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Blockade posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_account_gave_me_stomach_ulcers/ lmao that must have cost an absolutely fortune, how in the gently caress did nobody notice the multiple tens of thousands of dollars/month going out to Dropbox? probable answer: it was listed as line item "storage" and nobody questioned it.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:lmao that must have cost an absolutely fortune, how in the gently caress did nobody notice the multiple tens of thousands of dollars/month going out to Dropbox? boss owns stock in DBX
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Methanar posted:guys I got it. "The Aristocrats!"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:lmao that must have cost an absolutely fortune, how in the gently caress did nobody notice the multiple tens of thousands of dollars/month going out to Dropbox? "cloud services"
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idk maybe it was making enough money for no one major to care, and everyone just took the devs' word that it needs to cost that much? sounds like the acquired division wasn't exactly filled with the cream of the computer toucher crop
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Blockade posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_account_gave_me_stomach_ulcers/  redleader posted:idk maybe it was making enough money for no one major to care, and everyone just took the devs' word that it needs to cost that much? The computer touchers who were tasked with the technical review probably got a runaround about how exactly it worked and just assumed it was actually set up properly, instead of being... whatever you would even call this.
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Blockade posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_account_gave_me_stomach_ulcers/
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redleader posted:sounds like the acquired division wasn't exactly filled with the cream of the computer toucher crop I never would have guessed from the way the writer anonymized them as "insane asylum"
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Methanar posted:I'm legit envisioning someone writing a middleware arbitrator to shard data over arbitrary free-tier storage services. lol i actually started writing this exact thing a while ago before giving up because  i was inspired by this thing i remember a guy making a looooong time ago that let you use your gmail account as a filesystem by attaching files to emails that were just saved instead of sent. this was back before google drive existed and the 5G of storage space gmail gave you was absurdly big for a free thing
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Shame Boy posted:lol i actually started writing this exact thing a while ago before giving up because what's that knocking at the Door? could it be? my god, no! it's the undead hand of waffleimages!
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Shame Boy posted:lol i actually started writing this exact thing a while ago before giving up because Im pretty sure there is something that implements cloudstorage by saving it as binary or base64 to a Google doc because for some reason these do not count against your drive space
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open source backup program Duplicity supports round-robining your data across the following backends: Amazon S3 Backblaze B2 DropBox ftp GIO Google Docs Google Drive HSI Hubic IMAP local filesystem Mega.co Microsoft Azure Microsoft Onedrive par2 Rackspace Cloudfiles rsync Skylabel ssh/scp SwiftStack Tahoe-LAFS WebDAV
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somewhere in the bowels of abandoned projects, i wrote a fuse file system that used blog comment sites and markov chains to store data. i figured that markov chains and regular internet commenters were indiscernible and that i could store data unencrypted this way
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lol some salesperson at Dropbox is about to have their new year absolutely ruined. good luck hitting YoY growth goals when you lose a 500TB account in early January.
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re: free tier backends I remember one that used twitter to shard base64 encoded data re: reddit post 500TB of data??? PLUS a custom web app that was good/complex enough to be a competitive advantage? it’ll take them months to get off that terrible “platform”, I bet... whoever was responsible for due diligence on the acquisition needs to be fired into the sun
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namlosh posted:re: free tier backends The crazy part is that 1) they were backing up a 500TB image (possibly containing sensitive information) to docker, and 2) they were downloading it over the internet each time they ran it, but other than it seems like it's not that fundamentally different from how people use docker or whatever normally. mystes fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Lain Iwakura posted:somewhere in the bowels of abandoned projects, i wrote a fuse file system that used blog comment sites and markov chains to store data. i figured that markov chains and regular internet commenters were indiscernible and that i could store data unencrypted this way this comment has been flagged for review
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Sounded more like a bunch of code files, csvs and sqlite. Not containers.
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Most of the enormous pirate Plex servers (100+TB) out there are hosted on the cheapest business tier Google drive subscription because folks figured out that Google doesn't actually enforce the storage limits on those subscriptions. Edit:. There IS a daily upload limit though, and folks shard the data across multiple gsuite accounts to get around that. El Mero Mero fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Lain Iwakura posted:somewhere in the bowels of abandoned projects, i wrote a fuse file system that used blog comment sites and markov chains to store data. i figured that markov chains and regular internet commenters were indiscernible and that i could store data unencrypted this way I guarantee you've reimplemented the new form of numbers stations
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Lol found it:
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i got plex lifetime for half off many years ago. plex kru
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El Mero Mero posted:Lol found it:
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Volmarias posted:I guarantee you've reimplemented the new form of numbers stations oh probably
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mystes posted:When people say that piracy is easier than dealing with the fragmentation of streaming video services now, I'm pretty sure that this flowchart is not what they're envisioning. people pay pirate sites so the sites can do all the flowchart stuff and the end user just press play in their mobile app
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:lmao that must have cost an absolutely fortune, how in the gently caress did nobody notice the multiple tens of thousands of dollars/month going out to Dropbox? if it actually was per month I'm impressed Dropbox managed to charge them that much. even ignoring the 'unlimited' business plans, they've charged 3-10 dollars per TB for the last several years, depending on plan. tens of thousands for 500TB is at least $40 a TB
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Lain Iwakura posted:somewhere in the bowels of abandoned projects, i wrote a fuse file system that used blog comment sites and markov chains to store data. i figured that markov chains and regular internet commenters were indiscernible and that i could store data unencrypted this way this rules
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El Mero Mero posted:Lol found it: someone please edit this to be the galaxy brain meme tia
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i have plex with local storage and it works fine for me, but i dont pirate anything so maybe thats why that chart is so complicated?
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that setup is for reselling to like 100+ other people
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https://twitter.com/svblxyz/status/1206948966442708992 Stolen from a grey thread
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Methanar posted:https://twitter.com/svblxyz/status/1206948966442708992 we've set up a similar thing for our consultants. Provide id or you can't have your password reset.
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Perplx posted:that setup is for reselling to like 100+ other people reselling pirated stuff you download? giant-sized-thinking-face
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... did you not have one of the first CD burners when you were in school and make mad bank of pirated games and music cds?
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infernal machines posted:... did you not have one of the first CD burners when you were in school and make mad bank of pirated games and music cds? not to 100 random people lmao that seems like a lot of people to manage and keep lips shut
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infernal machines posted:... did you not have one of the first CD burners when you were in school and make mad bank of pirated games and music cds? no, but I copied the gently caress out of that floppy
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infernal machines posted:... did you not have one of the first CD burners when you were in school and make mad bank of pirated games and music cds? back then you could also throw together a pic programmer for a few dollars in parts and sell playstation mod chips too. flash some code to an 80¢ chip and sell it for $20 ($40 installed)
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buddy, my high school job was working for a place where i installed mod chips and unlooped hu cards for pirated direct tv. i think technically i was a pc repair technician, but we all knew the score
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Sniep posted:reselling pirated stuff you download? As a sort of pirate netflix, yes. People will pay for that.
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