Vivia 🦆🍵🦀

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Well, maybe you are:

    • Planning a surprise party
    • Leaving a job
    • Trying to escape an abusive relationship
    • Famous
    • Writing a detective novel
    • A writer without a publisher
    • Searching about an embarrassing medical condition
    • Having a crush in someone
    • In the closet
    • A teenager with controlling parents
    • Having a hobby that’s considered embarrassing or childish
    • Having a psycho stalker
    • Buying a present from Santa
    • A reporter who doesn’t want to reveal their sources
    • Buying a toilet and you don’t want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
    • Lending your computer to someone, and you don’t want your recommended videos to change
    • Under an NDA

    … Or maybe you’re talking with someone who’s in one of those categories.

    We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it’s a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won’t suspect anything when I’m looking for a gift for him.

    That’s only the tip of the iceberg and it’s not even touching some bigger problems:

    • You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
    • Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
    • If you keep a backdoor open to let the “good and trusted” actors in, there’s no way to not let malicious actors in as well.













  • For my server I use duplicity, with a daily incremental backup and sending the encrypted diffs away. I researched a few more options some time ago but nothing really fit my use case, but I’m also not super happy with duplicity. Thanks for suggesting borgbackup.

    For my personal data I have a NextCloud on a RPi4 at my parents’ place, which also syncs between my laptop that I’ve left there. For an offline and off-site storage, I use the good old strategy where I bring over an external hard drive, rsync it, and bring it back.