@exiliaex I have learnt to archive due to my own flawed memory, I've lost a lot of memories due to my poor archiving and protecting of data. Good memories, gone. Archiving even personal stuff is genuinely such a net positive on its own, I can only imagine the benefit that archiving books can achieve.
@exiliaex Recently got a DAS for similar reasons to back up shit like articles and books
@agreedyboi DAS? im unfamiliar
@exiliaex basically enclosure that i can put hdds into for storage https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/direct-attached-storage
@agreedyboi ohhhhhhh yeah yeah that makes sense!
@exiliaex In future if i wanna make a lil server all i have to do i attach it to a device, but i mostly want this for offline reasons. It's p cool tho, i just need to get the hdds for it.
@exiliaex an archive of your own, you say?
@xan exactly! except also not at all!
@exiliaex I am loving this. Did you know about #OFFLFIRSOCH? I’m already brainstorming for my next submission.
gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-offlfirsoch-2024.gmi
> The spirit of OFFLFIRSOCH is to identify those tasks which you routinely use some online service for, not because the task is in any fundamental way one which needs to be done online, but just because that is the path of least resistance.
@mycorrhiza ive *not* heard of this! thank you! whats the "Gemini" in the url mean here?
@mycorrhiza tried searching to no avail. everything just wants to spam me with AI stuff thanks to google gemini.
@exiliaex @mycorrhiza try "gemini protocol" instead https://geminiprotocol.net/ ^^
@leggylav @mycorrhiza i was actually just about to write a response cause i found it, but thank you bunches!
@exiliaex Oh my gosh I’m excited that I get to tell you about this.
Gemini is an internet protocol for the small net. It’s simpler than HTTP, and supports features lacking in Gopher. It used to be easier to learn about from search engines, but they’ve gotten worse and in the time since it was announced other projects have used the name (they all suck, too). https://geminiprotocol.net/
You need a special browser to see Gemini content, but you can also use a gateway. E.g., here’s that #OFFLFIRSOCH announcement post: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-offlfirsoch-2024.gmi
@mycorrhiza ooh! thanks for makin it easy for me!! ill definitely try this out
@exiliaex Cool! There was a lot more energy for it a few years ago, but it’s settled (for now) into a not-totally-dead steady state.
cant believe how they tricked us all into thinking we dont deserve to be able to make and share our own copies of information