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I wish a company like synology who operates in this space would drive marketing hard to try and get through this barrier. We're at a point in the world now wher
by endigma 4y ago
I wish a company like synology who operates in this space would drive marketing hard to try and get through this barrier. We're at a point in the world now where billions of people rely on google/apple/microsoft/whatever to do their jobs, and bring that reliance home with them and store their treasured photos or music or videos on these services that could ban them without recourse without a second thought.
Reminds me of that post about the parents banned from gdrive after syncing a picture of their child's genitals (for medical purposes, verified) while sending it to a doctor. I'm pretty sure they're still permabanned and without access to their data. I think they even took his phone service, Google Fi away.
Someone with money in the game needs to pounce on this, even if it's another for-profit like synology etc they would at least get the mentality that storing things you care about in the cloud is foolish at best.
- swayvil 4y agoWhen you have a machine-learning thingy to do your managing for you it's a golden miracle. But every exception that you acknowledge and address degrades that miraculous functioning. Exponentially. So there's a strong incentive to let 99% accuracy be good enough. And to let the exception-cases go completely to oblivion.
- blowski 4y agoEdge cases aren't frequent enough to have a competitive edge of not having them. Too bad for you when you're the edge case. Backing people's files up for them on my USB storage makes me feel like the aircon repairman in the Terry Gilliam film, Brazil.
- sitkack 4y agoTuttle, played by De Niro.
- sitkack 4y agoThat is exactly how bureaucracies fail, by being unable to handle the exceptional states. 80% of the effort should be spent on how to handle the thing the automatic system didn’t.
- blowski 4y agoAgree entirely. The bureaucratic tendency, though, is to see those edge cases as inconvenient inefficiencies that are just easier to ignore.