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Everybody should check and recheck they actually own their data, github accounts, digitalocean boxes, google accounts dropbox accounts, youtube accounts, the list goes on and on. It is obvious by now that it can happen to anyone for any reason (datacenter fire too) at anytime. Every now and then there is a similar post on hackernews.
Dropbox doesn't have any functioning contact points. I cancelled my yearly subscription a month ago the day after it renewed, they cancelled my premium benefits immediately but never send the $120 refund that the cancellation page said I'd get. Tried contacting them from their website contact page, nothing. Tried tweeting at their support account, nothing. I'm half tempted to try to get my bank to do a chargeback. It…
> I'm half tempted to try to get my bank to do a chargeback. Do it. I guarantee Dropbox cares far more about their relationship with the credit card processors than it does about their relationship with you (who just terminated your relationship with them), so maybe if enough people do chargebacks to resolve their problems it will incentivize them to make their system work correctly.
Never would have happened if you just used FTP like Brandon said https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Do you have this in your bookmarks? Super cool you could just pull this off of your memory and have a link to it!
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Because they have context that I don't? Because they quickly scan down to other comments and see the people explaining the joke? And not everyone else "got the joke". I'd assume many folks didn't get it, but didn't post.
I would also say that sometimes being exclusive can make a joke funnier to the in-group. Denoting your sarcasm can make humor less attractive, in the same way explaining a joke ruins it. Sometimes you want to be vague to see who catches the signals.
Some people, myself included, will react poorly when requested to perform additional work when additional work from the requester also could have been performed.
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That is not what he said, and again the misuse of quotations to make it seem like that's literally what he said is definitely not helping the situation.
It appears that you are now the one having trouble parsing English. You know how in a book when fictional characters are talking how they use quotation marks to indicate that? In my comment, my fictional someone was talking, so I used quotes. Perhaps you could stop telling me how to write my comments and stop telling me to change my writing behavior for your sake, just because you misunderstood?
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SyncThing is actually really good. The main issue is integrations. A lot of mobile apps work with Dropbox but not with decent FOSS alternatives.
The main issue is you can accidentally nuke your own source directory and it's possible to do so in non-obvious ways. This has happened to me a few times (though thankfully had backups elsewhere).
Shouldn't the files remain on the hard drive even if Dropbox deleted their end?
I switched to Spider oak for a while, but more because I wanted encryption at rest, I didn't have an issue with them beyond not adding that feature.
I then moved to just backing up locally and alternating between two USB hard drives, one of which was stored in a safe deposit box at my credit union, because a one time fee for a hard drive or three encrypted using Veracrypt (then Truecrypt? Memory is fuzzy) plus a safe deposit box is simpler and cheaper.
I like to keep things offline, and it was interesting when a bank I talked to about opening one in my new city was... oddly obstructionist about that ask.
(Has anyone else told a bank you're an aspiring journalist, would like to purchase a small safe deposit box to hold your birth certificate, passport, and a backup of your files, then tried to have a will drawn up to designate someone who would receive the contents of the box in the event of your death, then had someone break into your apartment and very obviously look into your notebooks?
I still don't have a good answer for that fundemental problem that devices can be hacked, but physical security is hard.
Anyways, sorry to go on a tangent, but it doesn't surprise me that maybe Justin did something very bad, and they just want to end the relationship and not interact anymore, but I won't get specific in a public forum.
Dropbox itself was kind of buggy for me, sometimes it'd fail at whatever their implementation of rsync did, and start filling my hard drive with multiple copies of my Dropbox folder, at best filling it up -- I suspect their shit code is one reason I kept having to have Applecare to keep replacing my hard drive.
That or the assholes who kept blasting me with malware... I suspect it was the same set of people who were skimming credit cards from Mother Bear's and uploading them to the dark web, if any of the feds who cyberstalk me are bored this morning ;-)
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we may have different account types but they started wiping inactive accounts a while back. I never installed the client on my computer though, so that probably didn't help.
I had pictures of an abroad internship from winter 2014-15 that I was able to find last year as I was aggregating all my pictures. But I just checked their filings, the 700M figure is indeed "registered" users, not "active" ones. Which makes a lot more sense. There are not a lot of services with 700M monthly active users out there.
Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
But on the other side, it's easier to lose your account with google or microsoft, so this might be another reason people preferred dropbox, till now.
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Dropbox only hashes files that they've gotten DMCA takedowns for. So WB told Dropbox "do not allow people to share Rick & Morty", and then got angry because they couldn't share Rick & Morty internally. This isn't a false positive, the algorithm is working exactly as intended.
except they should have notified their customer of the dmca violations on their account, if they did not .. that would run afoul of the dmca, right?