I really need to figure out how to prevent the size of this instance from ballooning...
This is the server I got to replace it
I have finally destroyed my oldes droplet that I set up 7 years ago.
It still says it's using a Debian 9.3 image (I've kept it up to date manually)
RIP
(bonus: it had a nice IP address too...
WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal
Core drilling is tricky. Getting a 6 GHz signal through concrete is now easier.
I swear, it took way too long for HTTPS to become standard. It took a Firefox session hijacker extension (Firesheep) for companies to finally start enforcing HTTPS on everything.
I'm suddenlty reminded of how nobody took security seriously 20 years ago.
I mean, we had computers with no firewalls connected to the open internet, with a messaging system enabled by default that spammers used to open dialogs DIRECTLY on our screens.
Good times.
Unintended consequence of migrating back to a cloud server: disk space is no longer effectively unlimited...
I do have to say though--this new cheap VPS is far more powerful than what I had before
Just did a server migration off of my own infra back onto cloud... restoring the database backup took forever on the super cheap VPS.
I guess it's safer to run things in the cloud but I definitely had more powerful hardware at home.
A little Saturday retro computing 'hack':
Usb floppy drives from places like Amazon, only write HD 1.44MB disks, have you ever wanted to write a DD 720k disk on a modern computer easily, without something like a Greaseweazle?
Get yourself a Dell MPF82E, it has a USB port
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