What happens when your files are considered Bad and Microsoft removes them? When the OneDrive backend suffers bit rot or misconfiguration? What happens when your Microsoft account is compromised? When the photos of your kids in the bath are sent to the police? When you have a 10GB file that's frequently modified and the client then constantly scans it and uploads it? When your abusive partner, relation, co-worker or boss uses this to surveil you, tamper with or remove your files or even plant evidence? When your business or organisation now suffers from liability from not performing due data protection diligence of something they were not informed nor asked consent for? The list of reasons why this is terrible just goes on and on.
Any of this would be an implementation level fault, and Dropbox, iCloud, Google Photos and Meta's chat apps have had this solved for decades. I don't see why OneDrive couldn't.
If you hate the design, don't let your arguments rely on a bad implementation of what you hate. Make them work with a perfect one.
iCloud sometimes silently fails to download files. Dropbox have, on multiple occasions, resurrected years-deleted files, Drive is a dumpster fire - it doesn't even support exclusions, so will happily (try to) sync multi-gigabyte PST files, causing drastic CPU, drive and network IO saturation and Outlook faults. But hey, at least people consent to this trouble.
Ironically, since I think Windows ME, Windows has been doing this anyway. It became smarter in Vista - I believe it would preload binaries at a time of the day when they were most frequently opened. Also how often are people logging in afresh? It seems a bit of a waste of engineering time, but then again I hope that Mozilla has used these resources as a result of data showing it was worth implementing.
"Since ordering the vehicle, Raddon's living circumstances have changed, he told Business Insider. He said that he and his wife separated and he's since moved into a new apartment complex, and his new Cybertruck doesn't fit comfortably in its parking space."
On top of the fact that the owner couldn't have known the above, I'd say one can blame Tesla: for their abusive contracts and bad customer service.
Great, so these companies do not give a flying fuck about their customer data in making sure the data stored at cloud storage companies are end to end encrypted.
To think these random cloud storage companies can access your bank information is utterly shocking.
It’s been a while since I’ve been a Snowflake customer, but I do recall that Snowflake has a mode where the customer owns their own encryption key for their data. Snowflake employees (even admins with the highest access) have no access to the customer’s data unless the customer grants explicit access. It’d take a pretty serious breach on their compute notes to exfiltrate data.
Not surprised at all. Doesn't even depend on cloud vendors - I'm thinking back to the 2023 MOVEit vulnerability which resulted in the release of a ton of customer info from banks' own internal infrastructure.
I had an 81MB (87MB?) 2.5" hard drive for my Acorn Archimedes A3010 circa 1996ish. I'd guess after then and before 2000 - by then I had a proper, grow-up job doing tech support and PC building and I'm sure we rarely, if ever, sold drives in the megabytes.
We're not always in control when telemetry cannot be turned off, when informed consent cannot be given, when choices are repeatedly overridden. They've proven this time and time again, as well as being unable to keep their own house in order.
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"Go search for “iPerf3 on Windows” on the web. Go ahead, open a tab, and use your search engine of choice. Which I am certain is Bing with Copilot."
For many people it won't be by choice, it'll be because Windows' plethora of dark patterns and anti-consumer features have tricked you into using it, or taken away your previous explicit choice.
I personally thought the part about Bing with Copilot was a subtle joke, because giving people the benefit of doubt is just a polite thing to do and even the Microsoft employees deserve it. Otherwise the sentiment contained in that sentence is indeed quite outrageous.
Anyhow, even when searching for "iPerf3 on Windows" in both Google and DuckDuckGo, the first result is still iperf.fr.
Even with the most charitable Interpretation, it's a tasteless joke. Bing has a history of shoving Copilot down people's throats, and Microsoft has a LONG history of shoving Bing down people's throats. They built it into the God damn start menu, and have repeatedly changed the method to disable it. So even people who have explicitly disabled it will see it pop back up from time to time. Fuck Microsoft.
What else do you expect a Microsoft employee to say? Google it? I think that would be awkward, but the author is fully aware nobody is using Bing, so they made a joke. It seemed somewhat sarcastic to me so I had to chuckle.
Nobody? Tons of people are using Bing, because their IT-skilled family members only reset it to Google on Christmas and Thanksgiving, but Microsoft resets it to Bing every other Edge update
>because giving people the benefit of doubt is just a polite thing to do and even the Microsoft employees deserve it
This is just woefully naive when we have court documents from Microsoft's history of open source attacks. Microsoft lost the benefit of the doubt ages ago, nevermind that you should not be giving a legal entity who's only incentive is to extract more wealth from the world "the benefit of the doubt".
