Printed books

We should print our private chats and valuable articles on paper. This is the only thing that lasts. I can name a few examples of people really understand this.

👤 nikhotmsk

2023-12-25 · 5 months ago · 👍 Yretek

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🚀 anti_social · Dec 25 at 08:49:

> We should print our private chats

This is why I never have "private" chats.

🏕️ Yretek · Dec 25 at 10:43:

— https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/offline-reading/

🏕️ Yretek · Dec 25 at 10:45:

I'd suggest to do a PDF compilation first, then print it and consider publishing it on Lulu

🏕️ Yretek · Dec 25 at 10:46:

@anti_social printing doesn't need to mean publishing

☕️ Morgan · Dec 25 at 17:53:

Printing is the easy part, then what?

Libraries are places where printed material can last a long time, but I doubt they'd take my private data :)

Preserving data is fundamentally about either permanence ... carve it in stone, hope nobody brings a bigger chisel ... or redundancy + active care, re-establishing redundancy whenever it's needed.

By far the easiest and cheapest way to get a significant amount of redundant storage today is online, there are plenty of companies who will host and manage backups for you for free. You'd have to do a lot of printing and mail to a lot of people to have the data security equivalent of even a hotmail account :)

🐙 norayr · Dec 26 at 02:06:

git was mentioned recently by solderpunk as a content preservation syntem, in particularly. even if someone's capsule disappeared we, other people who got the repo, can share it with each other.

git also contains signed commits so it is possible to verify who did the change.

🐙 norayr · Dec 26 at 02:11:

also en printing: i have no space for my books, i live in a small apartment. i was only able ho buy the small one. now my books are in the cellar in the boxes. i have no place for them.

plus, books are former trees. we can do better than cutting trees for books.

our bigger problem is hhat publishers sell drm protected ebooks that can be only opened on their devices with their proprietary software.

but now we have smashwords! that is a drm free ebook store. and they have an app on fdroid store.