Don’t trust backblaze or any service that claims “unlimited”.

The overwhelming feedback I’ve seen is to “KISS” and use some combination of restic/borg/kopia and rclone to sync data or local backups to cloud storage like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/.

Restic/borg are more for whole system backups, where kopia is more for data (a central kopia server/repository can deduplicate and version data from multiple machines). Rclone is good for syncing local backups to cloud services, or perhaps e2ee synchronisation between machines (though it doesn’t do versioning and multiple machines will cause problems).

This is the most flexible, long-term, as you can just update the storage backend and transfer or re-upload everything as necessary.

It’s like the wedding or funeral tax, where all items cost extra for no reason, other than exploitation.

America has been rotting from the inside since WW2 (MIC, FBI and CIA terrorism, etc), then supercharged with Reagan. Frankly, it’s surprising it took this long.

Capitalist dictatorship*, with the illusion of democracy. No different to the USSR or CCP and the illusion of workers owning the means of production.

*you can vote for whoever you want, but when “donations” from wealthy individuals and corporations have already pre-filtered and pre-positioned the majority of politicians, wealth has seized the means of democracy and created what is functionally equivalent to capitalist dictatorship, all but guaranteeing the political class represent their donors more than the entire working class.

And the fascist oligarchy who run propaganda operations like Fox — now, most of Americas media — are to blame.

Late stage capitalism will end like the opening scene of the dark knight; the joker killing every one of his criminal accomplices, one by one, as soon as they have fulfilled their role (their value has been extracted).

It’s an apt analogy because all of these capitalists are mentally ill &/or criminals.

We’ve now added recursion to the fascist idiocracy

The 200+ hours a month sitting at a desk, in front of the tv, or doom scrolling, are probably far more damaging than the 40 hours in traffic.

Member how the metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives, but they just spent dozens of billions on a shitty VR sim, renamed their whole company over it, then fired tens of thousands of workers when it flopped, but still jerked zuck off for his capitalist prowess?

He’s worth hundreds of billions more today! Capitalism is a fucking clown world.

What you’re calling lies are false positives. To lie you have to know the truth. AI’s are ignorant. They don’t know what anything is, as all they “know” is mathematical patterns in 1’s and 0’s.

They would only be lies if Google engineers explicitly overrided the model to output the false information. What most implementations of LLM’s are is weaponized incompetence, for-profit. Capitalists know they output false information, and they don’t care, because their only goal is profit and power.

You can always tell who the vibe/shit/non coders are by the way they pontificate AI as some revolution that completely changes software, instead of yet another tool that has significant tradeoffs…

“But mongo DB is web scale!?!” — dunning-krugers

Wait… You’re telling me an industry primarily built around exploitation and deception — offering free/cheap services to build a user base and attract vulture-capital investment, with the intention of performing a bait and switch and shifting to wealth extraction once that deceived user base are dependent on your product — is filled with greedy, sociopathic, parasites?

Lying, cheating, stealing, exploitation and propaganda all sound “tantalizing” when you’re a criminally corrupt sociopath.

We’re just lucky capitalism doesn’t reward sociopaths with wealth and power /s

It’s to funnel users into propaganda bubbles and voids, making it harder for them to see alternate content and viewpoints. It’s been pretty obvious with how aggressively they remove and discipline antifascist politics.

And not one of these “patriots” have shot a single nazi in the face, ignoring that oath they swore their entire lives as they rose to the tippy top…

Failed state is a failed state.

Surveillance-capitalism fascists unite!

At least the developed world is dropping the charade and making it crystal clear that we live in corporate dictatorships.

That would be best case scenario; the trash taking itself out, so nobody else has to get their hands dirty.

I’m not picky, though. Nazi lives don’t matter.

I’m really looking forward to the day someone shoots that nazi in the face.

Surveillance capitalism will continue the fascist takeover until the whole planet is a totalitarian company town and we are all slaves to big brother; paying a daily subscription to breathe.

I’m not even joking.

Ah yes. When i read the fascist FTC head sent the letter — a criminal who threatens antifascist media for political speech — I was certain consequences will only apply to debanking fascists.