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Imma join the disassembly gang. Takes no more than a minute to unscrew and take the top off, then you take a hammer and give it some direct hits. Could additionally take the magnet that’s inside (or an even stronger one) and give the disks a few swoops if you like. (And now you have a free magnet!)

I neglected to update for like seven “major” versions recently. I took the safe-ish route to just read every release note as I go and install the last minor version of each major version release, then start, quick check, stop, next one. It turned out fine.

edit: Backup, backup, backup. Then you can’t fail.

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take the blue pill, self-destruct: sign back up for facebook, make a tiktok account. Always carry the newest iphone and a stock android phone on your person. Post live photos on instagram of where you are and what you are doing multiple times a day. Sign up for X. Buy a blue checkmark. Live-tweet your fight against constipation. You have nothing to hide if everyone already knows everything about you.

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I get that, and I even made an account on PeerTube’s GitLab just to submit a tiny fix on a secondary project of theirs, but do you think an average issue submitter would bother? I do not. And it’s not as simple as this process separating the wheat from the chaff, either.

The choice every developer has to make is between having a potentially successful project, with contributors and community engagement, or hosting their stuff on an open platform. PeerTube even has a GitLab of their own, and yet they host their main software on GitHub, because they simply have to.

I’m not 100% following, but if this is content that’s gone from being publicly viewable, uploading it to archive.org seems appropriate (but don’t take my word for it). Though if you do upload, it sounds like just the “part files” or just the “full files” would be enough. You could then also seed the torrent there.

The imgur links you might try uploading to ArchiveTeam’s imgur-grab project. Looking at the tracker, the archival seems currently half dead, but I’m sure they’ll get around to saving what’s left. (Unless it’s dead because imgur made it nigh impossible, which I can definitely imagine)

If you store it in compressed chunks (or on a file system that supports compression, I guess), that should be a great deal smaller, being text only.

They supposedly never delete good stuff, just make it unavailable, as you said. Maybe we’ll get them in a hundred or so years!

ArchiveTeam’s uploads also don’t have torrent files (anymore). Their wiki says that they disabled it to lighten the load on IA’s servers, as creating a .torrent file for a 10+GB upload takes considerable time, especially if it has to be redone.

Ah I see now that the image you posted was from tineye as well! Sadly I could only find similar covers, not that exact one. Archiveteam grabbed many gigabytes of stuff from the site, but this picture was not among them.

The one from fangamer seems good but if you’re looking for specifically that image, it should be in there: https://tineye.com/search/51d526a53a45339dbff6f0501f0cdee0b6417766?sort=size&order=desc&page=1

edit: just noticed this post is old, whoopsie :)

They are about to double the rate lmit, so it should be a little better…

Yeah, that’s what I’m getting now, too. Hopefully they take the deadline into account for rate limiting… Still good to have warriors ready to retrieve, I guess.

Not sure. They don’t mention 4 being in beta or anything. Though they don’t list much advantage of using it over 3 either.

Still just read-only!

I can only theorize, but I doubt this specifically was the will of the malicious actors :)

Something definitely went wrong on their part, maybe even because of a DOS attack. Javascript-infested sites are anything but trivial to preserve anymore, but mixing it up like this is very unusual.

There is no IA community, so I thought you all might be interested.