don't trust cloud services with creative work
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12,000 words? So, like, two chapters?
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Ah yes, the very first lesson I'd teach in my multimedia 'authoring' class: Back your shit up, here's 11 ways to do that; if you EVER tell me you lost your work as an excuse I'm going to LAUGH IN YOUR FACE as I assign you a ZERO.
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Famously Americans did the splitting thing once before with Standard Oil and it was immensely beneficial to the economy in general. Just checked the wiki and it was more than 100 years ago. Unlikely the same laws are still on the books.
There are several companies currently active that deserve the same treatment.
Hey we did the same thing with AT&T! Split them into a bunch of smaller companies which then merged back together after a few years...shit...
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Hard to take the photo of it, but I backed up your comment to a CD:
Software used: https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage
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Is local storage even safe from big corp just remotely nuking your files? I'm sure there's a secret button somewhere to mass delete photos from people's phones incase they start rolling in the tanks to crush a protest.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don't think they can nuke files from my linux computer.
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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.
Schreibblockadenüberwindungsworte
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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.
