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@dennisfaucher USENET
"Think of it as a digital library of ideas and information that anyone can access without censorship or moderators."
Getting started (again for some):
https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Usenet
Don't mind me. Just addin' another slide to my cyberfascism talk.
This week, EFF joined EDRi and nearly 50 civil society organizations urging the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice President Henna Virkunnen, and Commissioners Michael McGrath and Hadja Lahbib to take immediate action and defend human rights in Hungary.With...
"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "
- #SanFrancisco bookstore #Booksmith on why they've stopped selling titles by #transphobic author #JKRowling.
Great! A bunch of us here wanted it. Now it exists. 👍
It's a "dark archive" of the arXiv - a non-public backup to save the data in case of attack by hackers or the US government. The arXiv, I hope you know, is the biggest source of modern math and physics papers.
Who got the job done? The TIB: the Technische Informationsbibliothek, run by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, in Hannover, Germany.
They write:
"The TIB has now set up a so-called dark archive for the arXiv content in order to be able to make the backed-up data accessible if the data stored in the USA is lost. The archive functions as a silent reserve: the complete copy of the content is stored decentrally at the TIB, but is not publicly accessible. This means that the data stock – almost 10 terabytes – is protected against potential outages and can be activated in an emergency.
The TIB is currently working on processes to keep the archive up to date: new submissions and updated versions must be backed up regularly in order to preserve the state of research as completely as possible.
“Building a Dark Archive is an expression of our longstanding commitment for a reliable, international academic provision, and as a partner of arXiv. Even though the Dark Archive today only works in the background, it is a key element in safeguarding digital research contents in the long term, because in case of a crisis, we could open the archive,” explains Dr Irina Sens, Deputy Director of the TIB."
We should call it the darXiv.
More details here:
https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/
Research and science are international; it is not for nothing that we speak of international specialist communities. Although a service such as arXiv is operated by an institution based in the USA, namely Cornell University, it is used by researchers worldwide. Part of arXiv‘s funding has also been internationalised since 2010 with the introduction of arXiv membership. The TIB finances the German contribution together with the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF) and the Max Planck Society (MPG). The TIB has now set up a so-called dark archive for the arXiv content in order to make the backed-up data accessible in the event that the data located in the USA is lost.
stole your meme without #AltTxt yadda yadda, the IRAN edition
https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/114742940500607192
starts with “IRAN ONCE HAD DEMOCRACY” and ends pleading we read David Talbot’s “The Devil’s Chessboard”, to learn how the Dulles weaponized the CIA for the gringoligarchy.
what the meme fails to mention: CIA exists thanks to a certain Prescott Bush who went into politics after caught as the banker to Nazis.
his son went on to be head of the CIA, then shadow POTUS after the Saudi-backed coup of 1979
@blogdiva I've said this before but the same kinds of people who go around saying "9/11 NEVER FORGET!" are the same that say that "Operation Ajax was so long ago" but the difference in time between then and the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis is now only a couple years longer than the time from 9/11 to now.
And another key difference is the terror of the Shah and SAVAK was an ongoing trauma that entire time, so people didn't NEED slogans like "NEVER FORGET".
It sickens me to know that somebody like Peter Thiel is claiming once they can install a republic that people like him could go in a make a mint rebuilding the nation.
I will remind people that somebody like Peter and the rest of the PayPal mafia don’t want to republic they want themselves running the world as absolute monarchs
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