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Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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People click the upvote button at a sufficient velocity.
I'm hitting it with _extreme_ velocity and it still seems to only register as a single upvote =(
When I hit the upvote button with extreme velocity, Hacker News tells me
> Sorry, we're not able to serve your requests this quickly.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#123This is an inevitable consequence from the push to make cloud companies responsible for the content they host. Analyzing all of it can only be automated; automation will deliver weird false positives.
Amazing that the Internet culture that vehemently opposed DRM and created things like bit torrent so quickly lined up behind algorithmic content moderation.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#124This wouldn't happen with SFTP, CVS and a $5 VPS.
Why a $5 VPS? Why not a $25 VPS in a reputable rackshack that has at
least triple off-site redundancy? You get what you pay for and the
choice isn't only between free and scuzzy, and cheap and scuzzy.
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#125Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
I use and am happy with Dropbox. I was an early adopter of Google Drive (to try to save costs) and it never really worked right. There were lots of bugs with the syncing of data. My entire digital world is on Dropbox. I use (and pay for) Google Drive too, but I use it differently.
It works for me because, in theory, all my data is on every HD in my house (which is really just two). So, I don't lose anything if Dropbox deletes my account; I've got it all locally.
That theory doesn't work anymore, however, because I have 399 GB of data in Dropbox and I don't duplicate it all to every machine anymore because of the size and the data transfer required to keep that much locally and in the cloud.
I really do need to start thinking about this again so that I can get it all duplicated locally.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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700 million people use them, and 17 million are on a paid plan. I still use Dropbox, because I don't trust that I'd be able to reach a helpful human at Google should anything happen to my Google account.
700M, is that active users? Or does my old account I haven't touched in forever counts?
Yours and all the ones that robots created for encrypted movie and music sharing.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#127Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
Dropbox has more enterprise features like data governance and DLP features like requiring MDM. Drive and one drive is fine for certain things but our legal and finance documents, we need certain features.
Google Drive and OneDrive both have lots of DLP features and can require MDM as well. Its not like Dropbox is the only cloud storage host with DLP.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/dl...
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Sorry, "would be super useful" be "would have helped me". Maybe those have different meanings to you? They mean more or less the same to me?
One is an objective statement of the world, the other is a subjective statement about you personally.
If these things mean the same to you, you're not parsing the English correctly, which points to a larger comprehension issue that further explains why you didn't get the original sarcasm.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#129Sounds like an opportunity for a new company that abstracts away the actual different cloud providers, provides redundancy, and provides a security abstraction layer that prevents cloud hosts from knowing what their segments of files are for.
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Such as? Syncthing + NextCloud + rsnapshot backups would have been my open-source alternative recommendation, but of course not everyone wants to take the time to learn that skillet, set that up, and maintain it.
What does Syncthing add to the Nextcloud capabilities? (Honest question because I'm curious; I have a NextCloud & snapshot to encrypted S3 backup solution already.)
I admit I have not used NextCloud, but the hands-off automatic file-sync-between-devices that Syncthing provides has been transparent and seamless. It has required no babysitting after initial set up.
I have forgotten if NextCloud does this, because I don't use NextCloud at this time, nor have I.