ℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋This re-sync to off-line mirror #2 took days 😆
#backups #datahoarder #datahoarding #selfhosted #selfhosting
hyperrealMy digital archive collection is kinda lacking at the moment, but this week I will be collecting more shit. This datahoarding site is an absolute treasure trove.
Big Blu GnuDoes anyone else remember Tux Racer, the old #Linux racing game from way back? Does anyone else also remember tuxracer.fubaby.com, where people would share their courses? Any way to download all the courses again? Sorry, but I want to upload all of them on the Internet Archive. I could only retrieve some of them from the Wayback Machine.
Latest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011021336/http://tuxracer.fubaby.com/
#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #LinuxGaming #TuxRacer
Guys, get out your Internet Archive accounts. A video game repository called Myrient is closing down tomorrow, and a staggering 390+ terabytes of data will disappear with it. I am currently saving webpages at /Eggman's Arcade Repository/!EXTRAS/. Unfortunately, nearly all the saves are 404 errors, even though the files can still be downloaded directly from the site, so we may need to upload them.
#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #Myrient
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
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessHow 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 NewsFlash 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 MostollerOof, 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
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
Unixorn - 90% Snark by weightYet 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.
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.
Kevin Karhan 
@jtig pretty shure this will only be used to further #Cyberfascism and turn #ClosedAI-Users into "unofficial employees" for the #AmericanGestapo!