. that God is IMPOSSIBLE).

    EXAMPLE: Could Trump be a lizard alien in a skin suit as some might believe? Absolutely. Am I gnostic by stating in a matter of fact tone that he isn’t (and thus dependant on “faith” by extension of your argument? Probably not.

    Just because someone once made a wild claim about God existing, doesn’t make me require “faith” to call out he obviously made up story with absolutely zero facts to back it as such.






  • GDPR is great, but it would probably not apply to posts and comments as it pertains to personal data (name, address). User provided content is not generally personal data as per GDPR (though might contain some). Positing personal data is even explicitly disallowed in most subs.

    One could argue they need to delete username, although it is in principle arbitrary, but they could be allowed to keep post/comment content. And this already happens as part of account deletion.

    On top of this, users agreed to transferring rights when accepting TOS:

    “When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world.”

    Source: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement/

    Don’t confuse this with me liking what Reddit is doing, it’s a douchebag move, so we have all the reasons to distrust Reddit and be angry. I’m just trying to add nuance to the issue.

    Obligatory IANAL



  • I have a central NAS server that hosts all my personal files and shares them (via smb, ssh, syncthing and jellyfin). It also pulls backups from all my local servers and cloud services (google drive, onedrive, dropbox, evernote, mail, calender and contacts, etc.). It runs zfs raid 1 and snapshots every 15 minute. Every night it backs up important files to Backblaze in a US region and azure in a EU region (using restic).

    I have a bootstrap procedure in place to do a “clean room recovery” assuming I lost access to all my devices - i only need to remember a tediously long encryption password for a small package containing everything needed to recover from scratch. It is tested every year during Christmas holidays including comparing every single backed and restored file with the original via md5/sha256 comparison.