Software Endorsements

[jagube]

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).

Hey a little late, but here is a good method for long term storage.

You’re going to want to buy “blue ray m-disc” you can get DVDs too, but density is my concern. I like to go overboard and structure the disc in this fashion

Say I have 100gig disc
Those disc are only going to hold 50GB of data

I’ll create a bunch of split rar files and put those in folder 1
Then I’ll just duplicate that and put them in folder 2

So, on this single disc I have two copies of each rar file so if there is an issue with that sector I should be able to get the other one from my same on disc duplicate.

Burn 2-3 copies of that disc (do a check at the end to make sure everything is written well).

Depending on how many you’re going to have jewel cases inside a fireproof box (stores high to avoid worse case water damage) for your onsite copy. 2nd copies with a friend and 3rd in a safety deposit box.

Doing something like that ensures long term storage on a very high quality medium. It is a good idea to also keep SD cards with the same data in the same containers as your backups backup.

Moving on from that -
Cloud storage
It is cheap (check around you can get some insane deals by using certain google services not as intended for 5+TB of storage)

Sure there is the worry that they will crack down via file matching, but recall the rar splitting? It will make your file set unique and not suffer from those issues. If you want to be extra paranoid (why not) encrypt the sets so there is no chance of them ever matching.

I personally only do this for very important data, but everyone has a different definition of very important. You should be able to do some searches and find others talking about what I’m basically talking about. I hope this helps you and if you have any questions feel free to send me a message.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Hey a little late, but here is a good method for long term storage.

You’re going to want to buy “blue ray m-disc” you can get DVDs too, but density is my concern. I like to go overboard and structure the disc in this fashion

Say I have 100gig disc
Those disc are only going to hold 50GB of data

I’ll create a bunch of split rar files and put those in folder 1
Then I’ll just duplicate that and put them in folder 2

So, on this single disc I have two copies of each rar file so if there is an issue with that sector I should be able to get the other one from my same on disc duplicate.

Burn 2-3 copies of that disc (do a check at the end to make sure everything is written well).

Depending on how many you’re going to have jewel cases inside a fireproof box (stores high to avoid worse case water damage) for your onsite copy. 2nd copies with a friend and 3rd in a safety deposit box.

Doing something like that ensures long term storage on a very high quality medium. It is a good idea to also keep SD cards with the same data in the same containers as your backups backup.

Moving on from that -
Cloud storage
It is cheap (check around you can get some insane deals by using certain google services not as intended for 5+TB of storage)

Sure there is the worry that they will crack down via file matching, but recall the rar splitting? It will make your file set unique and not suffer from those issues. If you want to be extra paranoid (why not) encrypt the sets so there is no chance of them ever matching.

I personally only do this for very important data, but everyone has a different definition of very important. You should be able to do some searches and find others talking about what I’m basically talking about. I hope this helps you and if you have any questions feel free to send me a message.

Holy shit man, thanks. That's really helpful and will be by secondary backup system after I finish with the highly non degradable discs I ordered the other day. Set's still not complete, but i'm not going to lock any of the discs yet.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

So I signed up for two years of PIA VPN today and I've been having a blast with it so far. Plus it runs on my tablet so that's a bonus.

 

[Rei is shit]

Musicbrainz Picard

A poorly named piece of software that can fix the tags on music files, along with pulling in album art and even arranging the folders, ie "artist name - album - year". This is really good if you have a collection with fucked up tags. It even did a pretty good job of picking up on vinyl rips and fan made album/restorations. It doesnt pick up some obscure stuff and its not very good with classical.

Downside is you cant do an entire collection at once. I split things into 2000 song chunks but didnt try anything higher after my entire collection hard locked it. Most of the album art it pulls isnt the highest resolution, most around 500x500 compared to 1000+ for itunes and some of it is shitty scans. Oh and they may be sending your info to the RIAA or some shit, use a vpn or proxy/tor if you are paranoid (and you should be).

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

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.

If the NSA is after you for your cybercrimes you need to keep a vial of suicide pills on top of your computer. If anybody - ANYBODY - knocks on your front door, take the pills before opening it. That way they won't be able to do the brain suck on you.

25% off Suicide pills all February at Schuchardt Industries!

If requested by law enforcement, instructed by a National Security letter or other court order or because we think you deserve the brain suck you we may substitute placebo pills for some buyers

 

[Professional iPad Hoarder]

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.

Hard Drives, they are the cheapest solution compared to Blurays (wich does not hold too much data for the cost) and LTO Tapes wich cost a fortune, just access them once in a while to make sure they are still alive, also RAID is not backup

Aren't ROMs usually really small? Wouldn't a couple DVDs do fine? Or even thumb drives?

It depends, the PS2 fullset is about 6TB

 

[NSJAP]

What is good alternative to google keep that doesn't datamine you?

 

[rng_ascii]

OP is privacy-autistic

followed by 19 pages of privacy circlejerk

only one person who has made a shout-out to NoScript

truly niggerlicious

if you don't use Tor, get NoScript; it does everything, including fixing your marriage and curing your cancer

 

[BarberFerdinand]

A questions for those in the know: is google fiber considered as evil as the rest of google, and if so how bad? Just checking in case the opportunity ever comes up, so I know whether it's worth selling my soul or not.

 

[AnOminous]

A questions for those in the know: is google fiber considered as evil as the rest of google, and if so how bad? Just checking in case the opportunity ever comes up, so I know whether it's worth selling my soul or not.

It's probably even more evil. It moves them even closer to being a vertical monopoly of the most malignant kind.

That said I'd probably get it.

Fucking Google.

 

[SuicidalStar]

A questions for those in the know: is google fiber considered as evil as the rest of google, and if so how bad? Just checking in case the opportunity ever comes up, so I know whether it's worth selling my soul or not.

I actually never looked into it, after a very basic search I can see an article of a "binding arbitration", which is in the first line of their newest ToS from 2017, which has become standard in most websites' ToS, a Net Neutrality claim regarding them "banning" users from using any type of server but I could not find the referenced section in the ToS or archives. I'll look more into them in a few more hours but after a small search it makes me weary to trust them, but given that it's Alphabet as an ISP, it makes me trust them even less.

 

[jagube]

I actually never looked into it, after a very basic search I can see an article of a "binding arbitration", which is in the first line of their newest ToS from 2017, which has become standard in most websites' ToS, a Net Neutrality claim regarding them "banning" users from using any type of server but I could not find the referenced section in the ToS or archives. I'll look more into them in a few more hours but after a small search it makes me weary to trust them, but given that it's Alphabet as an ISP, it makes me trust them even less.

All ISPs are evil. They all are either strong armed, easily gave up, or don’t fucking care and allow alphabet agencies to sniff all your traffic. Having said that google fiber is hella cheap and fuck it might as well if you can. Fuck google, but a good deal is a good deal. Also, if you’re using a VPN service (some even offer vpn+tor and p2p servers for torrents) who fucking cares?

 

[CatchFire]

If you have the money for a VPS or can host it yourself you can use Nextcloud to host your own cloud storage:
https://nextcloud.com/install/#instructions-server
Instillation Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Bh_8gfx10

 

[Chexxchunk]

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.

Check out Verbatim M-Discs. They're special 100GB Blu-Ray discs claimed to last "1000 years."

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

All ISPs are evil. They all are either strong armed, easily gave up, or don’t fucking care and allow alphabet agencies to sniff all your traffic.

My ISP is good and have repeatedly fought in court to not give out user information and to protect privacy. When police or anyone else wants information out of them they get a standard form with two alternatives to state why they want it. Paraphrasing, one says "Is this some petty bullshit about file sharing, stupid posts on the internet or other crap?" and the other one is "Is this about serious crime like child pornography, terrorism, murder or anything that carries with it a prison sentence of two years or more?"
If the first box is checked it goes into the trash.

They're cheap as well(100mbit, ~$32 a month, no caps) and they're rolling out 10gbit for crazy people and that only costs ~$50 a month.
(checked out their website to confirm that and saw that 250/250 cost $4 more per month than a hundred, so I upgraded and got a new router)

 

[jagube]

My ISP is good and have repeatedly fought in court to not give out user information and to protect privacy. When police or anyone else wants information out of them they get a standard form with two alternatives to state why they want it. Paraphrasing, one says "Is this some petty bullshit about file sharing, stupid posts on the internet or other crap?" and the other one is "Is this about serious crime like child pornography, terrorism, murder or anything that carries with it a prison sentence of two years or more?"
If the first box is checked it goes into the trash.

They're cheap as well(100mbit, ~$32 a month, no caps) and they're rolling out 10gbit for crazy people and that only costs ~$50 a month.
(checked out their website to confirm that and saw that 250/250 cost $4 more per month than a hundred, so I upgraded and got a new router)

If you’re US based https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

I mean cool they respond that way to file sharing notices mine does too. Didn’t want to test that and went with a VPN that allows p2p sharing. Regardless the alphabet agencies slurp up that info.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

If you’re US based https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

I mean cool they respond that way to file sharing notices mine does too. Didn’t want to test that and went with a VPN that allows p2p sharing. Regardless the alphabet agencies slurp up that info.

No I'm in Sweden and my ISP actually financed the defense of the Piratebay morons.

 

[AF 802]

I just setup my old 20" Acer monitor from 2007 as a ghetto dual monitor setup and I'm looking for a good source of dual-monitor wallpapers. Suggestions?

 

[CatchFire]

@Give Her The D

A collection of dual-monitor wallpapers.

299009 views and 2262 votes on Imgur

imgur.com

 

[エボラちゃん]

Pretty cool site that automatically crops out background of images.
https://www.remove.bg/