Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos
by jasonjayr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:41AM
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I went down an IA hole a month or so ago, and discovered someone uploading random Jaz + Zip drives images, that appeared to be backups from random businesses and people in the late 1990s There were diary entries, letters to a lawyer about divorce, business accounting data, invoices, and period-era porn, that if i were to guess, was organized to be offered on BBSes. tl;dr: encrypt that data at rest, you never know where it will end up.
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Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos
by keeganpoppen on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:07PM
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honestly, for stuff that old i kinda like the idea of seeding it anyway... i know that is a naïve PoV in the modern era, but i kinda miss the days of the internet being innocent enough that you got a real slice of someone's life sometimes.
Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos
by EvanAnderson on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:22PM
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I have mixed feelings about that stuff (which I've seen there too). There's historic value in it and I think it should be preserved. It also feels a bit icky and wrong for it to be publicly available so soon after its creation.