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Please help keep climate and transportation data available (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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In light of some of the recent dystopian executive orders, a lot of data is being proactively taken down. I am relying on this data for a report I'm writing at work, and I suspect a lot of others may be relying on it for more important reasons. As such, I created two torrents, one for the data behind the ETC Explorer tool and another for the data behind the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Here's an article about taking down the latter. My team at work suspects the former will follow soon.

Here are the .torrent files. Please help seed. They're not very large at all, <300 MB.

Of course this is worthless without access to these torrents so please distribute them to any groups you think would be interested or otherwise help make them available.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Put them up on archive.org too if you haven't already

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't and don't know how to. Can you help me do that?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://help.archive.org/help/uploading-a-basic-guide/

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

It keeps timing out saying that it's spam. I emailed them

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve added them to my torrent server. I’ll let the seed continuously with no cap. I have gigabit fiber.

Thanks for taking the initiative.

[–] putitoutwithyourbootsted@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for doing this. I will try to seed when I get off of work today!

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'll upload them to my server when I get home and keep them seeding!

Edit: They're downloading now! The larger file says it'll take a while, but I'll go ahead and remove my seed limit for it and keep it going!

Edit 2: both files are now up and seeding!

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The first file is seeding and the second one is downloading at...24Kbps. You should add them to all the possible indexers (I've no idea how, sorry).

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have any trackers when I opened the .torrent in transmission? Should I add some specific ones? Why not include trackers in the torrent file itself?

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know how to add trackers to the torrent file itself. Can you make that change after everyone is seeding or do you need to recreate it? This is the first torrent I've started from scratch

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'll try to do so but on what trackers it exist currently? I am unable to download it after adding some torrents.

Most torrents comes with list of trackers so i never needed to enable global tracker list on transmission. This is the first time so i copied some trackers from some downloaded files to global list