Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud. Until Dropbox built its own. And threw the switch.
Dropbox - File Deleted - Simplify your life
Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives
Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war
The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service and AI from Google and Microsoft for military activities in Gaza, investigation reveals.
How we knew it was time to leave the cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.
dropb.at
Share and manage text, photos and other files on the AT Protocol. Your data, your server.
Understanding new Cloud Storage hierarchical namespace | Google Cloud Blog
The new hierarchical namespace capabilities bring file system optimizations to Cloud Storage buckets.
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
Computer Files Are Going Extinct
Technology services are changing our internet habits
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)
IPFS: A Complete Analysis of The Distributed Web
In our recent comprehensive analysis, we discuss Interplanetary File System (IPFS). This article summarizes the reasons that excite us…
Inside Dropbox's Quest to Bury the Hard Drive | Wired Business | Wired.com
How Silicon Valley's hottest startup plans to kill the hard drive once and for all.
Digital Topology & Economic Power
The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, relocating control toward incumbents at each stage. Enclosure succeeds not by offering users less, but by bundling genuine capability gains with topological restructuring, so that the user cannot accept the improvement without accepting the new relationship of power.
Nothing new under the sun: everything is a file
The Unix revolution was built on a key principle: everything is a file. Now, with the rise of AI Agents, LLMs have access to half a century of file-based arcana. The result? Everything is becoming a file again.
I was looking at an older version of the software I'm yet again working on from what, 15 years ago, and I can't believe we're still mostly stuck with the same private blob storage options that can serve as user-data storage. S3-compatible storage + Dropbox was the list: github.com/icidasset/ongaku-ryoho-v1?tab…
