Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

I decided to host my everything.  I'm running notqmail with some patches
on top.  My phone e-mail checker is K9, which I believe is actually
Thunderbird.  But it turns out that now there's the Thunderbird for
Android, too.  It looks the same as K9, except that it's blue instead of
red.  On the desktop, I run Gnus with an IMAP4 server local.  And it's
not over---I also run fdm to fetch my mail from my own server to me
locally.  So, yes, it's very complicated.  And I'm not even close to
finish because I didn't talk about public-inbox and mailing lists, which
is involved with Gnus because it's where I read and write mail.  It's
almost a life project.
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But it's fun to do these things *if* you have the free time.

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This is the truth! It is fun! =) My at home self hosting is limited to
2 x 2 bay NAS boxes (in two separate countries with replication
between them), 1 x radxa zero with kodi on it, which pulls movies from
one of the NAS boxes, and a backup server which receives backups from
my laptop and my fathers laptop.
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That's about it, when it comes to personal self-hosting.

You know, I have not worked on backup yet. :) I've done a lot of work on
this system and I don't really have a backup, except for one project or
two that I happen to once in a while push some commits to a remote
server.  But my remote server doesn't have a backup strategy either.
And my needs are pretty simple.  If I can stop to just write a Makefile
that copies files to a remote server, that will keep me safe.  Gotta
stop to do this.

I also have some unallocated space on my solid state drive.  OpenBSD is
able to dump partitions and using these dumps for recovery.  It could be
something that would be very effective, too.  Gotta get some things out
of the way here first and start new projects.  I'm taking my chances for
now.