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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
https://xcancel.com/AyakaMods/status/2057438125203296642#m
this needs to stop man
Let's say I was trying to use this to make my relatives degoogle and added even an url showing Google's data hoarding and a degoogle alternatives list.
The only thing I got was... "Dad Gave Your Status a ❤️".
it's kinda hard to convince older people to get rid of stuff they already depend on, even if it's as bad as google
My father tested the TikTok spy rumors, proved it, and still passes most of his day doomscrolling on it.
Stop relying on corporations to back up your art
easy for you to say
-Create new RAR file
-Encrypt
-Password: #fuck$google69
-Copy paste dirty chinese cartoons
-Upload
-Sleep well
~~Also I'm pretty sure deleting/changing the file extension on your files will work too.~~
Why would the file extension matter?
In theory google's AI will treat files accordingly to what the extension say. For example: If it sees image.jpeg it will treat it as such and will see the picture data. But if you rename it to image.txt it will treat it as a text file and all it will see gibberish.
Any real computer would look at the internal data to determine the type of file.
I figured since AI isn't a real computer (or at least doesn't act like one) but I just tested it with GPT and indeed it did recognize it. So scratch that idea.
Just don't use Google for fucks sake!!
Did Google ever have a support department?
Also, one of many reasons i keep my backups in my own four walls. Granted, if everything burns down, it's gone. But in that case i'm going to have bigger problems than losing my data. Another alternative would be a portable disk locked away at the bank.
Don't rely on the data in a hard drive powered down for a long time being useable when you need it (mechanical or SSD, doesn't matter, both will get corrupted much faster than you'd expect).
You want long term storage, use tape (most optical disks ain't good either).
I’m too cheap for a safe deposit box, but I work in an office and keep a hard disk there. I have two identical ones. One at the office, one at home receiving backups. Every couple of months, swap them out.
off-site physical storage is good praxis
Also If my house burns down then where the hell else am I going fap to porn at? It's useless at that point.
I mean, Google hasn't offered support with real humans for over 8 years. Facebook has been on that even longer
The only way to get support from google nowadays is to become a famous youtuber with a large audience, and work in lockstep with them.
ai is crippling every industry it touches. sounds intentional imho
Remember, folks: encryption and redundancy (and redundancy).
And redundancy.
And redundancy.
And redundancy.
And the brain damage...
And the brain damage...
And the brain damage...
Oh hey guys when did you get here?
And the ADHD, and... uh... I'm sorry, what were we listing again?
And testing the redundancy ^Redundancy ^^Reduncancy ^^^Redundancy
Don't test redundancy here bruh! These servers are public running
It's only a matter of time until something really big fails online isn't it?
Always has been.
Deleted? Now: No one's data.
I didn't realize AI was looking at my google drive. I'm just deleted my files, but that's like a huge chunk of my career they could have potentially stolen.
I do still want backups beyond my flashdrive, maybe an encrypted file?
No one should have anything on google specifically, or on a non-privately owned and properly secured server in general.
There was a guy, during covid lockdowns, whose child developed a severe rash in the diaper area.
because lockdowns, the doctor asked them to send photos of the rash so he can diagnose.
googles auto-moderator labeled it child pornography, immediately deleted their account (which was very much all eggs in one basket. his phone number, email, data, everything was tied to his google account, all of which went away with no ability to recover anything on any of it) and called the authorities.
Police came to his home, talked to him, talked to his doctor, said there was nothing untoward there and went about their business.
Google said it didnt matter what the police said, it was child pornpgraphy.
the doctor sent a letter to google saying it was a legitimate medical necessity.
google said it didnt care, its child pornography.
That their expert photo-lookers said there was no rash in the area that they could tell, so there for the doctor was wrong, the police were wrong, and that man was a pedophile and he would never get anything back in any circumstance.
and for proof of that, they pointed to a video in his google data from 6 months prior that had the mother laying in bed, naked, with the baby on her chest.
Because, according to google, the only reason to be naked in the same room as a child, or to take a medically dictated photograph of a childs rash, is if you are a dirty dirty child molesting pedophile sexually exploiting your child.
Which I imagine makes almost all of our parents and grand parents pedophiles, by googles standards, because I guarantee the overwhelming majority of us have a parent that has a picture of us naked, probably in the bath, that is compltely fucking harmless to any sane, normal human being, unlike the actual pedophiles that google has looking at this shit who gets their rocks off to it and assumes everyone else is just as fucked up as twisted as they are.
Reminds me of a joke: someone is driving on a certain road and listening to the radio; suddenly the announcer warns: beware anyone driving in [that particular road], there's a madman driving in the wrong direction. To which the driver exclaims: One!? It's all of them!
Google are that driver in this case. I.e., the real paedophiles. For only a paedophile could consider a picture of a mother with her child child pornography.