<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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. ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>--miguel<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:58 PM, James McDuffie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcduffie@pitfall.org" target="_blank">mcduffie@pitfall.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div>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:<br>
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<div>Self Hosted FOSS Options:</div>
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<div>git-annex assistant</div>
<div><a href="https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/" target="_blank">https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/</a><br></div>
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<div>ownCloud<br></div>
<div><a href="https://owncloud.org/" target="_blank">https://owncloud.org/</a><br></div>
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<div>More options at <a href="https://prism-break.org/" target="_blank">https://prism-break.org/</a> <br></div>
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<div>Or if you really want someone to host your data for you, might I suggest Spider Oak: <a href="https://spideroak.com/" target="_blank">https://spideroak.com/</a> 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).<br>
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<div>Okay, so in the choices I am presenting I am making a subtle argument why not to use Google.</div><div><div class="h5">
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<div>On Sat, Jul 6, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Christopher Hicks wrote:<br></div>
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<div><div>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!<br></div>
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