ArmoredThirteen

anders , 1 month ago to memes

Data storage vs backup storage

@memes

ArmoredThirteen , 1 month ago

The tire doesn’t have to be perfect that’s why it’s a spare. I’m sure it’ll be fine

ArmoredThirteen , 1 month ago

youtu.be/zrFv1I5Yb7k

Like this but with the spare wheel instead of a no wheel

ajsadauskas , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to technology

My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

ArmoredThirteen , 4 months ago

The problem here is not about any one persons YouTube habits. It’s that we’ve been pouring so much into it as a group that if it goes away it’ll be torching even more history. The Internet has a bad problem with losing things and it is already making finding old data difficult. This is especially noticable with games or even more specifically mods. Morrowind mods have a long and vibrant history of being lost forever because the hosts kept changing and archives going under. There are many games and mods I played as a kid that are gone now and forums talking about them that are also gone. YouTube is a single point of failure for a ton of video history and losing that history is generally considered to be A Bad Thing ™️

ArmoredThirteen , 4 months ago

Why is everyone @-ing the same group of people in this post?

twizzay , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to lemmyshitpost

Did you eat your butterdogs this morning

@lemmyshitpost

ArmoredThirteen , 5 months ago

So plain buns or did you at least get to add salt?

ArmoredThirteen , 5 months ago

I love doing that, broil them real quick, serve with basic red sauce spaghetti, cheap and tastes great

ajsadauskas , 5 months ago to technology

Another day, another service joins the Google Graveyard.

Google's Business Profiles had a feature that allowed sole traders and small businesses to quickly and easily set up a simple website.

Sure, it's not WordPress, but it was a good option for less tech savvy small businesses to get a web presence up quickly and easily.

And, as part of Google's ongoing enshittification, it's going: https://support.google.com/business/answer/14368911?hl=en&ref_topic=7032534&sjid=14999411477128650858-AP

"Websites made with Google Business Profiles are basic websites powered by the information on your Business Profile. In March 2024, websites made with Google Business Profiles will be turned off and customers visiting your site will be redirected to your Business Profile instead. The redirect will work until June 10, 2024."

https://youtu.be/rY0WxgSXdEE?si=G_Jzga_jxc-zH6ST

#Google #tech #enshittification #technology @technology

ArmoredThirteen , 5 months ago

Please be a joke… I’m unfortunately pretty deep in my current gmail with all kinds of medical, legal, and financial offices it would be a mess for me to lose it

ArmoredThirteen , 5 months ago

So that’s the plan and I’m not a stranger to doing basic server stuff. For me personally right now though it just isn’t feasible. I’m not in a space where I can handle extra overhead like that and I’m entrenched in a lot of important communications through my old email that need as little disruption as possible. In about a year I think things will have cooled down enough for me to switch

ArmoredThirteen , 5 months ago

That’s a good point about backups! Doing that now