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ArchiveBox is great.

I'm big into retro computing and general old electronics shit, and I archive everything I come across that's useful.

I just assume anything and everything on some old dude's blog about a 30 year old whatever is subject to vanishing at any moment, and if it was useful once, it'll be useful again later probably so fuck it, make a copy of everything.

Not like storage is expensive, anyway.

It is mostly professional/office use where this make sense. I've implemented this (well, a similar thing that does the same thing) for clients that want versioning and compliance.

I've worked with/for a lot of places that keep everything because disks are cheap enough that they've decided it's better to have a copy of every git version than not have one and need it some day.

Or places that have compliance reasons to have to keep copies of every email, document, spreadsheet, picture and so on. You'll almost never touch "old" data, but you have to hold on to it for a decade somewhere.

It's basically cold storage that can immediately pull the data into a fast cache if/when someone needs the older data, but otherwise it just sits there forever on a slow drive.

Nobody thought it was possible, says man who led project because he thought he could make it possible.

Also, this looks like quantum entanglement which is a thing that's hardly a new concept and/or considered impossible, so uh, dude needs to get out of clickbait mode and ship a working example instead.

Well, I fully expect him to step on his dick, but I did not expect him to also kick himself in the balls while doing so.

Congrats Matt, rarely are my expectations of dumb behavior exceeded so spectacularly!

Here's a crazy idea: make the CAPTCHAs so complicated humans can't complete them.

That way if someone does, you know they're a bot.

I should probably patent that or something. (Is joke, etc.)

...depends what your use pattern is, but I doubt you'd enjoy it.

The problem is the cached data will be fast, but the uncached will, well, be on a hard drive.

If you have enough cached space to keep your OS and your used data on it, it's great, but if you have enough disk space to keep your OS and used data on it, why are you doing this in the first place?

If you don't have enough cache drive to keep your commonly used data on it, then it's going to absolutely perform worse than just buying another SSD.

So I guess if this is 'I keep my whole steam library installed, but only play 3 games at a time' kinda usecase, it'll probably work fine.

For everything else, eh, I probably wouldn't.

Edit: a good usecase for this is more the 'I have 800TB of data, but 99% of it is historical and the daily working set of it is just a couple hundred gigs' on a NAS type thing.

I'll admit to having no opinion on windowing systems.

If the distro ships with X, I use X, and if it ships with Wayland, I use Wayland.

I'd honestly probably not be able tell you which systems I've been using use one or the other, and that's a good thing: if you can't tell, then it probably doesn't matter anymore.

Oh, that makes sense. I was trying to mentally imagine what kind of FDM printer could possibly need that much power and was very much coming up with a blank, lol.

I'm disappointed in that writer.

Better phrasing: Sega started as a rock'n'roll breath of fresh air that did what Nintendon't.

Sure, but the way this usually works is that the government tells you to do something and if you don't, they'll find someone (or a couple of someones) on that list, arrest them, and charge them with a crime.

Doesn't matter if they did the crime, and it doesn't matter if they'd be convicted, but the play is to keep your friends in jail until you capitulate to what they want. This is actually something that's happened with tech companies before, like what they did with GoDaddy's C-level in India.

The problem is that there's no damn way I'd want to be arrested by the upcoming US administration, because I'd bet $100 that their playbook will portray not doing what they're demanding as a national security or terrorism offense, and if you've been watching ANYTHING for the last damn near 25 years, that's a free pass for them to basically just vanish you until they feel like doing otherwise.

It's fantastic leverage against organizations that have US people and are, presumably, not willing to just let their friends spend who-knows amount of time in prison, and could probably result in some cooperation.

And I'm about to both get downvoted and WELL AKSHULLY'd about how you can't just vanish people under the US justice system, and sure, you're technically correct. Except we've passed law after law after law since 9/11 that have basically given the government the ability to do any damn thing they please if they call you a national security risk or terrorist, up to and including Gitmo, in case you've forgotten that existed: which you shouldn't have, because we STILL have prisoners sitting there.

This is doomer as fuck, and horribly unlikely, but so is a demand to stuff backdoors into everything. But, if we head down that road, the only safe software will be ones that can't be blackmailed like this which is essentially none of the major projects.

Well, yes, it does: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization

But the corporation that handles all their funding and owns their trademarks is in the US, so they're possibly subject to the same pressure. And of course a good number of those people in that org tree are in the US, so again, same issue.

My point was more 'this is silly, because if you REALLY think that, there's nobody and no project that's got any ties at all to the US that can be considered safe, and you should maybe get rid of all your computing devices now', rather than an intent to say that Debian or anyone there is at more or less risk.

Perhaps it's just me, but they've been releasing a good number of actually good things, though?

Persona, Yakuza, PSO, and even the fact the Sonic movies were..... good? Or at least entertaining enough, which is a victory for a video game movie series, heh.