Mike, First of His Name @mike@chinwag.org

@Nikolai_Kingsley do you still have a band name list, because I want to add "Not Your Real Dad and the Father Figures" to it.

@Nikolai_Kingsley this will make a great chorus

Trying to do tech support for someone who's a non-native English speaker and hoo boy has confusion over "export" and "import" taken up a whole lot of time.

@sophistoche now that you point it out, I did know it, but I was just looking at my lunch box doing random word association at the time, heh.

Linux Torvalds is an egg.

Maybe I was too quick to judge. Linus trivia is fun.

Linus Torvalds is naturally completely hairless, and he wears a wig he has crafted himself from finely shaved timber. His current eyebrows were a gift from Intel.

Linus Torvalds is allergic to the smell of an approaching rainstorm.

Yeah ... no thanks. I'm good.

@ToroidalCore haha yeah I'd prefer not to.

This is purely for a disaster recovery option, so I'd only be accessing data from it if, say, my house burned down - so something Glacier-like is the right option though. Single disk failures and "normal" events like that should be covered by the existing arrangements.

@ToroidalCore yeah looks interesting with the snapshots etc, but massively more expensive than say B2. I'm looking at parking quantities on the order of 2-4 TB so I want to shave off as much as possible I think. Might be well worth it for a small subset of data though.

@FiXato I dunno, that feels too much like editing someone else's post, and data duplication could be hard to track and control. If you really need to do that, post a link to the toot with a CW.

Anyone got any handy data on cost for continuous syncing of large quantites of data (using say rsync) to keep a backup with some cloud storage provider? While I have a pretty good home backup system, it's very songle-site and I'd like to mirror a couple of terabytes of disk array to maybe Backblaze or something.

Passing vague #mastodev idea - user option to create CWs for posts that don't have one expicitly set using any/all hashtags present in that post. Like, this post would appear with 'mastodev' above the button.

@matt so you need to throw a blanket over the bong and empty beer cans?

@matt @ThermiteBeGiants @koosli @Andrea @pelagikat @futzle I think the only logical option at this point is a three day pub crawl festival.

@Andrea it's really not worth worrying about. I'm really not at risk and I don't actually even care about business continuity. Not my problem. I'm just illogically feeling worried because of similarity to last time the media was in a paranoid frenzy like this.

I'm trying to be sensible and level headed about the virus news, but I remember being unconcerned about the swine flu about a decade ago and I managed to actually catch that. They did swabs and sent samples of me to labs and everything.