RSS BotMicrosoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
On the 17th of last month, Reddit user u/deus03690 shared how Microsoft locked their account, which, among other things, contained 30 years of “irreplaceable photos and work” on OneDrive.
Who the Fuck is so stupid to store important information online without an offline backup?
explodicleIf you’re not a computer nerd, it’s common to think Microsoft has a bunch of backups and that’s the whole point of the cloud. He’s not particularly stupid, he just got scammed like thousands of others.
In a just world, he’d successfully sue MS for damages.
Lemmy tends to forget that we’re almost exclusively computer nerds. I’ve been the voice to my family and friends (hopefully not to a religious point lol) about these such issues, and they’re generally pretty receptive. But they aren’t going to go out of their way to learn what I have, nor should they. I am merely my network’s trusted IT pro, be it game servers for friends or most recently Immich for extended family.
If claiming our digital rights is framed as a free for all, we will never secure any protection before it’s too engrained to object. Together, hell look at Lemmy itself, we can not only educate people on these issues, but be the IT role that actually knows how to run whatever service in a secure and truly private manner.
PS I have to give Immich some love here, no matter how many stories like OP’s you show to someone, they aren’t going to settle for less. And now that Immich is an option for my network, its features make it barely a question for those moving off of google. Another TB of storage? That will be 40$ one time. No nags, no bullshit. And the context search is freaking amazing, without ever having to train some corps model off of (more) of your images.