I have been using Syncthing fork since before the official app was discontinued, and can vouch for its quality. My favorite feature is that it allows conditional pausing of folders based on phone state, such as if the phone is charging or connected to WiFi. Just be warned that the version on Google Play was no longer updated last time I checked (Googles fault), so you're better downloading releases from the Github repo.
The sync would stall and I'd have to go retry, or it would fail with no error clear message. In the end, I had no idea what had really synched correctly. The app was unhappy if I deleted a photo too quickly.
With Syncthing, I sync to a directory that my Nextcloud user can access (a read-only mount), so I can still easily share photos using Nextcloud, for example.
(although it's unfortunate that the Android syncthing app is being retired. h/t for the heads up and the recommended alternatives)
I'm all for competition, but smaller players would have been completely blocked by Privacy Shield, whereas they cannot block CloudFlare completely without breaking a lot of other sites.
And CloudFlare went to court. Most companies would not be able to afford it.
ICQ was a way of texting friends so that you could go party. At least for me, and I'm a nerd. I remember even "normal" friends were using IRC as a way to hookup. Cell phones were not very common.
Looking at my non-nerd 17 year old, they meet maybe once a month, and it's to cook food together during the day. Nobody drinks. They just see it as a waste of money. Maybe not the most normal sample. They love biking and also go to circus school together (Montreal).
I like icinga's model, which can run a small agent on the server, but it doesn't run as root. I grant specific sudo rules for checks that need elevated permissions.
I find it easier to write custom checks for things where I don't control the application. My custom checks often do API calls for the applications they monitor (using curl locally against their own API).
There are also lots of existing scripts I can re-use, either from the Icinga or from Nagios community, so that I don't write my own.
For example, recently I added systemd monitoring. There is a package for the check (monitoring-plugins-systemd). So I used Ansible to install everywhere, and then "apply" a conf to all my Debian servers. Helped me find a bunch of failing services or timers, which previously went un-noticed, including things like backups, where my backup monitoring said everything was OK, but the systemd service for borgmatic was running a "check" a found some corruption.
For logs I use promtail/loki. Also very much worth the investment. Useful to detect elevated error rates, and also for finding slow http queries (again, I don't fully control the code of applications I manage).
I mean, sure, you could blame the climate crisis on the petrol companies that have doubled production in Alberta in the past 10 years, or you suspect "eco-terrorists" which, as far as I know, is a Maxime Bernier conspiracy theory that has never been proven, despite the fact that environmental groups are constantly under CSIS watch? (https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230609-canada-wildfi...)
The Crunchlabs agent seems to be based off the Arduino Agent, so I'm surprised they don't support Linux.
My teenager never had any issues with using Linux since the age of 10 (old laptop with Firefox and Minecraft), and never used Windows (school uses Chromebooks). Hopefully this works with just a standard editor too, although the Crunchlabs IDE looks nicer for learning.
That's an odd reference to DEI. I'd say the negative consequences of authoritarian regimes is that they suppress freedom, and therefore art and technological innovation.
China is authoritarian, but also has a huge political system, somewhat strong institutions. That can't be said of many authoritarian regimes, which tend to be more fragile. It takes a really long time to build civil institutions. For example, Russia has the money and an authoritarian regime, but repeatedly fails to innovate, and we can't predict what will happen when Putin leaves.
This may be terrible advice, but as a freelancer, getting sued by a company will cost them a minimum of $20k in legal fees just to get started. Unless you really messed up in bad faith, I would assume that most people will attempt to resolve things amicably.
I used Nextcloud sync in the past, but found it unreliable.