traches

@traches@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked into tape drives for my own backups and they don’t make sense unless you’re working with double digit terabytes. We’re talking used old enterprise gear with weird form factors and connectors, I never found something like an external USB tape drive for a reasonable price.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you remember what kind they were? For awhile they made them with organic dyes and those died quickly. I believe they stopped producing those, and the inorganic ones are supposed to be much better.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty dependent on humidity and temperature, so a DVD buried in a well sealed plastic bag with a desiccant packs is actually in good conditions. No light, generally cool, and low humidity are perfect.

  A hard drive has a lot of moving parts that must work and are basically impossible to replace. With optical media you’re just storing the platters, and I’m sure you’ll still be able to track down a drive somewhere. You can still find VHS players and those have been obsolete for 25 years.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d go with optical media here. Probably multiple capsules.

  • M-Disk (DVD if it will fit, otherwise Blu-ray)
  • Make an encrypted archive of your data. Strong password - I suggest diceware with 8 or more words so you might remember it in 30 years
  • Use DVDisaster to add parity data. You sacrifice some space, but you get error tolerance in exchange
  • Wrap the disks up in good jewel cases, well sealed plastic, along with some good big silica gel desiccant packs.
  • Put all that in the smallest durable, airtight container you can
  • stash somewhere it probably won’t be disturbed for a few decades. Memorize.
  • destroy all evidence you did this.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up babe new shape just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but they aren’t parallel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Material scientist wet dream⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  universal solvent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tig ol bitties⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody please tell me that sol means titties somehow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mechanical advantage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you scold people like this irl too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously I’m aware that people face all kinds of challenges and stressors, it’s the entire fucking point of my first paragraph. I wasn’t trying to start a “who’s more stressed” contest here, it was a throwaway half-joke attempt to make OP feel better.

  Seriously, internet, can you chill? Do I have to speak with absolute precision and clarity at all times?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  dude what the fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in general people should be understanding of each others’ situations and make things easier on them where possible.

  Speaking as a parent, I can pretty much guarantee that you are living a less stressful life than your coworkers with kids. Not sure it means much but hey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Engage with Trolls⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the only time normies encounter the word.

  How do you feel about crypto?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Engage with Trolls⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to, algorithms do whatever they are designed to do. Long division is an algorithm.

  Profit motives are the issue here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The interior of your house is hot, the exterior cool. What would the most efficient orientation be for a box fan? Pushing hot air out of a window or pulling cool air in through it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same reason why blowing on your hand close to your mouth is warm, but farther away is cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy now, fuzzy little man-peach, hmm? You ever drunk Bailey's from a shoe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fuck I haven’t thought about old Greg in awhile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my humps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my humps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are y'all buying on the steam sale?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me subnautica is in my top 5. The survival elements aren’t very important, it’s more of an exploration game.