>We've known about this for many years!! And yet we for many varied reasons choose to make use of services anyway!! That doesn't mean we shouldn't get to complain about those services and giving people shit for that is really weird!!
I don't disagree at all.
I just find it a little surprising that on a site where "not your keys, not your coins" is accepted wisdom, that "not your storage, not your data" isn't as well accepted.
That said, I am biased and have an agenda:
1. The centralization of network resources is a recipe for disaster;
2. There are many factors which have pushed us toward more centralization, and most of those factors (asymmetric bandwidth on consumer internet links, abusive terms of service, e.g., port blocking/traffic throttling, crappy consumer networking gear, etc., etc., etc) rarely get addressed;
3. The issues in (2) create perverse incentives for commercial entities to further abuse their "customers" (for "free" services that should read "product");
4. Those perverse incentives have morphed outside of paid and "free" SaaS and subscription tech services, encouraging manufacturers of all manner of products (cars, appliances, computers, communication devices and a raft of other products to employ these abusive, rent-seeking tactics as well;
5. Resolving the issues detailed in (2) (as well as those not detailed) could enable both libre and commercial self-hosting products to become a viable, profitable industry, both for products and support services. Thus enabling us (broadly, humans who use the global internet) to actually own and control our data, PII and privacy;
6. Solutions are plentiful, but the perverse incentives cut across the entire OSI stack and beyond, making the reversal of such incentives complex and difficult, especially because the hoi polloi either don't know or have been convinced that they shouldn't care about ownership (of physical products like phones, cars and appliances) of their data and PII. I don't have a comprehensive set of solutions, but creating competition (municipal last-mile broadband, interoperability requirements, etc.) and providing consumers with the tools they need to decide for themselves (symmetric bandwidth on internet links, "dumb" internet pipes, non-abusive TOS, etc.) how they should host/manage/control their data and possessions will be important steps forward in reversing such incentives.
I rant about this every so often (this being my latest offering), and while it's not specific to Github or how their TOS treats various data storage offerings (repos), it's absolutely an example of how these perverse incentives harm and abuse consumers. In my view, that's wrong.
I don't disagree at all.
I just find it a little surprising that on a site where "not your keys, not your coins" is accepted wisdom, that "not your storage, not your data" isn't as well accepted.
That said, I am biased and have an agenda:
1. The centralization of network resources is a recipe for disaster;
2. There are many factors which have pushed us toward more centralization, and most of those factors (asymmetric bandwidth on consumer internet links, abusive terms of service, e.g., port blocking/traffic throttling, crappy consumer networking gear, etc., etc., etc) rarely get addressed;
3. The issues in (2) create perverse incentives for commercial entities to further abuse their "customers" (for "free" services that should read "product");
4. Those perverse incentives have morphed outside of paid and "free" SaaS and subscription tech services, encouraging manufacturers of all manner of products (cars, appliances, computers, communication devices and a raft of other products to employ these abusive, rent-seeking tactics as well;
5. Resolving the issues detailed in (2) (as well as those not detailed) could enable both libre and commercial self-hosting products to become a viable, profitable industry, both for products and support services. Thus enabling us (broadly, humans who use the global internet) to actually own and control our data, PII and privacy;
6. Solutions are plentiful, but the perverse incentives cut across the entire OSI stack and beyond, making the reversal of such incentives complex and difficult, especially because the hoi polloi either don't know or have been convinced that they shouldn't care about ownership (of physical products like phones, cars and appliances) of their data and PII. I don't have a comprehensive set of solutions, but creating competition (municipal last-mile broadband, interoperability requirements, etc.) and providing consumers with the tools they need to decide for themselves (symmetric bandwidth on internet links, "dumb" internet pipes, non-abusive TOS, etc.) how they should host/manage/control their data and possessions will be important steps forward in reversing such incentives.
I rant about this every so often (this being my latest offering), and while it's not specific to Github or how their TOS treats various data storage offerings (repos), it's absolutely an example of how these perverse incentives harm and abuse consumers. In my view, that's wrong.
Edit: Clarified my prose.