Well I heard that they track the trains, so they're sure to be tracking buses too.

You may need to use -c to force rsync to compare checksums.

I use something like this as part of my backup DATE=$(date +%C%y%m%d%H%M)
rsync --del --backup --backup-dir=../changedfiles_$DATE

The whole backup also goes to S3 glacier.

As an added step - I don't delete pictures from my camera unless they match the checksum of files in the _backup_ - not the original copy (via a script).

That way, once they're first copied from the camera, a single failure in the original, PC copy or backup copy will all result in the camera version remaining and I can check what has gone wrong.

Google Chrome allows easy creation and switching of user profiles.

I've wondered whether I should have a separate profile for each social site as a way to isolate them.

I turn off 3rd party cookies, but I heard that there was an exclusion for sites that you had logged into and received cookies from.

Meaning, 3rd-party ad site could not send you cookies, but Facebook still could if you'd signed in to it earlier.

More drastic isolation of browser instances is another option (I've wondered about sandboxie but not tried it).

I just hold down the lock switch for a second to turn on the LED, it's a built-in feature on my Nokia.

But why doesn't Android sandbox apps in a way that the app is unaware of? Just present all apps with an empty contact list, a fake GPS location, an empty drive, etc and the user grants permissions to substitute the real ones as needed. That way, all apps could be installed and you'd get a popup such as "this app wants your location" in a similar way to IOS, only this way the app would keep working if you said no.

Especially as a Faraday cage wouldn't prevent any device from recording video.

Don't the trees block a lot more of the road than they did then?

There's a webcam mounted inside the box near the window if anyone want's to check out the view (the pile of boxes placed there to represent the one's he's said to have placed there to rest the rifle on).

Those who count from 0 and the other 10 types.

Light-years of time.

Maybe even parsecs.

BTW, the term "new town" in this context is from a development plan to create more urban areas, not simply a reference to its age.

Fun fact: there is an anagram of 'ansible' that's connected to much of the discussion here.

Well, one advantage of self-driving cars is that they can be fitted with curtains...

Well I was replying to a comment advising "keep local backups" and describing the situation where the provider or at least your account disappears.

For the scenario you describe, Dropbox, at least, allows restoring of deleted files for a while after, so you'd have to both delete your files and then lose your Dropbox account to lose everything.

I don't rely on anything like this myself, BTW, incremental encrypted DAR files stored in Amazon Glacier is my current offline storage (as well as encrypted local backups).

And that's actually one big strength of services like Dropbox and Box. To have automatically synced local backups, all you need to do is install the client on more than one computer!

So even if their servers vanish, you're left with multiple local up-to-date copies.

Presumably intended to handle hurricanes and flooding instead of tornadoes, the kettle house in Galveston TX is an inverted metal dome, (although I don't know why it has a door at ground level).

Have you seen the copyright warning in Revelations 22:19?