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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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Do you have this in your bookmarks? Super cool you could just pull this off of your memory and have a link to it!
This is a pretty popular post to link to when it comes to feedback for a new app you're building. Another fun one is the slashdot posts when the first ipod came out.
> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Alternatives easily exist, and im not even talking about self hosting. There are plenty of zero knowledge sync and backup services and if you're really stuck on using Crapbox or Google Dreck, you can use any one of a number of encryption services for your data first, so that these bigcos can't snoop worth a shit and randomly punish you for what they find.
This 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.
EncFS is great to encrypt data in DropBox-like services.
Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
This 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.
This chilling effect is already going on. I'm writing a science-fiction thriller and took most of my notes off Google Drive out of fear that they would misconstrue them as political extremism. If AI is being used for content moderation then this only raises the likelihood that a false positive is identified, devoid of any context, and I lose my entire Google account to an uncontactable bureaucracy. I made a Nextcloud…
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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.
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> plus their own log files covering those deletions This is the really unreasonable part. Some convoluted internal process that ends up accidentally flagging a file as suspicious and then deleting it is bad enough, but still partially understandable if you're very conservative with assigning blame. But deleting the log files? Either extreme technical incompetence or plain malice.
Our assumption: Log files of everything still existed, but were flagged "Hide & Never Admit To, per $SecretReason".
At dropbox's scale, guaranteed logfile durability is expensive, and retaining them indefinitely even more so.
They either got auto-deleted or they were never there in the first place.
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Our assumption: Log files of everything still existed, but were flagged "Hide & Never Admit To, per $SecretReason".
Hanlon's razor: At dropbox's scale, guaranteed logfile durability is expensive, and retaining them indefinitely even more so. They either got auto-deleted or they were never there in the first place.
Here’s another Hanlon, it wasn’t Dropbox that deleted the files it was an authorized user, OP or coworker, accidentally who forgot or wouldn’t fess up
Isn't it pointless to discuss this without knowing more about the communications that happened?