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Date of upload: Nov 30, 2023 ^^
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Another reminder: "small subset of users" is never small. It's the people who make their issue loud clear and public, not everyone who was affected and they know full well what happened to whom. Get an external hard disk. Share your files in person, on a physical medium or via MEGA. If you still need to use MS or Google drives - get 7zip and make a 7z encrypted archive. Default windows zip is way too easy to bypass. Don't be an actor in a safety theatre, the directors own you.
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People call SD cards lame when a big company releases a new phone without an SD Card slot. They said the cloud is the future. I never think giving personal data to a "stranger" is safe. Now, we see how "dangerous" cloud data is if you don't have other backups. I prefer to use my money to buy personal storage than pay a subscription but still have a chance to lose my data, and harder to recover.
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As someone who has been alive long enough to see "THE CLOUD" become a thing and actively remembers people doomsaying it in the beginning, none of this takes me even slightly by surprise. If you actually care about your data, you back it up yourself on a drive of your own and store it somewhere safely. Cloud storage is not for saving the only/original copy of data safely and securely, it's for accessing data from multiple devices/places. If you don't back that data up elsewhere on your own terms, it's entirely your fault for giving google your fucking car keys.
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Also one word of advice for anyone who's doing cold backups/archival (that is backing up things onto a medium that is disconnected). Beware of bit rot. Most media are subject to some kind of degradation. Hard drives and flash memory (SSDs, SD Cards, flash drives, etc) cannot retain cold storage forever. The magnetic fields on the disk for HDDs, or the charge state on flash memory will decay over long periods of time (e.g. years). For HDDs, it can be wise to refresh your disks every so often -- this might involve moving the data off and back onto a drive so the magnetic fields are freshly written. For flash memory, usually just powering it (plugging in/connecting it to a running machine) will work IIRC. These are usually more of a concern if you're archiving instead of doing regular backups of course, as if you're periodically backing up you're likely to keep writing the data freshly to your medium anyhow.
I won't give advice how often you should be nannying your cold data storage though, do the research yourself.
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@frogsuit
5 months ago
daily reminder that the cloud is just somebody else’s computer
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