"Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"

Re:"Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Ar... by wrigglingworm on Friday January 26, 2024 @01:40PM (#39146246)

I think you missed the point. They put it on tape and claim it will last 1000 years. Will the knowledge, ability, and devices capable of reading tape last 1000 years?

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Re:"Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Ar... by feoren on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:37PM (#39147080)

> I think you missed the point. They put it on tape and claim it will last 1000 years.

I didn't miss that point, because they never made that claim. At least in the linked video. If they had, it'd be bullshit.

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Re:"Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Ar... by wrigglingworm on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:27PM (#39147794)

https://github.blog/2022-09-20-if-you-dont-make-it-beautiful...

"This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years."

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Re:"Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Ar... by feoren on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:48PM (#39148086)

Well that goes against multiple different sources claiming that such long-term digital storage doesn't exist. Plenty of threads on data hoarding talk about the problem of keeping data fresh even a few decades. It's pretty hard to believe any film could last 1000 years, but I'm no expert and I'd love to be wrong on this one. Thanks for the link.

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