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We knew from the day one that over-reliance on cloud giants like Facebook or Google in holding all your life worth of data is a bad idea. We told everybody tha
by thriftwy 9y ago
We knew from the day one that over-reliance on cloud giants like Facebook or Google in holding all your life worth of data is a bad idea.
We told everybody that it is a bad idea.
Everybody promptly ignored our warnings. Some laughed.
I guess they don't laugh anymore, do they? Now, who was right?
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/
- jstanley 9y agoUnfortunately, I think they still mostly laugh.
- thriftwy 9y agoThey've not even started to feel the pain. They mostly read about it in media. That would be the next step.
- numbsafari 9y agoTo be more accurate, the last two panes of that comic would would be set as a FB feed with the first character posting the FB is evil and the second character replying “told you so”.
- and0 9y agoMan I dunno about giving weird Rorschach monologues in general, but if you're really compelled to.. at least don't punctuate it with an XKCD.