cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43693666
6k per month with prices going up further. Yeah I get it.
390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives
Submitted 11 hours ago by brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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blackfire@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
just to point out. it’s not gone forever, it’s just gone from public access.
hopefully the admins will hold onto multiple copies of the data for posterity.
abcdqfr@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Sincerely… if this site goes under due to “AI costs” it was desired or doomed to happen. No capital squeeze deletes data. Yes, an idiot can spin critical drives into oblivion, but is that a site to mourn? Never. This maintainer is better than that and citing BS to avoid maintaining their server because they think they need a modern upgrade, and moronic tariffs messed with the time frame.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
They were the best for grabbing any classic games. Fuck this AI craze and what is doing to hardware/hosting costs.
Skyline969@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
Guess it’s time to archive Myrient. A group of people could take care of it - split it into categories, download, and then sit on it until a new host can be found.
Entire categories are easy to download with a simple curl call.
brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Tragic =(
IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Sad and infuriating.
I wonder if there is something like sharing your pc processing hardware for protein folding and other medical research, but for something like this. Sharing part of your hard drive space, which could serve as a store for archiving something like this. I guess you’d need a bunch of duplication and how to account for people turning off their computers. Idk, just a thought, probably wouldn’t work.TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 8 minutes ago
That just sounds like torrenting, honestly.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 10 hours ago
How soon before the Internet Archive goes under because they can’t afford hardware anymore, and to take this further, how soon before self-hosting becomes untenable and self-hosted platforms like the Fediverse start to collapse as a result?
eah@programming.dev 7 hours ago
It wouldn’t be necessary for IA to go under. If push came to shove, they could just downsize and be forced to decide what to delete. They’re probably sort of already doing that but for stuff they have not yet archived. What do you acquire vs. what do you delete.