Data Hoarder

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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Data hoarders of Reddit, what do you hoard? (alien.top)

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What are you storing in your bank balance breaking drives?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Copies of websites that I find particularly interesting or enjoyable (Anders' Mage Page, ancientfiles.dumpshock.com). Source code that's gotten scarce or might in the future (e.g., yt-dlp, Ultrix V4.2 for VAXen) or is just interesting (Apple Lisa ROMs). Dumps of some Yahoo Groups I used to be on back in the day. News footage that tends to be difficult to find or might not get aired. A couple of text file CD-ROMs that I never managed to get hold of back in the day (e.g., Blackphiles Collection). Data dumps from some services I used to use (Twitter, Librarything). Datasets that I mess around with (Stop the Steal leak, covid-19 data). Stuff that just strikes me as odd or interesting (titor-special_torrent/).