The Internet Archive would not require the Internet to continue to store digital data, nor to ingest additional digital data. As long as the bills get paid and people watch the machine, the data would remain on disk and accessible.
The Library of Congress has existed for ~225 years, for example.
One requires more electricity than the other, and custodians of somewhat different skills. A sysadmin is a librarian and custodian with technology skills. If you can vault and custodian physical archives at scale, you can do the same for digital data (imho, based on experience with both). You’re simply building resilient systems on durable primitives.
I’m hopeful for a future where you can potentially carry all recorded knowledge on a device and media you can fit in something somewhat human portable [1]. But until then, humans interested will maintain and continually improve archival and information retrieval systems to preserve and make accessible knowledge.
If I recall correctly they got scooped up by Google and their team was merged into various Google teams. I was disappointed to hear of their fizzling as well. They were just starting to dive into serious movie production light field cameras when it happened. They had an incredible tech demo on their website showcasing its power. I can't seem to locate the original but there are bits of it in the linked video.
I'm making a cat themed puzzle game for my wife using NiceGUI, MindAR and some cat shaped sticky notes. Each note has a name and a secret code. I've hidden 20 of these around the house. I set up a single page app in NiceGUI to display a grid of the lost cats. When you click one it'll display their name, a clue to its hiding spot and an optional hint. 5 of the puzzles use MindAR that will display AR image cards over different art pieces and book covers in our house. I have the NiceGUI page and MindAR set up on one of my Proxmox LXCs that I use for various Flask servers.
I love hummingbirds! In undergrad I spent a summer working on a research project that was trying to determine if hummingbirds have persistent gut microflora. The bird's metabolism is so fast that it's unclear whether any microbes have enough time to colonize. Every weekend I'd tag along with a group of veterinary post docs who were doing their own hummingbird study. They caught and safely handled the birds and I waited patiently nearby to collect their droppings basically straight from the cloaca. Once, when the vets were done getting their measurements, they put a bird in my hand to release. My hand could barely register that I was holding anything it was so light.
I love hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are awesome. My name is Amy and I can't stop thinking about hummingbirds. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Facts:
1. Hummingbirds are mammals.
2. Hummingbirds humm ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the hummingbird is to flip out and eat flowers.
Hummingbirds are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Hummingbirds are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love hummingbirds with all of my body (including my humm humm).
From the Development section
> The upstream development repository is found on Codeberg. We maintain a GitHub mirror for accessibility and CI purposes, but pull requests are ignored.
If this proves to be effective (not just safe and well tolerated which is the scope of this study) it'd be interesting to see how this would be adopted by extreme athletes. Free divers who can go deeper, cyclists who can ride harder, sprinters who can run longer at full speed because they're retaining an oxygen-rich slurry in their bowels.
Makes me wonder if free divers could possibly already cheat by swallowing air, perhaps even pure O2, before dives, to slightly increase maximum time submerged through gut gas exchange. Althought this probably would mess with buyoancy a bit.
RAM Disks. Basically extremely fast storage using RAM sticks slotted into a specially made board that fit in a PCIe slot. Not sure what happened to the project exactly but the website disappeared sometime in 2023.
The idea that you could read and write data at RAM speeds was really exciting to me. At work it's very common to see microscope image sets anywhere from 20 to 200 GB and file transfer rates can be a big bottleneck.
Products to attach RAM to expansion slots have long existed and continue to be developed. It's a matter of adding more memory once all of the DIMMs are full.
What to do with it, once it's there, is a concern of software, but specialized hardware is needed to get it there.
https://prettymapp.streamlit.app/
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