Commitments:
1. Research health insurance: 4h.
2. Basic backup scripting for newly upgraded Thinkpad. This is just to adapt my existing tar+gpg based full backup script, with excludes for large datasets that don’t fit this treatment (bitcoin database, local software & web archives). 2h.
3. Investigate options for efficient differential backups on Gales. In the past I’ve used rsync and unison but the prospect of committing these to my own V-tree gives me pause. The Gales mirror sync scripts I wrote prove it can be done quite simply; one option would be to expand these to handle metadata and soft/hard links. Minimum 3h.
4. Streamline time tracking tools or usage – no more manual aggregation: 3h.
5. Blog: definitely don’t write anything about TRB patches, Gales Scheme, Gales Bitcoin Wallet, or router setup! 10h.
6. Assist Robinson as requested, or otherwise unexpected tasks: 5h.
7. Chat in #ossasepia, or otherwise engage blogs: 5h.
8. Weekly review: 1h at 18:00 UTC Friday. Not expecting to be done with all the above by then but I can look at how it’s gone so far.
9. Next week’s plan: 1h. Efficiency can be improved later but priority is to get the plans more meaningful/useful.
10. Keep in touch with past students + remote friends and family: 1h.
Time permitting:
11. Investigate TRB sync and peering logic. My new node has made very little progress, with intervals of nothing but “bastard blocks” alternating with silence, a behavior I’ve observed many times before but is really starting to bug me.
Past items being sidelined for now are v.sh/vtools study, and genesis of programs I use e.g. Ledger.
Ahaha @5. Looks all good!
Re trb and since you have the offline wallet software and all the experience there – do/did you consider at all offering wallet/payments services (done the proper way aka no-login), since apparently it’s more likely to be an easier way to get people in anyway?
Comment by Diana Coman — April 15, 2020 @ 7:27 am
We considered it a few years back, because indeed first reactions tended to be “but why can’t you just do it for me?” The thinking was that while the business might be easier to get, it would come with more risks attached, e.g. legal or extralegal extortion, particularly if offering anonymous accounts to the public.
OTOH, assorted web wallets not to mention deedbot’s wallet are still standing, and perhaps further clarity has come to the legal picture since then. I’d say it’s worth taking a fresh look.
Comment by Jacob Welsh — April 15, 2020 @ 8:08 pm
I think it’s worth reconsidering, both what we could offer between the two of us and what we could offer with strategic partners –though now we’ve more variables to weigh given our location is less stable and certain.
Comment by Robinson Dorion — April 21, 2020 @ 7:20 pm