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   kcarruthers (kcarruthers@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 21:41:44 JST kcarruthers

   It might be a good idea for folks in the US to start keeping paper based journals and diaries for future historians about now.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 11:17:57 JST Rich Felker

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     @kcarruthers Digital is way harder to destroy all copies of.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 21:41:58 JST Rich Felker

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     @kcarruthers Yeah but thats survivorship bias. What % of them survived and were accessible to historians?

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     kcarruthers (kcarruthers@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 21:41:59 JST kcarruthers

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     @dalias personal hard copy diaries have given us really unique insights into WW2

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:06:12 JST Rich Felker

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     • LisPi

     @lispi314 @kcarruthers I mean just making a few copies on flash drives or micro SD cards kept in redundant places works for much better survivability than paper (in context of nazis running around burning shit).

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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:06:13 JST LisPi

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     • LisPi
     @kcarruthers @dalias The important part in this case though would be to ensure some escrow or secondary copy, because the diaries or logs just dying on some encrypted storage wouldn't amount to much.
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:06:14 JST LisPi

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     • Rich Felker
     @dalias @kcarruthers It's also an artifact of the times.
     
     Paper diaries were the technology people used for personal notes and had available to them.
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     kcarruthers (kcarruthers@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:24:42 JST kcarruthers

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias probably more than stored in the cloud now

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:24:42 JST Rich Felker

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     @kcarruthers Yes, cloud is absolutely the worst storage for survivability.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:25:33 JST Rich Felker

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     @kcarruthers But the retro tech we should be encouraging folks to use for records to survive is PCs/local removable storage, not paper.