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Jeff Schaller

4:28 PM

oh it's so satisfying to make technology do something useful

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Andras Deak

6:00 PM

@JeffSchaller one of these days I'll have a can opener that goes all the way around a can

Jeff Schaller

lol

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Andras Deak

7:02 PM

I accidentally ran rm -r one level too high... fortunately I rarely touch that directory and I made a backup a couple of weeks ago. Still... woof.

Faheem Mitha

7:22 PM

@AndrasDeak You should have automatic backups running 24-7.

Assuming it's anything you care about, of course.

As I may have mentioned here, I use Borg Backup. But there are plenty of other options.

jesse_b

If everyone did everything they "should do" the world would be a pretty boring place

Faheem Mitha

I don't do many things I do, probably. But I do run backups.

Because using a computer without backups is like being a trapeze artist without a net.

Everything is fine, provided you don't make a mistake.

jesse_b

I know what you mean, I lost all the files on my company laptop a while back which resulted in my falling to my death.

Faheem Mitha

@jesse_b It's called an analogy. Look it up.

jesse_b

I'm familiar, just wasn't a very good one since those two things don't really compare at all

Faheem Mitha

7:30 PM

@jesse_b It's very much comparable.

Though of course, you're entitled to your opinion.

jesse_b

Although most corporations would agree with you. Sometimes it definitely seems like human life is less valuable than profits

I'm not sure what sort of things you save on your computer but there is definitely nothing on my computer that is worth even 1/100000000000th of a human life...

Faheem Mitha

My analogy in no way suggested that computer files are in any way comparable with a human life. Here endeth the conversation.

jesse_b

Maybe you get a different definition of analogy than me but it is literally defined as a comparison between two things

trapeze artist without a net = dead human, computer without a backup = lost pictures of cats

Andras Deak

7:46 PM

NFTs of cats

can't funge those

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ilkkachu

9:36 PM

ew.

jesse_b

@ilkkachu The formatting issues?

fra-san

Oh, I didn't notice it at first... Nice.

I can't reproduce it, though.

ilkkachu

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