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Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by fergie »

floatingatoll wrote: post #42
nkrisc wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please explain to me how a corporation can be "doxxed", because I don't understand how that's possible.

Sure thing. The framing of your reply hinges on an unstated assertion: “It is always ‘right’ to name and shame a corporation.” I contradict that assertion in my plea, which results instead in this assumption: “Consider the ethics of the situation before naming and shaming a corporation.” Having laid out that, I will next address the literal question asked: “doxxed”, as you correctly identified when forming your reply…

Nope- there are many reasons why companies need to be held publicly accountable, and a lot of bad things that happen when they are not.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by vinceguidry »

northwest65 wrote: post #74
irrational wrote: post #2

This is why I don't trust my own videos/photos/documents/notes/etc. to "the cloud". How many examples like this have there been where peoples stuff just disappears one day with no way to bring it back? More than I can count. Though, saying I don't trust my files to the cloud is not the same as saying I don't use the cloud. I keep two copies of all of my files in 2 physical location. However, both of those physical lo…

Trust the cloud? Hell I won't even purchase music that isn't on CD or LP. If my access disappears for whatever reason (hacked, I've posted something politically distasteful on a linked service, whatever), even if I get it back, I could be a long time without my collection. I have however accepted that as a possibility (no matter how unlikely) with Steam as I don't really go back to play old games, but I expect the mu…

People look at me like I'm crazy for not giving in to streaming services and insisting on maintaining a music library. It's hard for me to avoid concluding that these people simply don't really enjoy music.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by staktrace »

briandear wrote: post #81
floatingatoll wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Public record” is not equivalent to “in the tech press”. If there was a central registery of IT operational errors, where data was carefully reported by all public and private companies, then your stance would be absolutely understandable. But in today’s press climate, the focus would be on dragging their name through the mud for clickbait, rather than on interviewing them about their plans to improve going forward…

If a car exploded, should we withhold the name of the car company?

If an article was posted by $random_internet_person about a car that exploded with "some details changed", where necessary context is missing (e.g. what the car company did in the aftermath to ensure it doesn't happen again), then yes, we should withhold the name of the company until a fuller picture is available. It's not ethical to go about blaming and shaming unless you know for a fact what happened and the context surrounding the incident. And unless you're Rachel, you don't.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by bartread »

burkaman wrote: post #44
commandlinefan wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean a company whose management can tell the difference between working on something complex and not working at all? Sadly, very few exist, and those end up being bought by the evil kind.

You really need to find a new job. I don't know anyone who works for a company like you describe. Just ask questions like "How long have you worked here?" and "How do you handle tasks that run over their time estimates?" during interviews.

I did 8 months contracting for $large_uk_enterprise and it was exactly like that. I tolerated it for so long because the money was good and I thought I might be able to learn some useful lessons.

I got told off more than once for showing initiative and pushing something forward that wasn't on the approved list for the sprint even though I had time and there wasn't anything left to pick up.

Yes, mobbing fans, I know, I could have jumped in on a story that already had people working on it. This is what management there said to me as well.

Nevertheless I'm rather old fashioned so I have two comments to make:

1) Too many cooks... etc.

2) Adding more people to a project/story that's not going to deliver on time will only make it later. (Here I'm obviously paraphrasing Fred Brooks.) And if it's going to deliver on time then why add more people instead of enabling those people to work on something else that's useful?

In the end I gave notice without any plan about what to do next but had three opportunities lined up before I'd worked my notice period and have been much happier since.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by staktrace »

fergie wrote: post #91
floatingatoll wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure thing. The framing of your reply hinges on an unstated assertion: “It is always ‘right’ to name and shame a corporation.” I contradict that assertion in my plea, which results instead in this assumption: “Consider the ethics of the situation before naming and shaming a corporation.” Having laid out that, I will next address the literal question asked: “doxxed”, as you correctly identified when forming your reply…

Nope- there are many reasons why companies need to be held publicly accountable, and a lot of bad things that happen when they are not.

I agree with your point in general, but in this case all we have to go on is Rachel's account of what happened, which was posted to illustrate a particular point and is probably missing important context. I'm not saying the company isn't deserving of a public shaming, I'm just saying we don't know if it is deserving of a public shaming because all we have to go on is one person's humorous/scary anecdote with "some details changed". Posting the company's name at this point seems premature.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by Dylan16807 »

kuzimoto wrote: post #83
tzs wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need to add cloud mirroring. What cloud service are you using? I was about to give Backblaze Personal a try, but stopped because I don't like how they handle encryption. If I'm understanding their site correctly, restoring requires giving them your key. I'd prefer something where decrypting for restoration is client side. I'm currently contemplating Backblaze B2 or Amazon Glacier using Arq or Duplicati[1] or someth…

By the way, with backblaze you can specify your own key. They just can't help you if you forget, and you loose all your data :)

You can specify your own key, yes.

Now how do you use that key to restore without feeding it into the website?

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by picsao »

Clouds pace costs money - most users data is actually redundant. Hamsteed cat pictures and the likes of them. So why not save space by having a original and all those users just having a hash. Of course, if theire stuff... Is not theirs.. And theirs alone.. The users shall never know.. The omerta compels you.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by baud147258 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #57

Add to this youTube's annoying habit of leaving placeholders for deleted videos in my playlists but not telling me what it is that got removed, thus preventing me from ever finding it again. I fail to see what purpose is served by deleting the metadata as well as the possibly-copyright-infringing content.

On my playlist with music that's not yet in the public domain, I've added in the description of the playlist the full list of the name of the songs. So that each time a video got removed, I only have to check the list and find another copy on YT. Still it only works because I rarely add any new videos to the playlist.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by culot »

vinceguidry wrote: post #92
northwest65 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trust the cloud? Hell I won't even purchase music that isn't on CD or LP. If my access disappears for whatever reason (hacked, I've posted something politically distasteful on a linked service, whatever), even if I get it back, I could be a long time without my collection. I have however accepted that as a possibility (no matter how unlikely) with Steam as I don't really go back to play old games, but I expect the mu…

People look at me like I'm crazy for not giving in to streaming services and insisting on maintaining a music library. It's hard for me to avoid concluding that these people simply don't really enjoy music.

I don't think it's that, really, that streaming users don't really enjoy music, it's just that streaming services simplify things, removing the need to handle physical media. Never underestimate the warm, convenient glow of laziness that streaming services enable.

I do think that there can be something lost when listening to an assortment of single tracks as opposed to cohesive albums. Getting a new album and letting it play all the way through definitely feels like a different experience to me than putting on a playlist of assorted tracks.

With the prevalence of streaming music I wonder if more and more artists are abandoning the creation of cohesive albums?

There's also the issue that, I think, that compressed audio files are particularly susceptible to bit-rot (perhaps compressed files of all kinds?). If you don't have a physical copy to re-rip from then you could well be boned.

Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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Post by uptown »

voltagex_ wrote: post #85
tzs wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need to add cloud mirroring. What cloud service are you using? I was about to give Backblaze Personal a try, but stopped because I don't like how they handle encryption. If I'm understanding their site correctly, restoring requires giving them your key. I'd prefer something where decrypting for restoration is client side. I'm currently contemplating Backblaze B2 or Amazon Glacier using Arq or Duplicati[1] or someth…

Arq goes to OneDrive too. Just remember to exclude the Arq files from files that are downloaded by default if you're running the client. I'd look at B2 as well, but for the few terabytes I'd use it for it's a bit expensive with the plummeting Australian Dollar.

"Just remember to exclude the Arq files from files that are downloaded by default if you're running the client."

Funny you mention that. I'd been trying to figure out why my disks were running out of space. Turns out my Amazon Drive desktop client was syncing the encrypted Arq files back to my laptop, then those were being fed back into the Arq backup set. You can imagine how quickly that spins out of control space-requirements-wise.

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