@hacks4pancakes Hopefully itโ€™ll all be housed outside of the country, where itโ€™s safer.

@SecureInStyle I keep pleading with people outside the US to store things and not just count solely on the Internet Archive to do this for them. They're amazing, but a huge target right now.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like many non-Americans understand how bad it has gotten in one month and that this is really happening, right now. I will buy all the hard drives I can myself when I move.

The digital book burning and minimization of trans/black/gay/women's history is very well underway here. And because the US hosts much of the internet architecture, it has been very effective. They are doing everything from blowing away digital backups, to wiping file repos, to painting over walls and murals, to forcing changes in school curriculum. Now. It is happening now.

@hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle Doing my humble best to capture and archive the essential weather and climate data I know well, and make that process easy and repeatable for others. ๐Ÿซก

https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/

If you are truly well-equipped with time, wherewithal, and space, and want to help make sense of this massive corpus, start by snagging the NWS storm reports.: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ftp.jsp

NEXRAD on AWS - Registry of Open Data on AWS

@xan @hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle

Your link looks to be behind an allowlist, which I can understand.

Is there anywhere where data holders can register at-risk datasets openly & volunteers can download and seed torrents or similar?

I was about to say, "something like academictorrents", but I see it's down RN.

https://academictorrents.com/docs/about.html

Presumably the restriction is due to the problem of validating requests for data extraction?

About โ€” Academic Torrents Documentation 1.0 documentation

@eswag @xan yeah we're calibrating the forum trust levels for the reasons that you have already foreseen. We've been piggybacking off Academic Torrents and the Internet Archive as well as our own efforts, and also in conversation with the Data Rescue people. Everyone's trying to get things organised together while also racing to save data before it disappears. Every little bit helps!

@claudinec @xan

LMK when you have something a flaky dev can contribute to in their spare time. Even if it's just terabytes and bandwidth.

@eswag @xan I think for now at least, follow @SafeguardingResearch and #SafeguardingResearch, maybe sign up on the forum even though the chairs are still being moved, hopefully the task lists will be more organised in the next few days.