PortNull

• Seeing the rising request count as ai bots circle around in iocaine
• Knowing where my photos and files are
• Having useful services that don’t require a subscription to random company
• Learning and experimenting with things

It was some dodgy accounting accusations/reveals https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-responds-to-claims-of-sham-accounting-customer-backups-at-risk/

For me it was an excuse to try something new and cover my ass just in case this didn’t pan out. But overall it looks to have blown over

I used to use B2 before the whole CEO financial issues came out (not another one accused of something unsavoury) and wasn’t sure how it’s going to pan out. I switched to a cheaper (per GB) Hetzner storage box and am super happy with it

I use restic, specifically https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest for making backups and uploading them via rclone.

https://forum.torproject.org/t/are-there-any-risks-to-running-standalone-snowflake-on-home-network-if-so-how-significant-are-they/16710

I was also wondering this. There’s some info here specifically https://forum.torproject.org/t/are-there-any-risks-to-running-standalone-snowflake-on-home-network-if-so-how-significant-are-they/16710/5