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    USB Flash Drives

    I you are worried about privacy you can use encrypted cloud backups. You can also use multiple hard drives or good quality SSDs and rotate them which is cheaper than cloud. If its stuff that really matters I would favour multiple independent backups whatever you do. Two less reliable devices...
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    USB Flash Drives

    My point is that 10 hours of continuous read/write cycles is nowhere near real world usage for many applications. It probably translates into many year of any application people use flash for. Only if you use them for certain purposes, and applications like Office only write a limited amount...
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    USB Flash Drives

    He did bit for bit comparisons which do prove the data is intact. If you follow the links through to the plan: https://blog.za3k.com/flash-media-longevity-testing-4-years-later/ you will see that the whole point was 1) to check for bit rot, and 2) that the drives were usable. What it proves is...
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    USB Flash Drives

    I have lots of Flash drives from multiple manufacturers working for many years. I have only ever had one fail. I recently read this which suggests this is not uncommon: https://blog.za3k.com/flash-media-longevity-testing----5-years-later/ I would avoid buying from Amazon unless they have...
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    I’m rethinking software. I’d value your input.

    I think you have a good point in that lots of business do make use of custom apps written in Excel, Access or similar, often written by people who are not professional programmers. In fact Excel formulae by themselves are a Turing complete programming language and you have scripting on top of so...
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    Technical Co-founder

    @Michael_ A you need to be clear what you are contributing. I am currently building something on just that basis, but I am very clear what my partner is bringing in - the sales skills I lack and a proven ability to bring in customers etc. Look at it from your prospective of your "technical...
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    Youtube channel copyright

    I believe OP is referring to audio provided by Youtube that is licensed for free use in videos: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3376882?hl=en
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    They know who you are….

    Their credibility is not what it was!
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    They know who you are….

    People just do not use E2E encryption for emails. Most people use web clients that do not provide it (I think Proton does, but none of the big ones do) and the rest cannot be bothered spending two minutes (it literally took me about four clicks) setting it up. I have tried just signing emails...
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    Will digital ID cards tackle illegal working?

    @japancool if you do not mind yet more surveillance then its not a problem.
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    Will digital ID cards tackle illegal working?

    @fisicx its not the same. Its only used by the government, you do not have to show it to anyone else, you do not carry it with you. Its also very easy to end up with multiple logins depending how you sign up for different things. I have different logins for HMRC, DVLA and child maintenance.
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    Will digital ID cards tackle illegal working?

    @japancool you are misquoting me. The problem is that they are required to have an ID card. @Newchodge An app is a lot worse for privacy than a plastic card. An app can do a lot more tracking, time in which a lot more information.
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    Will digital ID cards tackle illegal working?

    It is a problem. Just a problem they already have and we have not had in the past. The move to digital makes it a lot worse, because it can be tracked a lot more. It also forces people to carry a smartphone everywhere - so telling citizens they must by a product from an American duopoly and...
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    Will digital ID cards tackle illegal working?

    Its not going to help, and it is going to introduce a whole lot of IT securities (increasing attack surface) for no benefit. Personally I think the solution is to give illegal workers a right to be paid the usual pay for a British worker doing the same job, and to sue the employer for that they...
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    Need my cloud scrubbed of malware

    On thing that could work with the word docs is to convert them to a different format (and back) if necessary, and do that on a different OS. I do not know enough about CAD formats to know whether it would work for them. Then wipe and reinstalled Windows on the PC, and copy the data back.
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