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Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by exporectomy »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #485
Veen wrote: post #443

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And how does that work when you're researching tanks and other military vehicles? Perhaps the researchers should photoshop someone wearing shorts and drinking a pina colada into their catalog of armored fighting vehicles from the Middle East.

> And how does that work when you're researching tanks and other military vehicles? The title / description that says something like "Study of the use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region", which is what you'd do anyway if it were for public consumption? Don't be obtuse.

So

"Study of the use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region"

is context but

"use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region"

is promotion? Clear as mud.

Remember when ISIS started showing beheadings on Youtube and people thought it should be allowed to inform the public of how horrible they were? Turns out it was actually promotion and helped recruit foreign fighters.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by habi »

dqv wrote: post #478
antihero wrote: post #446

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Do they bring in stuff like opening hours and can it do searches like "pub near me" yet?

I wish those didn’t exist. They’re wrong a lot . And people think they’re some official source of business hours even going as far as saying “on the website it says the hours are”.

You’re free to correct wrong data and make it better for all!

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by filoleg »

perl4ever wrote: post #506
filoleg wrote: post #492

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Because you actually have to pay for google drive to host your videos on it, and the storage space is pretty limited. You don't need to pay anyone to store videos on youtube.

>you actually have to pay for google drive to host your videos on it I don't think so.

Google Drive is a paid service with different subscription tiers available depending on how much storage you are using. I know that video uploads count towards that storage limit, and you can easily test it yourself. Try uploading a video, and see it counting towards your Google Drive storage limit.

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Post by radicality »

mlangenberg wrote: post #474
KorematsuFredt wrote: post #403

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G employee. If you are using G to store anything important and if you do not have an offline backup or some other redundancy please reconsider.

The tools and APIs that your company offers make it really difficult to create such a backup and to keep it in sync. How can I do this for Google Photos? The Google Photo API returns compressed files with missing EXIF info. The Google Takeout option can't be automated and needs third party tooling to convert back into a usable format.

fyi you can automate Takeout to a degree. You can tell it to prepare a takeout once every 2 months I think, and you’ll then get an email when it’s ready. You could probably script something to look for those emails, download the compressed tgz files, and then store or upload to some backup location.
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