More people need to be as angry as you are about this kind of shit. If people keep viewing these issues as one-offs, we'll soon find ourselves "owning nothing, and being miserable."

Life as a service or freedom as a service?

A monopoly on liberty. Hayek RPMs increasing...

It would likely be called a "new technological freedom" from hackers and scams etc. Like how the marxists like to call marxist monetary policy a "new economic freedom".

"Freedom from choice" as opposed to "freedom of choice." Words are so important.

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The only people who are being miserable are the ones complaining about this shit. Rest of the world is happily leading their lives or have other real world problems that they have to deal with and not worry about some elite, upper-class problems

I can care about politicians trying to legislate me out of existence and about the privacy and integrity of my data at the same time. In fact, the two concerns are tightly interwoven.

I can also recommend Cryptomator (F/OSS) for this client-side encryption, which also supports other services than Google Drive.

https://cryptomator.org

How have I not heard of this? Doing a quick HN search I see it's been posted multiple times over the years, but with minimal uptake.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcryptomator.org%2F

Perhaps the problem is that the privacy conscious have already deplatformed & do their own syncing to private cloud, whereas the others are still using the platform & don't care as much.

I'm in the first group, but have become increasingly weary of keeping servers online (I self host everything) & I'm see a lot of promising results in Crytomator... but there's one inevitable gotcha: those very platforms can cut you off at some point in the future. So, you'll need to multi sync across multiple platforms for redundancy.

That said, cryptomator looks good!

And at least on iOS it works nicely with the native file system

Oh wow, I didn't realize it worked seamlessly with file systems like this. Definitely considering this now.

It's only open-source on desktop.

rclone is good too, particularly for people using the command line, and supports client-side encryption.

https://rclone.org/

Yes. The issue is that security and privacy are tragedies of the commons. Individuals rarely have the time or skill to improve the situation, and it's almost never rational for individuals to do so — the benefit to them is probabilistic and low-probability, and the cost in hours of time is high.

But the benefit to society is great of doing better on security and privacy.

This is why governments should regulate security and privacy. The whole point of governments is to solve collective problems together.

How long until they flag your encrypted files because encrypted files are suspicious?

Just got a Synology 4-bay NAS (their SHR hybrid raid is pretty neat) to keep a full backup of everything I've ever put in cloud storage for this exact reason.

Plus side is plugging in hard drives whisked me back to building computers as a kid.

What synology model by chance?

I am using a synology ds418 (current model is ds420, probably releasing the DS422 soon) and it has been an absolute joy for the last four years, of all my technology devices, it requires the least care and feeding, it is the closest thing to a technolgical toaster I own. It backs up to aws glacier, but really nice having all my stuff on a 2 x 1gigabit interface here in the house.

There is a whole ecosystem of plugins and stuff, but out of the box it works fantastic.

420+ with 4 8TB IronWolf drives providing just under 24TB of usable space (with SHR-1 which is single drive failure). Way more than I'll ever need personally. Also desperately trying to pretend I didn't read the comment below about a 422+ (last 2 digits are the release year).

I turned my old desktop into a NAS drive with 3 8tb drives shucked from a discount bin at Best Buy a few years ago. Total cost (out the door) was about $400 for the drives and the time to set it all up, and it has way more storage and convenience than I think I can use in a long time.

Probably 920+!

GP's file is shared with others, so your proposal doesn't work.

Just share the password with others?

You mean "just" require everybody else to read that article and follow the setup instructions with shared keys _and_ set up a different sharing folder and shared key for each distinct set of people you share with.