For wayback machine, are those compressed, deduplicated numbers?
A semi-popular domain can have millions of results on their CDX api, but with https/https duplicated and about 90% of results are error pages or pages with deliberate garbage / LFI attempts in them.
Creating a reddit account took 25 seconds and they even generated a username for me. No email verification necessary, sorry to a@example.com if you're getting emails about reddit user "Agile_Rectangle729"
Why not just use tar or any other archive tool on the repository .git folder? Unless your repository is a un-gc'd mess with millions of unpacked objects...
It's the actual flash creation software, not flash players or flash games for anyone curious. They seem to just work on Windows 10 without needing to look up workarounds, but they crash often in my experience.
A lot of companies deem the knowledge obsolete. There's no real reason to read 35 year old, 500-page hardware documentation books, or ancient assembly code from 25 year old tapes and floppies... if they even still exist! Much cheaper and easier to re-create the game.
Plenty of jailbreak developers have been poached by Apple. Whether they're still at their A-game still is questionable, I follow one on Twitter and there's regular tweets about depression, suicide, debt and other gloomy topics.
Question from someone who has zero knowledge about managing infrastructure: is all of that absolutely necessary? Only one is marked "we can afford to lose", but $228/mo for a monitoring server seems extremely excessive. Even $44 for "private communcations" (I'm assuming something like RocketChat) surely have cheaper alternatives?
That's basically the support Google provides for consumer service subscribers. "24/7 support" isn't really useful when all they can do is refer you to their help portal and come up with titles when you ask to talk to a supervisor, manager, etc, in addition to swapping around the communication medium, so from live chat with 2 minute response times to emailing with two day response times, and eventually flat out ghosting (no "your ticket has been resolved") because the support "manager" understands that the conversation is going nowhere.
Everything is psychological warfare designed to make people consume as much as possible, beyond advertising. Even something simlpe such as a sale (FOMO), or pricing (99 cents).
A lot of it seems like typical internet forum common sense, no spam, no extreme content (gore/porn), that sort of stuff. But the rest just reads off as "don't post stuff we don't like such as pepe frogs, alt right symbols, star wars spoilers, flat earthers, holocaust deniers" without directly naming it.
Oh, I scrolled down and they do specifically mention nazi germany and covid19.
I believe most popular libraries and middleware (like Havok) aren't freely available/leaked, OR at the very least it's some ancient version with massive API differences compared to newer versions. Around the time of the Pokemon leaks in 2020 I was watching people live on Discord struggling getting Pokemon Diamond to compile, because apparently the DS Wi-Fi component of the official SDK was never actually leaked online (at the time)
It's unfortunate that when a company DOES chose to release old software, the entire revision history is thrown out due to processes like that. In the software world, this probably doesn't matter too much, but video games can go through massive changes during development. But it also depends on factors like if game assets were even stored in version control in the first place.
I think a modded PS4 fits the shoe quite well, if you ignore the need to run a web browser exploit each time you want to boot Linux (like a "semi-untethered jailbreak" for the iOS nerds)
They've already gotten rid of the .compact frontend and actively removed workarounds/aliases that users discovered when it was first removed. Old reddit is definitely next up on the chopping block.
Tape absolutely isn't viable for the consumer at all, but definitely worth exploring for the novelty. Even if you manage to get a pretty good deal on a legacy LTO system (other formats don't even come close to the tb/$ of 10+ year old LTO and drives are still fairly cheap), the drives aren't being made any more and aren't getting any cheaper. Backwards compatibilty may be in your favor depending on your choice of tape generation at least, I think there's at least two generations guaranteed. Optical will probably remain king though the pricing is worse than HDDs, there's no shortage of DVD or BD readers, but you might run into issues with quad layer 128 BD as they only hit the market fairly recently.
The giant stories Brian Krebs wrote about these guys is fascinating, there's many more characters tangentially involved (like the Datawagon guy) that aren't covered in this.
The OP explicity didn't name them (despite many people recommending to, even preservationists in this field on Reddit and Discord) but it's easy to find just by googling the text on the screenshots
It's not just limited to tape, most archiving and backup software is proprietary.
It's impossible to open Acronis or Macrium Reflect images without their Windows software. In Acronis's case they even make it impossible to use offline or on a server OS without paying for a license.
NTBackup is awfully slow and doesn't work past Vista, and it's not even part of XP POSReady for whatever reason, so I had to rip the exe from a XP ISO and unpack it (NTBACKUP._EX... I forgot microsoft's term for that) because the Vista version available on Microsoft's site specifically checks for longhorn or vista.
Then there's slightly more obscure formats that didn't take off in the western world, and the physical mediums too. Not many people had the pleasure of having to extract hundreds of "GCA" files off of MO disks using obscure Japanese freeware from 2002. The English version of the software even has a bunch of flags on virustotal that the standard one doesn't. And there's obscure LZH compression algorithms that no tool available now can handle.
I've found myself setting up one-time Windows 2000/XP VMs just to access backups made after 2000.