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Keep it on there in an encrypted volume! Cloud backup AND privacy in one.
Wouldn't be surprised if "too much encrypted data" also triggers a ban because it'd stand out as unusual and a potential liability.
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"Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability." If they're actually a backup they can be a good idea. If it's a single source, then yeah, it's asking for trouble. I even backup my GitHub stuff locally because who knows what could happen.
Do you just push to another remote that you host locally, or are you capturing other github items too? Like, for example, Issues and PR reviews/discussions?
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I’ve always argued that we need regulation that prevents large companies from just yeeting your data. At most they should be able to put it in RO mode to let you take it out.
Why bandaid fix it at the government level, when you can solve it right now by yourself: stop creating single points of failure. Store backups in multiple locations.
Scrolling through the screen shots linked on Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO... ) > I find out at midnight tomorrow if I lose my docs all together. I've transferred them to word and backed up onto my hard drive. Further along ... > ... As of today, I'm unable to share my docs with my alpha and Beta readers. After reading the policies the only rule my docs "violate" is that the…
There's a third outcome: the appeal is never finalized, all you get is "your account is suspended while under review" and it leaves you with absolutely no recourse.
Maybe if you know someone at the company internally, or have a way to effectively threaten someone with decision-making power there -- otherwise, it's permanent limbo.
What's wrong with sexually explicit content? Is Google controlled by Taliban or something?
Where have you been living for the last 30 years? Most major tech companies have similar policies, for better or worse.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9098875 ("Google bans 'explicit' adult content from Blogger blogs", 2015)
- "Until today, Google's Blogger platform previously allowed "images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity," and stated that "Censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression."
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18590944 ("Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th", 2018; 464 comments)
Here is Google's Program Policies document that their Terms of Service references:
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Csexua...
The section about Sexually Explicit Material says:
> Do not distribute content that contains sexually explicit material, such as nudity, graphic sex acts, and pornographic material. This includes driving traffic to commercial pornography sites. We allow nudity for educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purposes
I'm not defending Google's actions here. I'm just trying to interpret what led to this situation and what it means in a general sense.
Something related I’ve been wondering about is the change in language catalyzed by social media companies and their morality / fear of advertisers. You see it especially in TikTok videos. When people aren’t straight up censoring themselves with bleeps, dead audio, or cuts, they use euphemisms instead: kill -> unalive, rape -> grape, sex -> seggs. Even more concerning is that what is considered in need of censoring is…
Not to drag Orwell out of his grave for a commiseratory drink, but this is double ungood.
What's wrong with sexually explicit content? Is Google controlled by Taliban or something?
When YouTube Gaming was doing livestreaming, people who posted in stream chats also risked having their entire accounts flagged. In the EU, Google now offer the option of separating your Google accounts from each other (Gmail, YouTube, etc), but someone warned me that it broke a lot of stuff for their friends, so it sounds a little like the usual malicious compliance with regulators we're used to. Has anyone in the E…