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Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by Drupon »

arjie wrote: post #10

I do like the Internet Archive but I wish I could retrieve large segments from it myself. It has very aggressive 429s. It would be a nice higher donor tier feature. Maybe it’s not possible to do so and retain 501c3 status? Regardless I have had to start performing personal datahoarding. C’est la vie.

Yeah they are more than happy to allow my VPN traffic to access these donation pages, but the second I try to access anything, it's a blanket 429 to anything I try to go to. Why would I donate to something I can't access?

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

prirun wrote: post #142

I read that Internet Archive keeps 2 copies of all their data. Storj, the decentralized storage service, is currently in Chap 11 bankruptcy, mostly IMO because of incompetent management. They pay their node operators, the guys that actually maintain the hard drive space, $1.35/TB/mo to store data. (However it costs Storj 1.8x that because of erasure coding). They still have way more available capacity going unused, s…

The major problem with the (low) payout on Storj is that 29/54 node requirement is still too high for reliable long-term data retention.

Also, even if you live in the least-expensive electricity places in the world, residentially it will cost you more in electricity to keep those platters spinning 24/7 [than the payout].

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It is popular in the hobby cryptomining community to replace your under-desk spaceheater with a Monero mining rig (I also do this), and then only run it during wintertime (b/c it is effectively free mining, if you were already going to be running a resistive spaceheater).

Unfortunately, this cryptomining solution doesn't lend itself well to distributed-datastore cryptos because they are offline the majority of the year (i.e. files inaccessible).

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As a part-time miner since 2012... I really wanted to like Storj, but if you want to get paid to replace your spaceheater at home, mine Monero on surplus CPUs (for reference: new $500 Ryzen798003xd mines at 5.5khashes/s; obsolete i5 still gets 3.8kH/s). Storj is in bankruptcy for fiscal reasons due to its impossible logistics.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by Bratmon »

w4yai wrote: post #93
theletterf wrote: post #53

Be careful: paying with Google Pay is extremely easy and the default setting is monthly recurrence. If you're not logged in, the only way to cancel (as far as I know) is by sending an email, which is incredibly precarious.

You can go to play store subscriptions and cancel there right ?

Google Pay and Google Play are completely separate products that might as well be from different companies

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by cindyllm »

ndriscoll wrote: post #178
justin66 wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is it very important that they have someone to restore service at 3am? Depends on the service, but any effort to maintain this daft "gosh, what are they worried about, it's just the internet archive" line of thought is going to depend on either trivializing the needs of their staff, their users, or their computer systems. Good on them for taking things more seriously. (3:00 AM on the west coast is work hours for so…

They can use an online service in the middle of the night, but as a citizen, I'd be upset if I learned my public library were paging someone in the middle of the night if it weren't working. That's incredibly inappropriate. It can wait. Like I said in another comment, computers generally don't just randomly stop working, but no, a library worker doesn't need their computer at 9am so badly that they need an on-call IT…

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Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by johannes1234321 »

TechSquidTV wrote: post #194
riobard wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they could start a Archive@Home project for volunteers to donate unused disk space for the greater good.

They do have that. All archives have torrents.

Which means somewhat popular, somewhat larger have backups. Important would be backups for things nobody else is interested in. The ones where one person in 10 years will ask for.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

jrflowers wrote: post #107
theletterf wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not if Google Pay has been used as the transaction agent. It's not a Google Play subscription.

https://support.google.com/paymentscenter/answer/9003237?hl=...

I can confirm that the Google Payments Center has all my transactions and recurring payments. This is more than included in the Google Play interface.

For example, I have a Pixel Care+ subscription, billed monthly. I can manage and cancel that subscription. Same for Google One, billed annually, and an in-app subscription (links out to Google Play). Can change payment methods, add or remove a backup method, etc.

So, if you did set up a recurring donation through Google Pay, go to payments.google.com (on a desktop system) and see whether it can be managed through the web interface there. You'll need to verify your account.

PayPal has also offered good tools to manage recurring payments and subscriptions. If you set up payments through PayPal then you should be able to modify or cancel them, without even involving the payee.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by tekno45 »

piinbinary wrote: post #196
01284a7e wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Storj, the decentralized storage service, is currently in Chap 11 bankruptcy," "Internet Archive could buy Storj" Insanely convoluted solution that only someone with crypto-brain would ever come up with. You are really suggesting the Internet Archive should buy a bankrupted crypto company so they can store their data? What?

It's more productive to explain why the idea doesn't work, since people can learn from that.

nonsense is not owed a response.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by bee_rider »

zetanor wrote: post #32

I like the theory of the IA enough that I have a reoccurring donation, but I've thought a few times about e-mailing them to cancel (they have to halt your monthly donation charges manually). There's plenty of things I can overlook, like having to compete with scrapers to get a single page to load, or a myriad of longstanding technical issues (my favorite being that the collection upload system silently and irrevocabl…

Have they pulled many other “stunts” like the COVID library? It was a pretty crazy time, I think we shouldn’t judge things done then too harshly.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by [deleted] »

piinbinary wrote: post #196
01284a7e wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Storj, the decentralized storage service, is currently in Chap 11 bankruptcy," "Internet Archive could buy Storj" Insanely convoluted solution that only someone with crypto-brain would ever come up with. You are really suggesting the Internet Archive should buy a bankrupted crypto company so they can store their data? What?

It's more productive to explain why the idea doesn't work, since people can learn from that.

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