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New 3-2-1 Backup strategy just dropped:
3 backups, on 2 different sites, 1 of which you can access.
It's just one version you pay to access all the time, one version you pay to access once.
0 of which you can afford.
I like smart home stuff. I hate my privacy being invaded. It’s a very thin line to walk.
A company recently released a product that promises to be Matter compatible. By the time the product arrived, they edited their product description to say it worked with Matter if you bought their always online hub, created an account, let their hub talk to the internet, and then installed their internet-connected plugin to Home Assistant. (So it’s not that HA talks to these devices, or that it talks to their hub. It logs into the company’s servers to get the current state of the device.)
I wrote a review outlining this. An AI bot sent me a message offering me additional products from this company. (Ha!) And included the line “We strictly adhere to data protection regulations” … in the U.S?
Laughably misleading.
I have a Universal Devices device that connects to Insteon, Z-Wave, Zigbee, network, IR, etc. The best thing about it, it’s 100% local only. There is a remote website you can use to control your devices when you’re not at home, but if they ever go under, just fire up a VPN or be on your LAN and you’re merrily on your way. No spying, nothing.
Also like that it supports programs and scripts to tie things together, so a single button from your remote can enable “movie mode”, close the curtains, dim the lights, etc.
That’s the dream. After years I finally got serious about learning/implementing VLANs and have begun to isolate everything out/properly firewall them. Most of the smart home stuff is already Z-Wave/Zigbee, but the few devices that aren’t are mostly already migrated onto a dedicated IOT network, as is the hubs, where only devices that have business talking to each other can even see one another.
I have yet to play with tailscale, but it’s on the list.
Probably have issues with retention periods and restoration SLAs though.
Luckily it’s proportional to the value of the data.
And file sharing. Sometimes a paywall 😥
no no no, suprise wont do. i prefer "spontaneous"
Unscheduled distributed data duplication
It's not a backup unless you can restore from it.
You can if you pay :)
Ransomrestore, now available on AIcoin.
Especially Odido in the NL
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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