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Data preservationists are beating back the coming dark age. They’re heroes.
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Submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Infynis@midwest.social 2 months ago
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And they called us data hoarders!
eronth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re either beating it back or delaying it. I hope it’s the former, but I fear it’s the latter.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
If they screw shit up too much there are already the nerdiest of nerds working on decentralized wireless networks. They’d be slow is heck, but I heard many people prefer web 1.0 over todays’ bloated crap anyway.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good to see people taking “information demands to be free” seriously.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was just thinking earlier today: I really, really hope someone is backing up the Library of Congress’ stuff, particularly Chronicling America, which has almost every newspaper issue (searchable by text and much more) from 1756 - 1963. Like archive.org – federal edition, sort of.
Anyway, given how fascists love to erase history, it’s precisely the kind of thing I could see them targeting. Particularly if you wanted to erase the fact that, oh, I don’t know, your father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927. That kinda thing.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s weird living in a world where people are rescuing our past from the Ministry of Information sponsored Memory Hole.
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s weird watching Idiocracy become a documentary in real-time. When farmers can’t get fertilizers from Canada, I’m waiting for Trump and Elon to announce a partnership with Gatorade as the new Crop Quencher.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Censoring communications is 1984, not Idiocracy.
coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
You data horders are insane. I love it.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
source.coop Someone put up 16tb of data.gov data here too
SabinStargem@lemmings.world 2 months ago
I hope California, blue states, and Europe all bankroll this into an official Neo-CDC, free of Yarvin’s hatred and stupidity.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Europe won’t do a thing with these initiatives, at least not in any official manner (what they can do though is to ensure EU web hosters of this stuff aren’t feeling the pressure). They’ve enough to do restructuring their economy and military, all the while also dealing with war and fascism from the east. They won’t risk Trump having another tamper tantrum, at least not before the EU and its allies are widely decoupled from the US economy.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They need to actually go into Ukraine before the US takes a more active Russian stance. He’ll talk a lot, but he doesn’t want a war with the EU. Europe needs to move first.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
we need to get blue state leaders and researchers to start referring data to it and referencing this instead of the official site.
Flashback956@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Once on the internet, always on the internet.
jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mad levels of respect for these people
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
but many website archives are slow to use and difficult to navigate because things like interactive elements and internal linking can sometimes be wonky.
Well, at least httrack does the relinking by itself. And i think wget’s mirror option too?
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Hosting in Europe is the Cherry on top.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Aren’t there also a bunch of govt officials making alts on bluesky to try to somewhat anonymously get info out?
YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Alt National Park Service comes to mind. They’re doing incredible work
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember, they also took the constitution off of Whitehouse.gov
TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Can this be made into a .zim for Kiwix?
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can we send another copy to New Zealand?
Just in case?
aidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t matter where its hosted
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 months ago
I can’t possibly think of any way that could backfire.
singletona@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Microsoft suddenly getting ordered by the DoJ to pull offending projects from github Or Else.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
if that happens, people should migrate to gitlab or forgejo. gitlab is a Ukrainian company, and forgejo development is primarily driven by Codeberg in Germany.
LWD@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You mean a company with deep ties to Elon Musk’s biggest personal enemy Sam Altman?
No way. I’m sure it will be fine, just like the CDC website
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, hosting it outside of US but by a US provider? Wait, how’d they manage that?
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Should be fine with the way git works, just inconvenient.
Any maintainers (or someone here) should set up a regular job to git pull the repo every night.