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18 votes
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Signal ignores proxy censorship vulnerability, bans researchers
11 votes -
Pinephone ends its Community Edition model
17 votes -
Tesla recalls 135,000 cars after pushing back against regulators
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Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
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Mozilla's 2020 Internet Health Report
19 votes -
Amazon deploys AI cameras inside delivery vans, misspells 'surveillance' as 'safety' in reason why
9 votes -
Joe Manchin's bid to pierce tech's shield
4 votes -
How a dumb hat threw me in a tailspin
8 votes -
Parler CEO John Matze says he was terminated by the company's board, which is controlled by investor Rebekah Mercer
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I have $15 burning a hole in my Google Play balance. Help me figure out what to spend it on.
Here's a list of Paid Games & Apps that I already have bought. Utils Tasker KLWP Sleep as Android Nova Prime One or two Icon packs for Nova Games Desert Golfing Death Road To Canada 2 Meteorfall...
Here's a list of Paid Games & Apps that I already have bought.
Utils
- Tasker
- KLWP
- Sleep as Android
- Nova Prime
- One or two Icon packs for Nova
Games
- Desert Golfing
- Death Road To Canada 2
- Meteorfall
- Mindustry
- Mini Metro
- Ordia
- Prune
- Reigns
- Reigns: Her Majesty
- RowRow
- Teslagrad
- UnCiv
- .projekt
- Sword and Sworcery
I'm looking for something worthwhile to spend it on. Is there a lesser known utility app that you use all the time? What about an indie game not getting the praise it deserves? Tell me about it!
17 votes -
A hardware mute button for Alexa
6 votes -
Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO, will be replaced by Andy Jassy
23 votes -
Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic
3 votes -
Google has suspended the Element Matrix client from the Play Store due to abusive content (It's back)
@Element: Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
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Personal data of 1.4 million Washington state unemployment claimants exposed in hack of state auditor
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How we test PCIe 4.0 storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD benchmark suite
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Arlan Hamilton is building a new kind of venture capital - An interview with the founder of Backstage Capital
3 votes -
Why you should delete social media: Say hello to a better life!
8 votes -
Google to pull API keys from unofficial builds of Chromium, including those for Linux packages
19 votes -
Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
7 votes -
Keyboard that shocks you if you type with incorrect technique
6 votes -
sq, Sequoia PGP's CLI, released for general use
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New Spotify patent involves monitoring users’ speech to recommend music
25 votes -
Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server
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With Parler down, QAnon moves onto a ‘free speech’ TikTok clone
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Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first decisions, overturning Facebook's decision in four out of five cases
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Electric car sales increased by 43% in 2020
18 votes -
1MB Club - Collection of websites under 1 megabyte
11 votes -
Why is Big Tech policing speech? Because the government isn't: Deplatforming President Trump showed that the First Amendment is broken - but not in the way his supporters think.
12 votes -
Grindr fined 10% of their global annual revenue ($11.7 million) in Norway for sharing deeply personal information with advertisers, including location, sexual orientation and mental health details
28 votes -
The A-10 Warthog's tight turning radius coupled with its big gun means it can sting even the best fighters in a dogfight
8 votes -
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
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The battle inside Signal - The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm.
31 votes -
Goodbye, Ajit Pai
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Twitter has acquired the Revue editorial newsletter service, made Pro features free and reduced the fee for paid newsletters to 5%, and will start integrating it into Twitter
7 votes -
List of emails SponsorBlock's creator has received about inserting malware into the extension
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Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
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YouTube takes action against piracy tutorials, stream-ripping and cheating
10 votes -
The great Wikipedia titty scandal
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How do you manage data backups?
Hi Tildes. Hopefully this thread will be both a good discussion and helpful to some of you, and hopefully me. As I'm guessing most of you know, data backups are quite important and it is best to...
Hi Tildes. Hopefully this thread will be both a good discussion and helpful to some of you, and hopefully me.
As I'm guessing most of you know, data backups are quite important and it is best to have at least one copy locally and another copy somewhere else. At the moment, I store photos on an external hard drive and Google Drive, photos from my phone on Google Photos with copies of important original quality files saved locally, and everything else on drives in my PC and a network drive on my Raspberry Pi. It's far from ideal, I've only got one copy of some files and three or four of some others so I've been looking for something better to keep everything organised, safe and in one place.
I've tried the free trial of Backblaze, which seemed the obvious choice, but it had a few problems. I couldn't backup my Pi's network share, and in general it's a bit clunky and difficult to use. It is marketed as an easy solution to backing up data, but in doing this it just makes everything more difficult, at least for me - I know what I want backed up, and I would prefer to select it manually, but by opting in everything for backup by default you have to spend ages excluding the folders you don't want saved, one-by-one, in a UI that is difficult to use and often unclear. Sometimes the exclusions list just doesn't work - the Program Files folders are meant to be excluded by default and they were listed under exclusions but were backing up anyway. For me it found over 200,000 files, and because they were all so small it barely managed to backup 100MB in three hours. (Not that I know where the files come from because they aren't listed in the Windows app in any vaguely comprehensible way.)
So I need to find something else, and I was hoping someone here would have some recommendations. Personally I need it to:
- Be affordable and easy to setup and use
- Backup external and network drives to the cloud (physically keeping another drive somewhere else isn't an option for me)
- Be trustworthy and have strong commitments to security and privacy
- Work well for my use case: preferably automatic from Windows
Looking forward to any comments or recommendations. Thanks!
23 votes -
Low cost metal 3D printing by electrochemistry
7 votes -
Italy takes action against TikTok following girl’s death
5 votes -
The coming software apocalypse
7 votes -
ADT employee covertly accessed about 200 security cameras he installed to spy on people having sex
9 votes -
Google threatens to pull search engine in Australia
15 votes -
President Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
10 votes -
New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL
6 votes -
On the trail of the robocall king
8 votes -
Ubuntu Linux is now running on M1 Macs
10 votes