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Eurovision: Greta Thunberg among thousands protesting against Israel competing in contest

Having a backup at a cloud provider is fine, as long as there is at least one other backup that isn't with this provider.

Cloud provider seems to do a good job protecting against hardware failure, but can do poorly with arbitrary account bans, and sometimes have mishaps due to configuration problems.

Whereas a DIY backup solution is often more subject to hardware problems (disk failure, fire, flooding, theft, ...), but there's no risk of account problem.

A mix is fine to protect against different kind of issues.

That would indeed be a good backup strategy, but better be specific. "Offsite" may be interpreted in different ways.

The same ToS which the judge says X cannot enforce because it conflicts with copyright law.

They had backups at multiple locations, and lost data at multiple (Google Cloud) locations because of the account deletion.

They restored from backups stored at another provider. It may have been more devastating if they relied exclusively on google for backups. So having an "offsite backup" isn't enough in some cases, that offsite location need to be at a different provider.

What about users' copyright? Would Bright Data have to obtain permission from every user to scrap data while following copyright law?

I guess this wasn't a question raised during this lawsuit.

WTF Hungary?

Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make

Lord Farquaad

They should look into exponential backoff

I'm going to assume lack of volonteers.

Arkane is a gem, don't close it damnit

Wrong choices happen when there's deletion of useful historical data, motivated by short-term cost saving.

Wrong choices also happen when there's unnecessary creation on data, such as logging and storing everything, just in case, with a verbose level.

Storage can be cheap in some cases, but high-availablility high-performance cloud storage is very expensive. Anyway, it's not infinite.

The way to keep useful data is to be strategic and only store relevant logs. Fine tune retention policy especially for fastest growing data. Storing everything on high-cost storage, without smart retention policy, could lead to deleting git data to make place for a mix of debug logs and random shit.

Beating people to death, an interesting strategy to stop complaints about people being beaten to death.

Different groups and people are calling SpaceX a dominant launch provider and even a temporary monopoly.

Space is different from other sector. That's doesn't make it immune from the risk of monopoly.

I hope they succeed. Access to space shouldn't depend on a single company, especially one owned by Musk.

This team will hopefully find jobs elsewhere very easily. Competitors should take this opportunity to hire skilled workers.

I'm currently trying HeliBoard, and was about to say I also miss the multi language cabapility.

But HeliBoard do have that capability, it's just not obvious to enable.

Nice list. Note MicroG doesn't appear in F-Droid's default repository. It probably cannot be installed as a regular app, or requires adding a different repository.

NewPipe supports PeerTube and others, give it a try to lower your dependency on YouTube!

That's a convenient way to make troublemakers go away. Even it some of these terminations technically have a valid justification, it gives the appearance the company is looking for an excuse to fire critics.

Protesters probably need to be more savvy and respectful, but also need better protection against retribution.