Remember, the cloud is just somebody else's computer. This is what happens when you store 250 TB video on somebody else's computer and expect it to be free forever.
He was paying, it was just an unlimited storage plan. Not free.
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#12This is one of the reasons i dont like cloud. I only use it for (encrypted) backups and temporary sharing. Not for important stuff. Also i dont want my account or data to be randomly deleted due to vague terms and conditions or policies.
I use cloud for everything, but that’s because I did some reflection and realized that I don’t actually have any digital data that would be catastrophic to lose. Annoying, sure. But whatever. I can’t think of a single digital artifact that would be so terrible to lose that it’s worth maintaining highly redundant storage at multiple locations myself.
I thought this way until I had kids.
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#13This is one of the reasons i dont like cloud. I only use it for (encrypted) backups and temporary sharing. Not for important stuff. Also i dont want my account or data to be randomly deleted due to vague terms and conditions or policies.
What is essential is to have important data stored in more than one place, something this journalist failed to do. Just storing it at home would also be a mistake--in case your house burns down.
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#14I think the best advice you can give anyone for tech in the 21st century is to never, ever rely on any Google services or products
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use cloud for everything, but that’s because I did some reflection and realized that I don’t actually have any digital data that would be catastrophic to lose. Annoying, sure. But whatever. I can’t think of a single digital artifact that would be so terrible to lose that it’s worth maintaining highly redundant storage at multiple locations myself.
Oh I have a lot. All my photos for example. I have moved around so much I don't have all the hard copies anymore. And of the last 20 years there just are no hard copies. I store them on ZFS shares at various sites and S3 glacier (not Amazon's own though).
I have started to just create physical photo books a few years ago.
It started as a gift to my girlfriend, but now every year we take our best pictures of the year and put it in a photobook. Cant be deleted that way. All the other photos are less important indeed.
I store about 20gig of important photos on my laptop (weddings, events, ... the really important stuff) and everything else is just dumped into google photos. We'll see how that works out in 20 years. But I feel at ease
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#16Well, what he needs to do is get a lawyer, though I'd expect he has one, given that he stuff has been seized by the FBI.
I bet in a week you couldn't even sync that much data tho.
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#17Remember, the cloud is just somebody else's computer. This is what happens when you store 250 TB video on somebody else's computer and expect it to be free forever.
According to the article
Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account. This was a plan that was offered to Google “Enterprise” Workspace customers for a while.
So he wasn't expecting it to be free forever at all.
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#18> And, yes, some people have asked why Tim doesn’t have other backups around, but (again) the FBI took all of his shit. I was about to say 'you should have other backups', but the FBI is a very powerful persistent threat, and might be the more important problem.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use cloud for everything, but that’s because I did some reflection and realized that I don’t actually have any digital data that would be catastrophic to lose. Annoying, sure. But whatever. I can’t think of a single digital artifact that would be so terrible to lose that it’s worth maintaining highly redundant storage at multiple locations myself.
Oh I have a lot. All my photos for example. I have moved around so much I don't have all the hard copies anymore. And of the last 20 years there just are no hard copies. I store them on ZFS shares at various sites and S3 glacier (not Amazon's own though).
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#20This is one of the reasons i dont like cloud. I only use it for (encrypted) backups and temporary sharing. Not for important stuff. Also i dont want my account or data to be randomly deleted due to vague terms and conditions or policies.
What is essential is to have important data stored in more than one place, something this journalist failed to do. Just storing it at home would also be a mistake--in case your house burns down.
> And, yes, some people have asked why Tim doesn’t have other backups around, but (again) the FBI took all of his shit.
Let's not victim blame, especially when the victim wasn't stupid.