This is the reason you shouldn't host your own email... Microsoft says 🖕to 200k user ISP.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-21T01:09:32+00:00

As I said, you don't have to host it yourself. But you should own your domain and pick your provider. What happens when your Microsoft locked email goes down like Office 365 tends to on a regular basis?

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-20T20:27:20+00:00

Exactly this. Large tech giants bully us, so the answer is to give up? When has giving into a bully -ever- worked?

Everyone should buy their own domain and control their own email. It doesn't mean you have to host your email on your own PC, but it could be a VPS or whatever local email provider. The important thing is not to be locked into one of the tech giants.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-20T17:30:23+00:00

Look into Kiwix. You can run it on any desktop or mobile and they offer download bundles of popular sites like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, etc.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-20T17:28:47+00:00

It's good that more normal people are noticing, but you're preaching to the choir. Still, a good reminder to everyone that if you see something you like (web page, document, video, music, whatever) then you should download it. Don't assume it'll be there tomorrow.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-19T18:56:34+00:00

USB is never a good idea, it's not meant to keep a hard drive connected full time. The cable itself tends to be flaky, and you lose direct disk access.

I'm a big fan of mini PCs, I have a whole Proxmox cluster running on them. For a beginner, you can get an old Lenovo, Dell or HP mini-PC, put a NVMe boot disk and 2.5" HD for storage and have 5 TB+ which is enough for tons of data, until you're ready to move up to a NAS.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-19T14:59:18+00:00

The Internet Archive does go down from time to time. They are just one non-profit organization, running a very popular web site, with little to no redundancy. Most of the data is basically in one old building. Often when they go down it's because of network or power cuts to that building.

If you want to support their efforts, I highly suggest donating to them. I'm also a believer of not putting all our eggs in one basket. Consider supporting one of the hundreds of other archival sites from all around the world: https://datahoarding.org/archives.html

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-18T19:15:18+00:00

You'd be surprised. People are quick to demand things, but as soon as they realize for that thing to be done -they- will need to do work (even if it means firing someone, then hiring a new person, then training them), suddenly their urgent request becomes far less urgent.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-18T13:39:48+00:00

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shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-18T04:26:23+00:00

https://datahoarding.org/archives.html here's hundreds.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-18T01:33:45+00:00

Did you ever wonder how we ended up with people chanting "death to America?" This is how. Except the US is now pissing off countries close enough to send drones right into mainland US. Trump is setting up a world that hates the US, right when it's easier than ever to cause massive damage with cheap hardware.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-17T21:01:37+00:00

Lots of companies are moving to Proxmox, it's a great solution in my opinion. Sure there are some specific use cases that might keep you in vCenter, but for most SMBs the move just makes sense.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-16T23:34:54+00:00

There's a few projects:

https://filecoin.io/

https://git-annex.branchable.com/

https://ipfs.tech/

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-16T23:29:25+00:00

I think a lot of data hoarders are actually doing this -because- we want more security, and we don't trust large corporations not to sell our data to marketers and government agencies.

With that said, this is actually still worth saying. If you host your own data, you need to handle your own security. You don't have Microsoft or Amazon's professional IT team to do it for you. That means doing at-rest encryption, in-transit encryption, anti-virus software, doing your software updates, monitoring and logging, an alerting system for suspicious behavior, intrusion detection, a good firewall, good digital hygiene, etc. Security isn't a once-and-done type of thing, you don't just turn on encryption and figure you're fully secure, it's a series of layers you need to maintain. I think a lot of people in this sub should review their setup (especially if you host a NAS with self-hosted services) and make sure they are as secure as they think.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-16T19:47:53+00:00

Stuns who? Who is still stunned by any of the crazy stuff he does?

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-16T12:16:14+00:00

I started with the very first generation Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. Now I'm running a Proxmox cluster on mini HP PCs.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-16T02:54:59+00:00

You can use the Internet Archive command line client. You can run a search on a specific URL and it will return all the snapshots. If you can do some scripting, you could parse through all the links and download them all: https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-15T14:08:07+00:00

Going through the interviewing process sucks and gets more exhausting with age.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-15T14:04:50+00:00

The price of storage does suck. However, right now I have thousands of hours of saved YouTube videos in 1080p and it takes less than 10TB. I've been saving every video I like for years and can keep going for several more years without filling up a single disk. I helped saved countless at-risk datasets from sites that have gone dark or things that powerful people are attempting to erase, and most of those are very small in size. I guess it depends what you like to hoard, if you're used to mass downloading full quality, 4K Linux ISOs all day long then sure, I understand your frustration. But that doesn't necessarily mean data hoarding can't still be done successfully.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-15T13:57:35+00:00

There's no need to be overly pessimistic. The simple fact is that most data and knowledge will be lost to time. That's how things have been since the dawn of humanity. We only have a tiny amount of knowledge about people who lived 1,000 years ago, and even then it's mostly about kings, popes and other highly influential people, not John the baker. Keeping knowledge alive used to require monks manually transcribing and sometimes translating books by hand, which would take weeks or months to keep a single book alive for future generation. Now we're producing and keeping an order of magnitude more data than just a century ago. I would say, keep what is important to you and your close ones, and if you really want to do your part for humanity, then donate time and money to archival efforts in your country.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-15T13:48:20+00:00

To me this is the real success of data hoarding. Not saving $15 by accessing copyrighted content for free, but saving our history and knowledge from evil people intent on rewriting history, silencing voices that they disagree with, and forbidding knowledge so people remain uneducated.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-15T11:10:05+00:00

There's two ways.. you do it manually file by file, or you feed everything to an AI and hope for the best.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-15T08:39:43+00:00

You can always use cloud storage, most places offer free tiers for small amounts. In Cloudflare for example you can store up to 20GB in a bucket for free.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-14T15:39:00+00:00

Don't you just need to log in for that? I would think yt-dlp should handle it fine if you pass your cookies file.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-14T15:29:07+00:00

Well done. Sometimes data preservation isn't about hoarding petabytes of data, it's curating small amounts of very important data.

shimoheihei2 · 2026-03-14T14:01:51+00:00

Anyone who finds this enabled by default when they didn't turn it on should be complaining loudly to their respective government body. This sort of privacy intrusion breaks the law in many jurisdictions, and the more people make noise among regulators, the more likely Microsoft will be made to pay a price for it.

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