Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

And _without_ a pressing or terrifying need to make a backup before anything crashed for the final time.

Over the last few days, I used FreeBSD dump(8) & restore(8) to back up a live system onto a USB spinning platter (once fully & twice differentially), restore it onto a new system for testing, and completed basic self-training today by plucking a single file from the backup I had originally intended to scp over to a third system.

It was quicker than rsync & more reliable than tar (which doesn't like files changing content from underneath it).

From `man 8 restore`:

-v Normally restore does its work silently. The -v (verbose) flag causes it to type the name of each file it treats preceded by its file type.

Whoops, that would be why.

@kibi I think the closest you'll get are PETSCII, ATASCII, and IBM/MS-DOS Code Page 437.

I'm practicing a backup using dump(8) & restore(8). dump gave me progress reports including eta, but after an hour restore is giving nothing.

My home's 'Net service is randomly disconnecting again, and now Mastodon is freezing & crashing. I guess I should be thankful it isn't eating enough load to overheat my CPU like TweetDeck does.

I've been irritable all day, & I have no idea why. It wasn't just programmer news, but that didn't help. I think most of it was seeing a brand new error during a support call, on site in a hot room. It was so hot that stepping outside into the Summer sun actually cooled me down.

@softgoat Sounds like just X crashed, but I can't see how an almost-drained battery would cause that.

BRB, making illegal copies of the software sheriff. (wrt lb)

@squirrel Sounds like the state of typewriters: When the instructions become separated, locked away, or lost, collective knowledge of how to use them is forgotten.

...And it's official. GitHub sold out to Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/

Apparently, it happened: GitHub sold itself to Microsoft. We'll know for certain tomorrow, I guess. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors

This won't shake the programming world to its very core at all, no-sir-ee! Microsoft and GitHub are talking about selling GitHub to Microsoft. http://www.businessinsider.com/2-billion-startup-github-could-be-for-sale-microsoft-2018-5

Facebook is killing the controversial 'trending' news section: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-removes-trending-news-section-from-homepage-2018-6

Good riddance to bad rubbish! :3

@squirrel Is this the symbol for trans-sisters?

@squirrel without nearly as much retro win as your night is going. That's awesome. :3