r/DataHoarder

My previous system was a Synology 5-bay Running 5x12TB WD Reds in RAID 5. Lasted me almost 10 years. Hoping this one will last me till 2035.

I am announcing that my collection of PHC programs for 1984 is complete. I have every show from that year available for download. In addition, I have recently added the show from November 15, 1980. It is a complete show and a rare find for that early in Garrison's career. My 1983 collection is complete as well. I'm missing only a handful of 1982 shows. I'm still missing many shows from 1981 and 1980, but I'm finding more all the time. I'm currently filling in the first half of 1985. My1986 and 1987 collections are complete, but some are partial shows. This is still a work in progress. And this project is getting nearer to completion. Soon I will have all currently available PHC shows, and they all eventually will be complete shows (well, almost all of them will be complete).

Here is the link to access and download the 1980's shows I have at this time:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ye4q8i98awequ/6+PHC+1980s+In-progress+Workshop

Please pay attention to how many files you can download in one batch. There is a limit set by MediaFire. Better to download fewer at a time. Don't be impatient. They will still be here.

Here are links to other eras of a Prairie Home Companion:

American Radio Company shows, 1989-1993:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8e9wl2spc1o99/2+ARC+-+Garrison's+American+Radio+Company+1989-1993

PHC Shows from 1993-1996:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/kr26tp1lwpgqo/3+PHC+-+A+Prairie+Home+Companion

Shows in PHC Archive 1996-2016:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/yes599ma1wov8/4+PHC+Archives+1996+to+2016+Unedited

PHC shows not in Garrison's PHC Archive:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cnlca8k8qbsjh/8+PHC+Shows+not+in+Archives

You are welcome to these files.

Got curious why every rack, everywhere, is the same width, and went down a rabbit hole. Turns out the popular "railroad relay shelving" origin story doesn't hold up — the real trail leads to an AT&T repeater redesign in the early 1920s, and nobody ever wrote down why they picked 19 inches. Facebook tried to replace it with OCP's 21" Open Rack in 2011 and found a niche in some AI deployments, but otherwise things didn't change.

https://youtu.be/U2N4sYXNgOA

Happy to answer questions on the sourcing — tried to keep it to primary documents where I could find them.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been following the discussions around Concord and the current state of its servers. I’m interested in the technical side of game preservation and the possibility of local/community server emulation. Before diving deep into my own experiments, I wanted to reach out to this community to see if there is any collective progress I might have missed.

I’m looking for any information on the following:

Server-Side Research: Has anyone successfully managed to extract or map the server-side logic from the client binary files? I’m curious if anyone has identified the specific handshake protocols used by the PS5 client.

DNS/SSL Challenges: Many of us know that simple DNS redirection leads to SSL/TLS handshake failures. Has anyone tried to bypass these by injecting custom root certificates or using specialized proxy setups?

Data Dumps: Have there been any complete dumps of the game’s disc data, and has anyone attempted to decompile the network modules within those files?

Community Efforts: Are there any Discord groups, GitHub repositories, or forums where people are actively trying to build a 'Mock Server' or server emulator for Concord?

My goal is to consolidate existing knowledge and see what the community has discovered so far. I am not suggesting I have all the answers—I am here to learn from your findings and see if we can organize a more structured preservation effort.

If you’ve experimented with this, even if you failed or reached a dead end, please share your experiences. What were the specific error codes or roadblocks you encountered?

Let’s share what we know and see if the community can keep the game’s internal logic documented, even if the servers remain offline.

Thanks!

So I discovered Heritrix. After compiling a list of 10k seed domains, I started my first crawl. The queue keeps growing. Send help.

It also says it was tested with hard disk sentinel at 100% on all drives. I was thinking of doing an HBA controller for em. 28tb for $200 or less...

Angefangen hat das alles ganz harmlos mit einem Pi, einer Fritzbox und einem alten PC Dann kam ein „gebraucht ist das doch günstig” Angebot nach dem anderen und jetzt steht hier ein Schrank mit UDM Pro, UniFi 24er Switch, Supermicro Server (Haupt Proxmox), nem Fujitsu für (Test Proxmox)und noch einem JBOD mit 12x8TB weil „war halt billig“. Der Kram wurde zum Glück vor der Krise gekauft und zu echt guten Preisen. Kabelmanagement kommt noch, das Rack wurde gestern erst gekauft vorher stand alles lose auf dem Boden..
Idle sind’s ca. 600Watt. Bereue nichts. Fast.

Waves is a new, open source, native desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) for downloading music from your own TIDAL account. It's a GUI built on top of Tidal-DL-NG's engine, actively maintained now as Tidaler.

Tidal-DL-NG/Tidaler is a great application, but I was never fond of the GUI, and the developer made it clear that they personally didn't use the GUI (instead using CLI) so the interface would not be priority.

I built Waves from the ground up using Tidal-DL-NG's engine and mostly kept it the same, apart from some minor optimizations and security hardening. Waves is fundamentally still the same under the hood, but with one major difference; Waves is about giving users the best GUI experience possible, with the reliability of what already worked so well.

What Waves does day one:

• Download tracks, albums, playlists, mixes, videos, or a whole artist's discography, up to HiRes Lossless/TIDAL MAX and Dolby Atmos where available.
• Search everything from one bar, or paste a tidal.com link.
• Preview a full track before downloading it.
• Download music videos in different resolutions + watch without downloading using the in-app player.
• Plex-friendly library layout by default (Artist/[Year] Album/Disc-Track. Artist - Title), customizable.
• Duplicate-edition detection, with an option to merge the best tracklist and best quality per song.
• No telemetry, no analytics, no tracking. No unsolicited network calls except opt-in FFmpeg setup and an off-by-default update check.
• Fine tuned animations throughout the app to add to your enjoyment using it.
• Open source, AGPL-3.0.

This is my first public release, so I'd really appreciate anyone willing to test it, file issues, and give feedback. A star on the repo helps a lot, too! Please take the time to check out the readme, if you want to learn more about the application, why I made it, and who helped make Waves possible.

Repo: https://github.com/iamprivacy/Waves/

Disclaimer: Paid TIDAL plan required, downloads from your own account only. Independent project, not affiliated with TIDAL, and meant for personal educational purposes only.