I started training in my teen years to be a bench jeweler and over a decade later in the jewelry manufacturing scene and after the advance of tech, I found myself becoming a 3D modeler. I've given up on my hammer and torch a while back. CAD and 3D printing are mostly what I do all day long now. I'm in the process of expanding into other fields as I'm using my knowledge in CAD/CAM to create all sorts of things. It turns out if you know CAD/CAM + Rendering + general knowledge in coding/tech, there's nothing you can't create and sell online. At this stage, I'm not sure what my job title is. A modeler, a creator, or a retailer? This question always makes me pause and I end up telling people, "I do computer stuff" and they assume I'm coding all day long

Hi,

I have a handful of apps that I elected not to back up automatically and it would be nice to have an option to group them to make it easier when I'm creating the backups manually.

Thanks!

@d19dotca My problem with Signal and most other apps is that you need a phone number or email address associated with the account which can be mined from the metadata.

Signal removed the "from" in the metadata but for an app that touts "secure communications", you'd think they would have done that since the app's inception.

You might say, "I don't have anything to hide" or "I don't care if they know some things about me" but all this info is being collected and they're building a profile about you so they can profit from it. That's the best case scenario. Now imagine dictators having that kind of power in their hands. What's stopping corporations, governments, organizations from abusing this power? Nada. We have to protect ourselves by denying them every bit of data no matter of irrelevant it may seem. Ask yourself, if it's that irrelevant, why do they want it so bad? Why does big brother want a backdoor into encryption?

I rest my case.

You got my upvote for this. I ran into this exact thing yesterday. I just set up a B2 bucket w/ rsync and it took over 16 hours before I had to kill it. Tgz took less than 10 minutes today. My entire server is around 28GB.

Edit: Just found out how to upvote lol.

@marcusquinn I don't mind. He's interested in jewelry manufacturing, CAD/CAM, or both? DM me their email address when ready.

@mehdi Other than custom jewelry design jobs that I do for jewelry retailers, I work on creating accessories for all kinds of products. I aim for the hobbies (RC toys, gamers, etc.) because they spend without thinking logically lol.

@ei8fdb Thanks. Most people that ask me what I do, don't even know what 3D modeling means. I get that blank face and then I just say "computer stuff" and they're like OHHHHHH.

I don't know about NodeBB or Discourse but Wordpress is a spam magnet. The first thing I do for fresh WP installs is set up Wordfence and 2FA TOTP and within the first 48 hours, I would have hundreds of bot login attempts that get blocked.

I'm a bit late to the party but just want to say Cloudflare be damned. I use a VPN online and every site that has Cloudflare CDN blocks me out. Oh, and you can add Google Captcha to the naughty list.

@plusone-nick This can be a big hit in 2020-21 thanks to Covid

Thanks for the post Marcus!

@d19dotca Yes! I scared the living **** out of my family when I asked them to search their full name to see what they come up with. Every few months, I do this and go through the removal process on all these sites for my whole family. It's a PITA since they try to hide the opt-out form but you learn their tricks and the process becomes easier. I wouldn't be surprised if these sites were all operated by the same scummy group because their websites have a lot of similarities with each other.

@marcusquinn I know. I just mentioned it for the giggles. My needs are pretty simple but the extra year offer made it worth the hassle of switching them over. I estimated about $30 per year savings (without the extra year offer). I just didn't expect a registrar to be THAT behind and I thought Enom was outdated, lol.

I like their new look a lot with one exception. If you log into the new account area, at the top left there's an ad for cheap hosting. It's extremely annoying to have it there and I feel like it's blocking my menu so I keep trying to scroll to get rid of it.

But like you said, if it works then that's all that matters. I have DNSMadeEasy for my DNS needs so I won't be logging into NameSilo more than once a year to top up the account.

It's a great find and thanks again for sharing them.

Edit: It just occurred to me, you should have posted your referral link (assuming they have such a thing, haven't checked).

I'm just using the default Cloudron name but I use DWS to remotely access my PC's and I have them named after animals + their case form size. For example, my CAD ITX PC at work is called GrizzlyCub while my CAD PC at home is PapaGrizzly.

@marcusquinn Thanks, I'll check them out. I just finished transferring some domains from Enom and Namecheap. I have to say, NameSilo's website(s) aren't the most user friendly, especially the domain transfer page. Depending on where you access your account from and which service page you want to go to, you'll be redirected to a clunky look from the 2000's. (https://www.namesilo.com/account_home.php). The "modern" account homepage has a different url (https://www.namesilo.com/account/) but isn't linked to the main menu on https://www.namesilo.com/.

@robi No thanks. I'm not going to feed the beast.

@marcusquinn I was thinking the same thing. I want to get one for my gaming buddies and probably host a teamspeak server on it or something haha

I'm a bit late to the party but just want to say Cloudflare be damned. I use a VPN online and every site that has Cloudflare CDN blocks me out. Oh, and you can add Google Captcha to the naughty list.

Thanks for the post Marcus!

@plusone-nick This can be a big hit in 2020-21 thanks to Covid

@nebulon That's exactly what I'm doing. I'll wait a bit more to see how it goes. Thanks!

I'm not sure if spam is working on my server or not because I've marked several emails from the same person as spam and they keep showing up in the inbox. How long does the learning phase take?

I'm using Rainloop and marking the emails as spam in Rainloop and not in my iOS Mail app.