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Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by literalAardvark »

areoform wrote: post #377
OOPMan wrote: post #361

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A multi-billion year backup is probably pointless. The earth will be uninhabitable in that time frame due to changes in the atmosphere and beyond that the sun itself will complete it's lifecycle. I know there's a big fad to "just believe" in a SF future that spans space and time but physical realities in this area are pretty rough. I think the best thing people could do is realise that, eventually, everything ends an…

Our survival is not the point. It is an act of hope and the manifestation of our goodwill to the rest of the universe. There is nothing more valuable that we can offer to the Universe than our culture, history, knowledge, and the Earth's biological data. Imagine if you were an alien species who somehow comes across this capsule hundreds of millions or billions of years from now. It's proof of sentient life elsewhere!…

An alien civilization knowing us just by an archived version of Horizon Worlds feels like a fate worse than death.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by xaedes »

GolDDranks wrote: post #262

What surprised me was that there is something called "United States Postal Inspection Service" that has some police-like law enforcement powers. Every so often you TIL something about the US.

In Germany we have this propaganda word "Raubkopie" for pirated copies translating to "rob copy", like a copy that was acquired through robbing, i.e. through use of force.

It is quite ironic considering who really ab/uses the legal monopoly of force to rob others of their copies.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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anyfoo wrote: post #242
areoform wrote: post #220

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Thank you so much for your efforts! I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it. Something that, - is resilient (can survive a nuclear explosion) - requires no power - doesn't require software to read/reboot from - (theoretically) lasts for at least 1 billion years Copying from the Long Now Foundation's projects, I think we can achieve the…

I think what you consider the hardest part, putting it together so that someone who does not speak any human language today deciphers it, is actually one of the least of your problems. Unless you deliberately encrypt the information (which you wouldn’t), I have a feeling that even Wikipedia alone might be sufficient for a motivated civilization to figure it out. Linguists and archeologists in our time have to do with…

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Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

areoform wrote: post #220
pilimi_anna wrote: post #103

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Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup). We are working on hosting this collection, as well as saving other large collections. Please consider supporting us, donation details at http://pilimi.org (we'll set up a patreon-like system soon)

Thank you so much for your efforts! I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it. Something that, - is resilient (can survive a nuclear explosion) - requires no power - doesn't require software to read/reboot from - (theoretically) lasts for at least 1 billion years Copying from the Long Now Foundation's projects, I think we can achieve the…

> I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it.

And I'm over here hoping humanity extinguishes itself ASAP so the rest of life can thrive before we kill it all.

Intelligent life seems highly overrated.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by literalAardvark »

GTP wrote: post #359
wengo314 wrote: post #297

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i think it's a brave assumption that gold will forever be as valuable as now.

Indeed, it is a reasonable assumption that it will get more valuable over time, as it is a scarce resource.

Gold is extremely common in the solar system.

In the next few hundred years it's pretty likely that gold price will be marginal, as asteroid miners looking for less useless materials such as nickel, cobalt and platinum mine an excess.

So no, unless for some hidden reason asteroid mining doesn't work out, which is pretty unlikely given how badly the developed world needs that material.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by literalAardvark »

jl6 wrote: post #385
survirtual wrote: post #358

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Just use this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage 5d is a bit dramatic but it is a femtosecond laser writing of quartz crystal that should, in theory, be stable for billions of years and can hold hundreds of terabytes. Seems to be just what is needed.

Sadly it appears to be early-stage R&D vaporware.

Microsoft's "Project Silica" is in early production.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by addminztrator »

Well, if the domain names are seized, maybe we could connect directly to the IP address? Does anyone know the IP address of z-lib domains (b-ok.cc or z-lib.org)? This is going to make me want to keep a local log of all IP addresses which the domain names map to :(

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by addminztrator »

night-rider wrote: post #29
louky wrote: post #9

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Oh wow. that's awful. Anyone have the actual IPs? that's what matters if the servers and IP addresses aren't seized.

> Anyone have the actual IPs? The site can't be reached with a bare IP z-lib.org 66.212.148.115 www.z-lib.org 66.212.148.115 Their DNS resolver indicates it was seized: ns1.seizedservers.com hostmaster@seizedservers.com

It may have been functional before but now it says domain name has been seized by the Department of Homeland Security and displays a copyright notice. The onion link is still functional though!
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