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Going to come back to this at some point far in the future, forgot to keep track while I was doing it.

1. Add `zfs` to `environment.systemPackages`
2. Set `networking.hostId`, do `boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "zfs" ];`
3. Force import pool
4. Reboot
5. Things work

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I store my multifactor authentication recovery codes in plaintext on a flash drive. The flash drive is stored in a safe place that can only realistically be accessed by me. I periodically generate a PDF from these codes and print it.

There's a good amount of reading on ways that other people manage this:

• Best practices for storing 2FA recovery codes
• How to securely store and manage one-time backup codes for 2FA?

In choosing this approach, I considered not only the possibility that I would need to recover access to an MFA-protected account, but also the possibility

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Over the last few months, I've been cleaning up after myself and filing CCPA requests where I can. Here are some of the less-friendly companies that I've encountered in this process.

Sift

Signed me up for marketing emails using the email address I provided for my CCPA request.

Equifax

The worst one of them yet.

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I host side projects on a DigitalOcean droplet running Dokku. For reference:

One-time setup of Lets Encrypt

$ ssh root@platform.natan.la sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt.git
$ ssh dokku@platform.natan.la dokku letsencrypt:cron-job --add

Creating an app

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Guide to the Defined Contribution Plan for UCSC undergraduates

First, a disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer nor a financial adviser, and if I were, I wouldn't be your lawyer or financial adviser. This is neither financial advice nor legal advice. I didn't even study this stuff.

That said, I've provided sources where appropriate. In particular, I'll refer to these documents:

• this UCSC Career Center [Defined Contribution Plan documentation][cc], which

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If you receive a Vanilla eGift Card, you should know that the link to the page with your eGift card details will expire after some weeks. The link can supposedly be reissued, but it must be requested by the person who purchased you the eGift card over the phone. So, best to save the card details somewhere once you receive them.

The eGift Card funds are advertised as never expiring. It's not clear to me if that guarantee holds for funds left inactive for a long period of time.

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I use my Fastmail calendar to track recurring reminders, like regular maintenance, or scheduling a doctor's appointment, or requesting a credit report, etc. I create each reminder as an all-day event on a calendar only for reminders, and configure each event to send me an email reminder on the day of the event.

This approach is simple and flexible:

• Recurrence rules make it trivial to configure a task to repeat at any interval, whether it be on the nth day of the month every m months, or every other year, etc.
• With an Inbox Zero approach, reminders stay out of the way until they're relevant, and can be

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Working with s3cmd on rsync.net

This document lists some problems I encountered using s3cmd on rsync.net and how I solved them.

Uploading with the ONEZONE_IA class

s3cmd sync doesn't support the --storage-class argument, and even that doesn't support the ONEZONE_IA storage class. You can still upload objects to that class by specifying the x-amz-storage-class header, but s3cmd sync will ignore that. The best solution I have is to upload your files as you normally would, then use s3cmd modify to set the storage class after upload.

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The benefits of using multi-stage Docker builds is well-known. Using multi-stage builds with a pure Perl setup is trivial -- all it involves is copying the /usr/local/lib/perl5 directory:

FROM perl:5.28 as builder
COPY cpanfile cpanfile
RUN cpanm --installdeps .

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Election	Term	Position	Function	Name	Votes	Proportion	Winner	Links	Comments/Notes
1999	1999 - 2000	Campus Office Director	Internal Affairs	Eric Gonzalez	2046	100	TRUE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Chair	President	Maria Catalina	720	28.1	FALSE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Chair	President	Dylan Smith	881	34.4	FALSE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Chair	President	Kirti Srivastava	957	37.4	TRUE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Lobby Corps Director	External Affairs	Carolyn Boyd	655	30.4	FALSE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Lobby Corps Director	External Affairs	Patrick McHugh	522	24.2	FALSE	https://deanofstu