[SGVLUG] google drive for Linux petition

[Miguel Hernandez]

These are very good points, James. Our old friend who moved out of the area
a couple years ago (tho probably still lurks around ;), Charles Wyble, made
many several similar points. He took it further & actually built a lot of
systems to be off the grid. I'll let him chime in since my summary wouldn't
do all his work justice.

Thanks for the links! I definitely wasn't aware of most of these things,
especially Prism Break! On that site, I definitely recommend Diaspora as a
social network alternative. I'd add that another way to achieve this is to
build & host your own social network. It's something I'm currently working
on (more of a pseudo-social network, per se) for a community project that,
once complete, will be completely open-sourced & will, hopefully, make the
world a better place one community at a time. ;)

cheers,
--miguel


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:58 PM, James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:

> **
> I think you guys might want to consider alternatives to Google. You can
> make lots of arguments why you wouldn't want you data stored by Google, but
> I won't make them, ill just list some alternatives:
>
> Self Hosted FOSS Options:
>
> git-annex assistant
> https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
>
> ownCloud
> https://owncloud.org/
>
> More options at https://prism-break.org/
>
> Or if you really want someone to host your data for you, might I suggest
> Spider Oak: https://spideroak.com/ They promise Zero-Knowledge of your
> data. Its encrypted locally by their client on your machine, so they have
> no idea of the content of your files. The only downsides are they are
> proprietary and there is no ARM Linux client (besides their Android client).
>
> Okay, so in the choices I am presenting I am making a subtle argument why
> not to use Google.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Christopher Hicks wrote:
>
>
> http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/google-create-a-native-linux-google-drive-application
>
> The only way to make the lack of official google drive support for Linux
> any more silly and epic is to get thousands of extra signatures on this
> petition!
>
> --
> Christopher Hicks
> http://www.chicks.net/
>
>
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