His odysee is deleted. I’m glad secondwatch archived everything but there’s still a lot missing. maybe the index should be a little more resilient to data loss or there should be a torrent based backup because there’s several designs I cant find anymore, not just from him.
For what it’s worth, we still have our internal records of all of his items, they’re just marked Abandoned (the technical name for his deletion) and hidden from search results. So if need be, I can pull reports and even filter them based on what has yet to be mirrored. I’m considering reworking the presentation of abandoned claims so it’s easier to find stuff like this.
All of his designs are currently still seeded by GunCAD Mirror (lbrynet) instances because they address by file contents, not by who uploaded it. Though that doesn’t solve the first problem of having someone recognize that something’s missing and commit to posting a claim.
I’m working on making us more resilient, but it’s going to take some time.
Been doing two or three pulls of this a week just to keep things updated. Got a dedicated 2TB drive for it.
Just kinda wish it also had other LBRY and Odyssey guncad files, it’s not as all-inclusive as I thought.
And it looks like some of the downloaded .rar files get corrupted. Haven’t checked all of them, but the Urutau 1.1 file is borked and I can’t find a new one anywhere lol.
What caused it?
It was a personal decision of his own to remove his content and his ftn.fun website
Tinfoil Hat Translation: ATF got to him, are pissed, and he made a deal to shut up and shut down to avoid hard time.
I don’t trust coincidences for shit anymore.
More likely that he watched Fudd Busters et al get sued by grabber states and doesn’t want to be saddled with legal bills defending himself from states he’s never set foot in.
I just thought the same thing- what if the sea randomly turns off downloads forever. Did we just lose years of work?
In theory, no. There is an archive program floating around somewhere here that downloads every 3d2a project.
In practice… Probably, the sea is the central repository, most people wouldn’t know where to go to get files if the sea should boil away, and we’d all need to establish hosting ourselves. It would be a terrible blow.
This is why we download anything and everything of personal interest. Rehost and distribute when the time comes.
This is the way. As soon as I figure out how to seed shit, the entire guncad index downloader repo that I pull weekly is gonna go up on the seven seas.
Yeah I download everything I see that remotely interest me and store it on cheap hard drives
