Data hoarding is more important than ever

i have like 10 tb of documented changes from just the us govnt websites. I log every. single. change. to a selection of both local and federal .gov sites. Ive got a pi, whos only job is to find and log this. I figure this kinda documentation could be historically significant if sombody tries to alter the past.

idk why I do this, I just like the info. I wanna build a website to display these changes.

ik the internet archives exist....but what if somthing happens?

On an unrelated note: the site has the least invasive adblock banner I've ever seen. Made me wish to immediately turn it off.

They don't have to participate, but it's a good article to raise awareness for your non tech oriented friends and family.

This is a massive problem, but at the very least it's happening in an era of very cheap data storage.

I don’t know who here likes Horizon games, but I like how many parallels the writers put in the game that reflect the state of the world.

my coolest data hoard (im not insane, I only have like 3tb, mostly of games) was the doom 1993 files.

me at 2am tinkering with my computer had an emotional connection to another computer nerd back in 1995 at like 11:30 at night who was packaging doom files that through dozens of exchanges made it's hands to mine.

Wonder who it was and how they're doing now..

Picked up a 24tb external drive. My video collection and stuff is going onto it, so that I can nuke my PC's drives and start fresh. The odds of Microsoft being a Trump Regime collaborator are high, so I want to be ready to hop out of the frypan when the time comes.

Aside from that, I have been ripping and converting my discs again. AV1 offers nice space savings. Patlabor, OG Dragonball, documentaries, all will be updated.