datahoarder

10281 readers

1 users here now

Who are we?

We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.

-- 5-4-3-2-1-bang from this thread

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

archivist@lemmy.ml

Software Library of Alexandria - A fragile software haven likely to be wiped from the internet (soft98.ir)

submitted 1 month ago by bace@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Soft 98 is an Iranian software distribution site, that has stood up after sanction had crippled the ability of the normal people and businesses in Iran from getting access to important software from the outside world.

As the Iranian government threatens to cut off from the world this rich archive of software is vulnerable to wiped from the internet. It is one of the most widely diverse software pool that's trusted I have ever seen.

Is there anyway to pool together resources to save the software's of this site, which to me is like The Software Library of Alexandria from permanent cyberspace loss.

all 10 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

i've used this site pretty often, but simply because i saw it on piracy megathread and seemed to work well. i thought this was a simple software crack site similar to others, was there anything special about this site that is worth archiving?

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They have a captcha solve, so an automated direct scrape or download will be difficult. Can you reach out to the domain admins? I'd be happy to contribute 19TB for temp storage.

Now that I'm in I'm not seeing anything that's not available anywhere else.

What are you considering to be unique here?

[–] bace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

It wasn't really unique, but just the shear breathe and access it provided under one website that amazed me.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was greeted by an Arabic message, followed by a Captcha with Arabic instruction. Welp.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Firefox and variants do in-browser translation.

[–] jasonthedragon442@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

It's Persian habibi, this is an Iranian website...

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Are you a human? Select each square that contains a motorbike.

Okay now this one.

Okay now thi- HOW ABOUT FUCK YOUR ARCHIVE I HOPE IT FUCKING BURNS

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

I suspect the Software Heritage Foundation knows about Soft 98 already and has backed up their stuff, though I haven't personally checked.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

I was greeted by an Arabic message, followed by a Captcha with Arabic instruction. Welp.