Inb4 it gets DDoS’d again
Okay, given how things are going, do we know if the Internet Archive has a backup plan for when these fucks attack it in earnest?
hi spujb. Only 98gb? I can mirror that 🤷♀️
I suggest also mirroring on https://academictorrents.com/
Because the feds didn’t already have it out for IA.
We are screwed if the Internet Archive goes down, right?
Seems like a huge point of failure for one entity.
Agreed, I think the biggest issue though is just scale. It’s over 100 petabytes of data. Not outside the realm of big cloud providers to mirror, but they don’t really give a shit. It would require some sort of significant distributed software solution for the community to work with. Not impossible, but as far as I know, nobody’s taken up the mantle yet as I think it would need custom software just to begin the solution of how to distribute it as a sharded set of community mirrors, different people just mirroring individual pieces.
IPFS, GnuNet?
HexOS has a plan for shared encrypted data. With the simplicity of installation and management it could take off mainstream as personal NAS are gaining popularity, but its still in early development.
Interplanetary File System can do it
Was this previously public data? Not illegal to download an torrent, right?
from the linked page
Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
Get ready to Donate to their legal defense fund
As long as money still means something after Elon is through with the Treasury…
It it long past overdue for the Internet Archive to move to the EU or Switzerland or something.
you’re right and you should say it but it makes me sad
Time to download all of it!
Same, especially before the inevitable attacks on the Internet Archive to come. Who knows what nonsense will be in the works to try and get this removed, or the whole project shut down in the coming years.
well and truly based
Good thing they’re based far from the US in… oh.
it sounds like it’s only stuff that was already publicly available tho
Some of the publicly available data is disappearing under the new administration. Most notably information about COVID, long COVID, vaccines, and bird flu is disappearing. Presumably, this data dump contains the missing data.
Importantly they are also removing all mentions of climate change. I imagine they’ll be deleting data on that front as well.
Oh I hadn’t heard of that, I thought it was just stopping new data
Nope - they’re literally destroying data if it doesn’t align with their super regressive views on sexual identity stuff, amongst other things
Actual image of DOGE employee deleting CDC data
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It’s funny because the Nazis themselves (the 1930s ones, not the 2020s ones) also started their book burning on literally the exact same topic.
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And by “funny” I mean “not funny at all in the slightest, holy fucking shit!”
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It’s kinda neat that you can nest spoiler tags, by the way.
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