An amazing write-up by a passionate preservationist, Chris Person (@Papapishu on Twitter), on why YOU are the only one that can save media you love. 💿 📀 📽️ 📹 :hd_dvd_spin: :blobfoxcomputer:
I currently have 4 drives that houses everything I store at home. 18.5TB usable, 12.3TB used. Heaviest hitter is Borg backups coming in at 4.9TB, but I can bring that down a little. Movies at 2TB, TV shows at 2.8TB. Guess I don't really have as much as I thought!
I don't know if this is a culturally-specific thing, but I do not know where our community elders are getting the spectacular amount of video content they forward around on WhatsApp and fill their phones with. Who is generating multi-minute "good morning / blessed day" videos of a spinning heart with clip-art text and a song in the background? Is Big Data Storage targeting Black people? 😂😭
Please help me with a long-term family tech support issue; Is there an easy way on Android to move WhatsApp media (if not the whole app) to the SD card rather than internal memory? Here are the constraints;
older Samsung (S7 IIRC)
current data/chats/etc must not be lost (included departed friends and relatives)
Sometimes I think about how much media will be forever lost in decades to come because everything is now on streaming platforms that delete things on a whim instead of physical media.
I'm already using #emacsql but it's not quite the same as having it built-in (and I also found out about it after I'd already made a bunch of these unixy hacks...).
Particularly, the built-in support is compatible with non-Emacs SQLite use, while emacsql requires keeping Elisp-readable for everything.
@wf Music & video collection management (#DataHoarding or "I don't trust youtube, spotify and similar things") and manga & doujin tagged search are the two biggest ones (in terms of just how many entries there are, I have terabytes of music).
I might also screw around with #Hydrus' database when I can actually do so reliably.
These pretty much all imply I'm living in #Emacs and that's mostly right.
Seems the #brother FTP server is dead... which took a LOT of old manuals with it. Not sure HOW long it's been gone, but it's certainly not on archive.org...
ftp://ftp.brother.ca/
Does anyone have archives or manual downloads from there?
Looking fruitlessly for this one in particular.
ftp://ftp.brother.ca/MANUELS%20_%20MANUALS/English/PRINTER/M1109-UG.pdf
If I had my way, governments would invest a lot more in those multi-century lifespan archival optical discs to try & make that petabyte disc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_CD-ROM) a thing so that long-term archival in government-provided facilities similarly to various already existing national archives would become vastly more widespread.
@edolis@ruvideos on that day and for the following weeks, we were still building the first iteration of this whole madness of archive.. So if you have links to items that should be archived, I'm very much interested, they could be added to the Archive and flagged as origin of the war but if telegram doesn't have those links, there is nothing I can do about it.. I noticed a lot of videos are already missing on their side.. Hence the Archive :) #datahoarding
#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.
This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families' #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family's benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!
If there are videos important to you on someone else's video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.