How is this not a bit?
If you only have one copy, it is already lost. People have to learn, just like many little children touching the stove, the hard way.
Data loss through gooning is one of the funnier ways to learn a lesson.
TIL https://takeout.google.com/ is a clearing house where you can request google compile a zipped archive of any/all data you have stored on google products (including drive) and email a download link to you. you can make it a one time thing or something it does periodically. it can email you the link to the archive file or upload it to another cloud service account.
this story made me realize that while i do have a lot of things backed up to local storage accounts, i had gotten lazy with some financial records and other important documentation going back years that i keep in the cloud. so i’ve gone ahead and made myself a little snapshot for right now. which is nice, because i stood up a media box with a crazy amount of storage in a self-hosted RAID config and all my google shit is going to be like a 0.02% rounding error to drop in there.
not that i’m planning on a goon session with gemini or whatever.
My eldest daughter is at university. She was writing her dissertation on Google Docs because she had a hard drive break in 1st year and didn’t want to go through that again.
She’s lost access to her dissertation and submission deadline is only a few weeks away.
Imagine having to explain that to your advisor
That also makes me wonder if that daughter could have used a different account for her dissertation. In my experience universities will provide a Google or Microsoft account for students’ cloud storage
"Back in my day it was the dog that ate your homework but you’re telling me your gooner younger brother did WHAT you your homework? "
My cat actually threw up on my homework once in grade school… I took it to school in a plastic bag, because “pet ruined homework” is the oldest lie in the book.
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Google can do this at any time for any reason to anyone.
Backing critical stuff up to online accounts can be a way to avoid loss in the event of hard drive failure, theft, fire, malware, etc BUT it shouldn’t be your only copy, you should keep a local back-up or a back-up with another unrelated company.
The cloud is just someone else’s computer. Your Google documents and such are not immune to being lost, it’s very improbable but as seen here things and shit can happen. As companies adopt more AI moderation there will be more false flags in addition to genuine ones that result in total losses for people due to their “risk score” rising too high.
Keep local copies, never put all your eggs in one basket.
That poor kid. Jesus Christ.
edit: 14. fuck man I would not have survived a thing like this.
He did the digital equivalent of burning the family house down with everything inside.
but still somehow couldn’t hide his transgression
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
still this shit’s like some aesops fable about the nightmarish unintended consequences of trying to protect your children online but relying on the same tech you’re afraid will corrupt them.
You should back up your shit
I have more backups of video game saves from a decade ago then this guy does his business data.
That stood out to me as well. Sure I understand the daughter having her important work only in Google docs, who would expect their account to randomly get banned for their little brother’s shenanigans? But for a business owner to have all their records stored solely in Google’s fucking servers? What the fuck?
I thought this was talking about the rocket launch today.
Like, he was sexting the chatbot? I feel like Google is trying to blame the child here
It’s kinda weird that google’s policy is just ban all the accounts. Like the risk is that Gemini would SA the child, basically. And Gemini correctly blocked the kid. The rest seems almost punitive, even though I’m sure its originally motivated by legal ass covering.
Google and most companies policies in case of child sexual abuse is to nuke everything from orbit. Anything related is not worth the risk from their perspective that abuse or sharing of abusive imagery continues. They do NOT want to be hauled into court to explain why they banned a pedo’s main account but didn’t ban their alt account which they continued to use to abuse kids.
It is out of an abundance of caution.
Even if every single one of them was a paying Google subscriber to the tune of $20/mo it wouldn’t likely be worth the risks in terms of cost/benefit analysis from Google’s point of view.
because we all know pederasty is toxic to the billionaires running all these companies
It is out of an abundance of caution.
Yeah and now the parents can’t go back and see whether the fucking LLM might have encouraged the kid. It’s a win for everyone.
I sort of wonder how the accounts are connected. Like sure there is a social graph but is it really SOP to nuke the social environment around suspicious accounts?
Were they all logged into the iPad?
would have been a paid family account for all the google apps + drive storage, I figure.
Google do not know you and have no idea if what you are saying is the truth.
Oh sweet summer child.
But this is making me wonder what, if anything, critical I have stored with Google that if I were ever to be banned would I lose? My resumes… some tax documents… pictures from the last 15 years or so… good time to pull all that shit out of there and save it somewhere locally I guess.
Look up degoogling and just cherry pick the info on exporting all your data so you can save an archive of it.
Then degoogle for real but that’s a separate thing.
For really important archival, Blu-ray lasts like a thousand years if you keep it inside a case.
I use local, gdrive and OneDrive for important shit. So hopefully I’m covered in the event that one or two go down
Yeah it’s surprising it doesn’t happen more often, or at least isn’t talked about that much. I can only think of this Redditor and the ROK government.
This seems like either bullshit or REALLY bad judgement on the part of OP.
Why would you tie your personal Google account to your business?
I would be very thankful to be freed from the shackles of “business data” tbh
“3-2-1? Why are we counting numbers backwards?”
This sounds like something Erik from Internet comment etiquette would post.
and the AI in question would be a cute little puppet on the sofa, saying horrible things
Grok: “Ayyyyyyyy I make-ah the teenager horny, the stroke his gabagool in front-ah me!”
