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Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by Turing_Machine »

brianwawok wrote: post #14
paxys wrote: post #6

"I keep all my work on Google/Apple/Dropbox/Office" is really the new version of "I kept all my work on my hard drive and didn't back it up". All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse. Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.

All your eggs in 1 basket is never good. Local hard drive + a cloud provider should give you like 99.999999% reliability

I actually use three local hard drives in rotation plus a cloud provider to hopefully cover the "building catches on fire and I don't even have time grab a drive" scenario.

Maybe a second cloud provider would also be good. I'm going to think about this.

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Post by plg94 »

vsnf wrote: post #49

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…

Even on the screenshots on instagram in this very post the word "sexual" is censored. It's ridiculous.

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Post by nicbou »

BanazirGalbasi wrote: post #73
nicbou wrote: post #40

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My nextcloud instance killed itself during an update. I wrote a blog post about it and people regularly write to thank me, so it wasn't an isolated instance. Syncthing is much simpler, and practically bulletproof. It really just works.

I have never once had Nextcloud updates work properly. It doesn't matter if I update as soon as the new version is ready or if I wait long enough for my current version to go EoL, the updater breaks something critical and my instance is non-functional. Despite that, nextcloud/owncloud do what I want/need and I'm not sure if Syncthing does. So I keep stubbornly re-trying and just spin up a new instance when the old on…

Syncthing is like Dropbox. If that's what you need, it's great.

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Post by struant »

geraldhh wrote: post #175
struant wrote: post #166

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You don't have to be 18 to read smutty literature.

your local law probably has a different opinion on that

I am not aware of any laws in the US about selling books that are only text (no pictures) to minors.

The only "banned books" lists apply to school libraries/librarians.

I cannot possibly see what the justification would be for such a law. It's just words. It is no different than saying 'fuck' in front of a minor. It is clearly protected speech.

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Post by wazoox »

BanazirGalbasi wrote: post #170
wazoox wrote: post #93

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Weird, I've been running and updating NextCloud since version 13, and I never had any problems as long as I didn't try to upgrade 2 release up at once and carefully applied the recommended database updates, etc.

Do you run many plugins, or do you keep it fairly stock? I'm beginning to wonder if that could be some of the issue, even though the upgrade guidelines include instructions on upgrading plugins. My setup has otherwise been pretty simple (single host for db and web server hidden behind a separate reverse proxy) and I follow the upgrade guidelines as closely as possible (which is usually exactly). Restoring from a back…

I have few basic applications : agenda, tasks, deck, music, mail. Not too many.

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Post by Aerroon »

wredue wrote: post #115
Aerroon wrote: post #50

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Ironically, I think the users are partly to blame for that. They were definitely complaining about some of the stuff that was on discord and discord then stepped up their enforcement of everything.

I mean. For a time, I couldn’t use discord for game parties cause 99% of the time, it was just man-children yelling n-bombs. I can very much see why people might’ve wanted some clean up.

But that's just a question of which kind of discord servers you're in. That stuff is still going to happen, you just won't be invited to those servers.

I never encountered that in discord and I've been using it daily since early 2016.

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