Big Blu Gnu1h ago

We have just had another Internet casualty. Replacementdocs.com was a website that hosted scans of video game manuals for anyone to download. It was most active in the 2000s. I just checked to see the state of the website after months of broken downloads, and—yep—it's gone forever.

Don't fret, you can find every video game manual that was on the website at the point of closure here: https://archive.org/details/p31-replacementdocs.

#dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #PDF #scans

replacementdocs : B74 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Internet Archive
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessMar 17

How to Set Up Your Own NAS Server for Backups and Content Streaming

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-set-up-nas-server/

Hacker NewsMar 9

Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1q6xnun/flash_media_longevity_testing_6_years_later/

#HackerNews #FlashMedia #Longevity #Testing #DataHoarding #Technology #StorageTesting #6YearsLater

Jackson MostollerMar 2
Oof, did not realize Myrient is shutting down—and soon! Huge blow to game preservation, is anyone aware of contingency plans or decent alrernatives?
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ongoing-ram-price-crisis-cited-as-one-of-the-reasons-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-this-month
#gamedev #GamePreservation #archival #datahoarding
Ongoing RAM price crisis cited as one of the reasons "game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down this month

Self-described "video game preservation service" Myrient is set to shut down at the end of March, at least in part due to rising RAM prices.

Rock Paper Shotgun
Unixorn - 90% Snark by weightFeb 28

Yet another reason to not enable passkeys anywhere.

https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/passkeys-prf-warning/

TL;DR - If an idiot website uses your passkey to encrypt your data, losing/deleting the passkey will almost certainly mean losing your data.

Of course we should all be backing up our stuff locally instead of trusting cloud services, especially for irreplaceable things like pictures and movies, but lets be real, the average user doesn't.

#dataloss #passkey #passkey_security #datahoarding

Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data

Passkeys are the future of authentication, but using them for data encryption is a disaster waiting to happen. Overloading these credentials creates a dangerous blast radius that can lead to the irreversible loss of a user's most sacred memories and documents.

Timbits
Show threadKevin Karhan Feb 17

@jtig pretty shure this will only be used to further #Cyberfascism and turn #ClosedAI-Users into "unofficial employees" for the #AmericanGestapo!

#USpol #OpenAI #DataHoarding #FuckICE #ICE #NSA

Jared JenningsFeb 3
https://j.agrue.info/data-hoarding-on-the-cheap.html, in which our protagonist attempts #datahoarding by the most reasonable means possible: building a #robot, naturally. #archive #sciop
Writing to think 2: Write harder - data hoarding on the cheap

PurpleJillybeans Jan 8

So, all this #DataHoarding I've been up to has me wondering:

Are tape backups still a thing?

Like, if you want to store a petabyte or so of data and you don't care about random access, it seems like that'd be an economical way to do it. Or does everyone just store their stuff "in the cloud" now?

Show threadDimaJan 5

I’m considering a used Synology DS916+ 4‑Bay NAS with 4x 12 TB Seagate Exos X12 drives.
I've heard that this model isn’t the most reliable, but the plan is to replace the drives one by one over time. Building such a setup from scratch would cost more than $2000, especially with rising HDD and memory prices and ongoing supply issues.

Any insights or horror stories about used NAS gear?

#SelfHosting #NAS #Homelab #DataStorage #Backup #Synology #Plex #Seagate #HomeServer #Tech #CloudStorage #DataHoarding

DimaJan 5

Thinking about building a home NAS. I've already accumulated nearly 1 TB of critical data, and while I do have backups in AWS Deep Archive, Proton Drive, and Infomaniak KDrive, I still don’t have any local backups - which is starting to bother me. Plus, I'd love to finally set up a proper Plex library.

#SelfHosting #NAS #Homelab #DataStorage #Backup #Synology #Plex #Seagate #HomeServer #Tech #CloudStorage #DataHoarding