I think I used Dropbox once or twice before the incident but now I mostly use Amazon S3, OneDrive or Google Drive. I might use Dropbox again if there is a reaason.
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#182I dropped Dropbox for pCloud.
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#183I dropped Dropbox and wrote a web-only alternative, which is currently hosted on an Rasperry Pi. It's still a bit rough, and there's a lot of improvements to do, but combined with strong TLS, it suits my basic need for a private file server.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that high speed really necessary or that high reliability. So what if the sever goes down for a few minutes or a hour sometime, your files will just sync when it comes up. A small virtual server in a data center can do a decent job of it.
> high reliability For pictures of my family, yes that high reliability is worth it, I don't want to permanently lose a single photo because of a hardware or software failure. I backup my dropbox to s3 via Arq and also have a IFTTT that pushes photos to the free TB of space flickr gives everyone.
You have a backup on every device you choose to sync and if one of these devices happens to be a server with a copy-on-write file system like btrfs[1] i find it very unlikely you will ever loose those files to corruption or a single point of failure.
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#185I did, and then I reinstalled it when I saw that it's the only thing that works. Alternatives aren't as good as dropbox. Google drive is a close second, but without official linux client it's borderline useless to me - also their photo backup system is too complicated with g+, private/public albums, sharing, galleries etc and I don't want to spend time figuring it out when I just want simple photo backup service that…
did you try duplicati? the fact that dropbox doesn't have client side encryption is a MAJOR issue also duplicati is open sourced
That one seems to be targeted more at periodical backups than what dropbox does, which is more closer to syncing and backing up at the same time.
Anyway, no I did not try it. From the website "It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP"
I've heard of 5 of those, I know how to use 3 for storage, I have accounts with only 2 (gmail, outlook), but 0 of them have clients that work on android and linux.
And using different, non official, clients on different platforms just doesn't sound like a install and forget about it type of deal like dropbox has. Can I take a picture on my phone and see it a minute later on my computer and vice versa? My guess would be "no".
As far as encryption and it being open source goes, I couldn't care less about that. I don't store too sensitive data on dropbox so I don't care if NSA, dropbox or some other government agency has easy access to my data on their servers.
As far as the open source argument goes it's simply irrelevant to me. I don't have time nor knowledge to go over its source and I doubt that many other people do, as far as I'm concerned the fact that it's open source doesn't change anything regarding to either security or functionality of that software.
I still stand by my statement that literally not a single piece of software exists that does the same as dropbox in terms of stability, functionality, ease of use, and cross platform compatibility.
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#186I dropped Dropbox in favor of Google Drive, which is more convenient for my use cases.
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#187I loved dropbox, it was very useful. The Rice appointment was totally surprising, and the drop-dropbox page was fairly well-written, so I dropped Dropbox. It became immediately clear the company I thought they were and the company they are diverged some time ago. It doesn't really matter when, now. My .bash_profile is much more of a mess now, but I'm more aware of where all my hard copies are . Before, I relied on Dr…
Same here, though it helped that they appointed her about 10 days before my paid renewal was due.
I miss the ease of use and I've had to put much more work in to (mostly) match the features I gave up. Owncloud, cron, rsync, and a few other tools are all tested and working now, but it isn't as slick and requires occasional maintenance.
I miss using Dropbox but there are some things that are unacceptable to me, and require a permanent change even if burdensome. It isn't that I trusted Dropbox before - I used client-side encryption for most files. It's appointing her and the huge 'fuck you' message it sends to those of us who care about privacy. There's just no overlooking it.
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#188Dropped.
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#189I dropped Dropbox for Google Drive long time ago.
Does Google Drive have a different privacy policy to GMail?
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#190I continue to use Dropbox and I'm pro the appointment of Condoleezza Rice as for the sake of our industry it is wise for us to have better political links to the US government. (Politics is irrelevant to me, but power is not. The government can already twist your arm; being on first name's basis with somebody important will be invaluable.) Edit: I thought we could openly state our opinions, but it seems I am getting…
"Politics" is discrete from ethics. Condi is a pariah, ethically speaking-- a war criminal walking free. Political links to the US govt are also a bit of a hazard-- the more you willingly approach them and enable them, the more they will take from your pocket and the more they will push you around. The Snowden leaks have painted a bad picture of the US companies as a result of their compliance with ridiculous governm…
The question is whether it is possible to run a significant business in the United States without interacting with the federal government. I don't think that it is.
It's not like ISPs and tech companies went to the NSA and offered up their data--there is no proof at all of that. What the evidence shows is that the government used its force of law to compel cooperation from these companies.
The people's tool for controlling the force of law is politics. So, being politically connected is an important part of playing defense against government action.
Whether Condoleeza Rice is the correct person to fulfill that role is in the eye of beholder. I certainly don't fault people for opposing any connection to her. But I would fault anyone who thinks that that is a universal sentiment. There are quite a few people (in government and out) who still respect and perhaps even like her.