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Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by EC1 »

[deleted] wrote: post #161
EC1 wrote: post #152

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I hope so. We're moving into a phase where there you can grab information about anything, from nearly anywhere, at almost any time. There is little advantage to decision making based on cemented ideals anymore. This new era has exposed the good and bad in all facets of life. It's no longer about republicans, or communists, or this, or that, it's just about life. I prefer to remain non-partisan and instead look at thi…

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There is a colossal difference between making a shitty decision that doesn't directly affect the lives of thousands of people, and ones that do.

I don't care what her intention was at the time. Just read http://www.drop-dropbox.com/. It's certainly enough for me.

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Post by subdane »

tomasien wrote: post #52

Dropping Mozilla because Eich is anti-gay-marriage made sense to me because Mozilla is the beacon of open source. Mozilla belongs to us in a very personal way, many of us have contributed code to Firefox personally. But Condi Rice joining a completely private Dropbox as a board member - this is a non-issue. I'm as strongly anti-Bush administration and anti-war in general (especially the Iraq War - good grief) as anyo…

I had precisely the opposite view. I felt that Eich's politics weren't aligned with my beliefs but were personal and legal. Condi is in a whole other league - having to help prosecute an illegal war and intentionally mislead our citizenry.

Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by newman314 »

uptown wrote: post #42
antonius wrote: post #4

When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint. Condoleezza sure left a global footprint in the Middle East alright. Hate do this Dropbox, but time for me to move on. Edit: Suggestions for a Dropbox substitute?

What's the current sentiment regarding the security and privacy of BTSync?

I snooped the traffic and it does not seem to send traffic to proxies if you configure it correctly to not do so.

I've moved from Dropbox to BTSync for 1Password sync and am comfortable with it. Of course, if an open source alternative comes up, I'm willing to consider it.

There's AeroFS, but I hate Java apps so that's a non-starter for me.

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Post by secstate »

TylerE wrote: post #120
frabcus wrote: post #109

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This sounds like holding non-profits to higher standards than corporates. That seems a strange and grossly unfair thing to do, ultimately counterproductive to the very purpose of non-profits. Of course, when it comes to their core values you have to hold non-profits to high standards - e.g. Mozilla on the open web. But when it comes to things unrelated to their mission... Why should they be any more perfect than a fo…

This is rapidly turning very ugly, and I can't stand it. Is being "anti-gay" or "pro-war" or even just "republican" the new Communism? The new witchcraft?

No. For the same reason that being a white supremacist hasn't really ever been "okay."

Eich was not anti-gay, he was anti-civil rights. Legal marraige and religious marriage are unfortunately poorly named, but two very different things. If Eich doesn't understand that, he's got bigger issues than being dumped by Mozilla.

I have plenty of good friends who do not agree with the idea of homosexual religious marriage and yet support civil rights and the right of homosexuals to be legally married.

That said, cable news, groupthink and information overload have a nasty habit of making us fall back on baser instincts (gay=bad, Christian=bad, war=bad or any other black/white arguments).

Instead we should probably turn to our communities where we are able to have long-form and less-aggressive arguments about fundamental issues. If you perceive the person you're arguing with as a human and a friend, you're less inclined towards unmitigated anger and senseless aggression. But that would require us to put down our computers and walk into town hall and actually speak with humans, so I'm not holding my breath.

Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by Cyph0n »

rbanffy wrote: post #76
Cyph0n wrote: post #68

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OneDrive is phenomenal. I've been using it for the past year or so and it's been a breeze.

No Linux support.

Yeah, that is a downside, but for me it's OK, since I only use Linux on my web servers.

Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by spindritf »

tomasien wrote: post #52

Dropping Mozilla because Eich is anti-gay-marriage made sense to me because Mozilla is the beacon of open source. Mozilla belongs to us in a very personal way, many of us have contributed code to Firefox personally. But Condi Rice joining a completely private Dropbox as a board member - this is a non-issue. I'm as strongly anti-Bush administration and anti-war in general (especially the Iraq War - good grief) as anyo…

Dropping Mozilla because Eich is anti-gay-marriage made sense to me because Mozilla is the beacon of open source.

The leap from open source to pro-gay sounds like a complete non sequitur to me. What is the reasoning there?

I like the way Torvalds put it.

For example, the GPLv2 in no way limits your use of the software. If you're a mad scientist, you can use GPLv2'd software for your evil plans to take over the world ("Sharks with lasers on their heads!!"), and the GPLv2 just says that you have to give source code back. And that's OK by me. I like sharks with lasers. I just want the mad scientists of the world to pay me back in kind. I made source code available to them, they have to make their changes to it available to me. After that, they can fry me with their shark-mounted lasers all they want.

Open source means just that.

Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by Jackim »

walls wrote: post #166
chaosmonkey wrote: post #77

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For some reason I actually like it. What do you find painful?

Personally, I've had endless sync issues with Google drive. It doesn't seem to have any sort of 'retry' feature if it can't sync a file other than restarting the service.

If you have your own server, I'd recommend BTSync. Sync any folder on your computer easily, without having to move them into a specific folder. You could probably set something up to also sync everything to Google Drive with a script, for redundancy.

Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by efficientarch »

caiob wrote: post #132

I call this internet bullying. I'm most def not gonna stop using a product just because I don't agree with the ideas of one person in the team. This makes me wonder if Google, Microsoft, Box or even Amazon aren't behind this kinda message; y'know trying to make it viral and stuff...

I think it's the historic actions of the person rather than their ideas that are bothering people. But I can't speak for them, of course.

Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by perakojotgenije »

EC1 wrote: post #89
bambax wrote: post #28

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It's an American company (Barracuda Inc.)

Any no bullshit European companies that can match the quality of Dropbox software? I hate that I even have to make decisions like this, what the fuck kind of world are we living in.

Try hubic (https://hubic.com/en/), they are a French company.
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