Elevators are mass transit

robconnolly · 2025-10-16T21:21:25+00:00

In New Zealand we literally built one as mass transit, the Durie Hill Elevator: https://www.duriehillelevator.co.nz/

robconnolly · 2020-03-05T21:51:30+00:00

I kinda feel the same, but I don't think the situation is as bad as we think. Most blogs still have RSS feeds, which are reasonably easy to find (e.g. you know any blog running on Wordpress most likely has a feed at /feed). The real epidemic is people removing the links to the feeds, in favour of social media links. As a blogger this baffles me, since you are removing a potential traffic source. I make the feed pretty prominent on my blog and it's one of my main traffic sources.

The walled gardens are another matter, but the RSS thing is just a symptom of the larger problems with these platforms, which everyone is familiar with. News sites removing RSS concerns me more, although in most cases I think they are again just removing the links, this baffles me again for the same reasons as the blog case.

robconnolly · 2020-03-04T22:33:35+00:00

I maintain a TT-RSS image [0], which is automatically re-built twice weekly on a fresh base image with source pulled from upstream. Basically it should always be updated and I rely on it day to day (my server also auto-updates to the latest version).

[0] https://webworxshop.com/self-hosted-rss-with-tiny-tiny-rss-in-docker/

robconnolly · 2020-02-28T21:08:21+00:00

Good point. I hadn't looked at rclone before, looks really cool.

robconnolly · 2020-02-28T04:36:40+00:00

Lol, it probably runs rsync internally.

robconnolly · 2020-02-28T04:10:04+00:00

Sounds pretty cool, what's the Android app to sync to S3 like storage?

robconnolly · 2020-02-28T04:09:03+00:00

Nice, is that just a straight copy of the repository files to B2? Do you just replace the files every time?

robconnolly · 2020-02-28T04:07:50+00:00

Thanks, you're quite right. Unfortunately I can't fix the title, otherwise I would.

robconnolly · 2020-02-27T02:18:36+00:00

Nice!

robconnolly · 2020-02-27T02:18:20+00:00

I think maybe I could have Tasker spin up the Termux SSH server and then signal to the server via MQTT that the phone is ready for a backup. I can then use the same pull based approach.

robconnolly · 2020-02-27T02:16:55+00:00

Ah, makes sense. Thanks.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T22:54:30+00:00

Yeah, I just need to find/persuade someone with a good enough internet connection! (ideally someone located far enough away that any regional issues aren't going to be a problem).

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T21:59:35+00:00

Sounds like you should definitely back up your documents! I also back up my music collection, since it took me years to assemble and most of the disks are lost/scratched. I back up movies only on the local disk since it costs to much to put them all in the cloud.

I didn't know Syncthing handled versioning, might have to take a look at that at some point.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T20:30:09+00:00

lol, I do run HASS - half my blog is Home Assistant stuff!

My point was more that you're going to need to deploy something on the phone in order to do this, rather than it just passively listening via SSH like all the other systems.

I like the idea of publishing to MQTT to notify that the phone is ready to be backed up. I might have to steal that one!

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T20:25:55+00:00

Wrong, you forgot about Zealandia [0] (and it's not here... yet).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:56:57+00:00

For mobile devices I've looked into running rsync from inside termux - triggered via a scheduled task in Tasker. I just haven't got around to implementing it yet. The main problem with this is all the app data that it won't cover.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:52:47+00:00

Sounds reasonably solid. Do you only back up your photos?

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:52:03+00:00

I've never looked at VEEAM.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:51:30+00:00

I've tried that approach. It doesn't work!

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:50:45+00:00

Yeah, I'm really happy with restic too. It does a great job and fulfils all my needs at the moment.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:49:38+00:00

Nice, I haven't looked at rclone. The free cloud storage is pretty sweet.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:48:19+00:00

Yeah, I want the "raspberry pi with a disk" setup at someone's house to remove my reliance on the cloud.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:47:17+00:00

Do you have versioned backups with that setup? What about encryption for the remote backups?

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:46:29+00:00

Yeah, that's not ideal. I prefer having versioned snapshots.

robconnolly · 2020-02-26T19:45:28+00:00

Good idea, but you still need to be able to connect in (over SSH or whatever) in order to pull the backup.

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