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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • Most of the time the VPS provider offers some backup solution. It’s not only about your configuration files which can easily be recreated, but about all the user data like pictures databases, etc. Which once lost can’t be recovered.

    Best practice is a 3-2-1 backup: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

    But you could back up your stuff on your laptop if you want, it’s not such a bad idea actually. For that you trigger the backup script from your laptop, you can do it automatically there too. This makes sure that the laptop is on while you’re doing the backup.

    The easiest way is a crown job and a bash file which runs a couple of rsync commands to get specific files and directories from the server via ssh.

    A more involved way would be a backup system like restic, which does a lot of things for you but is a bit more involved to set up.


  • I’m hosting my own server and my own bridges. Some of the bridges are rock solid and I never need to do anything other than keeping them updated like the discord, the signal, the Telegram and Slack ones.

    Others I installed but they are breaking now and then and I have to fiddle with them like FB messanger, WhatsApp.

    The third category is the ones that theoretically should work but I can’t get them to work like WeChat or Kakao Chat, because they are in a bad shape, outdated or like in WeChats case my account is flagged to not be able to do that for some reason.

    And then there are the chats which have no way to be integrated like Instagram I think.

    From what I understand beeper is just a matrix server with all those bridges installed and they configure update and run them making shire that everything works. And to be honest, that is a lot of work and it’s a good value proposition.

    But yes you’re right they need to decrypt your chats on their server so that the bridge can deliver the messages. Actually I made a video explaining it a while ago about Element One which is doing it in the same way: https://tube.jeena.net/w/rYhp4ZT5Ykw1aBGqMr62KG







  • I think video is very unnecessary, audio is the most important and there are great ones which don’t use the internet or even WiFi but a different radio signal like https://a.co/d/3YAxSzw

    If she really can’t do it without video then I’d buy a ubiquity one because they work without internet connection if you set them up like that. Then only you can access it. But they are quite expensive especially the ones with 2 way audio.