@sxa in recent years, in Apple's cloud. There's a ~5 year period where I tried to sync to Google, and they're still there; older, I have ~138G sitting on my NAS. So a tremendous amount of de-duplicating is necessary.
one way that might work is: plan NOT to preserve the stream. Treat photos as ephemeral by default, so that they will disappear. And then treat photos to keep by exception.
Revisited one of my perrenially backburnered personal projects: revamp organising digital photos. Totally overwhelmed, no idea where to start.
After about a year of working on it, my #NerdStitch cross-stitch tribute to the 1985 Amiga Deluxe Paint King Tut is done! Created from the original image, I did have to scale it down a little. The stitched version is 180x200, about 34,000 stitches.
“The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together”
I'm going to be able to partially repair this by scripting the download of the matching *files.xml metadata files and then extracting the SHA1 sums. Most of the derived files will be out-of-date, but most of the originals are probably unchanged.
I attempted to download all items in an archive.org collection via torrents (>255 items, >255 torrents). Theory being: potential to get some data from peers, lighten the load on IA; built-in checksumming and repair. I've come to the conclusion that sadly this doesn't work very well. My torrent daemon struggles with so many; lots are permanently at 99%; IA torrents don't include any metadata identifying original vs derived files
i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with blahblah@deleteduser.com or similar.
The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.
And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' :-D
Is OneDrive serious software used by actual people? I’ve been sent a share link to some files which aren’t numerous or especially large and it’s sending me ZIPs at about 10kiB/s which end up containing only half the files and an apologetic __all_errors.txt listing the missing ones. 🤡🤡🤡