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[–] 213 points 2 years ago (10 children)

If you have the funds, please support Internet Archives.

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  • [–] 108 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's unfortunately a very valid point. Iirc the big problem IA has is the sheer amount of disk space required to store everything.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wish I had the necessary petabytes of storage to at least store an offline copy. I wonder how many disks that would be and how redundant disks you'd need.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Here's this from 2021. They say they have about 200PB of raw storage across some 20k spinning drives at the time of writing (with more being added constantly, about 25%/yr), and capacities are mixed from 4TB to 16TB, across 750 servers housed on about 75 racks. I have 6x16TB WD red pros that ran me about $355/ea new with tax, and my bill was a smidge over $2100. Assuming you used all 16TB, you'd need about 12,500 16TB disks, which would run you about $4,437,500 without a bulk discount. How much of that is redundancy I'm not sure, but that's just HDDs, not the hardware to actually run everything between storage enclosures, OS, disks, memory, clustering, etc. They say they say a single copy with 16TB drives would be about 15 racks., but how that breaks down I'm not sure.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.

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    [–] 121 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

    Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”

    In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”

    The turnaround is giving me whiplash.

    There's no begrudging following of the rules, it's wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Sun-Tzu actually described how this works with soldiers, and how do you work with such gentle material. I'd say his book's parts on psychology are about making a Hugo Boss from a wannabe Oskar Schindler, but if one applies his advice to oneself, one can put different goals.

    I also like Marcus Aurelius.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The quote from the email isn't her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as "embracing the new regime".

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    I was told to change gender to sex on the apps I develop. I'm pushing to have it removed all together because it's a field that has no relevance and the order is fucking dumb. My niece is trans saying they don't exist doesn't make them not exist.

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    [–] 99 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Cracking on with the important shit, I see.

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  • [–] 95 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?

    because it's not and never was about that and by the time everyone else realises it will be too late to stop it without great effort

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?

    The best way to understand DOGE is to be aware of what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.

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    [–] 74 points 2 years ago*

    This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.

    /s

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Robert'); DROP TABLE Trans People;--

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Talk about hidden figures…

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    [+] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

    You're significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.

    In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government

    One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What happened to indigenous people and women? I swear I saw one just an hour ago so it seems like they still exist. Maybe not?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, just scrubbing MENTIONS of them. Whew!

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Totally normal.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Sounds like a paid day off

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