#ossasepia | 2019-11-20

06:07

diana_coman: I believe I should also keep backups of my younghands posts. I am considering writing a script that just saves the html outputs because I imagine you have backups of younghands in its source form, and my use of the backups should younghands explode would be to review my weekly progress. I.e. it is not ideal but not the end of the world if I can't easily reconstruct a portion of the wp site. If I should go about backing

06:07

whaack

up younghands in another way, please let me know.

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07:38

06:07	whaack	diana_coman: I believe I should also keep backups of my younghands posts. I am considering writing a script that just saves the html outputs because I imagine you have backups of younghands in its source form, and my use of the backups should younghands explode would be to review my weekly progress. I.e. it is not ideal but not the end of the world if I can't easily reconstruct a portion of the wp site. If I should go about backing
06:07	whaack	up younghands in another way, please let me know.
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07:38	diana_coman	whaack: you can always aim wget and mirror any site for that matter, not much of a script to write as such; but yes, do backup your yh posts for sure; and as a rule, you always do your own backups, no matter what others might or might not be doing.
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08:03	diana_coman	jfw: did you get that deedbot/invoice problem sorted?
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16:55	whaack	diana_coman: good morning. Boxcorreos has informed me that they need me to send me my passport # via email to be able to receive the test package i sent through them. Normally I would just go ahead and do so, but my attempt at a do-as-diana_coman-would-do mentality is giving me pause. The reason I am okay with sending plaintext passport #'s through email is "eh it's such an insecure system anyways, why bother putting an effort to
16:55	whaack	protect the #?"
16:58	BingoBoingo	They won't let you give them the number over the phone?
16:58	whaack	BingoBoingo: I can try calling them.
17:02	whaack	BingoBoingo: I thought of this but also I am not sure if its foolish thinking the phone is more secure.
17:04	BingoBoingo	whaack: Well to be especially paranoid, if it gets harvested over a voice channel whoever intercepts it has to burn more CPU turning it into a db entry.
17:04	BingoBoingo	And its just a magic string.
17:05	BingoBoingo	A magic string that's got most of its utility tied to an arbitrary artifact.
17:08	whaack	BingoBoingo: Well that last point I understand, but I don't see how it's an argument for or against giving them the number through the phone.
17:10	BingoBoingo	whaack: I ran into this quite a bit after landing. Latino systems don't tend to be fucked the way US systems are. The local ID numbers aren't magic attractive ID theft targets like US Social Security numbers are. There's all sorts of rituals here where folks gotta check off having a number in their checklist.
17:16	whaack	BingoBoingo: I am aware of them constantly needing the passport number in LATAM. From my understanding police can do checks on hotels and ask for the passport numbers of all their clients, and if the hotel doesn't have them available they have to pay a fine.
17:17	whaack	BingoBoingo: It is usually something I give out without second thought. I gave it recently through email to get my fancy chair delivered.
17:18	BingoBoingo	whaack: The hotels thing is retarded pantsuit "anti-human" trafficking bs.
17:18	diana_coman	whaack: it's not going to make any difference; call them since it's good for your Spanish practice but other than that, it doesn't matter.
17:18	whaack	diana_coman: ha alright
17:25	whaack	diana_coman: On a separate topic (jfw and dorion your advice is appreciated as well) for my possible parts list I would appreciate feedback on the motherboard and videocard. (of course feedback on all parts is welcome, but those were the two parts I feel most uncertain about) https://pcpartpicker.com/ warned me that the motherboard will not be compatible with
17:25	whaack	the Fx8350 if it has an older bios version. On a forum I found a post saying that the incompatible bios version is from back in 2013, and thus the motherboard will most likely be compatible.
17:28	whaack	BingoBoingo: Your input is always very appreciated as well :)
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17:47	BingoBoingo	whaack: All I have to really say about the parts that hasn't been said is that the speed boost of a solid state disk is hard to pass up.
17:47	BingoBoingo	One big advantage of desktop builds is getting multiple drive bays.
17:56	diana_coman	whaack: is your cpu in the list of supported cpus for that motherboard or not? it should be in the specs there, no?
17:57	diana_coman	also, I think you got confused re drives or it reads like that atm on your blog: you seem to have swapped a Kingston SDD for a SATA (mine is SATA, not SDD)
17:57	whaack	BingoBoingo: /me sighs. Practicing 'unflinching honesty' I must admit that I managed to list the Seagate with "7200 RPM" thinking it was an SSD in my head.
17:58	whaack	diana_coman: yes.
17:58	diana_coman	while I fully agree that using SDD gives a speed boost, tbh I never bothered with them on my desktops really, not like I ever needed that boost.
17:58	diana_coman	yes, I use them in servers, sure.
17:59	diana_coman	whaack: at any rate, there's nothing wrong with either option sdd or sata really, just know what you choose and why
18:00	BingoBoingo	It seems to make a differnece if the computer is running a Bitcoin node, but a benefit of multiple bays is a small SSD large HDD combination can work
18:00	whaack	diana_coman: the yes was to having confused the drives btw, i will double check the list of supported cpus for the motherboard. I found the motherboard by checking the cpu's list of supported motherboards on a third party website.
18:00	diana_coman	BingoBoingo: for btc node certainly.
18:00	diana_coman	whaack: the SPEC! that is the reference, not whatever someone you don't know wrote on a website, gah.
18:02	diana_coman	SSD* ofc, no idea why I keep writing it as SDD.