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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data

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Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data

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Over a decade ago, I pointed out that as Google kept trying to worm its way deeper into our lives, a key Achilles’ heel was its basically non-existent customer service and unwillingness to ev…
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    Wait, journalist, 233 terabyte? Just what in the fuck did his life’s work consist of?

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      Npm packages in docker

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        Liftoff app cache folder.

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        That would take 2 years to upload.

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      raw recorded video

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        It’s simply stupid to not compress to h265 before uploading it.

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          Tell me you don’t know shit about professional video production without telling me you don’t know shit about professional video production.

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          that’s not what videographers do with their raw footage

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          For people authoring original content who may end up having the only copy of a given piece of news-relevant data in their possession, using a lossy compression method to back it up sort of defeats the purpose. This isn’t stashing your old DVD collection, this is trying to back up privileged professional data.

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            https://x265.readthedocs.io/en/master/lossless.html

            https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265#Losslessencoding

            I want to clarify that it supports lossless compression as well.

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          If it’s good it’s good 😊

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      A Call of Duty update.

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        That’s only one map though, where’s the rest?

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        No not my Gary’s moods lol

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      Raw high-def video and image files? But yeah, there’s unlimited and then there’s kinda pushing the limits of what’s reasonable. 233TB is more than the contents of some orgs’ datacenters

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        Yeah, there are show a day YouTube production companies with a team of editors running years off a petabyte.

        Certainly not impossible, but probably more of an article in the writing than an actual journalist in distress

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