Just discovered ArchiveBox — FOSS, self-hosted internet archiving.

The way the web is going, with the US government redacting and outright erasing historic content, publishers segmenting content by region (and also sometimes redacting/censoring it), and CloudFlare shitting all over everything, I think it's time for me to start my #archiving and #DataHoarding journey.

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #DataHoarder

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Amazon will remove the ability to download the ebooks for Kindle at the end of the month. So if you ever close your amazon account, you'll no longer be able to access the books you had bought.

Let's fix that

1. Bulk Exporter: https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader

2. Calibre to manage books https://calibre-ebook.com/download

3. Calibre plugin to remove DRM: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/remysharp.com/post/3lihtiq2rqc22

A learning experience for me, so I thought I'd share my knowledge.

Title: How I Host My Own #Kiwix Archive

Subtitle: My own little corner of the internet dedicated to keeping information free, open and accessible.

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/p/how-i-host-my-own-kiwix-archive?r=54rcsd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Is there some kind of file #storage that does delta compression? I'd love to have a file #archive with

• revisions (i.e. changes to files are tracked)
• deduplication (identical files only take up space once)
• deltas (small changes to large files only take up the size of the difference)

Git would cover this, but doesn't work well with TBs of data. Backup software with delta support like Borg or restic can do it too, but have bad UX for tracking file revisions.

Okay #kiwis . I am playing around #kiwix for the first time. What are your top libraries to download? I am starting with #wikipedia and #projectgutenberg

Any other #recommendations ?

I want to have an array of 4 drives, using ZFS through TrueNAS Scale, and each drive should at least have 8TB.
What RAID(Z) level should I use (I am aiming for resilience & capacity) and what drive size would be a good compromise between price and size?
If everything works out this planned NAS will be primarily an archive and storage for my media library. It will also serve as a Backup storage for my PC and maybe a Server for e.g. JellyFin.

@askfedi

The Person Saving The Media You Love Is You

THE PERSON SAVING THE MEDIA YOU LOVE IS YOU

An amazing write-up by a passionate preservationist, Chris Person (@Papapishu on Twitter), on why YOU are the only one that can save media you love.

https://aftermath.site/the-person-saving-the-media-you-love-is-you-vhs-decode-domesday-duplicator-ld-decode-laserdisc

I don't know if this is a culturally-specific thing, but I do not know where our community elders are getting the *spectacular* amount of video content they forward around on WhatsApp and fill their phones with. Who is generating multi-minute "good morning / blessed day" videos of a spinning heart with clip-art text and a song in the background? Is Big Data Storage targeting Black people?

Please help me with a long-term family tech support issue; Is there an easy way on Android to move WhatsApp media (if not the whole app) to the SD card rather than internal memory? Here are the constraints;
- older Samsung (S7 IIRC)
- current data/chats/etc must *not* be lost (includes departed friends and relatives)
- rooting is not an option
- Android forks are not feasible either

Bonus points if you've made this work yourself and can explain it! Thank you :)
#Android #WhatsApp #DataHoarding

@noxypaws The internet, particularly the #clearnet, cannot be relied upon for data #storage (Youtube example: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/vz42lr/52_of_youtube_videos_live_in_2010_have_been/).

#DataHoarding is the way, as well as learning about #P2P #AnonymizationNetworks to keep data alive.

Going through an old backup drive and found a bunch of archived photos, one of which was just a photo of a burger with no context. I’m afraid to delete it because maybe there was something special about it but…it can’t be, right?

Been here 2 months and still don't have a proper #introduction, here goes. I work in IT at a small MSP, but want to transition to networking eventually. Relevant tags;

#datahoarding / #datahoarder
#homelab
#linux
#docker
#selfhosting / #selfhosted
#3dprinting (especially speed printing)
Wannabe #maker
Wannabe musician, started learning about #synth recently.

Sometimes it feels like my hobby is picking up hobbies.
I use #archlinux but because I'm too lazy to not have AUR.

Haven't seen this on my feed yet... I got this email in my inbox today, seems the #InternetArchive truck was stolen sometime over the recent holiday season. Very unfortunate news, and I can only hope the truck is found; with a fantastic design like that, I can't believe it couldn't be found!!