| ▲ | kibwen 3 days ago |
| If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine. If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data. |
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| ▲ | bobim 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Brillant, I'm stealing it. |
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| ▲ | rvnx 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Even Meta approves. If it is not your data why should data protection laws apply ? |
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| ▲ | jama211 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And Linus himself mostly just stores data on the cloud. At the end of the day, practicality matters. |
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| ▲ | kibwen 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Sure, you can be as "practical" as you like, just as long as you don't come crying when Apple decides to revoke your access to their data. You accept the benefit, you accept the risk. | | |
| ▲ | _vertigo 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s stupid. We can have a law that protects users from bullshit like this. Lacking technical savvy should not mean you forfeit the right to your data. |
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| ▲ | fragmede 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If you're a scientist at an institution, why would you need root on the cephs or whatever storage system? |
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| ▲ | amelius 2 days ago | parent [-] | | In that case it's the institution's data, not the scientist's personal data. |
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