How cheap IS disk space?
What's on my mind? Keybase. I saw that they offered file storage as part of my general tour of their services upon first signing up a few weeks ago. Today, I noted that — thanks to FUSE, coincidentally on my radar for the second time this week — the desktop client provides simple access to this storage. And then I thought something went wrong, because Nemo told me I had approximately 248GB of free space on that filesystem.
The documentation confirms it: every single user gets 250GB of free storage space. I do not understand how this is good business, but, then again, I've never had a head for business. (Still, I can't help but wonder whether Zoom will revisit this policy.) Regardless, it's very generous. (Thank you, Keybase!) More than ten times what Google offers, while foregoing the profits Google makes by selling our data to boot.
So I've been playing around with rsync and cron today, adjusting my backup solution to take advantage of this bounty.
Oh, and I created a team — beardlovers, for fans of YouTuber Wheezy Waiter — so I could play around with that feature as well. Pop in, and I'll tell you all about the wonderful show that is The Good Stuff.
I had some news at work today. I'm not at liberty to share it right now, but let's just say I'm a bit preoccupied at the moment. I'm also worried about my upcoming 24-hour game show of a test that is my Splunk Architect practical lab; I keep running into indexer cluster issues, and so haven't had much time to practice field extractions, creating sourcetypes, or dashboarding. Oh, well. A fun weekend activity, I guess?
End of Day 26
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