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i have like 10 tb of documented changes from just the us govnt websites. I log every. single. change. to a selection of both local and federal .gov sites. Ive got a pi, whos only job is to find and log this. I figure this kinda documentation could be historically significant if sombody tries to alter the past.
idk why I do this, I just like the info. I wanna build a website to display these changes.
ik the internet archives exist....but what if somthing happens?
Picked up a 24tb external drive. My video collection and stuff is going onto it, so that I can nuke my PC's drives and start fresh. The odds of Microsoft being a Trump Regime collaborator are high, so I want to be ready to hop out of the frypan when the time comes.
Aside from that, I have been ripping and converting my discs again. AV1 offers nice space savings. Patlabor, OG Dragonball, documentaries, all will be updated.
Good thing I'm stocking up on used HDD's.
How long do HDDs last though? I've got some from 2015 to 2018 manufacture date. Seems dated and old.
my coolest data hoard (im not insane, I only have like 3tb, mostly of games) was the doom 1993 files.
me at 2am tinkering with my computer had an emotional connection to another computer nerd back in 1995 at like 11:30 at night who was packaging doom files that through dozens of exchanges made it's hands to mine.
Wonder who it was and how they're doing now..
I don’t know who here likes Horizon games, but I like how many parallels the writers put in the game that reflect the state of the world.
::: spoiler a bit of a game spoiler
Like the whole premise of the story is exactly what this article mentioned: a multi billionaire CEO with a god complex completely wiped out the entire human database to erase any information of how he destroyed the world to protect his ego and image. Also why the new world is basically just bronze age level tribes.
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I agree. I recommend most people don't go overboard, but they can still do their part.
Save the things you like and are relevant to you. Movies, shows, games, music, books, etc. You don't have to be an archivist. Storing data should be something that reflects you, personally, and it should genuinely be more enjoyable as a result.
It should feel good to preserve and be responsible for another copy of the information you like.
Instructions unclear, setup personal Project Gutenberg mirror.
(Started months ago, actually. Their main archive server isn't very fast.)
Music is a no brainer for me since it's something that is infinitely re-enjoyable (if that's a word) and it doesn't have to take up much space, without reasonable compromises to quality.
I bought a digital audio player last year so that I could be offline and disconnected when I go out but still enjoy music. One of my favourite purchases the last few years.
Don't think you need to add the suffix. You re-enjoy the old things.
3tb of porn and growing.
momma always said, "do what you like you thick sumbitch, yer gon do it anyway."
she was right. I did it anyway.
Be glad you don't have VR. Those porn vids get big.
I just hoarded this gif
Take what you can ... 🏴☠️
And seed the hell out of it! 🦜
Lots of people hoard data. The problem is keeping it in a working state. Think about how many people have old towers or laptops in their garage or basement never to look at those downloads or vacation photos again.
I'm a huge fan of the golden era of anime fansubs. I know a lot of people still have the files, but they're probably squirreled away on an offline hdd or a bunch of dvds, not being shared. It's quite sad and frustrating. It's completely lost culture in many instances.
48TB rust in raidz2 reporting in
Heh... I'm actually rewatching Dragon Ball right now.
Awesome! I like the original series best by a decent margin. Soooo good.
Watched it for the first time last year. It was incredible. Absolutely holds up to modern stuff.... Except for some absolute creep moments around Bulma, various sexism... The overall purity culture weirdness.... Some really homophobic things... Some really racist things.... ...
Okay. It has issues. Lots of really big issues. But the music is amazingly fresh and the visuals top notch and it's always entertaining, minus the glaring problems. And that they did Lunch so dirty for some reason.
That's still modern Japan lol. At least, it stands out to me vs western media today.
That's a pity they haven't changed. I know a lot of Japan has gotten better, but I also know that they still have a prevailing homophobic purity culture.
Rant:
One of my favorite animes is one piece, and as much as I love it for it and some personal connections in my head around it, there's just so much hurtful and thoughtless stuff in it.
Generally, Oda does a good job of keeping it harmless and goofy, even when using racist or sexist or homophobic tropes. He generally keeps them colorful and just for the sake of having weird shit. Which I have always loved.
But..... Every once in a while there's like an ice cold bat to the face, be it something that is just old (I'm rewatching it) and at the time may have been trying to bridge an acceptance gap, or just downright mean spirited.
Like for example, I'm in the whitebeard war area of the story, and there's the crossdresser stuff and the king(queen?) of them. Fat, Giant Head, lingerie all the time even outside, giant chin and jawline, crazy makeup, and when he attacks, he winks at you. Like. Come on. That's so shitty. And I would say that the character is a drag queen, but he LITERALLY USES HORMONES TO CHANGE HIS AND OTHER'S PHYSIOLOGY. Like a military guard is about to attack him, and he injects him with hormones and turns the guard into a woman, who then gets embarrassed, mews, and collapses in heat and embarrassment. He's not a drag queen, they're a transgender non binary, genderfluid troll that everybody calls an okama, which, to my knowledge, is basically a sissy or maybe even a slur, >!faggot or fag!<.
And all the hyper stylized femininity toothpick waist girls and barrel shaped boys. Like come on, if you're gonna do that style, give me those waify boys, tough girls, and sexy and confusing enbies at least.
All the people in queer land are just manly crossdressers. Where are the femboys!? Where are the gorgeous women who just happen to be assigned male at birth?
Maybe one piece gets better over time. Maybe there are anime that are better. Maybe there's "Western" media today that's more realistic.
/Rant
Holy shit, you’ve nearly 20x’d me 🫡
Check again...
That's "free space". The 414 represents ~62% of my space (38% used). I'm at just under 700 for usable space. And 2 disks are out of the array at the moment because the backplane went stupid. Turns out that it's a pain in the ass to open server chassis to replace a backplane when you have to unmount 70 disks. And I'm pretty lazy.
6 x RAIDZ2 | 10 wide | 14.55 TiB
873TiB raw.
960TB raw.
This graph might be better...
lol yeah - I revised my comment from 10x to 20x after looking closer. You literally 20x’d me lol.
That is some thicc storage. Respect.
Let's just say that I do my part seeding Linux ISOs.
~72 TB uploaded the past 30 days.
I am unfortunately the epitome of a data hoarder. I still have files that I generated/created 30 years ago...
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The day the Internet Archive was being attacked and sued, was the signal.
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