privacy implies vpn (or some mix-net), but not the opposite… so if you want privacy, you need a vpn, but a vpn by itself doesn’t give you privacy

i changed it so that ppl on lemmy who may not be familiar with the syntax of find could read it easier? maybe it made it more confusing

yeah i didnt want to script removing the tmp files bc theyre sometimes useful… usually i do read;find -delete; as like a “confirm” for me…

also, i do backup, but i guess only once a month… i was in the middle of a backup, the commands were: git add --all; git commit; find -delete; git push; and then confusion when i saw the .git folder was gone

ive been doing this for over a decade and this is the second (third?) time something like this has happened.

anyway, not trying to defend myself, maybe i should script the find and delete thing… but i just wanna hopefully prevent someone else’s data deletion.

i just deleted a month of notes by doing:

find $(pwd) “*.tmp” -delete

instead of:

find $(pwd) -iname “*.tmp” -delete

turns out the former throws an error on “*.tmp” but still deletes everything lol… PSA for everyone