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Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by raybb »

Gigachad wrote: post #359
jfoworjf wrote: post #5

This story is the one that finally pushed me to leave google. I moved off my ~20 year old Google account and deleted everything off their services including almost a decade of Google photos. I cancelled my Google one subscription for extra space. I'm now self hosting what I can and paying proton mail for everything else. I refuse to allow a company that will hand over data at the request of an administrative warrant…

If you haven’t already, have a look at Immich. It’s a fantastic self hosted replacement for Google photos. They have pretty much perfectly replicated the UI.

Have you tried Ente.io and have any thoughts on comparison? I only use ente and have been happy with it but hear many good things about immich. Does it support E2EE?

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by traderj0e »

dwaltrip wrote: post #475
traderj0e wrote: post #281

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The fact that we're only hearing one side is suspicious enough

That’s rather generic… Do you apply that principle universally in your life? C’mon, be honest about why you doubt the story.

Yeah I apply that principle.

To be honest, it's that plus the fact that this article omits things we already know. It wasn't just that he "attended a pro-Palestine protest at Cornell University," they shut down a jobs fair. I went to a liberal college too, I know that a lot of these "peaceful" protests are actually quite forceful and infringe on others' rights more than anyone ever reports.

My bias is in the other direction if anything. The author was protesting the US involvement with Israel, and even if he did something wrong, I believe he was targeted for this reason only. If you ask me, Israel has way too much control over US politics and other institutions. AIPAC and ADL ought to be classified as foreign entities because they de facto represent Israel's govt here, and there are some people in those orgs I consider outright traitors to the USA because they're making us pay taxes to a small country overseas. We need like a Tea Party 3.0 (unfortunately 2.0 already happened).

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by ilaksh »

It's definitely important to fight all the key battles including against companies like Google, but the root of the problem is the government. I would suggest that it 's worse than any particular government. At a fundamental international level, we don't truly have a civil society. Things operate on a strategic and often criminal basis. And there is a strangely prevalent pervasiveness of ethnic hatred and tribalism. And a fundamental lack of respect for human life.

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by SapporoChris »

When visiting other countries never take part in protests. Avoid areas where protests are likely to occur, travel advisories sometimes explicitly point out areas. It is probably best to avoid anything political.

"In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest."

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by dwaltrip »

traderj0e wrote: post #482
dwaltrip wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s rather generic… Do you apply that principle universally in your life? C’mon, be honest about why you doubt the story.

Yeah I apply that principle. To be honest, it's that plus the fact that this article omits things we already know. It wasn't just that he "attended a pro-Palestine protest at Cornell University," they shut down a jobs fair. I went to a liberal college too, I know that a lot of these "peaceful" protests are actually quite forceful and infringe on others' rights more than anyone ever reports. My bias is in the other di…

Thank you for elaborating. Now I understand where you are coming from better.

It’s a huge pet peeve of mine when people don’t say what they are actually thinking :)

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by Gigachad »

raybb wrote: post #481
Gigachad wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you haven’t already, have a look at Immich. It’s a fantastic self hosted replacement for Google photos. They have pretty much perfectly replicated the UI.

Have you tried Ente.io and have any thoughts on comparison? I only use ente and have been happy with it but hear many good things about immich. Does it support E2EE?

Immich is self hosted only so it doesn’t really need e2ee since you can just encrypt the disk of the server. It also runs a load of on server machine learning stuff for automatic people tagging and search.

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by lukeschlather »

lmm wrote: post #467
keithnz wrote: post #453

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the problem is, technically yes, they have a right, but their visa can be arbitrarily cancelled for very unspecified reasons, like the government not liking what you are doing and calling a potential security risk. This targeting of people, because they can, amazes me that Americans are so accepting of it. To me this says they'd do this to their citizens if they could. You already have the attack on birth right citiz…

IDK, I think "foreigners shouldn't be coming over here as guests and then trying to influence our politics" is a reasonable stance, and doesn't say anything about targeting citizens.

If that were a uniform stance, maybe, but when it's used for partisan reasons by the party in power it's a different story. That's also not the law, the law is that anyone in the country has the right to free speech. If rights only apply to citizens it is a mockery of the freedoms this country is built on.

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by krs_ »

sysworld wrote: post #428
tkzed49 wrote: post #418

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You said it better than I could! As someone who does software for a living, do I want to come home and maintain a homelab that hosts photos, email, decentralized social, etc? Hell no! Even if it's fun as a hobby, I don't want to be on call for my own basic online services.

This is what stops me from doing it. I used to host all my own stuff, with custom setups etc etc. But you end up having no free time, or reduces it at best, and it'll break down at the least convenient time.

The last part about it breaking can of course be true, although knock on wood has not happened to me in quite some time. But I don't find myself spending all that much time on my selfhosting setup day to day. Once a week I do a backup to external storage and upgrade software and that's it most of the time. Once everything's set up it is mostly quite hands off.

That said, I also don't think selfhosting is a realistic solution for most people.

Re: Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Post by llm_nerd »

lmm wrote: post #445
rebasedoctopus wrote: post #421

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Yes, unfortunately you can't vote for them without benefiting a major party you oppose.

That's a toxic way of thinking. No party is entitled to your vote, and not voting for one is certainly not an endorsement of another.

Toxic?

Trump recently posted a diatribe about ranked choice voting in Alaska (calling it "disastrous, and very fraudulent").

Do you know why the modern GOP hates ranked choice voting? Because they rely upon getting clown votes wasted on the Tulsi Gabbard, Jill Stein's and Kanye West's of the world as a way to get elected. They just need to entice just enough fool-vote drawers, knowing the cult will not sway an iota.

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