Paragon Backup & Recovery 14 Compact (with download links)
Recently, I came across an old backup on one of my NAS that I made with Paragon Software. Unfortunately, the new version is incompatible with version 14.
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Once Self-Hosted, Always Self-Hosted: Whose "Lifetime" Is It, Anyway?
Plex tripled its lifetime pass and now charges to stream your own files. Bitwarden scrubbed "Always free" as private-equity execs moved in. One week, one lesson about whose "lifetime" it really is, and why you should hold the key yourself.
When the Pipeline Signs Your Malware: The May 2026 Supply-Chain Chain
Three supply-chain compromises in eight days self-propagated through SLSA-attested pipelines. The custodians signed the malware themselves.
Eighteen tries to get my AI-narrated cast to wear the right clothes, a Flux 2 Klein post-mortem
I needed two recognisable characters across dozens of dark-fantasy scenes. Klein gave me eighteen failed iterations of the same closing - twins, hobbits, photoreal Hollywood stills, a soldier dressed as a beggar - before I stopped fixing the model and started fixing the composition.
Morndur.com — From Weekend Idea to Three-Week Rabbit Hole
3-week rabbit hole. Building an AI-narrated daily RPG, I spent more time reading arXiv than writing code. The surprise: a 1998 algorithm beat every new neural net for handling minority player voices.