Technology

59587 readers

2940 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

60 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A quick search indicates that they’ve archived ~100PB of data.

Now I’m trying to come up with a way to archive the internet archive in a peer-to-peer/federated fashion while maintaining fidelity as much as possible…

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Torrent?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It’d be a lot more complicated than that, I think, if one wanted to effectively be able to address it like a file system, as well as holistically verify the integrity of the data and preventing unintentional and unwanted tampering

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

as well as holistically verify the integrity of the data and preventing unintentional and unwanted tampering

Torrents. Their hashes are derived from hashes of chunks. Just verify chunks.

if one wanted to effectively be able to address it like a file system

https://github.com/johang/btfs

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Sick. TIL!

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Block chain