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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by Kim_Bruning on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:52PM (#28623075)
Hmm, Isn't this moving the overton window? Should we accept that they were viewing his data in the first place?
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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by skoskie on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:27PM (#28623829)
So much this. Host locally, and push encrypted backups to a cloud service.

Doing this will screw Google’s ability to optimize storage for identical files, which may drive up costs, but it’s the best way to ensure your data stays private.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:38PM (#28624310)
Do you have this automated?
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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by FpUser on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:25PM (#28624218)
>"So much this. Host locally, and push encrypted backups to a cloud service."

Host locally and RENT backup servers in couple of places. Those cost peanuts and are highly reliable.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by wintermutestwin on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:50PM (#28623989)
@skosie >Host locally, and push encrypted backups to a cloud service.

Is there any "grandparent friendly" way to do this today?

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by nh2 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:12PM (#28624129)
Give them a NAS / old PC with shared network folder (Windows context menu or Samba on Linux), replicate the parts they want on phones etc. with Syncthing, and use any encrypted backup tool of your choice for the cloud backup.
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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by b0tzzzzzzman on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:33PM (#28623876)
We should but, g00gl e employees are 10% of HN it seems.

No one who works for a powerful entity likes admitting they are more or less powerless to daily statments they see on here.

It's like how anyone with tech awareness watches the goal posts keep moving.. Yes, I know alternatives and mitigation and ECT.

Power is a fickle mistress.

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