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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by thriftwy on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:15AM (#15466413)
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/

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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by jstanley on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:21AM (#15466468)
Unfortunately, I think they still mostly laugh.
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by thriftwy on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:38AM (#15466597)
They've not even started to feel the pain. They mostly read about it in media. That would be the next step.
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by numbsafari on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:27AM (#15466522)
To 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”.
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by and0 on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:32AM (#15466555)
Man 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.
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