don't trust cloud services with creative work
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I don't think they can nuke files from my linux computer.
Is your CPU open source? I bet you have a Intel ME or AMD PSP on your computer.
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12,000 words? So, like, two chapters?
Maybe he was writing in german? Some words can be sentence long.
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12,000 words? So, like, two chapters?
that's like one eighth of a whole-ass book, my friend. and after a year of writer's block that shit would hurt to lose.
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TLDR: make multiple backups
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that's like one eighth of a whole-ass book, my friend. and after a year of writer's block that shit would hurt to lose.
Alright cool, probably takes a long time to do while also having a job and a family, but I'm just saying there were times in college where I wrote out 5k words in a day, formatted and typeset within a week.
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Maybe he was writing in german? Some words can be sentence long.
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Sadly, could be explosives.
They said Intel ME, not Israel ME.
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Alright cool, probably takes a long time to do while also having a job and a family, but I'm just saying there were times in college where I wrote out 5k words in a day, formatted and typeset within a week.
Are we supposed to clap you now?
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Alright cool, probably takes a long time to do while also having a job and a family, but I'm just saying there were times in college where I wrote out 5k words in a day, formatted and typeset within a week.
I once wrote 5k words uphill both ways in the snow.
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I once wrote 5k words uphill both ways in the snow.
Literally, though, yeah I did.
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Are we supposed to clap you now?
Honey, you need to buy me some drinks first.
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Is your CPU open source? I bet you have a Intel ME or AMD PSP on your computer.
well I'm happy I know those exist now but its a little scary what with everything else going on in the world.
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Is your CPU open source? I bet you have a Intel ME or AMD PSP on your computer.
Yes, but how are they going to wipe my offline backups?
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Alright cool, probably takes a long time to do while also having a job and a family, but I'm just saying there were times in college where I wrote out 5k words in a day, formatted and typeset within a week.
alright, cool. so what?
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Yes, but how are they going to wipe my offline backups?
Under normal circumstances, they can't. But if they actually want to target you and they want to spend the time and resources, they could potentially send instructions to the backdoor to secretly sabotage the backup process:
Basically showing you that the backup is working, while in the background, it has been encrypting the files to a key they control during that backup process, and essentialy act as ransomware. (Modern computing has made hardware encryption so fast that it would be seamless, so it would be hard to notice that happening.)
So every time you check the backup's integrity, it uses the key to unlock the files and show you "everything is fine".
But when the time comes, they would nuke the keys from the Intel ME / AMD PSP then next time you try to access your files, you get an error message, then you try to plug in the backup drive, also shows errors. Because they already nuked the keys, you have a bunch of encrypted data you can't access.
Sounds far fetched, but theoretically its possible.
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Is your CPU open source? I bet you have a Intel ME or AMD PSP on your computer.
Alternately, if you don't live in China, Zhaoxin makes x86-64-compatible CPUs. No need to worry about the Chinese government/corpos helping the American government/corpos tyrannize it's own citizens.
They're not quite as good as intel/AMD in perf or effeciency/dollar.
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Ich gehe in die Selbstbedienungsladen
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FYI Waze is owned by Google.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes, I'm well aware. I just like the user contributions part of Waze it's like google maps but aimed for driving
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Scrivener is an offline, desktop app. So the files will be on their hard drive.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yup, Scrivener saves data locally. Ironically, you should never use it on a cloud drive, because apparently it can lead to data corruption. I sync my Scrivener projects across multiple computers with Git instead, because that at least ensures the files are at a consistent state.
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This is extra bad because they want you to use cloud files in gdrive (I can't remember what the feature is actually called), which doesn't save the content locally on your computer, but puts an icon that will download the content from Google servers when you click on it. This means you have no local backup of your data in your computer backups.
And even then, if you make sure to copy the actual file, you'd still depend on them to open it if it's in their proprietary format.
