Sounds to me as if they have a Palo Alto NGFW at the edge, filtering the traffic. UC Berkeley appears to be running a Palo Alto for at least part of their infrastructure.
Object lock support on S3-compatible storage does it for me. That was my only concern with restic, in the event of ransomware and compromised bucket credentials.
https://kopia.io/docs/advanced/ransomware-protection/
Start your own LLC, incorporated business, I'm sure you have done other side projects. It would add to your credibility and fill the gap in your resume. This is coming from someone who has been on long-term disability for three years and re-entering the workforce.
My Rogers plan is $90 for 65 GB of data, it is unnecessary (average use for me is 4 GB/month), but better than going over or throttled. When I was supporting an MPLS Rogers fibre connection, we had zero downtime in 2.5 years.
I bet you could twist their arm into a better deal if you spend a while complaining on the phone about today.
I do a lot of my work off of a mobile hotspot so I'm not tied to an office or home. I try to make the most of what's paid for and it goes very far.
I think that if you're getting a decent price it's probably just customer retention at that price point. If they're ripping anyone off widely at the prices I saw, it's new customers... Immigrants etc, pretty nasty.
A good psychedelic trip to facilitate a mystical experience may provide you with insight from your unconscious mind that is usually suppressed. Some time ago, a research paper was posted here, "Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness", Katherine MacLean / Roland Griffiths. DOI 10.1177/0269881111420188 I followed the conditions of the paper and it permanently changed me for the better.
I remember repartitioning the drives on the lab machines, so that when they were reimaged, the content in the new drive E, volume label CD-ROM, remained static. Hid the directory at the root, inserted a high ASCII character so that one couldn't browse to the directory without knowing the character, and shared this knowledge with a few individuals.
I had some excellent results with selegiline / Deprenyl in my 20's, Cyprenil (liquid) seemed to be the best. I had mad cash back then and could afford to spend money on life extension and cognitive enhancers. It certainly helped me focus.
I used a stack this summer, noopept, l-theanine, aceytl-l-carnitine (alcar), caffeine, taurine, huperzine-a, l-tyrosine, modafinil, DHEA. I did a year's worth of work in a month and a half. . . My employer benefited, became proficient in PowerShell in two weeks with little coding experience, worked 16 hour days (it was that busy), but lost out on life, although they offered me a development position after the project. Dropped out of road biking as I wasn't eating enough to do group rides, dropped 15 pounds in a month and a half (which isn't a terrible outcome).
At the end of the day, my employer could care less about the hours and outcomes of the project, it was a total waste of time. Stay normal, have good relationships in life, routine, exercise, diet. It didn't result in any net happiness gains, analytical mind took over and I became good at doing things for other people, but not living.
True that, lamotrigine has been life changing as well, it took the edge off the depressive features. I initially dismissed lithium, but with long-term use, it has reduced episodes, agitation, with mild emotional blunting that I have learned to deal with. I've had to cycle off lamotrigine three times so far due to poopout, they call the protocol a washout, and it gets reintroduced at a starting dose until it is effective again, with a typical dose around 100 mg after washout.
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