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Teun 🌏 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸<p>Digital archival projects are crucial in the fight against fascism. I wrote about the why and the how.</p><p>And if you're reading this, that means you have a computer, so you too can contribute! </p><p><a href="https://carefullmusings.bearblog.dev/the-urgency-of-digital-archiving/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">carefullmusings.bearblog.dev/t</span><span class="invisible">he-urgency-of-digital-archiving/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArchiveTeam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArchiveTeam</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a></p>
datum (n=1)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jonny</span></a></span> a torrent in time saves nine terabytes of data</p><p><a href="https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart/#seed-anything" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sciop.net/docs/quickstart/#see</span><span class="invisible">d-anything</span></a></p><p>Incredibly easy! Zero cost if you have internet, and don't have a data cap! Resilience!</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a></p>
jonny (good kind)<p>man i just had a series of extremely good ideas* that are very simple and very implementable for <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a> that i think will cause an absolutely disgusting amount of (good, intrinsically deduplicating, actually decrease server load by creating a supporting swarm of peers) public data scraping to happen and basically lower the barrier to scouting endangered datasets to zero</p><p>*if you received the message flood of me having them you are not allowed to tell people if they are actually bad</p>
jonny (good kind)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ai6yr</span></a></span> open call for radio people to team up with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a></span> and <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a> to snatch the data from the satellites, decode, and re-upload as torrents to replace critical infrastructure with something even better</p>
Moritz Negwer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@ww" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ww</span></a></span> super cool! Tagging this for more reach: <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/getfedihired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>getfedihired</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/academicjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicjobs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/safeguardingresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safeguardingresearch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/scienceundersiege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scienceundersiege</span></a></p>
Rob Ricci, eh<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@krismicinski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>krismicinski</span></a></span> the bulk of the space (7 22tb disks in a RAID 1) is for <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a>, backing up US government data before it goes down. I use this machine to back up a few laptops. I also have all my own media, such as photos, videos from my drone, etc., and I run my own instances of photo storage (immich) media serving (jellyfin), and the like</p>
Felix Schönbrodt<p>:crt_w_green_lines: Hackathon: Data Under Threat / Data Rescueing (Aug 7) in <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/M%C3%BCnchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>München</span></a></p><p>The LMU Open Science Center (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@lmu_osc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lmu_osc</span></a></span>) runs a hackathon to support the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SafeguardingResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a> initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.</p><p>Bonus: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lavaeolus</span></a></span> will give an ignition talk!</p><p>📅 Thursday, 2025-08-07, 16 – 19 (only in-person)<br>👉 Details and signup: <a href="https://github.com/lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/lmu-osc/safeguar.de</span><span class="invisible">-hackathon</span></a></p><p>Become a data rescuer by turning your own laptop into a Research Data Rescue Node, scraping at-risk data sets, and breathing new life into your old HDD as part of a global, decentralised network.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/LMUM%C3%BCnchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LMUMünchen</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/DataRescue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataRescue</span></a><br>CC <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://augsburg.social/@bitsUndBaeumeAuxMuc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bitsUndBaeumeAuxMuc</span></a></span></p>
Felix Schönbrodt<p>I revived an old HDD with a <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> Zero W 2 for <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/DataRescue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataRescue</span></a>:ing:</p><p>It runs ...</p><p>(a) a Bittorrent client that seeds at-risk data sets from the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> database<br>(b) the `sciop-scraper` script to get new datasets into the swarm</p><p>Setup instructions for the Pi Zero: <a href="https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-RDRN_RPi.md" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSee</span><span class="invisible">d/src/branch/main/L1-RDRN_RPi.md</span></a></p><p>Setup instructions for `sciop-scrape` (on macOS &amp; RPi): <a href="https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-sciop-scrape.md" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSee</span><span class="invisible">d/src/branch/main/L1-sciop-scrape.md</span></a></p><p>Let me know if the instructions work for you; happy to collaborate on the manual.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/safeguardingresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safeguardingresearch</span></a></p>
Kilian Evang<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WasFehlt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WasFehlt</span></a> (?): Ein Torrent-Client für <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> und ähnliche Projekte, bei dem ich nicht festlegen muss, was ich seeden will, sondern der das automatisch entscheidet. Je nach dem, wo Kapazität gebraucht wird, und je nach dem, wie viel Speicherplatz ich ihm dafür zur Verfügung stelle.</p>
Felix Schönbrodt<p>Added a 10 Terabyte seeding node to the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SafeguardingResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a> swarm; focusing on large (&gt; 1 TB) data sets with 0 or 1 seeders.</p>
jonny (good kind)<p>You may have heard that globalchange.gov and all the national reports on climate change have gone down.</p><p>We got em all on <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a>, a webrip and all the PDFs extracted: <a href="https://sciop.net/datasets/globalchange-gov-webrip" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sciop.net/datasets/globalchang</span><span class="invisible">e-gov-webrip</span></a></p><p>Edit: context - <a href="https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/climate-cha</span><span class="invisible">nge-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8</span></a></p>
Fredrik Jansson<p>About US research data under threat and how everyone can contribute to saving it - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lavaeolus</span></a></span> and me were interviewed in the TU Delft paper Delta: <a href="https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/sa</span><span class="invisible">ving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too</span></a> mostly regarding our parts in the Safeguarding Research and Culture initiative at <a href="https://safeguar.de" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">safeguar.de</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TUDelft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TUDelft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SafeguardingResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a></p>
./coldwave -v :flag_trans:<p>Start here:<br><a href="https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sciop.net/docs/quickstart</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>That said it took me a few searches; it wasn't trivial if you don't know how to use bittorrent and the sciop website(s) aren't super clear to me. <br>I flatpak installed qbittorrent (a GUI) and I'm now downloading and seeding <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a> data. Many are very small and can be done by my laptop in seconds.</p><p>I'm offering: if running into difficulties getting a bittorrent client installed and starting to seed, please ask.</p>
./coldwave -v :flag_trans:<p><a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> : actually the only thing to make me feel better about the political situation lately, like I'm really doing something,</p><p>In short: you (anyone with a computer) can help keep this endangered data alive: <a href="https://sciop.net/datasets/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sciop.net/datasets/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> . You download, and reupload via bittorrent.</p><p>We got health info. Deleted US government websites. Covid data. Climate data. <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/TransHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransHealth</span></a> info. Culture. History. Anything else anyone wants to throw in. This should be of interest to the mastodon people.</p>
marmarka :sorioneku:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@doragasu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>doragasu</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neopaquita.es/@Shine_McShine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Shine_McShine</span></a></span> el otro dia estaban compartiendo esto </p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a>: Decentralized backups of datasets under threat, in a torrent swarm. </p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114777116685048952" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neuromatch.social/@jonny/11477</span><span class="invisible">7116685048952</span></a></p>
Moritz Negwer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jonny</span></a></span> this entire thread is amazing, top-notch tool development for a noble cause. <br>@ <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> : if you feel desperate about the wholesale breakdown of science under the current US administration, consider helping out with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a>: Decentralized backups of datasets under threat, in a torrent swarm. </p><p>Have a disused laptop or Raspi? Make it part of the swarm and take the data outside the US (or any) administration's grasp! </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/scienceunderattack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scienceunderattack</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/bittorrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bittorrent</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/decentralizedbackup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralizedbackup</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/libraryofcongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraryofcongress</span></a></p>
Kevin Neely :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jonny</span></a></span> Very cool. A couple months back, I resurrected an 8T NAS I'd slated for donation when I came across <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a> </p><p>So far I've been creating WARCs using zimit and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/deluge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deluge</span></a> for the torrent because the client/server is convenient for a headless unit.</p><p>Anyway, I'm giving this a try and it's grabbed 10G very quickly, which seems much faster than zimit. I'm not exactly sure how to turn this around into a torrent and get it up to Sci-Op, but I'll keep an eye on it and am happy to provide feedback.</p>
jonny (good kind)<p>check this out if you want to help preserve <a href="https://sciop.net/datasets/chronicling-america" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the archive</a> of "most local newspapers through most of US history" that had its funding pulled, even if you only have a couple dozen gigabytes to spare, you can <br>a) make an account on <a href="https://sciop.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sciop.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> , <br>b) run a qbittorrent instance, go to preferences&gt;web ui and click enable, </p><p>and just do this</p><pre><code>python -m pip install sciop-scraping</code><br><code>sciop-cli login</code><br><code>sciop-cli client login</code><br><code>sciop-scrape chronicling-america --next</code></pre><p>and that's all.</p><p>if you have spare storage, you can sort by seeders, ascending, and start from there. or subscribe to the <a href="https://sciop.net/rss/tag/chronam.rss" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">rss feed</a> and auto-download it.</p><p>this is an archive funded by the library of congress (threatened) and the national endowment for the humanities (actively being eliminated). the alternative is that an enormous amount of US history that doesn't percolate into history books is owned and operated by lexisnexis and other for-profit data brokers. </p><p>this is the first run of some tooling to lower the bar for participatory scraping - at the moment, the archive is still online, and the scraper will automatically embed a webseed URL in the created torrent. so even if you don't have space to seed, you can scrape the data, upload the torrent, and make it possible for waiting peers to become mirrors</p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a></p>
Night_City_Nomad :sterntastatur: :gopnik_implant:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ZLabe</span></a></span> I'm going to plug <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a> again, there is a community that is preserving as much of this data as possible.</p><p><a href="https://sciop.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sciop.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
jonny (good kind)<p>Sciop is as easy to run as a bittorrent client. The idea will be to have it serve as a companion to a client, where we are going to implement a minor mutation of the FEP for mobile identity so you can mirror an identity from your personal client companion to any other instance that chooses to mirror yours. So this isn't like "come help our website" this is "get the fun parts of this website ready for when it's time to talk to other websites"</p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciop</span></a></p>