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Is stuff online worth saving?

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158 points Brajeshwar | 2 comments | 17 Dec 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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paulpauper ◴[21 Dec 24 15:38 UTC] No.42480243[source]▶
Digital storage is free; yes, save it all
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lxgr ◴[21 Dec 24 16:31 UTC] No.42480545[source]▶
Please do share where I can reliably store my backups for free!
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fragmede ◴[21 Dec 24 16:33 UTC] No.42480556[source]▶
> Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

— Linus Torvalds

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paulpauper ◴[21 Dec 24 17:50 UTC] No.42481055[source]▶
dump it on Wikipedia. afik wiki never removes anything. it just gets buried in an edit history . or Wikimedia image files
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lxgr ◴[21 Dec 24 21:57 UTC] No.42482656[source]▶
That obviously can't be true, or spammers would be all over it, using Wikimedia as a free image host.
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dredmorbius ◴[22 Dec 24 09:46 UTC] No.42485375[source]▶
There was a story making rounds a few years back that Wikipedia was being used as a file / media sharing platform, particularly in countries with limited other options for such services.

I can't find a link currently, though I'm pretty sure I'm not hallucinating this.

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1. lxgr ◴[22 Dec 24 13:18 UTC] No.42486111[source]▶
Are you thinking of this by any chance? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

That wasn’t really somebody using Wikipedia as a file storage, but rather as a web connectivity test.

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2. dredmorbius ◴[22 Dec 24 13:24 UTC] No.42486141[source]▶
Nope, though that's interesting and somewhat expected.

I remember when web-connectivity test was spelled "Slashdot".