Fuck the cloud (2009)

The sequel to Kiss the sky

Anyway, I love how well GDPR demonstrated this:

> Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. They will burble about technology issues. They are fucking lying. They might go off further about business models. They are fucking stupid.

Can you more accurately translate this to English for us?

Keep hoping!

Up to early 2000s, people would go to the internet to have fun, everything was new, it was the mass migration from analog to digital era.

2020s, people are going offline to have fun.

Homelab is becoming a thing even for people who never had experience with computer, people hosting their own documents, movies, music, backups in case things go bad.

Even some companies have realised the price of going cloud, some are moving back to on-prem hardware with full control.

Counter-take: this was almost entirely wrong, and the author should be embarassed looking back after 17 years.

I mean, it was 2009. How much of your personal data from then is still around on non-archival media you still control? Even among the geek set here, the answer is likely to be "almost none of it". At best it's "backed up" on media you haven't validated.

Or more likely, copied somewhere else to keep it secured. Like... Dropbox or Backblaze or S3 one of those, you guessed it, CLOUD services.

Likewise, do you still have your email from 2009 online in a useful form? Gmail users, many of them in this very thread, still do.