How can I preserve some piece of text forever to the point I can't delete it no matter what I do?Why is he even asking that you might wonder? Why so specific? Okay, so the story goes down like this:>be me>have mental breakdown>in a vortex of paranoia and self-hatred delete precious novels, short stories, etc... I wrote years prior>realise months later "oh fuck what I have done"Hopefully now you understand.I have a plan in mind, it currently involves:>making a website and a series of pastebins>using web archival tools to store itI also plan to sell my new novel as a ebook, I have no pretensions of making any serious money out of it but behavioural economics proves that people appreciate more things they have spent money on, if people appreciate it more then chances it will preserved no matter my self-destructive urges in the future are increased.I have also considered other less convenient and more extreme strategies:>comments in code, warcraft 3 scenarios, minecraft worlds>turning text into video and uploading it to youtube (and then archiving it)>becoming a "lolcow" so those guillable obsessives at Kiwifarms archive my creations
>>1557383that's what blockchains are for - long term immutable file storage. LBRY is a prominent example although I gather the company got into difficulties (the chain is still chugging along, though). unfortunately I don't know much more than that.you could upload it to some kind of burner youtube account and then deliberately lose the password (and the recovery email) to prevent you from ever logging in to delete it
>>1557383As long as you haven't filled and wiped your HDD multiple times you have a chance of recovering those deleted files. SSD/NVME are a different story and they can wipe their loose ends pretty quickly so for most of them only short term recovery is possible. Doesn't hurt to try anyway.
One of the better ways is just to print it out, or write out by hand.It's much easier to just delete something on a screen than it is to pick up your short stories or novels and drafts and throw it all in the trash or send it through a paper shredder.It's also much harder to accidentally lose it given how finicky modern technology is on both the software end and hardware end. Ink on paper will last hundreds of years, websites and hard drives and everything computer-related is lucky to last 10 years.
One strategy would be to make tons of copies of something. Maybe password-encrypt your stuff and then give copies to your friends and family. The password will need to be memorable though... Maybe use a memorable word, pass it through sha256 and then use the first 16 letters of that hash as the password
>>1557454making a backup won't hurt. You could even drop off the backup device at another house (or bury it? idk)
>>1557383>How can I preserve some piece of text forever to the point I can't delete it no matter what I do?Make some microdots out of it and get creative as to where to put them. Shoot a few microdots into space (I hear that it's not too expensive), get a jeweler to hide some microdots inside a piece of jewelry and then sell it or give it away, wait until you or someone you know gets a cavity then ask the dentist to put a microdot inside the filling. Coat a microdot in epoxy, glue it to a piece of iron, and then put it into wet concrete, or even better, throw into a hole where a concrete foundation is going to be poured.
