hperrin

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

I love how no matter how much the market makes it explicitly clear that an idea is absolutely terrible, Microsoft will just be like, "we're doing it anyway, fuck you." The best argument for Linux is just to gesture vaguely at Windows.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The cheapest one I know of is about $8 a month, so it should be affordable, even on a tight budget.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can buy a super cheap cloud VM and use a (self hosted) VPN so it can access your own PC and a reverse proxy to forward all incoming requests to your own PC behind your school’s network.

It’s arguable whether this would violate their policy, since you are technically hosting something, but not accessible on the internet from their IP. So if you wanna be safe, don’t do this, otherwise, that could help you get started.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Backups and rollbacks should be your next endeavor.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If they tried to close source it, someone would just fork it.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy deserves a good adaptation, rather than that trash movie and that too short BBC series.

 

https://hub.docker.com/r/sciactive/nephele

In the latest version of Nephele, you can now create a WebDAV server that deduplicates files that you add to it.

I created this feature because every night at midnight, my Minecraft world that my friends and I play on gets backed up. Our world has grown to about 5 GB, but every night, the same files get backed up over and over. It's a waste of space to store the same files again and again, but I want the ability to roll back our world to any day in the past.

So with this new feature of Nephele, I can upload the Minecraft backup and only the files that have changed will take up additional space. It's like having infinite incremental backups that never need a full backup after the first time, and can be accessed instantly.

Nephele will only delete a file from the file storage once all copies that share the same file contents have been deleted, so unlike with most incremental backup solutions, you can delete previous backups easily and regain space.

Edit: So, I think my post is causing some confusion. I should make it clear that my use case is specific for me. This is a general purpose deduplicating file server. It will take any files you give it and deduplicate them in its storage. It's not a backup system, and it's not a versioning system. My use case is only one of many you can use a deduplicating file server for.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, cause the constitution doesn’t forbid felons from running for president.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yay Jellyfin! What an awesome app!

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You don’t follow the license that it was distributed under.

Commonly, if you use open source code in your project and that code is under a license that requires your project to be open source if you do that, but then you keep yours closed source.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New life lesson: never volunteer for a for-profit company.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Eat the rich. Bring back the guillotine.

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