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Don’t be so sure. Piers Morgan will do whatever he thinks makes “good television” and especially good sound-bites that can have his ugly mug displayed ad-nauseam.

He saw a weakness and exploited it. I doubt he’s “chosen a side” at all.

Death panels are fine, provided the reason is pure profit. Apparently.

Windows is a strange game. It seems the only winning move is not to play.

The big websites are operating on ipv6. If you want to run your own website it’s actually trivial to host it on both ipv4/ipv6 now and most good hosting providers will give you a /64 allocation.

In the UK broadband providers also are quite commonly providing IPv6 as standard (albeit the scummy ones dynamically assign a prefix, for absolutely zero reason aside from annoyance). My provider uses PD to assign a /48 even.

So, really not sure why it’s so slow going elsewhere. There’s really no reason for it now in 2025.

Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.

I think his unrealistic 24 hour plan was to give putin what he thought he wanted. Eg all the territory he’s captured so far and assurances against nato action/withdrawal of some western personnel at nato border country bases. You know putin’s public story.

He just didn’t know putin’s real objective. Maybe now he’s getting a bit of an idea. He’s too simplistic to fathom that there could have been an ulterior motive.

I never heard that. But it seems entirely believable.

It’s for backup purposes mainly. A lot of cloud backup providers don’t store permissions.

So if I restore the data I can then restore the permissions after. So these are the folders I am backing up (with some exceptions in /var)

OK so it’s fairly simple. You need to install the acl package (or whatever equivalent package contains getfacl/setfacl. Then you can use that to dump the data from an entire structure into a file (I also then bzip that). Then I backup all installed packages to help with a restore too.

So the script looks like:

#!/bin/bash
cd /etc
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /home
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /root
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /var
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
/usr/bin/apt list --installed | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >/root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2
chmod 600 /root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2

To restore you change to the folder the backup was taken from, unbzip the file (or uncompress live via pipe) and use setfacl --restore=<file>

Yeah. Only on my phone right now but will get it and post here later/tomorrow.

I mean, too late for you now. But I have a script that backs up just the permissions and owners for a given folder hierarchy.

I use it because I backup to a cloud backup platform that doesn’t save them. So these files are backed up with the data so the files and permissions/owners can be restored in an emergency.

But you could of course also use the file to restore permissions after a user generated mistake too.

Pretty sure one of the first things musk did was kill off an entire (or more than one?) data centre. Pointing out with glee that it worked fine without it.

This is probably why it existed.

Still it’s only twitter. No real loss.

I did defederate from hexbear for a while a year or so ago. Just because at the time their users were generally just actively trolling for reactions in pretty much every community, and it just got too the point I defederated. I’ve since removed them from the defed list.

Generally I agree. But ML seems to have become a bit more clearly biased in their moderation. To me it’s not a reason to defed, but a reason to view the content they do allow in their hosted communities with that bias in mind.

I know the OP is using wifi calling as a solution. But since we’re talking voip providers.

I use voxbeam. But they’re wholesale, you need a fixed IP for incoming calls, their support are good. But they’re probably not going to want to help you with end-user type questions. They only support SIP. But, pricing is generally good and plenty of reasonably priced DID options.

That’s unusual. In the UK it’s generally only going to work if you’re in the UK. When I connect to my VPN (in my house, so residential IP), it’s hit and miss, the wifi calling icon will appear and disappear as it feels like. But otherwise it’s generally locked down.

I seem to remember, training exercises was what they told the initial troops that went into Ukraine was happening. So, while I really doubt they will do anything. That’s really not an indicator either way for Russia.

I think it depends on the type of surveillance and what they intend to do with the data.

In the UK I think for example that you shouldn’t expect to have any real privacy on a work owned laptop. But at the same time they need to inform employees what they’re doing, and the reason for doing so. Usually this won’t be made clear it’s to ensure you are actively pressing buttons for your entire contracted work period. If they say it’s for security and/or adherence to policy. They can really only use the data they obtain for those purposes.

Now in reality I can tell you it won’t stop a lot of companies using the data for illegal reasons but wrapping the dismissal around another reason or, just turning it into a suspiciously specific redundancy (if you suddenly get moved into a position with a very unique title, personally it would set off alarm bells :P). This happens more than I think it should, where I work.

Cameras and the like again are fine if it is made clearly overtly that they are monitoring the area. Again they should provide a reason why. If they say it’s for security (making sure people aren’t stealing equipment, or people that shouldn’t be in the office are there, or other illegal actions) then technically they should not use that personal data for other reasons. The same caveat above of course applies.

So, it’s just a bit more complex in UK/EU I think. But, companies can always work around the rules and get what they want in other ways, and they know how to do it such that it’s hard to prove otherwise.

I generally reject all. Then check for those sneaky sites that keep “legitimate interest” cookies ticked. I really doubt their idea of legitimate and my idea of legitimate align in any way.

Really? I see them when travelling to London all the time. I used to live in London too. A very common occurrence and if you want to keep traffic moving, allowing people that can proceed to do so, just makes sense to me.

Nope. People are on a roundabout and in the UK you will be going clockwise. So traffic on the roundabout is coming from your right.

I’ve driven in Italy/Germany and it is the opposite. People are going anti clockwise so you have to give way to your left.

The principle is retained on mini roundabouts where you give way to people on the entrance/exit to your immediate right (or of course traffic already on the roundabout) even though those work most similar to 3/4 way stops.

Stop signs don’t need to follow logic of traffic movement direction so you I suppose give priority to the right because being on the right side of the road they are easier to see? I’m not sure where those rules were formulated though.