If you care about game preservation this non-profit organization that works on preserving games in Japan really needs money.

Article: https://www.timeextension.com/features/we-might-be-about-to-lose-a-powerful-force-in-the-world-of-video-game-preservation

Website: https://www.gamepres.org/en/

I was curious if the closure of The Bay meant we would lose archives about the company history.

Turns out there is an Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, which is a partnership between the Government of Manitoba and the Hudson’s Bay Company History Foundation (HBCHF). The foundation is funded separately from the actual The Bay company and apparently not about to close.

They published a memo to confirm that the archives are safe:
https://librarianship.ca/news/hbc-archives-update/

does someone have a file server hosted at home (or privately enough that it is YOURS) and wants to archive all Linus Tech Tips Floatplane Exclusives??? (in a way I could still download/access them if I want to)

I really need some storage space :'D and I want to archive this forever if possible

it's 154GB of 1080p30fps videos, all the Floatplane exclusives from when they started being a thing, until 20th February (I really could only afford one month so some recent vids are already missing)

(please boost for maximum reach )

Just discovered ArchiveBox — FOSS, self-hosted internet archiving.

The way the web is going, with the US government redacting and outright erasing historic content, publishers segmenting content by region (and also sometimes redacting/censoring it), and CloudFlare shitting all over everything, I think it's time for me to start my #archiving and #DataHoarding journey.

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #DataHoarder

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

- I've setup a VNET thick jail on my FreeBSD NAS.
- The jail has its own IP address on my LAN.
- I declared a devfs ruleset to unhide /dev/tun* for the VNET jail.
- I installed Wireguard in the jail.
- I enabled Wireguard with a ProtonVPN configuration.
- I installed qbittorrent-nox and configured it to use the Wireguard interface.

I now have a home ISP-proof qBittorrent setup with which to torrent Anna's Archive.

Hopefully there is no way that my ISP can get in, otherwise I'll get legal scare letters that threaten to put me in a jail myself.

Honestly I feel like this was more straightforward to do than with LXC containers.

Syncing the last two good Wikimedia XML data dumps. It's been almost two days. It was at 96% 10 hours ago. The bar keeps raising because it hasn't accounted for all the files that are going to be transferred yet lol.

Amazon will remove the ability to download the ebooks for Kindle at the end of the month. So if you ever close your amazon account, you'll no longer be able to access the books you had bought.

Let's fix that

1. Bulk Exporter: https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader

2. Calibre to manage books https://calibre-ebook.com/download

3. Calibre plugin to remove DRM: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/remysharp.com/post/3lihtiq2rqc22

A learning experience for me, so I thought I'd share my knowledge.

Title: How I Host My Own #Kiwix Archive

Subtitle: My own little corner of the internet dedicated to keeping information free, open and accessible.

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/p/how-i-host-my-own-kiwix-archive?r=54rcsd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I can't believe I just purchased a used LTO-4 tape drive along with a DAT72.

I already have a DAT4, and a DAT320 drive.

What is wrong with me!? Is this a midlife crisis?

This affects numerous sites with climate information and research, including NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), NASA, and Department of Energy.

epa.gov
noaa.gov
research.noaa.gov
ncei.noaa.gov all urls where a lot of information is still up but these are definitely in their sights

NOAA has a lot of well-made educational materials, videos, and podcasts also worth saving.

#USDataPurge #USPol #SafeguardingResearch #DataHoarding #Archive

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-orders-usda-down-websites-220623223.html?guccounter=1

I just got my document library (paperless-ngx) up and going. Now to load things into it.

Is there some kind of file #storage that does delta compression? I'd love to have a file #archive with

• revisions (i.e. changes to files are tracked)
• deduplication (identical files only take up space once)
• deltas (small changes to large files only take up the size of the difference)

Git would cover this, but doesn't work well with TBs of data. Backup software with delta support like Borg or restic can do it too, but have bad UX for tracking file revisions.

i'm at the "making a local backup of wikipedia" stage of data hoarding.

has anyone here heard of https://filen.io and have thoughts? one of my friends is interested in their lifetime storage plan with client side encryption.

Okay #kiwis . I am playing around #kiwix for the first time. What are your top libraries to download? I am starting with #wikipedia and #projectgutenberg

Any other #recommendations ?

I want to have an array of 4 drives, using ZFS through TrueNAS Scale, and each drive should at least have 8TB.
What RAID(Z) level should I use or should I go with two mirrored vdevs (I am aiming for resilience & capacity) and what drive size would be a good compromise between price and size?
If everything works out this planned NAS will be primarily an archive and storage for my media library. It will also serve as a Backup storage for my PC and maybe a Server for e.g. JellyFin.

@askfedi