Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
As much as I'd love hating on Microsoft, I think this gross incompetence & shitty bureaucracy over malice from Microsoft. Kaginski was locked out of his account & Microsoft made it annoyingly difficult to recover. This is something I have also faced using Microsoft's enterprise products, something we pay a lot of money for.
The bane of my existence is visiting Microsoft community posts, where "MVPs" advertise their years of experience before suggesting the most banal advice ever.
Fuck Microsoft
Google deleted a guys entire account for having pictures of his own son in the pool. Google also deleted a colleague's master thesis because he allegedly had a pirated book in his Google Drive - he owned the book, we have local stores that sell .epubs.
Now Microsoft deleted a LibreOffice's developer account.
Do you know what all of these examples have in common? Appealing doesn't work, "your" files were never yours if you give up control to a corporation, US big tech can't be trusted.
You don't have to go fully libre software (though maybe you should!) but at the very least use software that isn't taking your content hostage: have local copies, only accept local copies that are automated and using open formats.
Do you have a source for these two? I'm not saying you're wrong - I would like to share the stories! I agree that US big tech companies cannot be trusted.
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?
If 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.
It is not about whether a cloud provider has the necessary failure prevention techniques. This is about sovereignity over your own data.
If you store your data in a cloud, and it is not your cloud, then the owner of that cloud can cut off your access to this data at any time. With the usual contracts, your means to counter such moves are moot at best.
Having important data in your own hands is vital. I do not put data on the net that i cannot afford to lose - either, I don't care (e.g. like the contents of this post, if it gets deleted, I'm not hurt), or I do have the data here, in my own home, on my own servers, on my own backups.
Its still stupid to trust anyone with your only copy of your important data, who can just disable your account in an instance without thinking twice about it.
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.
Millions of people sadly
Use !codeberg@programming.dev instead!
I didn’t realize Codeberg offered email services. When did that start?
I mean that Developers in general should move away from Microsoft services such as GitHub.
Happy to see there is a good GitHub alternative
Oh, MS gave them a seal of approval and blessings to go get cred with the hacker anti establishment crowd?
How generous of them!
Developers on GitHub take notice. You damn well know Micro$oft will screw you in the end. They'll slip a legalese phrase into a revised ToS and suddenly they'll own your project or stop you from accessing it.
I don't use onedirve or google drive. The cloud is wack.
Local SyncThing folder sharing ftw
I know that saying this here is preaching to the choir, but don’t use Microsoft or Google products. None of them. They can and will take things from you. They cannot be trusted.
More like nevery step of the way, am I right?