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Github's site for this has much more detail on the technical aspects of this: https://archiveprogram.github.com/ https://archiveprogram.github.com/. Their data
by timsally 6y ago
Github's site for this has much more detail on the technical aspects of this: https://archiveprogram.github.com/ https://archiveprogram.github.com/. Their data archival goals are even more ambitious than burying it in the Arctic. The GitHub Archive Program is partnering with Microsoft’s Project Silica to ultimately archive all active public repositories for over 10,000 years, by writing them into quartz glass platters using a femtosecond laser.
Worth considering swapping the submitted link out for the original source, per the HN guidelines. I would suggest the original blog post: https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/ https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-jo....
- seesawtron 6y agohow does one swap the link in HN? one can only edit the title text.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoAdmins (dang, for example) will occasionally notice a request like this and make the change.
- seesawtron 6y agogreat. thanks for sharing.
- timsally 6y agoThe moderators will do it when they see the post. I haven't submitted a link in a really long time, but I don't think the submitter can change it. Makes sense to reserve it for the mods, given the implications of a regular user swapping out the link of a highly visible post.
- detaro 6y agoone e-mails the moderators (contact link in the footer) and asks them to do it.
- detaro 6y agoThat blog post you suggest already had a HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860659 , making this submission a duplicate.
- dang 6y agoRelated also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527667 from last November.
- dang 6y agoOK, we've changed to that from https://gizmeek.com/github-the-world-s-largest-open-source-software-site-buries-21-tb-open-source-code-in-arctic-vault-for-1-000-years https://gizmeek.com/github-the-world-s-largest-open-source-s....
- modinfo 6y agoWithout an archived stack overflow, nobody's gonna get over it anyway.
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