The internet needs more of this. Bring back bonsai kittens!
Super Simple Storage Service
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#112The internet needs more of this. Bring back bonsai kittens!
That is, 90s style hoax websites
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#113Lol. This is hilarious. I haven't laughed this much for ages, this had me laughing like the whole time I was reading it. Abacii and the scale transition in the graph y axis... Hahaha
Tho seriously the lack of a an IaC option means that's a hard no from me. If I can't self-host this on an on-promise open source deployment, they're just making money of people too lazy to set this up themselves with rsync and bash scripts.
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#114Wait. Wasn't April 1st a week or so ago?
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#115Great for most backups.
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#116I'm about to start S5 - update only DB. Even less headache to manage and pricing is as low as $1/PB
Wanna help me start S6? A Delete-Only mass-storage system.
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#117Wait. Wasn't April 1st a week or so ago?
You're allowed to have a chuckle any day of the year.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
It won't be all that hot , so I don't really think the floppies are in any risk of melting because of it. Probably nothing to worry about.
It is the lack of heat that would be the issue.
Just roll them in a nice soft blanket. I have one that keeps me warm even in plain winter. We can add a hot chocolate cup and that should do the trick.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
It won't be all that hot , so I don't really think the floppies are in any risk of melting because of it. Probably nothing to worry about.
It is the lack of heat that would be the issue.
To be fair, less entropy means those floppies will last longer - so the heat death should marginally raise the their expected lifetime.
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#120I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
Given my own experience with 3.5" floppies in the past often yielded lifetimes in single digit months, I would say any estimate of years needs to have a very large error margin, and you need to use RAIF.
My experience is very similar, but I can believe that write-only or even single-read scenario could extend the expected lifetime to said years.