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  • There are more barriers to digital sovereignty every day.

    My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.

    Her phone storage was full, so:

    • Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
    • Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
    • It then demanded payment to get access to her files.

    Google Photos is ransomware by definition.

    I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.

    Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.

    I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.









  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMap Lie
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    7 days ago

    By definition, a continent and an island are mutually exclusive. Nothing can be both.

    Australia isn’t a continent either. It’s in the continent of Oceania, which includes New Zealand.

    Antarctica is a continent in its own right. It’s not a country and not a nation.