dan

I usually use Clonezilla and have it verify the data after cloning. It works for local drives, but it can also clone a drive over the network by running it on both the source and destination system, which is very useful for remote servers (eg moving a VPS to a different location).

I usually use rsync -avHXS --numeric-ids --progress --delete

The underlying protocol (RFB) is very simple to implement, and in fact some friends and I implemented both a VNC client and server as part of a project we worked on at university nearly 20 years ago.

Because of this, it's common to find it in various places, especially for interacting with systems that don't have an OS installed yet:

Most good VPS providers provide VNC access so you can set up your own OS from an ISO, use Clonezilla to clone the drive over the network, recover files if the drive gets corrupted somehow, etc. It's a built-in feature of KVM/libvirt that the providers usually expose using something like NoVNC in their control panel. The common off-the-shelf control panels (Virtualizor, SolusVM, Virtfusion, Proxmox, etc) all have it as a standard feature.

A lot of IPMI/BMC and KVM-over-IP systems use VNC too, for a similar purpose, just for physical hardware rather than VMs. The protocol being very simple makes it easy to build a simple version into an embedded system. This is also usually accessed via NoVNC in a web UI.

One of the ways it can happen is if a router doesn't have a proper IPv6 firewall.

The majority of internet users in the USA have IPv6 connectivity - something like 55-60% overall, and close to 100% on some networks. T-Mobile's network is 100% IPv6-only, using 464XLAT for connectivity to legacy IPv4-only servers. Most Comcast customers have IPv6 too, as they were the first major ISP to roll out IPv6, close to 15 years ago now.

Without an IPv6 firewall on the router, all devices on your network are directly accessible from the outside world (unless they're running their own firewall, of course). At least Windows ships with a firewall enabled by default, which reduces the impact for Windows users.

I've seen this in places you wouldn't expect it, too. TP-Link's prosumer/SMB 10Gbps router (Omada ER8411) didn't have an IPv6 firewall until about a year after launch. I had to disable IPv6 until then. They did add it, but I've since switched to a Unifi Cloud Gateway Fiber.

Thankfully I haven't seen it recently, so maybe it's not an issue any more on modern hardware.

NAT is a hack, not a security feature, and IPv6 removes the need for it. The firewall is the security feature. (edit: the firewall on the router)

I think that'd make sense. The trackers for public torrents are often at seemingly random domain names and nobody really pays much attention to who runs them.

The US military created Tor, so I don't doubt the US government still runs a lot of the nodes.

I think people will eventually have to get used to paying for things though, if bots / AI / ad blockers kill off the feasibility of online advertising. Either that or everything becoming a freemium service with major limits for free users.

I doubt it. It's likely custom code that's better suited to the task.

The *arrs watch RSS feeds to find new torrents. It wouldn't be difficult to write a script that pulls the RSS feed and polls the tracker to collect data on the initial seeds/peers. They might use an actual torrent client for some of the data collection, since I'd guess they have to prove the person is actually uploading, rather than just being connected but not actually uploading or downloading.

How much difference does an extra second in the microwave make?

My husband forgets food if it doesn't beep (ADHD).

Same. I get other things done while the food is in the microwave, and would completely forget about it without the beep. Thankfully neither my wife nor I are sensitive to the beeping.

My wife leaves time on the microwave. I like things to be complete though, and time left on the microwave means the usage of it is incomplete.

So I can install any software I want. I'm running my own Lemmy server. I host Odoo and n8n for my wife's business. I have servers running Borgbackup and Borgmatic for backups. And a bunch of other stuff.

It's the same way that taxes work. Rich people contribute more than poorer people, but everyone can use things funded by public money (parks, police, fire fighters, public transport, schools, health care outside the USA, etc).

I actually wonder if there should be more taxpayer-funded online services. Lemmy's development was partially funded by government money (NLNet Foundation via the European Commission) for example.