While I commend the dedication, I just don’t see him ever finding it. Or the information being recoverable if he did.
That disk has seen some shit, literally trash, heavy machinery, water and other damaging conditions. Hell he could have already found it, corrupt or broken and just decided it wasn’t his. Or that’s what his future holds.
And that’s if it doesn’t get swiped by someone else. That’s a good bit of money, worth running off with and at least trying to crack into.
Might I suggest a hybrid approach? Pull from a DDL, verify quality, fix metadata, and then put your whole library up on a searchable DC like Soulseek or a DC++ group(are those even still around anymore?) Torrents if you want to make the effort of compiling the torrents.
I looked at Soulseek and it appeared like a mess of disorganized libraries, random compilations, and I couldn’t even find some major bands or albums on it. But I suppose that’s to be expected.
Time to go back to the dark ages, figuring the weather based on Gam Gam’s aching bunions.
Fair, but that just makes it worse. Means we really do have a single point of failure. Alexandria anyone?
There are alternative archival sites, some that operate outside US tampering, but IA is certainly the primary.
Unfortunately, the IA is absolutely massive. Anyone backing up anything is just grabbing what is personal to them, hopefully in a way that the pieces can be authenticated and re-assembled, but unlike Wikipedia we aren’t talking about copies of the whole thing, not even close. I think they are near or recently over 100 petabytes? Much will be lost if/when the IA is eventually targeted and disabled for whatever reason they come up with.
If the IA were to be backed up at any meaningful scale, I would think to ask the British to encourage their Museum to embrace the stereotype that they readily take everything, and apply it to the internet. America can no longer be trusted to house any accurate history of anything.
They didn’t find any nodes, yet. Somebody has to start, by expanding the reach of a current network, or starting one in a more empty area.
If the tech behind this interests you, and you have some discretionary budget, I say do it anyway. You get a new toy, new knowledge, and now the best part:
The next guy who gets discouraged by the idea of no connections, has a connection. Now there’s two nodes.
Deadpool?
That’s how they get you to put up with shitty jobs. You, through deals only a corporation can afford to make, can have the privilege of paying half that for something twice as decent…if you grant a company at least 40 hours of your week, with as many extra as the boss wants, any time he wants them, lest ye be terminated for “underperforming” and lose the healthcare with it.
Others are posting the well written explanations, so I’ll make the short comparisons.
GitHub is like Reddit is to Lemmy. It’s the main player in source code hosting, proprietary and centralized to the profits and whims of Microsoft. But for that cost, you can easily bet a project you are looking for has a presence there, and it’s easier for a dev to pop from project to project with one account and identity.
The others are like Lemmy, meant for hosting your own GitHub-like website with all the bells and whistles on top of the standard Git codeshare. There’s a lot of feature parity, though some softwares have more than others. But it comes at the cost of obscurity, Codeberg is a big player but any instance you find is isolated, and any devs you entice to help you need to register additional accounts personal to that instance. And the hosting costs are on you, it can all vanish with an unpaid domain/server bill unlike the central giant of GitHub.