Borg seems like the closest backup program like obnam. The main difference is it uses per-client AES keys, rather than gpg keys. So a backup can't be easily made accessible by other gpg keys.

I suppose that encrypting its AES key to the gpg keys you want to be able to access the backups, and storing the encrypted AES key alongside the backup will get the same functionality.

Did I mention the alien abduction part of my trip to Canada?

Drove to Canada and back. Home!

I walked over this bridge probably a hundred times, but never went down to see the waterfall. Let alone hiked down the gorge to Ithaca before.

Probably sums up my Cornell experience in some way.

Back at Cornell for the first time in 21 years. My feet still remember the way around.

Around a quarter of my pear harvest canned now.

The small jars are ginger-pear chutney. Need to find the time to make more of that, it's stunning.

There's always brogue..

booted system

clapped

done

Which is faster than my SSD can write out 6 gb. There are a few speed hacks involved. ;)

Sped up build time for a 6 gb disk image file from 30 minutes to 30 seconds. Wow.

Cables near my PV controller:

• USB on one end, house electric outlet (24v) on the other
• Ethernet on one end, USB outlet on the other

What could possibly go wrong..

cicadas

cicadas

cicadas

cicadas

cicadas

cicadas

.....

Beaming pictures of bratwurst through woodsmoke to orbit.

Almost time to put on the roast corn.

Poitras's film Risk has this surreal scene where Julian Assange is getting his hair cut by Jacob Applebaum and Sarah Harrison and Erinn Clark, while watching k-pop.

DATABASE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING: CONNECTION_ERROR

Actual error message seen on actual VPS host just now.

wow (talk)
wow (code)
wow (paper)

Quiet talk starts slow and grows exponentially. My head stopped hurting at all the maths and started blowing off at the awesome around minute 30. Then at minute 56 he shows one slide of code that uses a SMT solver on a regular haskell functions, to find inputs that produce a desired output. Angels descend, singing, etc.

Sometimes the simplest things, like laying these bricks under the grape arbor, are super therapeutic.

Truely specialtacular mipselling!

Over ten times the capacity as the old panels, in a little more than twice the surface area. PV tech has improved a bit since the mid 90's..

Hacked my sheevaplug's power supply so it will run on anything from 6V-48V DC. Voltage regulator is the size of a quarter.

Quite a contrast from wiring up massive PV combiner box yesterday!

I wondered where Michi was spending all her time lately..