I need to check, but I think OnlyOffice is a Russian company. Some people might care about the latter part.

The connection between OnlyOffice and Russia has caused some controversy. The company has moved headquarters and attempted to hide its Russian ties through shell companies. The company develops its product in Russia and presents itself in the Russian market as a Russian company. For this reason some Ukrainian businesses have moved away from OnlyOffice.

Wikipedia has more info (with references) for the curious.

My recommendation is to put all of the variables in an environment file, and use systemd’s EnvironmentFile (in [Service] to point to it.

One of my backup service files (I back up to disks and cloud) looks like this:

[Unit]
Description=Backup to MyUsbDrive
Requires=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
After=media-MyUsbDrive.mount

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/backup/environment
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup --tag=prefailure-2 --files-from ${FILES} --exclude-file ${EXCLUDES} --one-file-system

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.timer

FILES is a file containing files and directories to be backed up, and is defined in the environment file; so is EXCLUDES, but you could simply point restic at the directory you want to back up instead.

My environment file looks essentially like

RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/mnt/MyUsbDrive/backup
RESTIC_PASSWORD=blahblahblah
KEEP_DAILY=7
KEEP_MONTHLY=3
KEEP_YEARLY=2
EXCLUDES=/etc/backup/excludes
FILES=/etc/backup/files

If you’re having trouble, start by looking at how you’re passing in the password, and whether it’s quoted properly. It’s been a couple of years since I had this issue, but at one point I know I had spaces in a passphrase and had quoted the variable, and the quotes were getting passed in verbatim.

My VPS backups are more complex and get their passwords from a keystore, but for my desktop I keep it simple.

I hope this isn’t a step towards replacing the native app with an SPA.

Salem’s Lot.

It was forbidden, but on TV, so I’d flip channels to watch it in 30 second clips. It was far more terrifying that way, as I found out later in life; watched all the way through, it was a fairly mediocre film.

What I love best about that song are the vocal renditions on YouTube. It’s quite moving when it’s sung without the pop beat.

I like your take on it; the issue comes in that conflict where external labels don’t align with internal pronouns (or any other form of self-identity, such as identifying as a particular race despite genetic dominance). We want to respect people’s self-image, when we can, don’t we?

For me, it’s the good faith test. It can be difficult, or impossible, to determine bad faith, but sometimes it’s obvious. Trans people usually seem sincere about their identities, so I take them at face value. A meat eater insisting they be called ‘vegan’ is just mocking self-identification and kicking back at the whole pronouns thing, for whatever reason. That’s not good faith; that’s being contrarian.

That’s my line, until someone convinces me of a better one.

Ah, the rare Christian who’s read the Bible!

It’s crazy, and I highly recommend people in the US do it, especially if they’re not Christian. I have yet to come across a version of the New Testament that successfully creatively edits it enough that Jesus doesn’t come across as an utterly pacifist communist. It’s funny how so many self-proclaimed Christians will just ignore everything in the New to cherry-pick from the Old, which obviously was about a completely different god. An angry god. a righteous, vengeful, unforgiving god. The god who destroyed an entire city, children and infants, because some guys were buggering other guys, vs the Jesus who re-attached his enemies ear when one of his disciples tried to defend him. A Jesus who, by definition in the book itself, is both the son of, and yet the same being as, the old testament god. The new testament god who forgives the traitor, vs the old testament god who tortures his most faithful follower on a bet.

Everyone should read the Bible, if only to comprehend how utterly un-Christian most Christians are.

It’s not uncommon for sites and organizations to actively prompt for pronouns, which are labels. It’s generally accepted that minority groups can change their labels by group consensus - Redskins, to Indians, to American Indians, to Native Americans. Labels change, and this is accepted as a good thing, because identity is important to mental health.

Where do you draw the line? At what point do you think it’s justified to deny someone the right to decide their own labels?

Personally, I think it falls broadly under the paradox is tolerance, and there’s a point where someone is clearly just being contrarian. They resent self-labeling. But if someone consistently insists they’re vegan, at some point I have to ask: what gives me the right to insist they aren’t? If you go down the rabbit hole is insisting on dictionary definitions, you quickly get into a quagmire with things most of us agree on: many laws and dictionaries are wrong about their definitions of marriage, male, and female.

I think it’s an interesting topic, although I suppose almost everybody has already made up their minds one way out the other on the topic, and are frankly tired; most people automatically see anyone debating it as pushing some agenda.

But the paradox is tolerance is something I think progressives (liberals, the Left… that’s a whole different fight, on Lemmy) are still struggling with, and I’m interested in how we collectively resolve it. So when it comes up, I’m always interested in how people are thinking about this.

Dogmatic? Morally superior? Angry that people are changing the meanings of words that clearly already have a meaning?

Where does a person’s right to choose their labels (e.g., their pronouns, their identity) stop?

You’re just creating more monopolies, with no oversight and less control. At least with government, you can vote.

Yeah, the whole “taking your business elsewhere” is bullshit in the modern world. It might work in a town without internet that has 3 barbers; sure, you take your little protest purchase to another barber maybe it has an impact.

But I’ve lived in a neighborhood for 6 years where my internet connectivity choices have been Comcast, or DSL. That’s not a choice. When the only competitor is equivalent to no service, it’s not competition; it’s a monopoly.

I thought everyone had the right to choose their own labels.

Maybe! There’s a product that’s like alka-selzer for bottles. It works well for metal; I don’t know about plastic.

However, if it were me, I’d start with putting some baking soda in it and add some vinegar. That stuff will clean clogged drains, and I don’t think it’ll harm plastic. Vinegar is sold in plastic bottles, and maybe the baking soda interaction would damage it but I doubt it.

If you don’t want to take that risk, just try vinegar. It’s a pretty good cleanser all by itself.

Good luck!

This seriously got an out-loud chuckle from me. It’s funny, because it’s true! Thanks!

Sourcehut also supports Mercurial, so you also have an option to the herd mentality.

Sourcehut also has zero, or almost zero, JavaScript in the interface, so it doesn’t suck

Sourcehut is also componentized, so you can mix and match the pieces you want or need:

• VCS hosting
• masking list management
• issue management
• build server
• man server

Sourcehut is by far the best hosted VCS option at the moment. The Mercurial support alone puts it miles ahead of the others, which are all hobbled by tight coupling to git.

A good water bottle is a friend for life. We have a dozen in the cupboard:

• several are plastic, mostly swag but a couple that are for bikes. They’re cheap, and one leaks from the lid, but I’m not going to buy another little, metal water bottle just for the bike. Plastic is mostly useless as they don’t keep liquids cool.
• there are a few workout ones that are just tall cups with lids. Again, plastic; their one use is working out, because they don’t break or break things if they get dropped on the treadmill. I hate the lid mechanism.
• there are a few metal ones; again, mostly swag. Two are actual thermoses with great insulation, but they’re relatively small (16 oz), and their sippy lids are clearly optimized for hot liquids the other metal ones have screw tops and are a PITA to use. In fact, one is my second most recent one, which I replaced because unscrewing the top in the middle of the night was fussy so I’d just leave the top off, except I kept knocking it over by fumbling for it in the dark, spoiling water all over the nightstand and carpet.
• we have two glass ones, and one with an electric mixer base that I got for my wife for when she travels, so she can more easily have protein shakes in the morning. The glass ones are insulated and nice, but the tops don’t seal and you don’t want you drop them, so they just live in the cupboard.

And then there’s my prize, the black widow. Isn’t she lovely? Oh, wait, sorry, wrong song.

The one I have now, that has taken me decades to refine, is 1 liter - not too large, so it’s easy to carry around, but enough so a couple of refills a day are enough. It has a little handle to facilitate carrying. It’s metal, and robust. It’s vacuum insulated, so it keeps ice water cold all night. And it has a little sippy spout with a sprung button orifice so that when I knock it over it doesn’t leak. It’s the perfect water bottle, and it took me a couple decades of trial and error to refine my requirements for a water bottle: the size, the mechanism, the material.

A water bottle that meets all of your specific use case needs really is wonderful; it’s a pleasure to use, is convenient, and by its nature encourages you to hydrate. Honestly, it’s one is those weirdly and unexpectedly useful things that you’d never expect to have as big an impact as it does, that you find yourself using more than any other single gadget you own.

Are China Parties like Tupperware Parties, where friends get together and one shills a pyramid scheme? That’s what CP is, right?

Weird. I remember it as “head them off at the pass.”

E2E usually suffers from the same thing HTTP does: the MITM might not be able to read what you’re saying, but they know who you’re saying it to, and they may know in what context. This is a lot of information that can be used in profiling.

So you end up with systems like SimpleX, where everyone has a different UID for every contact, but that has its own problems, as anyone who’s used systems like that are aware. We haven’t really solved making that a good user experience for messaging; I don’t see it translating to broader social media any time soon.

Nostr has some really good specs and tooling that neatly addresses these topics, including great cryptography support, signing, ad-hoc IDs, and an entirely voluntary simple naming lookup; it doesn’t exactly solve zooko’s triangle, but it provides a toolset sufficient to mix and match characteristics for whatever your threat model is. Sadly, Nostr is utterly dominated by the crypto crowd (and is associated with some controversial personalities), and even if you’re not cryptocurrency-hostile, it’s a really dull echo chamber with little other content that has prevented people who might otherwise build interesting platforms in it from doing so.

Mastodon was around for ages before (the in practice centralized) Bluesky; why did it take Bluesky to open a mass exodus from X?

This is a hard problem to solve. Throwing E2E at it doesn’t make it easier; it’s just tossing a buzzword in.

Raise your hand if you’re never heard of Dizzy Gillespie. Now lower them if you’re under 40. No hands up? Good.

Communism isn’t predicated on selflessness, nor is capitalism predicated on selfishness.

Not explicitly, but by virtue is human nature. I should have phrased it as a requirement for it to function without authoritarian control, which we’ll bicker about in a bit.

Secondly, all states are authoritarian, they are all extensions of the ruling class.

Again, hard disagree. You’re stating a useless tautology: if everything is authoritarian, the word has no useful meaning. If you believe we live in a universe without free will, then we exist in an authoritarian universe, and debate is pointless. There are degrees of control, and some systems have more than others. Living in a prison is different than living in Stalin’s USSR, which is different than living in Russia today, which is different than living in Sweden today. Only a fool would insist they’re equivalent.

Finally, socialism works

Socialism is not communism. Socialism allows for private property and individual rewards for contributions; communism seeks complete state control over all resources and a classless society.