It's a joy that the OSS world has so many active and really good backup tooling projects like Borg, restic and all the fancy wrapper/GUI tools. I use many of them in different environments for customer setups, desktops and my own cloud setup. It's essential to have several different options and each project has its own USP. A big thanks to everyone involved!
As you seem familiar with the landscape, do you care to share what you think the strengths/USP and weaknesses of each option you are familiar with are? Or do you know of a high quality blog post somewhere that does?
I had this issue with let's encrypt certificates. IMHO it's unreleated to the issue. IOS18 mail initially connected using TLSv1.3. Afer deleting and re-installing Mail, the connection falls back to TLSSv1.2 and another set of ciphers. Then downloading of mails works again.
When I was at school they told us people learn differently. Through examples, through listening to loud reading and by doing (e.g. applying things). I for one can learn fast through examples and visual representation. A wall of text can be very frustrating so I personally like screenshots when appropriate.
I support the author's points, that screenshots must come with a description what or why something has to be done. Not just "click this and that and you will be done". I also strongly support the remarks about automation of screenshots. Outdated screenshots are the worst.
Brother (printers and sewing machines) feels like Zoom (audio recorders): a bit conservative but they are very well made and long lasting. And consistent. A USP in today's world of crap-loaded, buggy short living throw away products.
We could use an international magazine or media channel that focuses solely on tools that have prooven to be robust and reliable. And on trustworthy companies with good value for money ratio. I'd love to spend double for some things, if I'd be able to know it lasts way longer and works better.
TBH, flaky sewing machine would be a disaster, you cannot just go and restart it. Apps working like a sewing machine is something from the imagination nowadays.
There are some other pieces missing.
The cluster-autoscaler implementation is quite basic. It doesn't have a way to managing multiple clusters inside the same project and no way to add custom tags. That makes it harder to track resources.
The permissions/security is quite simple. Read/write tokens with full permissions on the project is very wide. Adding S3 like service without more security would be interesting.
These are the most important ones, but I remember there were a few more nice to have feature (like server groups for scaling up an down and the ability to retrieve the userdata, image and ssh keys for a running server.
Hetzner S3 Storage would be great. I know Hetzner is slow moving when it comes to Software but it's so obvious that they would have explosive growth if they did that and most of it is available as FOSS Software already
So I'm working on adding this on top of Hetzner -- it's service #2 and the beta should be out by the end of the month (Redis is first!) -- if you'd be willing to beta test I'd love to have you try it.
IMHO this has to be offered by the platform, not by some other party/intermediary. Of course I could run minio, swift, etc by myself, but this is not the point.
Thanks for sharing this, hopefully after the expansion finishes (and maybe some dedicated servers appear in the US), Hetzner could offer object storage natively!
I have seen the "apps" in image selection in the Hetzner cloud console, so I'm convinced they're at least thinking about going up the value chain.
iirc Hetzner once had GPU offerings in Germany but it was discontinued. I guess it was hard to model a business case on short living hardware (from a business perspective as Hetzner hardware usually runs for a couple of years) and mad pricing/sourcing due to all the blockchain/ML hype. Today I guess eneregy is also an issue.
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