mccJust basically gonna have to assume for the rest of our lives that any cloud/content hosting service offered for free is at best temporary and at worst some kind of trap
(Screenshot source is an email I received this morning.)
I think the one free service I trust not to someday fuck up on me is Neocities, and that only because it appears to be run by ideologues (the fact it is run with an explicit anti-growth policy, and that the service it offers is intentionally so limited, also helps)
PS check out my web sight on neocities!! https://mcc.neocities.org/
I hate that, in the "AI" era, this argument actually makes a lot of sense https://toot.cat/@jamey/112671927674516582
Jamey Sharp (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Given that they've been holding onto the full history but only letting you see the most recent messages for years, I actually think it's an improvement if they start deleting posts that they won't show you anyway. Doesn't make it any less of a trap, of course
bob@mcc what makes you think "delete" means actually delete and not update posts set deleted=true
lutoma@mcc @bob Oh yeah, I now see that the linked post already said basically the same thing as I did, sorry for the repetition.
But I don't really see the upside for Slack in that scenario since it would not save them any storage costs while removing a powerful sales motivator (And I have no doubts they're already training some AI nonsense on customer data and would sell data to OpenAI or similar in a heartbeat).
@mcc @lutoma even if you want to delete stuff, on a technical level it's much easier to mark things as deleted and then maybe do a compaction later than it is to actually delete it. even if you're just using a sql database an update query that sets the deleted flag (even if that flag is indexed) is a lot cheaper than a delete query