Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii

Re:Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii by dhosek on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:49PM (#34734601)

Nah, in the event of societal collapse, pretty much all digital information storage will likely be lost forever. Even without societal collapse, a lot of digital information storage is likely lost forever. As near as I can tell, some of the software that I released into the public domain (when open source was still very much a niche thing) in the 80s has vanished completely. I’d kind of like to find my VMS¹ and CMS² software for the TeX ecosystem, if only to revisit my younger self.

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1. I did some nice integration of TeX and friends into the VMS CLI setup so that, e.g., one could access iniTeX by doing TEX/INIT or set a number of parameters via command line prompts.

2. I completed ports of some of the fringe TeX-related apps like MFT and also wrote a DVI previewer which could display a preview of TeX output for people connected to their VM/CMS system via the Kermit terminal software which supported Tektronics graphics. A developer in Germany contributed GDDM support for IBM’s graphics terminals.

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Re:Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii by mcronce on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:19PM (#34734844)

You mean in 500 years, nobody's going to dig up the server rack in my house and figure out how to rig the Ceph cluster back up?

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Re:Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii by maximus-decimus on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:23PM (#34734874)

That server rack clearly the the Rosetta Stone of the future. It is the key to the understanding of all our current jargon.

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Re:Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii by mcronce on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:30PM (#34734917)

It does contain many, many memes, which - along with emojis - are the hieroglyphs of our time. There are certainly worse legacies I could leave.

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