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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 14:38:19 JST nixCraft 🐧

   What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs: In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear. Remember, cloud is just someone else’s computer https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 14:57:42 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Fred Brooker

     @fredbrooker it is readable in a reader mode at least on ios safari

   • Fred Brooker (fredbrooker@witter.cz)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 14:57:43 JST Fred Brooker

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     @nixCraft why was she locked out? 🤔 I don't want to pay Wired for that knowledge

   • Jiovanni (jiovanni@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 15:47:06 JST Jiovanni

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     @nixCraft I’m living in post communist country and remember what it was back then. And things like this sound very very worrying even though we’re not talking about strictly political phenomenon here. Those actions are identical with the political censorship and that is terrifying.

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 17:12:45 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     I've been reading all of the discourses of the Buddha and putting my notes in Google Docs for a number of advantages.

     Thankfully, I also do monthly backups of my computer which includes downloading a copy of my Google Docs and putting them on an external drive along with my computer data.

   • Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 17:18:48 JST Patrick Leavy

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     @nixCraft moral of the story - don't use any Google products

   • Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 19:46:42 JST Owen Tyme

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     @nixCraft This is why I use LibreOffice, running on Linux, on my own hardware AND make regular backups.

     When my work goes online, its through Draft2Digital, for publishing. Works in progress (WIP) do not get put online.

     Reminds me of a critique exchange with another writer. I was super angry when I found out they put my work in Google Docs and then shared a link back with their notes as comments, because I don't post WIP online.

     Google Docs has always been a problem in search of a solution.