Can they please “fuel a push” for indictments instead?

(I just picked June 4 1989 randomly, ofc.) 🤣

Jack Black

(Original by Almirante Bodoke)

I started typing out “The Backholes” to make a funhole + backrooms portmanteau, but it looks pretty bad in text.

Considering how much damage Google et al do, I legitimately wonder whether China could even do worse, and I’m not even a tankie.

Oh, we’re a bit ahead of schedule – we’re only in the Year of Our Ford 120

Philosophers reinventing basic manners is just like when tech bros reinvent trains and busses.

My vote: Moxie Marlinspike

Who’s to say they didn’t though? With the possible exception of not checking the IT company’s financial health (and maybe they did but decided it wasn’t a risk), the process worked as intended. They outsourced their storage and backups. The data is still stored and backed up. They were able to follow a remediation protocol (ie speaking to the judge) to regain access.

This would be highly efficient.

Having worked with huge, slow organizations before, they probably had a mandate in place to outsource this kind of thing, and nobody in-house to evaluate the solution, so they picked an “expert” company who then went out of business.

If you’re being fediverse-specific you could set up your own instance, federate with everything, and have it save only the content you’ve interacted with. It’s a pretty narrow archive so it wouldn’t be too resource intensive. And if you’re techy it wouldn’t be too hard* to write a native activitypub client that did only this if you were active on eg lemmy and mastodon and pixelfed

• for certain definitions of “too hard”

The data is all still there. They were using a subcontractor (who went under) that stored the data at Iron Mountain. Since the subcontractor was the customer and not PBS, PBS needs a judge to declare that they own the data so they can retrieve it from Iron Mountain.

Still, 3,2,1, folks.

The data is all there, the vendor they were using to manage the storage just went OOB, and they’re not yet being allowed to retrieve it from the vendor’s storage vendor, Iron Mountain:

The lawsuit filed in Denver District Court alleges that the station’s cloud-storage vendor, Open Source Storage, abruptly cut off access to Nine PBS’ data earlier this year without warning. It states OSS, which had a separate relationship with Iron Mountain to provide data storage, went “defunct,” leaving Nine PBS’ archives in a data center operated by Iron Mountain.

I will be using “tendentious hellscape” in all of my meeting notes going forward. Thank you.

Sure, but I have to imagine it was written with currently-alive kids in mind, not the not-yet-conceived. Now get off my lawn.

E.T. came out in 1982. The oldest millennials would have been 2 years old. It’s a Gen-X movie. The rest of the text holds up tho.

Not true. I just shouted “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME” and now people are looking in my direction and whispering.

It acts as a shock absorber for its brain.

The ponies I’ve met have all been right bastards, so this tracks.