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Hey, the cloud took all my data!

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I wish I had seen this post from sociologist danah boyd (who spells her name without capital letters) before I went on TVO’s The Agenda last night talking about the benefits and disadvantages of “cloud” computing. It’s a great example of the downsi ... Continue reading »

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  • Matthew Gallant

    1 year ago

    I'm a nut for backups, I have a local copy of all my music/e-mail/photos on my laptop, which I back up once more onto an external hard drive once or twice a month. It only takes one hard drive crash in which you lose data to make you think twice about these things. Fool me once...
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    I agree, Matthew -- all it takes is one disaster to make you think
    hard about backups.
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  • Jeff Schmidt

    1 year ago

    on the flip side - I bought a new laptop monday, downloaded my gmail contents into a local mail app. i had to return the laptop because of the fan and forgot to wipe the data.

    seems either way - data is always at risk to carelessness.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    That's true, Jeff. Thanks for the comment.
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