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- Comment on 185k view 8 hours ago:
Shit, can I start an onlyfans on this premise? What an untapped market.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
It would have been more accurate for me to frame it as file formats only.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
What’s awesome is that no one alive today can disprove their marketing. I’ll stick with the tech that we’ve been using for decades. You know, the one about which we have lots of data how it performs and degrades. Because we’ve manufactured hundreds of millions, or perhaps billions, of them. How many people do you know using M-DISCs and how many of them have had them for decades? I can answer the second part: zero, as they came to market in 2009.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t trust that either.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
There was a recent paper on this. The failure rate was higher than expected. You’ll have to search for it; I didn’t save a link.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
Don’t bury it. And don’t count on ten years. Thirty years guarantees the media won’t be physically compatible with future devices. How would you read a floppy disk from 1995 today? You’d be able to find a USB floppy drive, probably, online. Good luck having the disk be in a format that a modern OS understands. You’d need specialty software for that.
Get two spinning disk drives from major brands like Western Digital or Toshiba (not Seagate, for sure). Get different brands to reduce risk of failure from a manufacturing issue (as in, two from the same batch are likely to have the same failure if there was a production issue).
Send one somewhere abroad where it can be stored in a safe deposit box (hopefully, you know someone who lives in a free-er country). Plan to exchange it with a freshly written drive every three years. Go back and forth like this, completely rewriting the data each time to minimize the chances of bit-rot (look up this term to understand why you’re rewriting and exchanging the drives).
This will also address files formats that evolve and eventually become incompatible with future software (thinking proprietary things, not plain text, jpegs, or standardized media files). I did something similar having a family member store music that I recorded (my own, not ripped CDs) in a different state in case of natural disaster at home.
All of this can be done pretty cheap. $200 bucks should cover both drives and at least a couple of years of physical storage at a bank. International shipping will probably be the biggest cost, especially over time.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
No way. Optical media suffer bitrot at a high rate compared to magnetic media. And the means to read it are quickly going obsolete.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 3 days ago:
Have you considered that you may not know which of the two I’m responding to?
- Comment on I'm not even ooking 3 days ago:
Damn. This hits hard.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 4 days ago:
Look up “eternal september” on wikipedia. You’re not wrong at all.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 days ago:
DEI, trans, equal rights, tump fucked kids.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 4 days ago:
When did I say anything remotely like that? Thanks for calling me stupid for making an observation.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 4 days ago:
Agreed. It’s one of the only things about the internet where I’m genuinely optimistic.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 5 days ago:
As someone who has worked under NDAs for trade secrets, this is a real stab in the back to fellow employees. As an enemy of capitalism, I don’t feel bad for the corporation. Sucks for the people who were excited about their engineering achievements, though.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 5 days ago:
Waitaminute. Are you telling me there are stupid people on the internet talking about things they don’t understand?
The internet is the worst thing we’ve ever done to ourselves. I mean, it was fine at first. But we didn’t have enough cynicism to account for what corporations would do with it and that’s, sadly, our own fault for being too naive.
- Comment on Sad palaeo noises 5 days ago:
Rightly so. Dinos were awesome.
- Comment on Water Snek 6 days ago:
Swimming against the current, I assume.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 6 days ago:
That doesn’t help them recover their cloud account for which they forgot their password. They still need the unlock code of the device that was replaced >1y ago.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 6 days ago:
Yeah, they VIP that I was helping when I encountered the above issue was not using a pw manager and the device in question had been replaced (by the org) a bit more than a year ago. We also had an insane pw policy at the time that made users change them every three months, so good luck remembering. So grateful that madness is over.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 6 days ago:
I work in IT and understand that the tradeoff for good security is a reduction in convenience. But this really reads like deliberate punishment. I get the same sense on Apple’s platforms. Wanna change your cloud password? Prove you know the unlock code to a device that you no longer own and haven’t had in a year. This is especially awesome when your employer makes you change passcodes on a regular basis and you have no idea what you used back then.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 6 days ago:
I claimed it for Nathaniel Merriweather a long time ago, in the name of Johan Dandifop and the League of Well-Dressed Gentlemen. We call it Bobsmithville. All the residents are aquatic aficionados.
- Comment on Is it normal for young teenagers to snore ? 6 days ago:
Is it normal for young people to have sleep apnea, asthma, or allergies? I shouldn’t have to sketch this out for you to draw a conclusion. People of all ages have various conditions.
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 week ago:
Sorry, people who came before me. My storage is way more space-efficient. It’s not like I’ll ever own a house, so this is a priority.
- Comment on Hope you like math 1 week ago:
I’ve always loved ladies who are smarter / better educated than me.
- Comment on hygiene 1 week ago:
I’l been sitting in the same (mesh) chair for >15yrs (Aeron) and have no such problem. That the OP’s response to the GF’s complaint is anger says more about them than they intend.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 week ago:
It must be strange to only have the grift / destroy setting and no other desire. Tyrant.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
Hey, we socialized in person more before smart phones. There are a lot of studies that say so. But this isn’t even an appeal to authority. I remember the first time seeing a couple sitting across from each other in a restaurant, both staring at their phones. My buddy and I gave each other a look. It’s everyone now.
- Comment on US E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change | The agency’s administrator said in a podcast that the move would be “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.” 1 week ago:
This is assured.
- Comment on US E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change | The agency’s administrator said in a podcast that the move would be “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.” 1 week ago:
It’s cool how these people don’t give a shit about their grandchildren or great-grandchildren.
- Comment on Ohm My God!! 1 week ago:
Best laugh of the day so far. Someone deserves a fist bump for this one.