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The 8 of Spades said:
Not a software question, but this seems like the best thread to ask in. I'm currently in the process of collecting the full romsets of the systems I don't already have for emulation since it's becoming more difficult to find a lot of these things anymore easily. I'd like to make a few physical backups of the collection when I'm finished, but I'm unsure what the best option for extremely rarely accessed long-term storage of data these days is that won't make me entirely broke.
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I been thinking of doing the same thing, how are you doing it? Just using torrents?
 
Glad I couldn't help said:
I been thinking of doing the same thing, how are you doing it? Just using torrents?
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It's been a mix between torrents and internet archive before they started pulling everything down. I think IA might still have some stuff available but I'd have to check. I know the Nintendo, Sega, and Sony stuff isn't there anymore (publicly at least).
 
I finally got around to getting Private Internet Access. Do I need to add a custom DNS or will it just 'work' automatically?
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
So what you're saying is there's a good chance the government is spying on me even with a VPN? It's good to know there's such a thing as multi-hop VPN chain, sounds promising. Is it possible to chain two VPNs together at once?
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It's more possible to be spied on with a 14 Eyes VPN, and as for chaining VPNs I have no clue.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Either way I can't imagine I'm worse off than before since there's no reason they couldn't spy on me before.
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Yeah it depends on what yourey doing, if you want to torrent and not get a notice then PIA is fine. If you're doing shady things then 14 Eyes is pretty bad.
 
DanteAlighieri said:
Yeah it depends on what yourey doing, if you want to torrent and not get a notice then PIA is fine. If you're doing shady things then 14 Eyes is pretty bad.
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In general, people need to consider their threat model when they're taking security/privacy precautions. How you'd protect yourself from the federal government spying on you is a lot different from how you'd protect yourself from corporations spying on you.
 
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Stock Image Photographer said:
In general, people need to consider their threat model when they're taking security/privacy precautions. How you'd protect yourself from the federal government spying on you is a lot different from how you'd protect yourself from corporations spying on you.
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If the NSA is seriously after you, you're so fucked in so many ways that you'd be better off buying lube than being concerned with whether you're using 2048 or 4096 bit RSA keys.
 
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While people have brought up video grabbers for YouTube are a dime a dozen, no one's brought up a general video grabber so I'd like to recommend Video Downloadhelper.
https://www.downloadhelper.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-downloadhelper/lmjnegcaeklhafolokijcfjliaokphfk

It's kind of shit at YouTube, but it's great for getting shit behind an HTML5 player or hidden from downloading by other means.

Videos and music download quickly as long as the site itself doesn't throttle connections, IIRC it downloads files simultaneously in multiple chunks to speed up downloads. (Says it supports "media" in flv/ram/mpg/mpeg/avi/rm/wmv/mov/asf/mp3/rar/movie/divx/rbs/mp4/mpeg4 formats but I'm pretty sure it can pull sfw and ogg/ogv as well.) Also displays the size of available media so you know what you're looking for. All in the convenience of an extension

Can't remember if it was for both Chrome and Firefox, but ever since Mozilla took away some feature when they pushed Quantum, it requires a companion app to get files that are too big for the browser to handle, but the app runs completely in the background and doesn't have any noticeable performance impact when it's doing it's thing.

Only real downsides I've noticed are it can't get content that's live streamed (like Soundcloud or an active Twitch stream, archived streams are fine), it has a length limit at 3 hours or so (it saves the middle of the video for some reason), and the fact it's slow as shit at pulling videos off YouTube, then plexes the video with a QR code to say "hey, buy our software." Apparently you can use a converter feature if you pay for it, but just use Any Video Converter like a normal fucking human being.

The price is fucking ridiculous ($28.50 or 18.50 euro, though granted it is a one time payment), but they exclusively process payments through Stripe, so even someone like Dear Leader could pay for it.
 
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Video downloadhelper works on both Firefox and Chrome, Firefox is required to download Youtube videos but maybe that has changed. Google have/had a restriction on the play store that made it so it was a breach of their ToS if an extension allowed users to rip Youtube videos.
 
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