Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
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#2This 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.
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#3> 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.
Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
#4Remember, 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.
Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
#5This 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.
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#6I try to fully read articles before I upvote.
>> Over a decade ago, I pointed out that as Google kept trying to worm its way deeper into our lives, a key Achilles’ heel was its basically non-existent customer service and unwillingness to ever engage constructively with users the company fucks over.
... but the first sentence sold me.
Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
#7This 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.
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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#8Remember, 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.
This is what happens when you don't read 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.
"free forever." indeed
Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
#9a lesson I learned long before Google tried to “worm” itself the daily fabric of our lives: don’t trust cloud services
personally, during college had work stored on cloud storage provided by uni. All is fine until one day I can’t access or find my docs I have been working on. Turns out the idiot sys admin purged the wrong data as part of some clean up effort and cost reduction.
I never keep anything of importance on these cloud services. Everything is duplicated/replicated to servers I own. Nightly backups taken.
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#10This 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.
the problem is that many people dont use it as a backup. In a backup scenario, you are immune to these things, because you still have your primary copy. It's annoying yes, but in a backup you can always afford to lose the backup with no problem.
But many people treat these solutions as an extension of their hard drive. A physical analogy is putting your books into a Shurguard/self storage. Thats not a backup, that's just storage. You should make a photocopy instead