My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google
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All the ebooks I have collected from 2017 are gone from my Google Drive.
Make sure you have a local repository of your books. Google is burning books from the cloud without our consent.
Be advised.
Temporal thinking is the faculty that’s
engaged by an enriched environment, but it’s
wrong to call it “thinking,” because it’s simply
the way organisms exist... - Ray Peat Nov 2017 Newsletter -
What were some of your favourites/best recommendations?
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I have no backups of these books locally. All are gone. Have to find them again. I don't remember many author's names nor the titles easily. I should have.
But a book on cell wall deficient (cwd) bacteria and about the effect of antibiotics on creating cwd bacteria making them even more virulent as the pleomorph into a more fungal form has me approaching infections more closely to aligning with Beauchamp's view encapsulated in his terrain theory, which is currently on the fringe of our understanding of infections, being dominated by the faulty germ theory of Pasteur.
The effect of infection on the quality of our metabolism is up there with deficiencies and toxins and trauma, physical or psychological, and having a good understanding of the nature of infection is crucial. Often, it is left on the wayside with simply using antibiotics as we go about working on improving our metabolism, but the stress it imposes keeps us from optimizing our energy production. It is a constant subtraction and degradation that the organism can benefit from being without. Like climbing up a mountain with a ton of rocks on our back.
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You talking about Hattman's Cell Wall Deficient Forms?
Greift nur hinein ins volle Menschenleben! Ein jeder lebt's, nicht vielen ist's bekannt, und wo ihr's packt, da ist's interessant.
Ray Peat first-ever interview(July 1987 on UofO Student Radio)
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Holy shit. Did you get an email from them?
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@JulofEnoch said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:
You talking about Hattman's Cell Wall Deficient Forms?
That sounded near right. It could be Mattman.
Yes! Thank you.
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@questforhealth said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:
Holy shit. Did you get an email from them?
No. The folder entitled "Books" just disappeared.
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Wow. Thats a new low. But not surprising.
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@yerrag Holy Sh*te... the purge has begun it seems.
As a tech savvy friend said to me 20 years ago, if it is on the internet and for free THEN you are paying for it in ways you cannot understand.Always, always, always have some local files in a hard drive, thumb drive, old computer, etc.. . I am not great with a lot of tech stuff, BUT I always back up the most important things to 1 or 2 places.
Just for fun and maybe something comes of it, do you have a link on your email to the folder in question? Like shared it with someone so that there is a trail? Hmmmm.
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@yerrag That book title got me interested in research. So this evening I found the PeedeeF with Cell Wall Deficient form. Only 3rd edition, 4th is expensive.... still. As in 363 USD. ..... Yan Dex again! Just sayin'.
If you want me to send it to a non gmail account, lemme know. Cheers. -
Just glad my Ray Peat collection is intact, although I still have to gather a lot more that's spread out in the web and in a few sites, a lot of them being interviews that have to be transcribed, though I value the interviews much less as in interviews, the topic is light, and naturally so, so as not to go over the audience's head.
I know there are efforts to put his works together on the net and be searchable, but I couldn't wait for that to happen before I can research to keyword searching on what he's written so far, and whatever I got so far has been very helpful to me as being able to search from his writings has helped me read what I need to figure out. It's like picking Ray Peat's brain. I just use an app I subscribe to use on a yearly basis. and it's worth every penny.
But I'd also like to add later to it, such as the writings of Derrick Lonsdale, whose expertise on the b-vitamins complements well with Ray's bioenergetics. Mattman also fills a void in the terrain theory of Beauchamp, which is needed to overcome the faulty bias towards the germ theory of Beauchamp, which over the past century has only been continued by only a few, and their ideas and terms are of a different terminology and much more difficult to internalize and apply.
But lately I was happy to refuse the intake of Ciprofloxacin as prescribed by my pulmologiest who told me that it was the only oral antibiotic that the sputum culture they took showed my infection was sensitive to. She nonetheless prescribed another antibiotics. And which I took and surprise, surprise - that worked! So much for trusting the urine culture. I was thinking also that maybe that antibiotic didn't even really work as much as my improving terrain made the infection go away. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm glad for your offer with the book of Mattman. I will definitely take you up on that.
As for Google, I have not shared any link to my Google Drive lately and if I did long ago, I made sure it was temporary and I did so privately. And I have been very careful as far as security goes. I used to be in the tech field, and before that I had my one and only instance of identity theft. From that point on, I had become very careful. I have never had the occasion to change my passwords. I have different kinds of passwords also, such that special sites such as banking would have their own passwords. Not too many, as that becomes a disadvantage. So, the entire book collection on Google being wiped out - can only be someone in Google or with a backdoor into Google, with Google's overlords' blessing - were doing a number on me. I am a relative nobody, and that is the scary part. They must be doing it on a larger scale because I am affected. It could be a bot that they sent out to detect books that they want to burn. That is easy to do for them.
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@questforhealth
It is not surprising.
Tech is not liberating. In the hands of the current stewards, it is abusive.
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@yerrag There are two reasons why that might have happened: you run out of memory (see this post) in which case you should have had received an email (but maybe they bugged and "forgot" to send it); or there was some bug and your data was lost and then restored to some previous back up (see this). The latter is more likely if the PDFs were somewhat recently added (or reorganized in folders(?)) and older data is still there.
Unlikely option would be that they removed it due to terms violation as hate speech and misleading content is against terms of service, but in this case you should have too received an email.
Side note: it is funny how they state their ToS:
- Program Policies
We may review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our Program Policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we review content, so please don’t assume that we do.
Please don't assume we scan your content but we will delete if it's not cool. Kek.
Anyway, software is shit. Buy a hard drive or two.
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No doubt software is shit in the context of Google and their stealthy abuse of their position as being able to snoop and being able to work above the 11th commandment, which is "Thou shalt not get caught." Google Drive was a godsend for me since I have suffered many crashes that felt to me like the modern equivalent of a bricks and mortar fire that destroys memories. So it was easy for me to forget or actually cross my fingers regarding storing anything valuable with my enemy.
And that's shame on me. Knowing that many countries prior to WW2, entrusted their gold with the Zionist Federal Reserve only to be robbed of them. After the war, those gold were never returned. This happened to China and this also happened to the Philippines. I don't doubt that these two countries were outliers. But they had no choice really but to trust the Federal Reserve as they weren't aware of the malice of the Fed and if the gold wasn't transferred by submarine eventually to land in Fort Knox, those gold reserves would have been confiscated by the Japanese. My point was there was more risk in not entrusting their gold with the Fed, given what they did not know. Otoh, I know this kind of behavior was bound to happen, and still I slept with my enemy.
But not all is lost. I can find these books again. They may have culled a lot of ebooks as their bots combed the entire storage of Google Drive, but there are still many books, both digital and physical, that they would want erased from our consciousness, that are outside their reach.
But it's good to know that they have shown their hand. And knowing their hand, I am better positioned.
As for the scenario you spoke of, I can assure you there was no glitch involved on my part. It's inconceivable that what got lost were only the books. They were selective about what they needed to be erased. On my end, I have a 100gb drive subscription, of which only 25 percent is used. So no chance my storage became full.
Your point on having off-line storage is well taken though. As much as I hate being my own admin of my own home IT department, I am compelled to assume that role now.
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so a few lessons.
If you use a cloud system, you need to pay for it. No free levels.
There is a great deal of difference between free and paid. They don't monkey much with paid accounts, don't spy on them as much.
Also, you need to back up your cloud info. You can use a service like cloudhq to make backups. Or you can back up to your local drive. But you must back up your cloud info.
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Cold storage is always the best way to store data like that. But if you did use a cloud, something like Skiff seems to be a reliable alternative to Google.
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@yerrag check out cryptpad.fr kind of like google docs it also has file storage 1GB free probably enough for your books. Its more of an anti big tech/government type thing. I like it cause I can share docs with people anonymously.
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but yeah everything should be on your own machine and once in a while backup onto an external hard drive.
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@Ecstatic_Hamster said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:
so a few lessons.
If you use a cloud system, you need to pay for it. No free levels.
There is a great deal of difference between free and paid. They don't monkey much with paid accounts, don't spy on them as much.
Also, you need to back up your cloud info. You can use a service like cloudhq to make backups. Or you can back up to your local drive. But you must back up your cloud info.
I pay for my Google Drive. Used to be free, but I don't clean up my email and it exceeded the free cap. And the next level of 100 GB is what I am paying for.
I would like to divorce from Google, but it is hard especially when I use Google Voice, and it is not only convenient to have this service, but invaluable to me. Skype is a terrible alternative, with Microsoft's unMidas touch ruining it.
It doesn't matter if free or not. Google just knows it can do as it pleases, but does it so that it stays under the radar and under plausible deniability.
