I haven’t said it before, but I’ll say it again.
Don’t host your important shit on Google!
It’s pretty much the worst place you can use as a backup service.
Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
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#203Why the heck do people still store their important documents (that they absolutely can’t do without) somewhere where they have no control over and where they could be kicked out at any moment is beyond me. Obviously it’s always sad to see such a great amount of work go to waste, but at what point are we just going to start blaming people like that who are just careless with their data. Don’t use a cloud you don’t hav…
Most people are not technology savvy let alone HN elitists. When I talk to non tech people about stuff like this I get a lot of blank stares. Whenever I’ve said if the service is free then your are the product I get even blanker stares.
Most normal people wouldn’t consider using Google Drive as being careless with there data. They would actually considering it being smart as Google is one of the largest tech companies.
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes for a minute. People who have these kids of hobbies do it because it’s their passion and a lot of times, the best ones at least, don’t have a lot of disposable income to spend on said hobby.
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#204I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…
Well, when you're making an omelette you have to break some eggs. There has been a literal, yet largely silent, book burning going on with Google services in recent years. On youtube, many alternative voices are silenced, billions of comments deleted. I know its a private company, but in the US there are free speech laws + the possibility of using the court system (if someone makes a libellous statement). But no, sil…
“Free speech” laws only apply to government restrictions on speech.
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There is a counter movement, for example, these guys place a significant role (and as far as I know primarily with a practical focus): https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
They are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.
>They are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.
They are. They don't even know how to pirate.
The best pirates would never use free open source solutions. They'd just take whatever corporate solution that's the flavor of the day and then use that with anxiety inducing cracks that will give your antivirus a heart attack.
Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
#206I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…
Google's fetish for not providing human support is so counter-productive it makes me think there must be a single powerful individual executive maintaining the policy. It's too stupid to have widespread support among Googlers.
Counter productive? To what? Their market cap continues to climb. No one gives a shit about their customer support, or lack there of.
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Remember, over $1 BILLION dollars a quarter of free cash flow into their cash hoard EVERY QUARTER. An absolutely stellar customer support network with real people was being operated by Network Appliance when I was there for less than $60 million A YEAR. Google is absolutely capable of providing a level of service that is unmatched, but they choose not to.
It's possible that Google could provide support, but they are also trying to create a reputation of providing infrastructure so reliable that the technology is simply finished and doesn't need support. They don't want to give the impression that they're giving up that battle.
I read a post like this every week. How can they possibly claim they’re winning the battle.
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IMO, the real issue is relying on any single storage solution for such critical and hard to replace data. You should always have multiple, redundant, tested backups of such data, the minimum being 3 copies, in 2 different formats, with at least one located offsite. That said, Google does ha reputation for this shit, especially on their free plans, so, you should definitely keep that in mind when storing data on Googl…
In addition, encrypted backup means they can't do arbitrary scans and decide your content is wrong While it does make it harder to share things directly, its well worth the hassle
Or they decide it must be wrong because it’s encrypted.
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Please don't characterize this as a political voices thing. Of course it's _related_, but this instance is about misclassification of private data, not silencing voices online. Also, Google is not a private company.
They are a private company in the sense that they are not a government entity, and thus the first amendment does not apply to them. This is a different sense of the word "private" than whether their stock is or is not publicly traded on an exchange.
What do you do when all speech takes place on corporate-owned platforms?
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I personally find a rip of the book online to drop onto my reMarkable then purchase it through some ebook marketplace. Now I have a DRM-free copy and the author gets their cut.
That's certainly noble, but it doesn't send the message that you're unhappy with DRM. You're ultimately engaging in piracy and at the same time not voting with your wallet. I don't see any alternative, but just wanted to make that point.
Too many authors are exclusively on Amazon. Where am I supposed to buy their book :(