Application backed by services, or, static content?
If it can be captured and replayed by the Wayback Machine, submit the URL to https://web.archive.org/save/
That's a good side-bet regardless of any personal efforts.
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
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#212Yep, well-preserved vellum
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#213Write a pernicious AGI whose only goal is to keep the page online, whatever systems it has to subvert (or in extreme cases, turn into paperclips).
Would make a cute SF short story:
Written from the point of view of one human person, kept alive by a Universal Paperclips kind of AGI, kept alive to be the audience of the-website-that must-remain-eternally, while the entire galaxy is slowly brought under its control in the following its sacred purpose.
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#214Get it into the trunk of linux git
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#215If page is static - engrave it in a titanium plate, possibly as a QR code of sorts and pass it through generations. Include instructions for reader to publish it to whatever media analog of today's web page. So basically stay away from technology, get information encoded into lowest and most resilient physical material and rely on future generation to publish and/or update it's content.
The Github arctic code vault appears to have created TAR archives and turned them into a sequence of QR codes on a kind of film. And then thrown them in a hole under 250 meters of permafrost in Svalbard.
Permafrost: now known as all-too-temporary-frost.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never underestimate the power of basic human needs over layers of abstractions. Software's intangibility will be its downfall when our modern society eventually collapses.
Hopefully some remnant of humanity will cast out among the stars with ultra-high density storage holding archives of most of human knowledge.
How is that going to repair anyone's kettle?
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
This DNA writing idea is premised on the concept that most of our DNA is "junk", which is an increasingly unlikely idea. Most of it does not code for proteins, that's true. We are slowly uncovering more and more functions for the rest.
It doesn't need to be human DNA, indeed the part chosen may not 'make' it 500 years. While I have no desire to do this, choosing a variety of other life seems more viable, and more easily rediscovered if necessary.
What is the alternative to DNA?
- Matter (paper, stones and eggs)
- Electromagnetic (light and drives)
- Quantum (a time-travel machine is must read the html code from the time-space by a Twitter-2500 hashtag #webarchive_2021_file_date)
- Promises of others (peoples, companies that can and can recreate the space) . ?
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#219A small sat in the Lagrange point between moon and earth should do. The sat would host a server, communicate over radio waves and get energy from the sun.
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#220Reminds me of GKH getting a request from the japanese transport ministry (I think?) for a distro release that is supported for 20 years
Even 20 is forever never mind 500