yeah, as far as https://Archive.org goes from the looks of their DDOSing recently they are REALLY under-resourced. Doesnt hurt in the short term, I imagine
backup everything off site. and when I say "off site" I mean somewhere outside the US. no local backups, no thumb drives or ssds, get that shit out of the country.
For others start investing in a VPN. I suggest Mullvad. It's Euro based and you can make monthly payments via..whatever..even cash.
Also with Mullvad you don't sign up. you get an account number. that's it. So no one knows you're using it. If you're LGBTQ+, in the Science field, research field, tech field, whatever get that now. Protect yourselves. Cause god knows what's going to happen next.
June 2017: When T. pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, Macron called on scientists, entrepreneurs and engineers to come work and make France their second home. https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/870404412304482304
Potentially talk to offshore partners who use NOAA data, like GeoSciencc Australia to determine whether they have backup capacity and whether you can access?
Yep that NOAA stuff is precious and we don't have that much time... I am even thinking about everything related to the measuring systems and hardware data. Everything that can help to re-reproduce the systems.
SSDs suffer from bitrot if they’re not occasionally plugged in and used, fyi.
I’m suddenly thinking of how to get about 2TB of Neuroimaging & cognitive data to metastasize throughout the planet. SSDs are probably part of that, but not a long term archival location for it.
There is no insurance plan that will allow anything like this, so the only folks who can do this is rich who can get a doctor to give script for that much. Not happening
If RFK Jr is put in charge, there will be a mass exodus from government health agencies. Experts in epidemiology, infectious diseases, public health, and drug/vaccine regulation will leave or be forced out. Dark days are ahead.
if you're on windows, use teracopy because it'll be faster and more accurate than windows explorer's native copy. also make sure you segment off how much you're moving at once if we're talking multiple terabytes.
Has anyone talked about using the old bulletin board system model? People with mirrored data points available on specified Wi-Fi connections at geolocated sites. Allowing us to download book sets, data sets, someone smarter than me can figure out mirroring to our own drives later.
Scientific research will take a hit and funding will decrease. National laboratories will see a diminishing of grants as will universities. In effect, there will be a dumbing down of our country.
Send copies of it to everyone you know in other countries. That at least worked in the past.
Preferably on microfilm or printed as it's harder to delete and automatically scan, modify, and/or delete...
Already downloaded the entirety of IBTracs on my laptop and coded up a reader. Hoping that it ends up being a precautionary measure that never got put to use.
The 1776 alternative history came down within an hour of Biden getting the keys. Two months gives Project 2025 further time to plan for entire websites, NOAA, NASA, EPA, DoEd
Apart from obvious sources like undergraduates in computer science, try graduate students in digital humanities (English or history). You can also contact your local library school to see if there any students who want to do coding projects on short notice.
When Rahm was Mayor, he offered part of Chicago’s secure city web storage to environmental groups. It would be nice if Chicago and every other Blue City would store all we have accomplished for us. We’re gonna need it.
Hi, can you elaborate? Why would we need to do this? I'm ignorant and out of the loop on this. Is the new administration expected to purge data or something?
I get that but what makes them think that maga will come for faculty data, what type of data etc? I am teying to understand the justification for that statement. Something concrete.
It's a dictatorship, they're going to put a stop to climate change science, and Trump says he'll put RFK in charge of health. RFK wants to ban vaccines. It will look bad if research shows it's killing people, so of course they'll ban it.
Yup I agree. They might still fund of the NIH because them old white dudes want their dick pills and get rid of their cancer though. Either way it’s a disaster.
My issue with this is that if they go through with this, warnings won't be issued directly; they'll have to go through AccuWeather or similar companies. That could cause delay, and is a BIG safety risk.
SUCHO worked on this for Ukrainian cultural heritage right after the full-scale invasion. Happy to chat with anyone who's looking into doing this (though we're also scrambling). If you're moderately techy, Browsertrix is a great option for websites & there's a super easy paid cloud version.
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/14/24269741/internet-archive-online-read-only-data-breach-outage
Prioritize that effort as you would hiding the mona Lisa from Nazis.
Dark years ahead!
For others start investing in a VPN. I suggest Mullvad. It's Euro based and you can make monthly payments via..whatever..even cash.
PCloud is pretty good. Time to start downloading as much NOAA data as I can.
I’m suddenly thinking of how to get about 2TB of Neuroimaging & cognitive data to metastasize throughout the planet. SSDs are probably part of that, but not a long term archival location for it.
And usenet to archive
https://jenpeterson.net/zfs-blog/
or maybe figshare
(not sure where their servers are)
Get your medicine, if you can, for the next two or three years.
We need a citizen fund to help diabetics and other folks get their medicine in quantity.
Do not obey to Drumpf’s flying monkeys in advance.
Albert Einstein was an escapee from state persecution, for perspective.
Preferably on microfilm or printed as it's harder to delete and automatically scan, modify, and/or delete...