Exactly. If critical mass is achieved inorganically, it would result with a reverse in uptake & possibly even a revolt against it.

You can lead a horse to water… (but a pencil must be lead)

No, it’s all good. We’re on the same page about disaster recovery!

as long as there is at least one other backup that isn’t with this provider.

Which is exactly what I was saying.

Any services used with a cloud provider should be treated as 1 entity, no matter how many geo-locations they claim your data is backed up to because they are a single point from which all those can be deleted.

When I was last involved in a companies backups, we had a fire safe in the basement, we had an off-site location with another fire safe & third copies would go off to another company that provided a backup storage solution so for all backups to be deleted, someone had to go right out of their way to do so. Not just a simple deletion of our account & all backups are wiped.

That company had the foresight to do something similar & it’s saved them. [edited - was on the tube when I wrote this and didnt see the autocorrect had put ‘comment’, not ‘company’]

It may have been more devastating if they relied exclusively on google for backups.

Which is why having any data, despite the number of backups, on a cloud provider shouldn’t be seen as off-site.

Only when it is truly outside their ecosphere and cannot be touched by them should it be viewed as such.

If that company didn’t have such resilience built into their backup plan, they would be toast with a derisory amount of compensation from Google.

Also, why would you want company data on your personal device?

Recipe for disaster

Unfortunately, that would be terrible.

Just as they have the Hannibal Directive for captured soldiers and civilians, they have a similar directive with their nukes and are psychotic enough to follow through on it.

The +170 nations that voted for a ceasefire need to put together a task force to take control of their nukes & decommission them then run a truth commission with prosecutions & executions of the convicted.

There were tools that people made that would find if the people you followed/followed you were on Mastodon and added them so the migration wasn’t quite as painful as some here have described.

Whatever it is Spez is saying this to the staff

S’all good! I was reading about it yesterday and was surprised that they already had the court cases

One of them was already jailed back in 2021 and the others were awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57997117 [apologies for the bbc link so heres an archive link as an alt: https://archive.ph/QIGcn]

They are digitising Marion Stokes’ collection

Shame he wasn’t seen for being like Marion Stokes

The BBC stupidly recycled the tapes because they didn’t give much credence at the time to how important their archive would become.

You can click that to clear it but you no longer get the threads or replies, just the initial tweet.

Or tulips from the 17th century

Another is that no matter how far I zoom in, it still remains on the smallest font.

I’ll be out cycling and it’s a PITA to have to dig out my glasses just to read a pissy small street name to know where tf I am!

Fediverse is really still in its infancy. Its only just shifted from those with a lot of technical knowledge to those with a fluency of it.

It’s when the average person can create an account and start engaging that it will reach critical mass.

It’s not a bad thing that its taking a while to get there so that certain cultures, terms of engagement and stable/viable instances (each with their funding streams) can be established. If there were a sudden mass exodus from centralised systems to the fediverse, it would just mean a massive loss of the signal to noise ratio rather than a slow, measure integration of each wave of new users.

However, I don’t think taking the internet away from poor people is a good move.

Definitely. It creates a monoculture and theres a few that are easily identifiable that have had terrible repercussions.

Click the image icon. Use it wisely though as lemmy.ml servers are already under load with all the new users.