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Daily reminder that you need backups Daily reminder that online stored files should be encrypted (no bot would have found anything it doesnt like) Daily remin

by noxer 5y ago

Daily reminder that you need backups Daily reminder that online stored files should be encrypted (no bot would have found anything it doesnt like) Daily reminder that google is know for this and should not be used unless for a third backup or something.

rob_c 5y ago
Couldn't agree more
dimitrios1 5y ago
Daily reminder that a former sitting president is still banned from a major social media network yet we are blessed with updates from literal terrorists, so when another big tech co keeps their eyes open for "terrorists" you know it's a facade to impose their draconian wishes, and remind us proletariat who really is in charge. Daily reminder that big tech is the biggest threat to democracy we face today, even bigger than some conspiracy Q theorists LARPing in the capitol. Daily reminder that if we simply enforced our current anti-trust laws, we could disassemble the bulk of these companies, all the meanwhile distributing the opportunities and improving the economy for all. If Microsoft deserved it in the 90s, Google sure as hell does today.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y ago
  I’m my eyes, trump was a terrorist.
  - hansel_der 5y ago
    he arguably did a lot of damage
    - hsbauauvhabzb 5y ago
      I’d consider antivaxxers as terrorists at this point, too. They will kill people, many more people than 9/11.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  > conspiracy Q theorists LARPing in the capitol. Big Tech also organized and profited from that. Most of this nonsense originated on Facebook.
Gigachad 5y ago
You can easily get your data out frequently from here https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout Encrypted data is too much of a pain because it breaks cross platform integrations. I mostly upload files via my ipad and phone which are unable to encrypt the data. It also prevents you from previewing things without downloading the full file first.
- eitland 5y ago
  It is a pain to use IMO. You get a mail sometime in the future and after receiving it you have to turn around and download multiple chunks, log in for each of them and do it quickly before they disappear.
  - foxpurple 5y ago
    Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1TB of data on a slow connection would be difficult but I can’t see how google could make it better since downloading and extracting a 1TB zip on its own would be almost impossible.
    - noxer 5y ago
      mega.nz somehow managed to do this all encrypted. Dunno if its "NH approved encryption" also dont advice on using that service it has a bad reputation. Nonetheless it seems like it would technically be possible to have large amount encrypted files without losing the ability to handle single files and download whole folders as archive.
- noxer 5y ago
  None of that is a problem is you only use the google cloud as a backup and not as a the place to work on/with the data directly. It simply isn't save to use for anything other than as an additional backup.

by noxer 5y ago

rob_c 5y ago

Couldn't agree more

dimitrios1 5y ago

Daily reminder that a former sitting president is still banned from a major social media network yet we are blessed with updates from literal terrorists, so when another big tech co keeps their eyes open for "terrorists" you know it's a facade to impose their draconian wishes, and remind us proletariat who really is in charge. Daily reminder that big tech is the biggest threat to democracy we face today, even bigger than some conspiracy Q theorists LARPing in the capitol. Daily reminder that if we simply enforced our current anti-trust laws, we could disassemble the bulk of these companies, all the meanwhile distributing the opportunities and improving the economy for all. If Microsoft deserved it in the 90s, Google sure as hell does today.

hsbauauvhabzb 5y ago
I’m my eyes, trump was a terrorist.
- hansel_der 5y ago
  he arguably did a lot of damage
  - hsbauauvhabzb 5y ago
    I’d consider antivaxxers as terrorists at this point, too. They will kill people, many more people than 9/11.
Nextgrid 5y ago
> conspiracy Q theorists LARPing in the capitol. Big Tech also organized and profited from that. Most of this nonsense originated on Facebook.

Gigachad 5y ago

You can easily get your data out frequently from here https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout Encrypted data is too much of a pain because it breaks cross platform integrations. I mostly upload files via my ipad and phone which are unable to encrypt the data. It also prevents you from previewing things without downloading the full file first.

eitland 5y ago
It is a pain to use IMO. You get a mail sometime in the future and after receiving it you have to turn around and download multiple chunks, log in for each of them and do it quickly before they disappear.
- foxpurple 5y ago
  Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1TB of data on a slow connection would be difficult but I can’t see how google could make it better since downloading and extracting a 1TB zip on its own would be almost impossible.
  - noxer 5y ago
    mega.nz somehow managed to do this all encrypted. Dunno if its "NH approved encryption" also dont advice on using that service it has a bad reputation. Nonetheless it seems like it would technically be possible to have large amount encrypted files without losing the ability to handle single files and download whole folders as archive.
noxer 5y ago
None of that is a problem is you only use the google cloud as a backup and not as a the place to work on/with the data directly. It simply isn't save to use for anything other than as an additional backup.