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Not only insurance companies, but many others.

Airlines do it too. One dark pattern I experienced during Covid was that the airline call system was automatically set to hang up after 30 minutes. If you were lucky you'd get to speak to a representative at around minute 25, but never get your ticket rebooked.

We use Syncdocs (https://syncdocs.com) to do end-to-end Google Drive encryption.

The keys stay on the client. It is secure, but means the files are only decryptable on the client, so keys need to be shared manually. I guess security means extra hassle.

It is a pity it does not apply in Australia. They search 40,000 devices a year there, and consfiscate your device if you refuse.

Many of the technical and science stuff is still pretty good. Not like it used to be, but it's a recurring theme, when the Internet expanded, UseNet also became rubbish, "infested by AOL'ers and spam" was the complaint in 1996.

You can use Rsync to copy everything from Google Drive as a cron job. If you want copies of your Google Docs and Sheets you'll need something like SyncDocs to download and convert them to MS Office format.

And while they've got your device, in Australia, the government can legally install rootkits on your phone or laptop without informing you.

OK, I will so in future.

I tried to summarize the article in the title. Will follow the guidelines from now on.

There are quite a few clients for Linux, I use Syncdocs https://www.syncdocs.com/ as it has built in encryption.

Non I've seen do a proper job of mounting as a drive, NFS or SMB would be nice.

Ah world.std.com, the first ever ISP.

The Mullvad app is huge ~100MB which is odd for what it needs to do.

Unless it happens on the backend - which is what the article appears to say.

I'm on Linux with Syncdocs for syncing Google Drive so will wait and see how it handles things.

Yes, it's odd, that a driver which should be small enough to fit in kernel memory comes in such a package (for Windows at least) that is a few hundred mega-bytes.

A review of Phantos OS from 2009

https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/03/phantom_russian_os/

For those who have the ability to do so, please make an Archive of all the Vanced Versions before the download links are taken down

https://mirror.codebucket.de/vanced/

Syncdocs is also an easy end-to-end encryption/sync app for Google Drive

https://syncdocs.com

You can encrypt stuff to Google Drive. You can sync a Truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) folder or use something like Syncdocs (https://syncdocs.com) that does the encryption/decryption automatically.

Do Google Drive Terms now prohibit encryption?

We're forced to used GSuite. I find https://syncdocs.com useful - it lets me collaborate using MS Office on top of GSuite

Nvidia want to charge more for cards that can mine crypto currencies. Just like they want to charge more for the same product if it is used in data centers.

It's a way of artificially segmenting the market.

There are better Google Drive clients like SyncDocs that can actually restore properly.

That's monopoly power for you. Right now there's competition to Intel again which means processors will probably start getting much faster again.

That's one of the few great things about capitalism - competition drives innovation.

Syncdocs has been working reliably for me for years. They seem to focus on the core file-syncing stuff, which works fast and reliably, rather than blingy features.

No one cares more about your data than you do. Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com also does end-to-end encryption of Google Docs.

The problem is that encryption adds an extra layer of complexity.

Maybe it's just me, but the user interface on that old PowerPC Mac looks gorgeous - way better than modern "flat" UIs

Sadly this splitting of tech into China and the West is a huge trend, one which we are not going to stop.

In the future tech will bifurcate into two camps and we'll have a new cold war.

Same as HiLux pickups

Syncdocs https://www.syncdocs.com/ is a tool that lets multiple Microsoft Office and Google Docs users collaborate in real-time on the same document. It uses Google Docs for versioning.

Those 7 points remind me of the Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com app which ticked most of them. Using an encryption app and Dropbox will let you do the same thing, too.

You can always use a third party plugin like SyncDocs [1] to do end-to-end encryption of Google Docs.

[1] https://www.syncdocs.com/google-drive-encryption-faq/

Interestingly those who tend to be more realistic in their self expectations are more prone to depression.

False confidence may be the route to happiness or at least optimism.

There are quite a few mysteries about Wikileaks Arjen Kamphuis' "disappearance" too:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-14/missing-wikileaks-ass...