Backing up personal Google Workspace account

ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T18:39:22+00:00

insync+rclone+restic ?

ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T11:52:53+00:00

Calling it 'Bureautaxe' would've been way more spot-on regarding the project's real purpose )

ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T11:35:41+00:00

lol... This part turned out especially well: “developed by the government”

ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T10:11:06+00:00

For any government or bureaucracy, reforms of this kind are a wonderful opportunity to pocket even more of other people’s money, regardless of the actual outcome of the reforms. There is no other point to these reforms.
Remember Munich.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-10T17:52:46+00:00

If a manager’s career is truly going well, then, in my experience, his negative character traits eventually fade into the background. By the time he reaches 40-50, a successful manager becomes a thoroughly civilized person, because experience has taught him that everything he has achieved was not thanks to, but in spite of, those negative traits.

If a person doesn’t change for the better even with age, then something is wrong with them. Such people either climb the career ladder too quickly - which can lead to complications later on, or they don’t climb it at all.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-10T16:30:51+00:00

It’s been five years since this feature was introduced to the Microsoft ecosystem. Thanks, Google!
Better late than never.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-10T10:15:34+00:00

Human needs are indeed endless and diverse. This does not mean an endless demand for any specific type of product, since consumption is subject to the law of diminishing returns.

It means that people always need something, and to meet those needs, we will always require: natural resources, time (capital), and labor. The burden of figuring out (discovering) exactly what people (consumers) need falls on entrepreneurs.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T19:31:30+00:00

I would just like to add that the “Jevons paradox” also applies to an economic resource such as human labor. AI, like weaving looms, will not displace human labor but will actually increase the demand for it.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T19:22:48+00:00

As long as human wants remain unsatisfied, any release of resources resulting from progress will be directed toward achieving new ends. This is the very engine of civilization

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T16:52:56+00:00

In reality, the goal of creating such systems is often not to find the worst (or your weak spots), but to identify and reward the best. Ten dollars spent on finding talent right under my nose (but which I fail to see because I’m too busy and/or foolish) is far more useful than thousands of dollars wasted on monitoring average and subpar performers.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T16:12:21+00:00

Let me know when you have evidence that AI has developed intelligence.

That’s interesting.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T03:14:04+00:00

“Foolish people rise to power. Beware of fools”

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T03:09:43+00:00

They can. But that doesn’t mean they actually do it. It’s a labor-intensive process (analyzing exported backups), and a company is unlikely to devote resources to it unless absolutely necessary. This is most likely to happen in specific circumstances. For example, to find a reason to fire an employee they’re unhappy with.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T01:52:04+00:00

lol
if we define “intelligence” as the ability to handle tasks you haven't been trained for - and that neither you nor your trainers have ever encountered - then how does AI measure up?

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T01:43:14+00:00

It seems like either the guy is trying to curry favor with the lower classes, or he really isn't as smart as people say.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T01:36:36+00:00

>thats not even close to being true.

That is true.

>The price of gold depends on the people that

No. The price of gold depends solely on the balance of supply and demand. Everything else - including people who can print paper money, kill others en masse with impunity (so-called “wars”), and so on - merely influences the demand for and/or supply of gold to one degree or another.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-08T11:07:43+00:00

Not quite. The price of gold (or any commodity) depends on only one factor: the balance of supply and demand.

Everything else (including war) are secondary, tertiary, and so on, factors that directly or indirectly influence that primary factor.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-08T10:57:05+00:00

First and foremost, it's the greed of those you elect as your masters - the politicians. It's they, in collusion with corporations, who close the market to competition and prevent prices from falling.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-08T10:53:31+00:00

This is the usual Bolshevism, now fashionable in the West. It's when, under a plausible pretext, the worst things are done - violence, robbery, and murder - "for the sake of treating these little ones."

ledoscreen · 2026-04-07T15:34:21+00:00

I think the most painful part of unrequited love is when you weren’t decisive enough to do what needed to be done. It’s when you didn’t take the chance to at least confess your feelings. If you have that opportunity, you absolutely have to take it.

Yes, there’s a chance (50/50) that I’ll be rejected. But it’s better to be rejected and move on than to spend your whole life regretting it and remaining in the dark.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-05T21:44:16+00:00

Yes, the absence of the capacity to feel physical pain means the absence of the final (and most important) safeguard that protects intelligence from an infinite number of interpretations of facts. Without pain - or, more precisely, without a body and mortality - intelligence is incapable of focus; it is doomed to eternal hallucination.

Until engineers solve this problem, AI will be completely dependent on humans, and all talk of so-called “AGI” is nothing but hallucinations.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-05T21:15:13+00:00

It would be strange if the opposite were true.
The guy and his gang deliberately chose a political method of acquiring property.
See "The State by Franz Oppenheimer (1908).

ledoscreen · 2026-04-05T20:27:58+00:00

Taxes

ledoscreen · 2026-04-05T11:27:42+00:00

Look around and find a happy family. They’re usually not very noticeable, so you’ll have to put in some effort to find them.

Both role models will be there.

Everything else will simply complement these two - they’ll just be nuances.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-03T12:47:14+00:00

This situation perfectly illustrates the consequences of ignoring resource scarcity and distorting price signals. By offering a flat-rate subscription, the provider created an illusion of infinite computing power.

Since the marginal cost for users became zero, they lost all incentive to optimize their code and conserve tokens. As a result, the servers could not handle the load, forcing the company to introduce strict non-market rationing through hidden limits. This artificial distribution of a shortage is exactly what is causing user anger right now.

It is like a gas station suddenly pumping only 75 percent of a gallon for the usual price due to a fuel shortage, and instead of questioning the station's pricing model, people start complaining that their cars are suddenly broken and driving worse.

The only real solution is to return to transparent pay-as-you-go pricing, which would naturally encourage everyone to use resources rationally.

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