donkeyass
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- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 2 days ago:
This is completely nonsensical.
- Comment on Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage 1 week ago:
Eh, either that specialist doesn’t understand how cloud storage works or the author isn’t doing a good job of explaining it. Because it sounds like the specialist figured out how deletions work on your home computer’s hard disk and tried to shove that into some info they searched for on the internet about distributed storage or sharding. What was described is absolutely not how that data is stored in the cloud. The question of “when is my data actually deleted” is completely valid but the explanation is a mashed together pile of dog shit.
Google likely stores small clips of the full video stream (which they did explain) but in object storage. These clips are probably used for training AI and deleted after some period of time according to a retention policy that might soft delete the data first before removing it permanently. And maybe they do replicate the data to keep it safe, but also maybe not since it’s just for training. Since the customer didn’t have a plan that included storage, there’s no reason for them to persist the data after they’ve trained with it. It’s just a waste of storage space costing them money at that point.
They could also store the clips in block storage but all those little pieces on the filesystem would be in the same data center, maybe region, but definitely not all across the world for a single file.
And I guarantee you there was no forensic analysis on any storage devices for this. The reason it took so long to retrieve was probably from back and forth with the feds and deliberation within Google’s legal and management teams. Then once that was sorted, some poor prick probably had to manually dig through some services to find the file and grab it.
TL;DR: Google does hold onto your data longer than most people think but that “expert” doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. Bureaucracy and manual processes likely drug out the process, not forensic analysis.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 3 weeks ago:
This has aged appropriately:
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 2 months ago:
+1 for Ubiquiti. I’ve got a Dream Machine and 5 camera hooked up, it’s great.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 5 months ago:
I always thought Dre and Snoop were badass since 2001, with music at least, I know they were pretty shitty back in the day. Then I saw Snoop in a music video with Katy Perry and have hated him since for being such a money grubbing sellout.
- Comment on We are so cooked 10 months ago:
This doesn’t say 80% of the bees have died.
