Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
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 should be.
Is there a context to this or just random thought?
You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you.
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 bought a 14tb drive just for backups of all my other drives… and I got a shitload more space.
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
Tiny jump drives on pigeons is low key excellent imo
Sneakernet to the rescue. Some of you are too young to know about walking around with boxes full of disks.
@Maroon I thought torrent technology to be a godsend for package managers.
Why none of them use it?
I mean, damn.
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
Welcome to datahoarders.
We’ve been here for decades.
Also follow 3-2-1 people. 3 Backups, 2 storage mediums, 1 offsite.
“backups”? Pray tell, fine sir and or madam, what is that?
You know there’s only two kind of people, those who do backups and those that haven’t lost a hard drive/data before. Also: raid is no backup
FWIW :
fabien@debian2080ti:/media/fabien/slowdisk$ ls -lhS offline_prep/ total 341G -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 103G Jul 6 2024 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 81G Apr 22 2023 gutenberg_mul_all_2023-04.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 75G Jul 7 2024 stackoverflow.com_en_all_2023-11.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 74G Mar 10 2024 planet-240304.osm.pbf -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8G Oct 18 06:55 debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.6G May 7 2023 ifixit_en_all_2023-04.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.6G May 7 2023 developer.mozilla.org_en_all_2023-02.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 931M May 7 2023 diy.stackexchange.com_en_all_2023-03.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 808M Jun 5 2023 wikivoyage_en_all_maxi_2023-05.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 296M Apr 30 2023 raspberrypi.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 131M May 7 2023 rapsberry_pi_docs_2023-01.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 100M May 7 2023 100r-off-the-grid_en_2022-06.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 61M May 7 2023 quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 45M May 7 2023 computergraphics.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 37M May 7 2023 wordnet_en_all_2023-04.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 23M Jul 17 2023 kiwix-tools_linux-armv6-3.5.0-1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 16M Oct 6 21:32 be-stib-gtfs.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8M Oct 6 21:32 be-sncb-gtfs.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.3M May 7 2023 termux_en_all_maxi_2022-12.zim -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.9M May 7 2023 kiwix-firefox_3.8.0.xpibut if you want the easier version just get Kiwix on whatever device in front of you right now (yes, even mobile phone assuming you have the space) then get whatever content you need.
If need a bit of help I recorded TechSovereignty at home, episode 11 - Offline Wikipedia, Kiwix and checksums with a friend just 3 weeks ago.
I also wrote randomly update https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Vademecum and coded https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/offline-octopus but tbh KDE-Connect is much better now.
The point though is having such a repository takes minutes. If you don’t have the space, buy a 512Go microSD for 50EUR then put that on, stuff it in a drawer then move on. If you want to every 3 months or whenever you feel like it, updated it.
TL;DR: takes longer to write such a meme than actually do it.
Watch out for flash data corruption. Lots of cheap flash (USB sticks, SD cards, SSDs) lose data after just a few years of offline storage. Something something quantum tunnel bullshit, iirc.
So either look for media that guarantee long cold storage retention (lots of businesses need to keep shit for 10 years for tax reasons), or occasionally plug it in and let do the housekeeping.
Thanks but even though it’s on a plugged HDD I don’t even care for any of that data. What I mean is that none of that data is sensitive. It might be useful, potentially, but it’s not unique. What I mean is that if somehow my
.zimfile for Wikipedia was corrupted I could download it again from https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia or elsewhere in ~30min (just checked).What I’m trying to highlight here is more the process than the actual outcome.
TL;DR: yes, if one is actually serious about just getting and storing, they should verify periodically if the data is indeed fine. What I do want to highlight though is to first know how to do it at all. Anyway, you are right that for a proper solution on the long run one must understand how (cold) storage actually works. My heuristic is that it’s like can food (which I don’t use much), it might last a while, but not forever.
I thought the point of backing stuff up was to have things in case just downloading it again isn’t a viable option?
It can be but not to me. To me the point is to test what’s actually feasible and usable. It can be Wikipedia on my HDD but it could also be SO on a microSD or a RPi … or it could be something totally different on another piece of hardware with another piece of storage. It will depend on the context.
So again, sure, having the data itself feels nice but in practice I never really needed it. If tomorrow my HDD would die I would shrug. If tomorrow Kiwix library wouldn’t work anymore, I’d be disappointed but I could rely on
.zimfile elsewhere, e.g. on torrent trackers.IMHO the point isn’t files, the point is usable knowledge.
It’s more that flash NAND uses a small electric charge to keep the NAND gates in the correct configuration. Over time, that charge dissipates. If you power the storage device every once in a while, you minimize these chances.
Here’s a video explaining why it happens to Wii U’s after being powered off for a while. https://youtu.be/JHME4zLs6Qs
Whoa, what are all those things you have?
Commenting inline :
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 103G Jul 6 2024 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim # encyclopedia Wikipedia English with images and more -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 81G Apr 22 2023 gutenberg_mul_all_2023-04.zim # Project Gutenberg, book collection in multiple languages -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 75G Jul 7 2024 stackoverflow.com_en_all_2023-11.zim # StackOverflow, programming questions and answers -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 74G Mar 10 2024 planet-240304.osm.pbf # OpenStreetMap low resolution for the whole World -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8G Oct 18 06:55 debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso # Debian base ISO -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.6G May 7 2023 ifixit_en_all_2023-04.zim # iFixit colection of guides to fix appliances -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.6G May 7 2023 developer.mozilla.org_en_all_2023-02.zim # Web development documentation -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 931M May 7 2023 diy.stackexchange.com_en_all_2023-03.zim # Do It Yourself Q&A -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 808M Jun 5 2023 wikivoyage_en_all_maxi_2023-05.zim # WikiVoyage, the version of Wikipedia for traveling -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 296M Apr 30 2023 raspberrypi.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim # Raspberry Pi Q&A -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 131M May 7 2023 rapsberry_pi_docs_2023-01.zim # Rasspberry Pi documentation -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 100M May 7 2023 100r-off-the-grid_en_2022-06.zim # Off the grid documents -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 61M May 7 2023 quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim # Quantum computer Q&A -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 45M May 7 2023 computergraphics.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim # Computer graphics Q&A -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 37M May 7 2023 wordnet_en_all_2023-04.zim # Graph of words in English -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 23M Jul 17 2023 kiwix-tools_linux-armv6-3.5.0-1.tar.gz # Kiwix to read .zim files -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 16M Oct 6 21:32 be-stib-gtfs.zip # public transport database in Brussels, Belgium -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8M Oct 6 21:32 be-sncb-gtfs.zip # train transport database in Belgium -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.3M May 7 2023 termux_en_all_maxi_2022-12.zim # Termux, Linux tooling on Android, documentation in English -rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.9M May 7 2023 kiwix-firefox_3.8.0.xpi # Kiwix Web Extension for the Firefox browser
I still have a copy of wikipedia from 2021 somewhere on my NAS.
Might store it on an external HDD. I got plenty.
Last year I bought a hard copy of my favorite webcomic in case the website goes down.
Which webcomic?
Girls with Slingshots, it ended over a decade ago, but I still love the characters. I realized if the author dies and stops renewing the website it could disappear. As a foundational part of my early twenties I couldn’t accept that.
I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
Different guy but Sunstone.
I heart there is Wikipedia on ipfs. Is that a good solution for Linux packages too?
On prem NAS or SAN… you should have built it 3 years ago.
why? what happened 3y ago?
All the AI slop and internet censorship asking for ID now?
I kind of want that hackermans diy pc that runs on 18650 cells
