AI has claimed another victim.
  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    16·
    25 days ago

    They were the best for grabbing any classic games. Fuck this AI craze and what is doing to hardware/hosting costs.

  • Skyline969@piefed.caEnglish
    15·
    25 days ago

    Guess it’s time to archive Myrient. A group of people could take care of it - split it into categories, download, and then sit on it until a new host can be found.

    Entire categories are easy to download with a simple curl call.

  • IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    25 days ago

    Sad and infuriating.
    I wonder if there is something like sharing your pc processing hardware for protein folding and other medical research, but for something like this. Sharing part of your hard drive space, which could serve as a store for archiving something like this. I guess you’d need a bunch of duplication and how to account for people turning off their computers. Idk, just a thought, probably wouldn’t work.

    • a1studmuffin@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      25 days ago

      You’re kind of describing BitTorrent! And it works brilliantly. But it’s still challenging with such huge data archives to get many seeders… who has 390TB spare.

      But I think I get what you’re saying, where it’d be nice if you could just say to the internet at large “here’s 5TB of storage to play with on a reasonable internet connection” and the entire universe of torrents would magically figure out what blocks of data to put on your drive to ensure enough duplication for all torrents, regardless of their size.