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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(www.techdirt.com)

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linearchaos@lemmy.world
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Wait, journalist, 233 terabyte? Just what in the fuck did his life’s work consist of?

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alexdeathway@programming.dev
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Npm packages in docker

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El Barto@lemmy.world
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Liftoff app cache folder.

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Octopus1348@lemy.lol
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That would take 2 years to upload.

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BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
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A Call of Duty update.

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cannache@slrpnk.net
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No not my Gary’s moods lol

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ohlaph@lemmy.world
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That’s only one map though, where’s the rest?

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Wizzard@lemm.ee
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Log files from a local SQL server.

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linearchaos@lemmy.world
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JPGs

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bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
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My node_modules folder

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phx@lemmy.world
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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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linearchaos@lemmy.world
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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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nutsack@lemmy.world
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raw recorded video

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Laitinlok@lemmy.laitinlok.com
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It’s simply stupid to not compress to h265 before uploading it.

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nutsack@lemmy.world
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that’s not what videographers do with their raw footage

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Isthisreddit@lemmy.world
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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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cannache@slrpnk.net
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If it’s good it’s good 😊

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Doug7070@lemmy.world
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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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