Open post Aurora Penguin @aurorapenguin@furry.engineer · 39mo ago Replying to @vga256@dialup.cafe @aurorapenguin@furry.engineer yes. i also have it backed up on my machines. but locked away in a vault is about as good to anyone as having it wiped. @vga256@dialup.cafe it's a step above literally gone forever , but yes I agree.
Open post Aurora Penguin @aurorapenguin@furry.engineer · 39mo ago Replying to @vga256@dialup.cafe @nulleric@mastodon.social and as we've learned over the past few years: if it's backed up at internet archive, it's not really backed up. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/i2btuu/utzoo_archives_have_been_removed_from_archiveorg/ @vga256@dialup.cafe @nulleric@mastodon.social it's still there, they just chmod 0 it , similar to what Wikipedia does to deleted articles. At least it's there for the future :shrug:
Open post Aurora Penguin @aurorapenguin@furry.engineer · 39mo ago Replying to @nulleric@mastodon.social <p>The past few days has been another good reminder that people, sites, downloads can just disappear at anytime.</p><p>MacGUI removed all 40k downloads from their site. There is a 2013 torrent but not even close.</p><p>A popular vintage forum had multiple days of downtime with a history of loosing data.</p><p>vMac's primary author has been gone for 2 years now.</p><p>If it's not backed up to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> - it doesn't really exist.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VintageMac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VintageComputers</span></a></p><p>Edit: 3 DVD archive MacGUI Vault is inbound to me.</p> @nulleric@mastodon.social @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org what sites are these? I can bring them up to archive team and maybe a archivebot (recursive crawl) can be done with what's left
Open post Aurora Penguin @aurorapenguin@furry.engineer · 37mo ago Replying to @segphault@mastodon.social <p>FAQ from Unity says that for WebGL content in the browser, it counts as an "install" for every "initialization of the runtime on a client device" — which would seem to mean every page load. </p><p>Nobody involved in writing this policy understands the product. It's wild that their attempts at clarification are actively making this worse.</p><p><a href="https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forum.unity.com/threads/unity-</span><span class="invisible">plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/</span></a></p> @segphault@mastodon.social they just reversed course on that today, we can't even keep up with the changes