#GNUDB seems to be a more complete archive of music CDs. I'm ripping a whole book of old #music CDs to FLAC and I've been using Asunder because it uses the gnudb music library. Just out of curiosity I tried a few of them in Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer, both of which seem to use #MusicBrainz. Not only did they not fill in the "genre" of any of the discs, but there have been a couple so far that were listed in gnudb but not MusicBrainz. I may kick gnudb a donation,

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Building a Personal Archive With Hoarder
Published on February 15, 2025 by James' Avatar James Ravenscroft
https://brainsteam.co.uk/2025/2/15/personal-archive-hoarder/
#datahoarder

Just discovered ArchiveBox — FOSS, self-hosted internet archiving.

The way the web is going, with the US government redacting and outright erasing historic content, publishers segmenting content by region (and also sometimes redacting/censoring it), and CloudFlare shitting all over everything, I think it's time for me to start my #archiving and #DataHoarding journey.

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #DataHoarder

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Amazon will remove the ability to download the ebooks for Kindle at the end of the month. So if you ever close your amazon account, you'll no longer be able to access the books you had bought.

Let's fix that

1. Bulk Exporter: https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader

2. Calibre to manage books https://calibre-ebook.com/download

3. Calibre plugin to remove DRM: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/remysharp.com/post/3lihtiq2rqc22

so #Youtube should be completely destroyed, right now if you are a #DataHoarder download all the you-tube videos that you consier culturally significant, turn them into torrents, mirror them on

If you're a #contentCreator, youtube is not really a viable medium for earning revenue, most you-tubers i watch are mainly financed by patreon, porn sites pay significantly more and will have better reach, even for educational content, i wouldn't ask anyone to delete their youtube channel, but please consider dual alternative platforms, like #PeerTube

I now have my own fully search-able mirror of #Kiwix hosted on my home server, including #Wikipedia. You can check it out at:

https://kiwix.marcusadams.me

Content may change as time goes on since I literally "just" got it set up and working, and you should definitely prioritize the original resources and donate to the folks hosting it. But IF some of these resources become unavailable from their original source, feel free to use my mirror as long as it's up.

@EposVox is right; if you have the means, it's time to start backing up the web. I'm going to see about hosting my own mirror of the latest .zim copy of Wikipedia. The current administration is going after wrong-think in all its forms, and they have the means to do a hell of a lot of damage if the community doesn't come together to protect our valuable resources.

Title: It's Time to Start Backing Up the Web.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGuXTFyxLe0

New blog post (this year I am aiming at publishing shorter posts but more frequently)

This time I talk how I am using a combination of Pinchflat and Jellyfin to automatically download videos from Youtube and serve them from my NAS with a Netflix-like frontend.

https://stfn.pl/blog/60-pinchflat-jellyfin-youtube-duo/

I usually leave a new laptop sticker-free for a few months. I've had this MacBook Air for over a year and have finally broken it in with a #sticker from @molly0xfff, which arrived last week and is even more timely now than when I ordered it. They are available from https://store.mollywhite.net/collections/stickers
#Archives #DigitalPreservation #DataHoarder

There are some things I *love* about NextCloud. It's the only FOSS software that creates an accessible, central space on the Internet for individuals.

It also has some HUGE FLAWS. It's cumbersome to install and maintain, half its plugins are out of date or under-supported, its code is clunky and inefficient, and the most reliable hosting providers (managed) are either expensive or located on completely non-English websites.

I see it compared a lot to simple storage software, but I see it as something more akin to the Solid Pods (https://solidproject.org/). Something like this could be the home for every single person on the Internet if done correctly. NC isn't doing it correctly, but it is shedding light on the possibility that it could be done at all, without reinventing all the wheels.

How do #windows users handle incremental backups?

A friend is asking for help. He doesn't want to use a cloud, just an external HDD. What he did till now is just copy paste everything once every other month and hope that nothing is missing.

Any non-proprietary windows software that I can recommend to him that can handle incremental backups? Encryption would also be nice imo

i'm at the "making a local backup of wikipedia" stage of data hoarding.

#datahoarder #datahoarding Sou #nas

This image is a little old, but it largely looks the same.

Feel free to ask me about my setup! I stick to Proxmox for a hypervisor, and my network runs on OpnSense. Most of my services are running on either Debian or Fedora.

Any #ArchiveBox users here? I deployed it with docker, and now I want to download everything I'm keeping in Pocket (more than 1000 links, duh). I tried running "archivebox add" with Pocket export file, I tried with converting it to JSON as well and with manipulating JSON a bit here and there, but all the time ArchiveBox tells me that it failed to parse it.

Does anyone know what should be the format of the input file and how should it look like?

couple new stickers in the store

https://store.mollywhite.net/products/im-not-hoarding-im-archiving-sticker

Another one for the #archive #datahoarder #storage #nas bubble:

What is the ~best DVD-ROM drive to read old and likely degraded media?

The Internet at large seems devoid of any information, it's all AI and linkfarming slop.

Are #MDisc worth it? If yes, what drive, disk manufacturer etc do I want? Are 100GB discs are reliable as 50 and 25 ones?
#HDD have shorter life? #LTO #tape seems less portable?

CC @internetarchive @textfiles @brewsterkahle

Retoots and replies *very* much appreciated.

Okay #kiwis . I am playing around #kiwix for the first time. What are your top libraries to download? I am starting with #wikipedia and #projectgutenberg

Any other #recommendations ?