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Encrypt everything before uploading.
Tips and tricks for doing this the easiest way possible?
> The added grievance to this is that my drive also included my own personal family photos and my current book on the subject I mean, how many times does this need to come up for people to learn the lesson? If you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will do whatever it wants with your data, including locking you out…
Welp - affordability. It's expensive and arguably less reliable to get an external hard drive.
By this I mean any problem I've had has been fixed. So at least Amazon has SOME humans still in the loop handling AWS support tickets and Amazon store calls.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/19/war_thunder_classifie...
>Hungary-based game developer Gaijin Entertainment found themselves in a tactically difficult position last week when a user of their combat simulator War Thunder tried to win an online argument by sharing classified documents in the company's game forums.
Maybe checksums of that document are circulated to cloud providers for censorship purposes.
> The added grievance to this is that my drive also included my own personal family photos and my current book on the subject I mean, how many times does this need to come up for people to learn the lesson? If you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will do whatever it wants with your data, including locking you out…
Welp - affordability. It's expensive and arguably less reliable to get an external hard drive.
As a person who formerly worked on the technical side of anti-abuse (both content and account) at Google, I urge you to read these kinds of reports critically. There is no reason to believe any of the details given in the post, which incorporates a lot of supposition about how this system works. For example, we have no rational basis for believing that this was done by some robot at Google. It is at least as likely t…
There have been plenty of reports that this doesn't work either, with a bot simply 'reviewing' your account and not enabling it.
The OP is 'whining about it in public' because it's the only hope they have of getting a human being at google to notice the problem and save their data. If google had a functional support system that wasn't 100% bots, users wouldn't have to complain in public!
I know this is avoidable, and I know it’s a semi-regular occurrence, and I can recognize Google’s moderation problem is non-trivial, but I really can’t shake the feeling that Orwell was off by a letter and the future will truly just be a bot stamping on a human face forever.
Skynet doesn’t need Terminators. Software bots can keep us busy all on their own.
Tenuously related: Wikipedia articles referencing less than desirable historical figures (e.g. Nazis) are reportedly being deleted en masse.
How many times does that have to happen before people realize there is no cloud, only other people's computers. The data that is stored there is no longer yours, just as thanks to Apple and Co. your hardware no longer really belongs to you, but you only enjoy a temporary right of use. It will be interesting to see when hardly anything remains of an entire generation because everything comes from the cloud: Photos, vi…