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  • Yeah. SimpleX has a similar problem, because it’s basically creating a bunch of 1:1 connections between everyone to preserve anonymity - IIRC (I freely admit I could be misremembering this). As I understood, it’s a decent limit, though - more than the 7-12 friend/family group you’d reasonably trust in a chat group.

    I did not consider this a blocker - who’s using encrypted chat for large groups? Large group chats are fundamentally insecure; is the use case about anonymity, not encryption?








  • Amazon has a non-existent customer support, so you may have limited options.

    If they had customer support, I’d suggest contacting them and tell them to either refund, or else you’d give them the ID immediately followed by a GDPR request to purge your data. That might have gotten some movement, because those GDPR requests have the force of law, and are also a fair PITA for Amazon. However, there’s no way to give them a shot across the bow. I think your options are:

    • process a charge-back, as someone else suggested, which might result in an Amazon ban
    • take the loss (that’s entirely your call, regardless of anyone else’s opinion)
    • give them the ID, get your refund
    • you can still initiate a GDPR purge request. I’m going to guess it’s going to result in a block, but maybe not. You might be able to recreate your account

    The happy news is that you are protected by GDPR. Many of us are not, and don’t even have the option to demand they purge the information.


  • If that’s the only error mechanism, sure. Exceptions in most languages tend to be relatively expensive, though, and most have a cheaper idiomatic way of returning error codes; you’d want to use those if they’re available, right?

    Does Rust use exceptions a lot? I don’t know. V has panic and catch, but you almost never see them. Idiomatic is Option (?) and Return (!) values, which I thought V borrowed from Rust. Go does the (val, error) tuple-ish return thing, and while it too has catchable panics, they’re discouraged in favor of (error) return values.

    Depends on the language. “Higher level” is a pretty broad field!




  • OnlyOffice is a Russian company. Some people might care about the latter part.

    The connection between OnlyOffice and Russia has caused some controversy. The company has moved headquarters and attempted to hide its Russian ties through shell companies. The company develops its product in Russia and presents itself in the Russian market as a Russian company. For this reason some Ukrainian businesses have moved away from OnlyOffice.

    Wikipedia has more info (with references) for the curious.


  • Second this.

    • message delivery can be iffy
    • VoIP works well
    • you connect with people like a normal app that isn’t going to scare your family off, not trying to get them to put in GUIDS
    • it has all the creature comforts, attached/embedded photos, markup, attached files, attach pictures, share your location for 10 minutes (I’m on my way), history editing, deleting
    • it has concurrent multi device support, so you can get messages on your phone, tablet, and desktop at the same time
    • There’s a full desktop client (Electron, i think 🤮 but it works)
    • the dev team is small and they seem to like to work more on features than user issues. development is slow
    • multi-person groups work fine

    It’s still the best E2E messaging system I’ve found; the only one my mom, wife, and sisters-in-law reliably use.

    I just want them to focus on fixing the sketchy DHT that seems to cause every problem.




  • My recommendation is to put all of the variables in an environment file, and use systemd’s EnvironmentFile (in [Service] to point to it.

    One of my backup service files (I back up to disks and cloud) looks like this:

    [Unit]
    Description=Backup to MyUsbDrive
    Requires=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
    After=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
    
    [Service]
    EnvironmentFile=/etc/backup/environment
    Type=simple
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup --tag=prefailure-2 --files-from ${FILES} --exclude-file ${EXCLUDES} --one-file-system
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.timer
    

    FILES is a file containing files and directories to be backed up, and is defined in the environment file; so is EXCLUDES, but you could simply point restic at the directory you want to back up instead.

    My environment file looks essentially like

    RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/mnt/MyUsbDrive/backup
    RESTIC_PASSWORD=blahblahblah
    KEEP_DAILY=7
    KEEP_MONTHLY=3
    KEEP_YEARLY=2
    EXCLUDES=/etc/backup/excludes
    FILES=/etc/backup/files
    

    If you’re having trouble, start by looking at how you’re passing in the password, and whether it’s quoted properly. It’s been a couple of years since I had this issue, but at one point I know I had spaces in a passphrase and had quoted the variable, and the quotes were getting passed in verbatim.

    My VPS backups are more complex and get their passwords from a keystore, but for my desktop I keep it simple.