hipsterstal1n

> there just doesn't seem to be any way to preserve bits for the long haul, short of RAID

Gentle reminder that RAID is not backup. Have at least three copies or backups of important files preferably in different locations.

And keeping things on your own drives has its caveats - I work in IT and have seen data loss from sprinkler systems raining down on server closets, leaky AC units, no ability to access email and data for days and weeks due to Hurricane Sandy, and battery backups with dead batteries causing RAID corruption upon power loss, and more.

With that said, your points are good ones and things will inevitably get lost - over the past few years I've plugged in old drives and floppies from the late 90s and old burned CDs from the 00's, some of which have already started decaying, losing unknown files. We are creating so many files and documents that we value but others likely won't. I rest a little easier knowing I still have documents from university, but my children probably won't care or ever want to read my 25 page final paper for my "Civil War" history class or my first Java program (make an elevator!).

And there is no telling who'll buy it... probably a company like Comcast / Xfinity which is already universally hated.

That's a lot of words to say "I knew what iCloud was 10 years ago, continued to use it, and I continue to reap what I have sown."

Most people believed it was on Google's side, possibly even on purpose to make people use Chrome vs. Firefox. It is no coincidence that the Firefox / Google Antitrust case kicked off two weeks ago and this magically started working better.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopol...

> the current CEO has directed the focus towards revenue-generating features.

They literally can't win. One group of vocal users is outraged by how much money Mozilla takes from Google while the other half screams about how Mozilla is trying to gasp gain additional revenue streams that isn't taking money from their biggest competitor.

> Do you really want Mozilla to get pinged with your IP address every time your browser process starts and exits? Yuck!

No, but I really don't give a shit either. At a certain point, I looked in the mirror and said life is too short to care about stupid shit like that. If I was a spy or a journalist in some state like China or Iran, maybe I would care. But this feels odd to hone in on when any website you go to is collecting all sorts of info of this sort.

This is peak performance.

I'm right there with you. It was definitely a difficult read and I often found myself going back a few pages and re-reading sections. Many times.

This is interesting and hits close to home. My dad and I are collectors of flown cameras from NASA missions. We have a few early digital cameras that flew on Shuttle missions in the very early 90's and they were modified similarly (minus the pistol grip). They were essentially film camera bodies with extra modules attached that had the digital components. We also have the extra large film magazines that were used, etc.

As a fellow Rutgers alumni, I love the trolling effort but am disappointed it wasn't something like "Pork Roll", Danny DeVito, or "Bon Jovi" so we could have sentences like "Only after Bon Jovi could life as we know it develop on Earth".

My father-in-law works for a defense contractor around DC and works with and travels to allied countries on classified + items. He has several stories of him and his colleagues at his office being on the receiving end of un-intended reply-alls with the end result in most cases of a military team coming to the office and physically taking away all the computers that had been on the receiving end of the reply-alls.

> I can't believe Google is doing this

Have you been living under a rock?

Programmer: Uploads code to Github for the public to see / use Github: Uses code uploaded by programmers to learn and make other code better Programmer: NO FAIR! My code can only be used the way I want it to be and my code is absolutely unique and no one else has coded something like it

> I recently quit a job that made me use a Mac after less than 3 months, and I'm not even kidding, that was part of why.

Imagine quitting your job over an operating system.

It was definitely acting slow earlier today.

There is plenty of seating. There is a waiting section with benches, an Amtrak lounge, and a dining hall coming soon. Not to mention... the classic sitting on the ground.

Who cares?

This. Way before Amazon Prime, you could order from Newegg within New Jersey and with free ground shipping get it within one day, two days tops. It was magical to receive something so soon that wasn't from an over-priced CompUSA or Circuit City.

Nowadays, Newegg is a mess of storefronts and even if you buy from Newegg itself, you have to deal with a terrible return policy.

Hostile is way too strong a word. Maybe user unfriendly since it is is built-in to the browser instead of an extension?

But again, if you don't like it, don't use it. You don't have to go to Chrome where you have much worse user-hostile crap hidden under the hood.

I love this. I grew up using this and still have the software on floppies, I may try this out.

Exactly. Those that care and / or know enough to care are a tiny fraction of the population, in the same vein as those who care enough to use Linux instead of Windows.

Google knows that with their high usage numbers (partly thanks to Android and Firefox's mistakes in the 2000s to mid 2010's, they can do pretty much anything and will still keep their Chrome browser popularity. This is thanks to Android and the general population across the world who don't care enough about their privacy. Plus, if someone uninstalls Chrome where will they go? To Brave (Chromium), Opera(Chromium), Edge(Chromium), Vivaldi(Chromium), or Firefox.

I tweeted about this a week ago being from the area. It helped the city get rid of officers that the police union were protecting not fire-able. Further, it helped the city (which had declared bankruptcy) get rid of police pensions negotiated decades ago that were draining city coffers.

I know that public cloud providers like Rackspace and Azure insert their own accounts and services into cloud servers and VMs mostly under the guise of being able to support said servers and monitor them and their health.

True data centers where you own the hardware shouldn't... they give you an ethernet cord and everything is on you.

It cost Newegg $60,000 to fight their patent troll. Gnome team is going to need a lot more then $20.