There's this weird trend I've noticed among large corporations with a strong public-facing line of business. And that is a very strange attitude toward customer interaction - treating it as some kind of chore or drain on their bottom line instead of their core method of earning profit. And this is a fairly recent development too. Some time in the last 5-10 years it's as if businesses started feeling weirdly offended every time they needed to engage directly in customer interaction, instead of identifying that interaction as a core component of the value of their business.

This is, I think, the core emotion currently driving the A.I. bubble. Not greed. Not fear. Not lack of empathy. But laziness. The desire to simply reach into a customer's pocket and extract cash without the need for all that messy and icky "talking to the customer" bullshit.

As the Director and founder of PlayLoveLearn, my company will never do that. Not just because it's the right thing to do. But also, just as in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king, in the age of A.I., human interaction is a luxury service.

Today is the day, the EU decides on Chat Control 1.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?

We at Tuta say NO. 

❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification

Instead we fight for:

✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source

And so should the EU. Stop #ChatControl now! 🥊 

Curious if your emails are safe? Check here which providers scan your data:
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanning-google-microsoft

One wasn't exactly spoiled for choice as far as differential/incremental backups went prior to 2010.

From what I can find there was duplicity and... that's about it for self-contained options.

Bacula has the whole "yeah but you need to stand-up a server so you're kind of screwed if that's down" problem.

Amanda is similar in that way and also looks a bit intimidating to get started with.

These days I prefer borgbackup to duplicity, but it sure is a lot younger. It was not always an option.

I'll be speaking in about 30 minutes @cfgmgmtcamp -- title of my talk is "The Gilded Age of Open Source is Over". With a title like that you know it's going to be brimming over with optimism and positivity. You know, as I usually am.

I have jetlag, very little sleep, 50 minutes, and 59 slides. Let's go! #CfgMgmtCamp