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  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Encryption help
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    20 days ago

    Is it really a matter of, I’m gonna have to buy a whole bunch more HDDs to copy everything over to, encrypt, copy it all back? What’s the best (Linux) software for a mass copy task like that to be sure it works correctly?

    Yes. If budget isn’t an issue then I would even recommend a whole new rig for the process, and here’s why: there are several Linux distros now that have the option, upon install, to do whole disk encryption where you have to enter your passphrase to get the computer to do anything at all. This is probably the safest, easiest solution available to you. You now have a brand new computer that’s never not been encrypted to copy stuff to. RAM and drives will hurt, but I think most modern processors have cryptographic instructions built in, so it may not take a large processor at all.

    The downsides are that it’s a bad time from an economic standpoint to be doing stuff like that, and that you’re eating a large amount of technical stuff all at the same time. If you don’t get it right then you might lose all your stuff.

    For me it would mostly be my desktop and my nas.

    I’m gonna have to buy a whole bunch more HDDs

    Depending on when you started storing data and how long it’s been since you touched your current solution, it might be just a few larger hard drives: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/

    Go ahead and add up how much storage you’ll need and decide if you’re doing any kind of RAID. I recommend at least a mirrored RAID.

    Give us a hint about what RAID you have on the NAS? How much storage used/available?

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that one company owns Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Match.com and at least 40 more dating sites/appsEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Be careful with institutional ownership as a metric, as many if not most companies that are publicly traded will have high percentages of institutional ownership. Blackrock and Vanguard, for example, have many, many Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds that are part of normal retirement savings practices without there being anything shady going on.

    MTCH fell out of the S&P 500 earlier this year which may be why Vanguard divested some going off what new_world_odor said. I can’t get searches to exactly line up on which iShares (the Blackrock ETF side of their house) hold MTCH. There are some funds that have charters about how they’ll track an index, so when it fell out of the S&P 500 those funds had to get rid of it or shift those shares internally.

    I wonder why they had such a huge drop, though. It looks like their stock shot up during COVID and is kind of falling back down to “historical” levels for something that went public in 2015.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Truth Social is (was?) based on MastodonEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Make a bingo card out of the phrases:

    • “We didn’t do anything wrong.”
    • “We paid Company X to do that.”
    • “What’s a computer license?”
    • “How much do they want?”
    • “If it’s free then why are we talking?”
    • “If it’s free then what did we pay Company X for?”
    • “What does GNU mean?”
    • [… some time later …]
    • “Can’t we just pay them?”
    • “Don’t pay Company X because they fucked this up.”
    • “Why do we have to give everyone the changes we paid for?”
    • “Whatever. I don’t want to hear about this again.”

    Add your own phrases. It’s a fun game for all ages.