Post Aay9tkC4vYOa3K5A4e by elkarrde@ohai.social
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 (DIR) Post #AawfobjxjpVCbUbdS4 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-10-20T00:59:43.133558Z
       
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       @cwebber @alcinnz This is why I have mirrors (via git or rsync) of websites and other media that I want to keep, even for reasons other than the author's being incapacitated.
       
 (DIR) Post #AawgayTgVJR11T3Twe by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-10-20T01:08:28.084141Z
       
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       @cwebber @alcinnz By the way:> It’s difficult to keep track of which pages depend on which others and regenerate them correctly when they change.To answer's Aaron question because I'm sure others will wonder: Typically the way is to use a Makefile or equivalent build-system, but I guess these days generating hundreds if not thousand of pages can be fast enough.(Which reminds me that the slow part of my clobbered together website is compressing some big pages with brotli)
       
 (DIR) Post #Aay9hkXzmrr5fqc9wW by RyunoKi@layer8.space
       2023-10-20T17:36:26Z
       
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       @lanodan @alcinnz @cwebber Started this myself.Inspired by Lobsang of The Long Earth series.„One cannot have enough backups“.Also KDE's near catastrophe a decade ago or so (let me know if you want a link).
       
 (DIR) Post #Aay9hlFFC4RxpyqhM0 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-10-20T18:09:16.656251Z
       
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       @RyunoKi @alcinnz @cwebber > let me know if you want a linkSounds interesting, near-catastrophes are often fun to read and they often make you learn from other's mistakes.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aay9nqxEsWeHHbKelk by dpflug@hachyderm.io
       2023-10-20T13:41:22Z
       
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       @cwebberI had a moment like this years ago. My grandfather passed and left me a pocket watch from 1912. Inspecting it, I realized nothing I had done or would do in tech would last as long as this watch. It's still ticking.Not well, mind you. It needs some repairs and I was quoted $400. But it's still a beautiful timepiece. With a few new parts, it could still outlast all I do. 1/2@alcinnz @mcc
       
 (DIR) Post #Aay9nv8jJkDWGOjtEe by dpflug@hachyderm.io
       2023-10-20T13:41:23Z
       
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       @cwebberBut after spending some time (ha!) with it, I realized there was no real need for my work to last. No one expects decades of service from this season's harvest. When you get right down to it, the ephemeral harvest is even more important than the watch.Sometimes it's enough to feed those around you and save seed for next season. Aaron and Gene may be gone, but their seeds still grow.@alcinnz @mcc
       
 (DIR) Post #Aay9tkC4vYOa3K5A4e by elkarrde@ohai.social
       2023-10-20T06:44:39Z
       
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       @cwebber @alcinnz It's just a tangentially connected issue, but it's also a digital rot issue - archiving video content. Many useful bits of information are stored in countless videos hosted on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, and I'm not aware of any attempts of archiving that, or if it's even possible. Sure, those big platforms won't just stop existing over the night, but what happens when they start reducing the costs and start deleting old content.
       
 (DIR) Post #AayBITbrp6wXoOVBHk by RyunoKi@layer8.space
       2023-10-20T18:26:57Z
       
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       @lanodan @alcinnz @cwebber https://web.archive.org/web/20130325191621/http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/Not only Wayback machine because link rot (at least on my end. Checking right now. How fitting) but also the page received several updates. Some of which replaced the original postmortem.