▲ 81 ▼ This is your reminder to backup your fediverse account (cake.kobel.fyi) submitted 6 months ago by squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi to c/general@lemmy.world 23 comments fedilink hide all child comments Instances can go down, disappear or be unresponsive due to many reasons. Go to your account settings now and export your account settings! This file contains your subscriptions, follows, profile settings etc. It's very easy to start over on a new instance when you have your export file. Back it up, export it, save it, repeat occasionally.
[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (10 children) This simply needs to automatically happen every week or so. permalink fedilink source hideshow 10 child comments replies: [–] vogi@piefed.social 7 points 6 months ago (8 children) How though? A website cannot just access your hard drive and write stuff, as far as I know. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago Mine is a 200kB text file (I imagine much smaller if compressed into e.g. a zip file), so it could just be attached in an e-mail 🤔 permalink fedilink source parent [+] Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago Plus it’s going to be a lot lire work to extract that when the website that wrote to it is no longer accessible. Easier to just click the backup button and download a file. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago How about a desktop client? permalink fedilink source parent [–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 point 6 months ago There’s a file api you can use to interact with the file system directly. Practically, I’m not sure how much it would help, since you could only access it with permission while the website is open, and there’s no way to sync between devices, but it is hypothetically possible to write a feature that backs up your settings periodically. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Axiochus@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (2 children) Wait, doesn't every website do this? Or are there websites that only live in RAM? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child) No websites should be able to access anything on your hard drive arbitrarily. Websites can ask the browser to store something in cookies, or local db storage; it can even say “here’s a file for download”. But it cannot just decide to place a download somewhere in your filesystem. The browser itself is accessing your filesystem to read and write cookies, cache, etc. and the website has (rightfully so) zero control over that, other than asking permission and offering up a link to something the browser may to may not decide what to do with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Didn't claim arbitrary access, just writing to hard drive. But I see, so the browser is the mediating layer permalink fedilink source parent [–] bright@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago Automate a script to do it. It's easier to make simple automations than most people would think permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vogi@piefed.social 7 points 6 months ago (8 children) How though? A website cannot just access your hard drive and write stuff, as far as I know. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago Mine is a 200kB text file (I imagine much smaller if compressed into e.g. a zip file), so it could just be attached in an e-mail 🤔 permalink fedilink source parent [+] Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago Plus it’s going to be a lot lire work to extract that when the website that wrote to it is no longer accessible. Easier to just click the backup button and download a file. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago How about a desktop client? permalink fedilink source parent [–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 point 6 months ago There’s a file api you can use to interact with the file system directly. Practically, I’m not sure how much it would help, since you could only access it with permission while the website is open, and there’s no way to sync between devices, but it is hypothetically possible to write a feature that backs up your settings periodically. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Axiochus@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (2 children) Wait, doesn't every website do this? Or are there websites that only live in RAM? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child) No websites should be able to access anything on your hard drive arbitrarily. Websites can ask the browser to store something in cookies, or local db storage; it can even say “here’s a file for download”. But it cannot just decide to place a download somewhere in your filesystem. The browser itself is accessing your filesystem to read and write cookies, cache, etc. and the website has (rightfully so) zero control over that, other than asking permission and offering up a link to something the browser may to may not decide what to do with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Didn't claim arbitrary access, just writing to hard drive. But I see, so the browser is the mediating layer permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago Mine is a 200kB text file (I imagine much smaller if compressed into e.g. a zip file), so it could just be attached in an e-mail 🤔 permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago Plus it’s going to be a lot lire work to extract that when the website that wrote to it is no longer accessible. Easier to just click the backup button and download a file. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago Plus it’s going to be a lot lire work to extract that when the website that wrote to it is no longer accessible. Easier to just click the backup button and download a file. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago How about a desktop client? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 point 6 months ago There’s a file api you can use to interact with the file system directly. Practically, I’m not sure how much it would help, since you could only access it with permission while the website is open, and there’s no way to sync between devices, but it is hypothetically possible to write a feature that backs up your settings periodically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (2 children) Wait, doesn't every website do this? Or are there websites that only live in RAM? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child) No websites should be able to access anything on your hard drive arbitrarily. Websites can ask the browser to store something in cookies, or local db storage; it can even say “here’s a file for download”. But it cannot just decide to place a download somewhere in your filesystem. The browser itself is accessing your filesystem to read and write cookies, cache, etc. and the website has (rightfully so) zero control over that, other than asking permission and offering up a link to something the browser may to may not decide what to do with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Didn't claim arbitrary access, just writing to hard drive. But I see, so the browser is the mediating layer permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child) No websites should be able to access anything on your hard drive arbitrarily. Websites can ask the browser to store something in cookies, or local db storage; it can even say “here’s a file for download”. But it cannot just decide to place a download somewhere in your filesystem. The browser itself is accessing your filesystem to read and write cookies, cache, etc. and the website has (rightfully so) zero control over that, other than asking permission and offering up a link to something the browser may to may not decide what to do with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Didn't claim arbitrary access, just writing to hard drive. But I see, so the browser is the mediating layer permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Didn't claim arbitrary access, just writing to hard drive. But I see, so the browser is the mediating layer permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bright@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago Automate a script to do it. It's easier to make simple automations than most people would think permalink fedilink source parent