E2ee services are the only sane hosted solution. I use sync.com and find it works as well as Dropbox. There are other ones but I haven’t tried them.
Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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#362Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#363Even with this and even with not updating their client for macOS anymore they are still better than Google Drive and One Drive.
OneDrive for example: you can't delete a file into the trash anymore. It gets just deleted, like a force delete. So if you are offline or OneDrive is not running or the file has not yet been uploaded to OneDrive, that file is GONE. MS response: use the online trash. It worked until they updated to the new 12.3 macOS sync system (icloud can delete to trash, so I fully blame this on MS). Also if one file does not sync for whatever reason ALL syncs are stopped until this conflict is resolved.
GoogleDrive. If in drive stream mode (which i think is the default) it is mounted as a volume, so it is not "there" when you login, so any files opened from there will not open until GoogleDrive is mounted. Also saving to this Volume mounted google drive with some apps will trash the file. MySQL Workbench trashed files very very often. You need to restore from the google drive backup in this case. If you switch to all files always local it is like Dropbox and works, unless you want to upload symlinks or something with characters that don't match googles like and then you have missing files. At least other files will sync. I also have no idea if they actually support macOS 12.3 file sync type fully ...
iCloud: Works ... except that what you see in the finder is not what you actually have in the Terminal because it is a mix of actual files and data folders from applications. Sharing is a pain between users. I also don't think it works well on non Apple systems.
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#364The number of people who apparently "can't believe this" and suggesting Google in the twitter thread is beyond belief. I thought we had already learnt not to trust them
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#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would recommend none of the above, I was giving OP a better way of having their stuff online. The article you referenced was getting locked out of accounts. We are speaking of having documents backed up, not google accounts. The best way period would be to periodically backup to an external HD or even SD cards. People need to get over this cloud bullshit years ago. All of these problems have been solved since the a…
The best way period would be to periodically backup to an external HD or even SD cards. and where do you store those? you really want multiple backups, and an encrypted cloud storage is one of them.
I have no trust in the longevity of data on SD cards. What's the expected lifetime of the data on these, and has it been studied/verified?
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#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO, the problem started when we all jumped on Gmail, knowing that there was no support, and if it broke, we got to keep both pieces. I watched my wife's account get taken over in real time a couple years ago. Ten years of personal and financial info, now in the hands of God-knows-who for God-knows-why. I simply deleted the account from her devices, and moved on. There was nothing I could do, and no one I could comp…
>> IMHO, the problem started when we all jumped on Gmail, knowing that there was no support Back when Gmail was invite-only, most people used Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, which would offer a base level of (I think) about 50-100MB of storage at the time. If you wanted more storage; you'd have to pay for your email service - an idea I don't think anyone born past 2000 has even heard of. Gmail came along, and suddenly offers…
> it was an honest-to-God mindfuck as to how they were offering such a large amount of space and features for nothing.
Of course, now we all understand that they were harvesting all the personal data this gave them access to, in order to monetize it, and sell access to it to anyone who would write them a check.
And then we found out that this information was so valuable, and in such a concentrated place, that the CIA placed fiber taps on Google’s data center drops.
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can't tell if serious or not - you can get a 2-bay Synology for less than that
Yes diskless. Then you’ll need to buy disks
Exactly. The BOM cost of a NAS with 3 2TB needs to be under $100. Even if we could somehow have 2TB 2.5" HDD for $30 BOM, three of them would have been $90.
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#368This 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.
Well, European countries produce "studies" that say hate is effectively reduced and overblocking does not happen. Germany was leading here and the digital services act will copy the crap. No real relevant social networks in Europe and it only applies to platforms like Twitter and Facebook, but it is still silly legislation with negative effects.
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#369I wish governments imposed a support API on public cloud companies and forced them to triage requests 24/7, with the obligation to track them via open Grafana dashboards.
Government usually demands that platforms delete more, not less. The influence of politics is completely unidirectional
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#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a "delay" option in your settings, it's in minutes I give myself 6 minutes to fluff around (or get bored of and delete) comments before they appear live for that same reason
Thanks for the tip. Apparently delayed comments don't appear on the site instantly, but do appear in the API instantly. https://i.imgur.com/ytWyvc3.png
huh, I wonder if their API bit (sends to firebase by the looks?) is missing an if e: and maybe a thing to rerun due deferred comments I guess
I'll ping hn@ just in case