Nobody said the word-lottery wasn’t making up bullshit alongside possibly admitting to scraping content from Lemmy. OP probably had to load the question with a lot of data to squeeze out this answer.

Hello stranger. I would just like to thank you for using the phrase “let alone” correctly. As far as I can remember, this is my first such sighting on Lemmy. Thank you.

I’m a sucker for AWPer Hand and I refuse to consider any other rifles. (Bows are not rifles.)

pig goes in the pig aisle

You’re going to be really happy when you find out it’s a whole gif!

Aren’t you basically just describing FOSS and framing it as a complaint? Valve for example has a vested interest in improving their software stack, and they do just that by donating both money and engineers to various projects. If these open source projects did not exist, they would have to spend the same or even more money on a proprietary licensed alternative, or to develop their own solution.

Here’s a handy flowchart for checking if a website has had CSAM uploaded to it:

Has the site ever allowed file uploads by users?

-> No: Users have not uploaded any CSAM.

-> Yes: The site has had CSAM uploaded to it.

with a slight change in position (bottom) the penis is protected

Isn’t that the truth…

True, that.

gerutta here with dem big city talk!

sanger.dk

Celebrities are just strangers you’ve heard about. Given enough time, they will all do something you would consider wrong. You might easily forgive and forget someone close to you doing that, but if all you know about someone is that they kick balls for a living and did the idiot dance, that’s going to stick out.

The question about “regular people” seems more interesting.

There is a specialized player for that. Just run this command:

cat podcast.ogg >> /dev/null

Gets rid of all the uninteresting parts of any podcast!

I’m not 100% following, but if this is content that’s gone from being publicly viewable, uploading it to archive.org seems appropriate (but don’t take my word for it). Though if you do upload, it sounds like just the “part files” or just the “full files” would be enough. You could then also seed the torrent there.

The imgur links you might try uploading to ArchiveTeam’s imgur-grab project. Looking at the tracker, the archival seems currently half dead, but I’m sure they’ll get around to saving what’s left. (Unless it’s dead because imgur made it nigh impossible, which I can definitely imagine)

Once, anyway.

np. Right now you could set it to ask.fm (shuts down dec 1.). Zero IP blocking or rate limiting. Puts your machine to good use.

Not all projects listed in the warrior are actually active. Check out https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ for all the current projects and see if the one you want to archive is actually active (has people receiving and sending in items)

There are always several projects to choose from.

The URLs project plays it fast and loose and archives an assortment of random URLs. This one has an IP block warning.

Some have NSFW warnings.

Other projects aim to archive a single site as accurately as possible (possibly with a deadline when the site is shutting down), so they can’t afford to have their warriors blocked or rate limited. If you are, that would be because of an issue. You can choose to archive sites you don’t want to visit to avoid issues.

I was going to mention ArchiveTeam’s warrior because I thought it wouldn’t be listed, since computing isn’t really the important thing you’re donating, more your virgin IP address and internet connection… but it’s third on the list!

If you store it in compressed chunks (or on a file system that supports compression, I guess), that should be a great deal smaller, being text only.

They supposedly never delete good stuff, just make it unavailable, as you said. Maybe we’ll get them in a hundred or so years!

ArchiveTeam’s uploads also don’t have torrent files (anymore). Their wiki says that they disabled it to lighten the load on IA’s servers, as creating a .torrent file for a 10+GB upload takes considerable time, especially if it has to be redone.

I use tineye. Much better than google’s IME. It’s supposed to be privacy respecting, but I haven’t looked into it too hard.