Archive Everything

[Mister Obvious]

He's right.

It's time.

The time for creating has passed...

It is now the time to save.

It will take quite sometime, so begin now.

I would hope that you have been doing it all along...

But if not, start.

[Mister Obvious]

USB/flash drives, external hard drives, and CDs/DVDs...

Compact discs are EMP proof...

Just sayin' ;)

[Mister Obvious]

If you like your info in text format, time to start printing out what matters the most.

I recommend using small font ;)

[Mister Obvious]

I know pictures and videos are nice. So is music. Luckily music files are pretty small, so no problem there.

But the pics and video?

Gonna be the last thing that survives this. Like I said...

Things like Facebook etc. won't be around in 100 years, I'm sorry. It just won't be. The whole digital progression will be like the comparison between phonographs and MP3 players by then, only with tech and concepts that are totally beyond our understanding at this time. Or, it'll be the stone ages again due to natural events (CME/EMP, etc). One or the other.

What will have promise of longevity is the WRITTEN WORD. So go ahead and make your videos, but TRANSCRIBE that material and have physical copies of it. That is absolutely the only way to ensure that it might survive.

This digital material is subject to censorship at the mere click of a button due to algorithms which look for certain words and then "disappear" your content forever if they're found... none of it is safe. If people depend on the idea that the internet in its current form (and the digital materials therein) will stand the test of time, they will be in even more danger of being lost to time than their ancestors who were featured in physical photos and newspaper clippings.

Do not depend on this digital platform to stand the test of time... it's naive and it's a dangerous belief if you ACTUALLY want to be remembered.

As much as they're dumbing down society these days, it'll be a miracle if anybody is even smart enough to read by then anyway. But as always there will still be some who are apart from the herd and are still intelligent.

The secret to hard copies is physical distribution. Don't keep it all in one place and don't hoard it for yourself. If you can get it into book form, mail it out to select places which accept random books and display them or keep them for record. There are sites which list these "open libraries"... they're all over the world. Distribute, distribute, distribute.

https://www.sectual.com/thread-4890-post...l#pid55069

Pics/vid take up too much space. Save only the most important...

Text is above all else in rank.

[somethingelseishere]

I know pictures and videos are nice. So is music. Luckily music files are pretty small, so no problem there.

Not in my case. My average 4:30 - 5:00 minute song can size up to 50MB. [WAV files]
I've got HUNDREDS. [Original material, not stuff ripped from CD's]

Not to mention, my project files. They range from 400MB to over a Gig. 
That's 1 to 1.2GB's per song on some. And I keep them all. Dozens of them.

But I knew this was going to be an issue from the start and invested in a 1TB external HD.
Everything and nearly the kitchen sink on that bitch and I STILL ain't used 300GB yet.

So here's hoping!

[Mister Obvious]

Nice work on the 1TB external HD!!!

I save all music in .mp3, I never keep .wav files.

For years my MO has been to save everything (besides photos) in the smallest file size possible.

[Mister Obvious]

All my photos are PNG files. Or GIF.

[Master Oblivious]

If you typed anything on a device that connects to the internet, trust me...it's already "archived." 

Nothing is going to be "lost." Nothing to be paranoid about; they've been doing it for a long time. 

I guess fear porn and panic is a trendy topic but most people don't actually think; they hear, 

experience an emotion or many emotions, then react. I'm not against archiving at all though. 

If something that "big" happens to "erase" things or "shut down the net" then will anyone really

care what anyone has archived? Especially in the north. People will be burning their books to stay warm. 


AHHHHHH DOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!

[Mister Obvious]

If something that "big" happens to "erase" things or "shut down the net" then will anyone really

care what anyone has archived?

No...

Most people do not care about the work that other people do to preserve things.

[Mister Obvious]

Does anybody on the face of the earth care about ancient texts?

Do people who decode ancient writings care about those ancient writings?

Fuck man, ya got me, I guess they don't.

I guess that's why they spent their time decoding ancient texts...

[Mister Obvious]

You just can't fucking fix stupid.

[Mister Obvious]

I'd be pretty damn suspicious of anyone who tries to discourage archiving... for any reason.

There's literally no true, legitimate argument against archiving.

It just doesn't exist.

[Master Oblivious]

Does anybody on the face of the earth care about ancient texts?

Do people who decode ancient writings care about those ancient writings?

Fuck man, ya got me, I guess they don't.

I guess that's why they spent their time decoding ancient texts...

so you're comparing your works to the "ancient" writings preserved through "archive? I understand now. 

[Mister Obvious]

so you're comparing your works to the "ancient" writings preserved through "archive? I understand now. 

I'm comparing EVERYONE'S WORDS to that level of importance, yes.

And there is also no argument against that being a good thing...

[Master Oblivious]

I'd be pretty damn suspicious of anyone who tries to discourage archiving... for any reason.

There's literally no true, legitimate argument against archiving.

It just doesn't exist.

I'd discourage anyone who also started "saving the forests" by eradication of books to digital format. 

annalogs

[Mister Obvious]

I gotchyer annalog right here, son...

[Master Oblivious]

I gotchyer annalog right here, son...

lmao!

[Master Oblivious]

I'm comparing EVERYONE'S WORDS to that level of importance, yes.

And there is also no argument against that being a good thing...

One of my favorite scenes from that movie. He was a genius. Epic natural talent.

[user328]

Orwell would've loved the Internet in general, and "cloud" storage in particular. In 1984, the Ministry of Truth had to round up all of the physical newspapers and edit them whenever the official narrative changed. Now, with most news outlets being essentially just websites, it's a simple matter of updating a record in a database.

One terabyte USB drives are dirt cheap nowadays. I have three of them attached to this computer, on top of the 2TB built-in drive.

Use Linux. It doesn't have to be your main computer, but you need at least one Linux box to keep your data safe from any fuckery that Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon might decide to perpetrate. Practically any old computer will do. This is important because there's nothing hidden in Linux that could fuck you over.

A Linux box and a USB drive are all you need to create an automatic backup. Every Linux distro has a program called rsync for maintaining a mirror image of any directory tree on your system. You only have to copy all of the files once, then rsync will only copy files that have changed since the last time you ran it. It's easy to set up a cron task to periodically update your rsync backups.

[Master Oblivious]

Use Linux. It doesn't have to be your main computer, but you need at least one Linux box to keep your data safe from any fuckery that Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon might decide to perpetrate. Practically any old computer will do. This is important because there's nothing hidden in Linux that could fuck you over.

A Linux box and a USB drive are all you need to create an automatic backup. Every Linux distro has a program called rsync for maintaining a mirror image of any directory tree on your system. You only have to copy all of the files once, then rsync will only copy files that have changed since the last time you ran it. It's easy to set up a cron task to periodically update your rsync backups.