Lovely.
I miss The Forest (am an Old Brockensian).
sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online
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My first post on Mastodon, as well as my first day in the Fediverse and a new start away from the bin-fire that is Faceb00k. -
Test your damn backup scripts.TickIT auditor's story.
Asked about backups, was told they were done nightly to disc on rolling 7 days[0] and the backup discs stored in a cupboard down the hall[1].
How and when are they tested? Blank looks.
Walk through reloading backups.
Data on every disc corrupted. Panic ensued.[0] Not enough.
[1] Not far enough away in case of fire, flood, plague of locusts or whatever. -
Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted.@ricci
I had thought perhaps they weren't showing the local servers in order to protect them. -
There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.I support this, and not just for non-binary. I'm cis-female and have long resented being forced to announce it in circumstances where my gender should be irrelevant.