@glitzersachen @Yuki @cperciva

Sadly, #Tarsnap seems.to only accept #CreditCards via #Stripe (which are harder to get than #Monero in #Germany, so I can't even evaluate it.)

I wish they supported Monero or even #Paysafecard cuz #Shitcoins like #Bitcoin are just bad!

• Ideally they did support #SMS payment too but offering that globally would be even more painful than having a #SEPA bank account setup remotely without #EU residency.

https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#bitcoin
https://nowpayments.io/supported-coins/monero-payments

@january1073 @kenji Ich würde ja gern nen "Offline Datacenter" starten...

• Quasi ne Art Lager wo Leute Festplatten & SSDs abgeben bzw. abholen können und wo denen auf Wunsch jene (vollverschlüsselten Daten) auf Tapes überspielt bzw. zurückgespielt werden können...

Etwa so wie #Tarsnap, nur #airgapped statt #AWS...

https://www.tarsnap.com

new blog post: Reduce The Size Of Your Tarsnap Backups With This One Weird Trick (the trick is “pay attention to the size of your backups”) https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2024/12/10/tarsnap-backup-size/

Here’s a small but useful shell function to analyze the size of tarsnap backups according to your current --exclude config without the overhead of creating and extracting the backups: https://github.com/lucaswerkmeister/home/blob/master/.bashrc.d/ncdu-tarsnap

@xerxespersrex nodds in agreement...

• Shit like #SSPL & #RSAL is IMHO even worse than #SourceAvailable as it's literally "#AssholeLicensing"...

At least most source available products like #Tarsnap are honest that they are not #OpenSource!

@shoppingtonz @indigo I mean, #FakeFLOSS is a problem...

• Because unlike say #SourceAvailable (i.e. #Tarsnap) where it's an act of #transparency, it's an actual act of #AssetDenial and hinderance to honest #FLOSS whilst also being more hostile than #CCSS...

@kasiandra ja, das ist allenfalls "#SourceAvailable", kein #OpenSourxe (vgl. #Tarsnap)...

@alterelefant @HauntedOwlbear nodds in agreement

• If you trust yourself and/or staff to properly make, test, verify, backroll and maintain 3-2-1 backups then #SelfHosting is the more efficient move.

That being said I do acknowledge the convenience that solutions like #Tarsnap deliver and I think @cperciva deserves the revenue he makes with this convenient, fully encrypted #backup solution that makes #AmazonGlacier easy to use...

https://www.tarsnap.com

• I just can't use it for legal reasons neither he nor anyone else can fix - not even #Amazon - as per #CloudAct.

Needless to say it did inspire me to consider trying my hand on building something similar but without being locked to Amazon:

• OFC I can't and won't look at tarsnap's code since it's only #SourceAvailable, not #FLOSS and I do want it to be different and not copyright infringement!

@carlwgeorge @vermaden @samurro @tara Well, that confirms you went #ReplyGuy on me in the most disingenious way possible, wasting everyones' time and patience in the process.

• Gues what: Good luck with that sales.pitch, cuz I'd rather give @ubuntu or @opensuse my money cuz that nonchalant attitude is insulting.

If you (or #RedHat / #IBM) don't want to support #OpenSource or anyone using anything they made for #RHEL without paying, then shure you can do that but then don't expect people to like you.

• #grsec already did that and I'm shure it resulted in 0 extra customers.

#CentOS was in fact a "gateway distro" and had Red Hat not axed it I would've convinced my (fmr.) boss to consider paying for an RHCSA, but alas I've invested time and effort migrating from CentOS to #UbuntuLTS and even negotiated commercial support from #Canonical instead, because they were more friendly and welcoming.

• Personally, I think that Red Hat should just be honest and just stop any #Linux contributions, instead try to upsell their customers to #zOS on z/Architecture #Mainframe|s instead cuz that was such a great business...

Even "Source Available" like #Tarsnap is better - espechally in #finance - because having actual #SourceCode available is a matter of #trust.

• And #transparency is the reason people choose #Linux over #Solaris and other #Unix-esque OSes.

But I'm not getting paid to prevent Red Hat from continuing to shoot itself in the foot...

• In fact, I'd love to short it into the ground!

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/113065846313541796

@GrapheneOS It doesn't change the fact that #security requires #transparency and thus full access & reproduceability from source.

To give you a good example, source-available #Tarsnap demonstrates that stuff is truly securely encrypted by enabling #SelfCustody of keys and thus show they can't decrypt anything!

• You may call me paranoid, but having 'massive trust issues' saved not only my own life more often than I'd be able to disclose so you may see this as a 'survivorship bias', but we'll only see #MassSurveillance becoming impossible when people ain't just users of some big-ass platform that can be easily targeted once it becomes inconvenient for it's host nation, but actually push for #decentralization and #TechLiteracy.

"Just use A, B, C & D, E, F" is the real threat as it sugfests people a false sense if security.

• Just like a dresh #TechInspection doesn't prevent one to hose an engine due to lack of oil!

Collecting any #PII IS the illicit activity NO MATTER the excuse...

• You may choose ignorance but like with #LavaBit, #EncroChat & #ANØM I tend to turn out to be right all along.

Sooner or later the #Enshittification of #Signal will reach a point where you'd rethink and consider apologizing...

@GrapheneOS I think both apps are shit as *both #Telegram and @signalapp demand #PII in the form of #PhoneNumbers.

• #Signal at least has their #client's source code published so similar to like #Tarsnap it's more trustworthy by virtue of better #transparency...

OFC Telegram is (by my personal observation) almost exclusively being used by #Scammers and other #TechIlliterate criminals.

• Trusting Telegram is like trusting #EncroChat or #ANØM aka. #OperationIronside aka. #OperationTrøjanShield: It literally has #Govware #Backdoors because the #UAE of all plaves would've swatted their "HQ" if not forved #Durov at gunpoint to integrate it into it if it wasn't there...

@jo I usually recommend multiple backup strategies; one fast and convenient one, that works for the usual >99% of cases, and one that may be slow but provides additional robustness and resilience against malicious data destruction and site-wide emergencies like fire or floods. Take a look at combining your existing #tarsnap with #sanoid and #syncoid
https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid