Exactly. If critical mass is achieved inorganically, it would result with a reverse in uptake & possibly even a revolt against it.

You can lead a horse to water… (but a pencil must be lead)

No, it’s all good. We’re on the same page about disaster recovery!

as long as there is at least one other backup that isn’t with this provider.

Which is exactly what I was saying.

Any services used with a cloud provider should be treated as 1 entity, no matter how many geo-locations they claim your data is backed up to because they are a single point from which all those can be deleted.

When I was last involved in a companies backups, we had a fire safe in the basement, we had an off-site location with another fire safe & third copies would go off to another company that provided a backup storage solution so for all backups to be deleted, someone had to go right out of their way to do so. Not just a simple deletion of our account & all backups are wiped.

That company had the foresight to do something similar & it’s saved them. [edited - was on the tube when I wrote this and didnt see the autocorrect had put ‘comment’, not ‘company’]

It may have been more devastating if they relied exclusively on google for backups.

Which is why having any data, despite the number of backups, on a cloud provider shouldn’t be seen as off-site.

Only when it is truly outside their ecosphere and cannot be touched by them should it be viewed as such.

If that company didn’t have such resilience built into their backup plan, they would be toast with a derisory amount of compensation from Google.

I would tell anecdotes and stories that wandered off into the woods & an old friend said I had ‘tangentism’

Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google,

More of a Simple Simon Says… really

Crops are already failing. As a species, we will do nothing but panic at the last moment and look to assign blame

Not scabies (caused by tiny, parasitic bugs), but scrapie.

Bah… That’s my phone autocorrect and not proofreading my comment before posting!

It was grinding up scabies infested sheep into bonemeal then feeding to cows that caused the bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) in the UK in the late 80s

We have the mandatory security training at my company and they said it was going to be revised after a few of us showed how the advice it gave was insecure and incorrect!

The main programmer got the job because of nepotism as well!

Also, why would you want company data on your personal device?

Recipe for disaster

Gesundheit!

The best thing would be if Reddit goes the way of Digg.

Well, it has already. The only reason it hasn’t fully imploded & all the users deserted for another site, is because there wasn’t an equivalent place to go to.

They were sort of parallel in development but digg blew up and Reddit didn’t then Digg took a quick hard turn towards enshitification.

Reddit has done the enshitification but like a parasitic infected spider, it’s wandering about and most of the users haven’t realised yet that it’s an empty shell.

It’s slow demise would be better in the long run than a quick collapse like Diggs so it’s now putrid culture is not transmitted with an enmass exodus.

Not been original thought in the guys head.

He stole the idea for Facebook and people think these tech bros are all about innovation!

It’s the antithesis of all the gung-ho apocalyptic films that has all the alpha males wanking off about they would survive & become a leader.

I watched it when it was broadcast & the conversation at school for weeks after was how no-one of us wanted to survive the blast because of how fucking horrific and what a curse it would be!

It gave me a chuckle that they slotted that into the article!

IMDB even has a listing for “woman who urinates herself” when the bomb drops.

I always remember the last scenes when the main protagonists daughter tries to wake her “RUTH! RUTH!”.

I’ve got it downloaded but haven’t watched it since the 80s as it’s part of my childhood trauma so might take a bit of unpacking!

They are digitising Marion Stokes’ collection

Shame he wasn’t seen for being like Marion Stokes

The BBC stupidly recycled the tapes because they didn’t give much credence at the time to how important their archive would become.