Re:Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians
by aluminum96 on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:33PM
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As well intentioned as this seems, it strikes me as a bit tone deaf. Ukrainians are hiding in bomb shelters, not backing up bulk data. I struggle to understand in what manner this helps.
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You're struggling to understand because you misunderstand the situation and are probably relying on the HN title instead of reading the 3 short paragraphs in the link.
1) 45,000,000 people are not in bomb shelters.
2) Reading the very short post in the link, you can see that this is more about not deleting the data of Ukrainians that is already on tarsnap if they aren't able to provide payment because of the war.
> The last thing I want to do is delete what may be someone's last copy of important data because they can't pay a bill while running for their lives.
Re:Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians
by thijsvandien on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:35PM
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This is about them not losing their backups exactly because they have other things on their mind (than paying for storage).