Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
This is just minor datahoarding. I do it, on an extreme level.
Did I miss something? Whats happening to debian stable?
old pcs off amazon usually come with good reliable 1/2tb harddrive.
I would add in some rom collections and book repositories as well. The whole library of Nintendo games is under a gig and would go a long way for entertaining people.
Book repos? I didn’t know such a thing existed. Can you share more?
Project Gutenberg has a large collection of public domain books
It’s been on my to-do list for a few years now.
You’ll need about 500gb of free space. not too much of an ask tbh
It makes me really happy that people can say “500gb … not too much of an ask” these days.
i know this because i actually do this. its more like ~300gb of space but its better to have even more just in case
I can answer one part of your question. Yes, it’s not as big as you think it is.
does this include images?
No
I have been archiving Linux builds for the last 20 years so I could effectively install Linux on almost any hardware since 1998-ish.
I have been archiving docker images to my locally hosted gitlab server for the past 3-5 years (not sure when I started tbh). I’ve got around 100gb of images ranging from core images like OS to full app images like Plex, ffmpeg, etc.
I also have been archiving foss projects into my gitlab and have been using pipelines to ensure they remain up-to-date.
the only thing I lack are packages from package managers like pip, bundler, npm, yum/dnf, apt. there’s just so much to cache it’s nigh impossible to get everything archived.
I have even set up my own local CDN for JS imports on HTML. I use rewrite rules in nginx to redirect them to my local sources.
my goal is to be as self-sustaining on local hosting as possible.
You’re awesome. Keep up the good work.
respectable level of hoarding 🏅
What’s a way to create a local repo mirror?
Wait why keep Debian? What happened to Debian?
Nothing, it’s probably an attempt to have something stable and unchanging, so that aging doesn’t show much.
The meme doesn’t seem to be about Debian becoming bad, more like data hoarding.
I also recommend downloading “Flashpoint archive” to have flash games and animations to stay entertained.
There is a 4gb version and a 2.3TB version.
There is a 4gb version and a 2.3TB version.
That’s quite the range
When I downloaded it years ago it was 1.8TB. It’s crazy how big the archive is. The smaller one is just so it’s accessible to most people.
Is there a context to this or just random thought?
gestures at everything
You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you.
Is there a political movement targeting Debian and Wikipedia?
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-wikipedia-competitor-is-going-to-be-a-disaster-2000665751
Debian? Not that I’m aware of.
Yeah I heard of wikipedia, but not debian.
Conservatives hate knowledge, learning is toxic to them. Also the people who start with burning books usually end up burning people eventually
Removing books about sucking cum out of anuses from public schools isn’t really “burning books.” You can still buy them whenever you want, just not putting them in taxpayer funded schools with children.
EDIT: Had to add some details of the “books being burned [but really just removed from public school]”:
During public comment, one woman read a passage from “Yolo” by Lauren Miracle which is found in Freedom High School.
“I climbed onto of him and started kissing him in a way that said very clearly here I am, I’m ready to have sex,” the speaker read.
Another title, “Anatomy of a Single Girl” by Daria Snadowsky, was also read by a speaker.
“Guy tries rubbing my clitoris with his fingers, he wiggles his pelvis back and forth,” another woman read from the book.
“This is ridiculous that this school – any school – has this book,” the woman said to the board.
Julie Gebhards, the woman seen in the first video of our story, is a Hillsborough County mom of six children.
Gebhards read an excerpt from the book “Invisible Monsters Remix” by Chuck Palahniuk. According to the district’s online book library, the title is found in Steinbrenner High School.
“He shoots his load, and then plants his mouth on your anus and sucks out his own warm sperm, plus whatever lubricant and feces are present. That’s felching. It may or may not, I add, include kissing you to pass the sperm and fecal matter into your mouth,” Gebhards said.
We should ban mention of Christianity in public. We should also make it illegal for anyone to teach their children Christianity. Practicing Christians should be declared mentally ill, and if they practice their faith in front of children, they should be put on the sex offender registry.
These freaks actually put giant statues of a naked bleeding man up on full public display in buildings. And they believe the most holy book in the world is one that features incest, murder, rape, genocide, and often fully endorses these horrors. Their main ritual is a form of public ritual cannibalism.
Christians are too dangerous to be allowed near children.
The comment you’re replying to didn’t mention one specific book. You did to try and portray this as some noble cause, but even books such as Fahrenheit 451 and To Kill a Mockingbird have been banned by conservatives, and they most definitely aren’t about “sucking cum out of anuses” as you so dumbly put it.
Nice attempt, but this type of dodging around never worked and will never work.
Oh no! What have you done! Now, I want to go try felching because I saw a message about it online with no context and I just. Have. To. Try. It.
… Oh wait, no. No, I don’t. Pfew!So what was your point again?
Oh no sex scenes!!! /s
Prude american?
As if kids aren’t finding shit way worse on the internet on a daily basis. Well… maybe not felching that’s pretty vile. But still.
You aren’t making the point you think you’re making.
Years ago I bought a physical encyclopedia. I remember having one as a kid and using it for school reports. Also just looking through it can be cool. Learning about something you never knew existed is just a unique experience and doing it through a physical book just deepens the whole experience.
I also learned the practice of printing a physical encyclopedia is going out of fashion. I think there is only one company the still prints a yearly encyclopedia and it’s not Encyclopedia Britannica of all things. Might have change since I bought my copy but go give some physical media some love if you can.
I thought the whole point of torrenting was to decentralise distribution. I use torrents to get my distros.
In my own little bubble, I thought that’s how most people got their distro.
What happens when they just cut the underwater cables? Torrent over carrier pigeon for a linux distro would take ages
Pigeon latency is horrible, but the bandwidth is pretty great. You could probably load up an adult pigeon with at least 12TB of media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Just gonna leave this here for whoever wants to read more on the methodology and potential risks.
Sneakernet to the rescue. Some of you are too young to know about walking around with boxes full of disks.
A wise man once said
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
It was trading CD-R’s during my high school days… good times. Napster was just starting to take off by the time we had a CD-R trading network set up, Napster just increased the amount of CD’s that got passed around.
A good way to see what the future of places like the U.S are is to look at places like North Korea, where they do exactly this, move files around on flash media to avoid the state censors.
Tiny jump drives on pigeons is low key excellent imo
@Maroon I thought torrent technology to be a godsend for package managers.
Why none of them use it?
I mean, damn.
git and the lot are a lot better at this than people realize.
Turns out hosting a bunch of files is very cheap.
Torrents are often used for installers, but for packages it tends to be more trouble than what it’s worth. Is creating a torrent for a 4k library worth it?
Neither are that bad honestly. I have jigdo scripts I run with every point release of Debian and have a copy of English Wikipedia on a Kiwix mirror I also host. Wikipedia is a tad over 100 GB. The source, arm64 and amd64 complete repos (DVD images) for Debian Trixie, including the network installer and a couple live boot images, are 353 GB.
Kiwix has copies of a LOT of stuff, including Wikipedia on their website. You can view their zim files with a desktop application or host your own web version. Their website is: https://kiwix.org/
If you want (or if Wikipedia is censored for you) you can also look at my mirror to see what a web hosted version looks like: https://kiwix.marcusadams.me/
Note: I use Anubis to help block scrapers. You should have no issues as a human other than you may see a little anime girl for a second on first load, but every once and a while Brave has a disagreement with her and a page won’t load correctly. I’ve only seen it in Brave, and only rarely, but I’ve seen it once or twice so thought I’d mention it.
I rarely get bounced by Anubis, but oddly enough it has happened to me a couple times in FF, I suspect it’s the fingerprinting resistance settings that cause this to happen? Hasn’t happened in a while though
