BIG DATA edition.As AI slop starts reaching critical mass across all facets of the internet, I think there's a growing need to preserve our collective human legacy, art, history and knowledge as it was envisioned and recorded by humans; untarnished by AI slop and its imperfections/hallucinations.Three main questions of the thread:- What kind of stuff is worth preserving? Please, provide categories and/or concrete examples.- What are some examples of endangered/lost media?- What kind of websites with that kind of resources are at risk of going offline forever in the near future with no decent alternative?
>>108194028wikipedia won't survive AI neither will any other wiki or warez/torrents sites. Amazing how filled with dead links the internet is already.
>>108194049There are torrents with older versions of wikipedia. I personally keep a copy of the last wikipedia mirror that was created before the release of all the text slop generators.
>>108194028>- What are some examples of endangered/lost media?When the old fileshares like megaupload went doen it was probably the biggest loss of information in human history, vast quatities or ripped music and ebooks were lost forever. You know goodle and Amazon and Microsoft will purge cloud druves of any copyrighted material at some point as well. It's not if it's when and it will be done by file hash. I'd imagine encyclopedia dramatica is on the endangered list.
>>108194058You might like the kiwix offline wikipedia.
>>108194078That's what I use, yea.
>>108194912Did you color that with AI?
>>108195786No — I did it freehand
>>108195799Is the emdash here post-irony?
>>108199154You are right on the money, it is irony!
>>108194028I had an epyphany like this around 2015, I have lots of HDDS full of books like 15 TB about 5 TB are books, 1 TB documentaries, 1TB tv shows, 1TB movies,3TB are video courses,2TB games from roms of all systems up to ps2, and 1 TB of music.The bad stuff was my bad planning cause I had it on some second hand drives I had for decades, but I keep S.M.A.R.T files on each drive some of them are past beyond their life saving.Also one of my biggest regrets is I didnt make any databases of the content of my files but for the movies,docs,tv shows in an excel file.Looking to a decade back I should have had made something like a postgreSQL database and just log everything myself and now it would be easier because I could use AI to code something to log everything automatically to my database.Also I had loses I had someone steal my 1TB drive of music and I had to buy a new one but you can't replace 8 years of curating music into it from downloading shit to getting disc ripped from the public library.I have prepper friends who have sworn to give me shelter just from the files I own.if you have questions ask ahead.
>>108200426I ran out of space>- What kind of stuff is worth preserving? Please, provide categories and/or concrete examples.things I wish I had would be ISO files of the latest Encyclopedia Britannica also known as Encarta when I was a kid, also an offline wikipedia rip I have about 120gb worth of it in a kiwix app but I dont feel like that is enough but my money is tight. So far I think I have about 100 something GB of encyclopedias in pdf format from different publishers.>- What are some examples of endangered/lost media?In my opinion its old magazines (maybe not so much in the anglosphere) but the rest of languages almost all the magazines from decades ago are lost to history already, I have in physical format like 500 sewing magazines from a relative France from the 50s and Ive only been able to find a couple of numbers online.Besides Old mags I think everything made before the 64 bit computer is at risk of being forever lost one example is the gamespy cluster of websites related to mod like planetunreal which were for every single game are already gone and only living in the internet archive.- What kind of websites with that kind of resources are at risk of going offline forever in the near future with no decent alternative?in the digital sphere Id deffo say the thing which will be lost next to enter the lost media hell will be mod catalogues from boomer games, like Quake 3 (i have like 250gb of maps archived and about 10gb of characters and about 1gb of source ports),Unreal tournament 99,2k3 n 2004 (I have like 300gb worth of maps and characters real grateful to the 2 week old 2004 update its freeware now thanks to epic games check oldunreal) Also I feel worry for their status as lost media might include CS 1.6 sadly I have nothing archived. its not a game I enjoyed,Red Alert and Dune mods)Some day sites like gamebanana, unreal archive and lvlworld will be gone forever.If you want to be optimist think nexus mods will last a bit more..
>>108194912>>108195799Could you give the one on the left a bulge?
>>108194049>>108194058why is this an issue? indians spamming edits?
>>108194070Ecylopedia dramatic isn’t worth saving
>>108200650>Congrats to Anonymous for getting first comment on 12/12/2008>('A comment section? nice. first comment = win')>And to Anonymous for getting last comment on 4/6/2019 by pwning the captcha, which has been inoperable since ~2016.>('last.'),
Where would I find high-resolution images of well-known painters' work?
>>108200692You might want to think this over most painters didn't paint their works in massive nor extensive portraits Dali's painting about the melting clock the perception of memory is small as fuck and this applies for almost everything up until 1 century ago.You might want to learn about up-scaling models and doing it on your own, if you on linux get from Flathub Upscaler it uses the simple lanczos algorythm to resize sfuff if you on windows there might be other ways so far I can only think about doing a simple workflow in comfyui with lanczos to upscale it yourself.
>>108200738doesn't "upscaling" create artifacts or issues like other ai stuff?
>>108200760You are an artifact within the genepool of humanity with your brownoid soulless opinions whom don't even bother in trying something new in their lives.
Not strictly data hoarding but I'm getting so much annoyed by my backup drive being basically a dumping ground. I now want to have some sort of structure to it. What's a good way to not want to kms? I have to sort through 2TB of unstructured / untagged data with terrible filenames. Any help?
>>108201868Your options are kind of slim I think. There are AI tagging tools you might be able to use, but otherwise you're going to have to manually move things around.
>>108202127Yeah, I don't trust AI and there are bunch of stuff I need like 15+ years old pictures. I'd be murdered by my family if I lost those. Most of the files are probably useless documents, but I cannot prove they're useless so I have to keep them as well.
>>108201868clawdbot will do it in 1 night while you sleep
I can hear some clicking noise coming from my hard drive. Is it joever for it? I can see reallocated sectors in crystaldiskinfo.
I just picked up a couple 8TB drives while I still could and finally going to try and build a NAS, which I should have done forever ago. Where do you guys typically get things like books and educational resources for backup?
>>108202829https://z-lib.gd/https://annas-archive.li/
>>108194028>What kind of stuff is worth preserving? Please, provide categories and/or concrete examplesBooks& Papers on engineering and chemistry/ chemical engineering.Some basic mathematics and computer science books (specifically for knowledge that may later help you optimize manufacturing processes (think of graph theory/ complexity theory/ petri nets/ operations research)).I also hoards music of course. And my fav game mods, though I have much less time for that stuff nowadays.
>>108202979Based, thanks anon
