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| schestowitz[TR2] | > *The Ravenports Universal Package System:* | Aug 17 15:33 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://www.ravenports.com/ <https://www.ravenports.com/> | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Ravenports is a cross-platform “ports” system. Let that sink in for a | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > moment… ...Ravenports has been designed to support any POSIX-compliant | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > operating system outside of Microsoft Windows - this can be a /very/ | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > powerful liberating tool for Free Software. No Free Software “Vendor | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Lock-in". ! | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Never heard of it till today: | Aug 17 15:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/17/The_Ravenports_Universal_Package_System.shtml | Aug 17 15:34 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz[TR2]> > | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz[TR2]> > | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> Not to e-mail but accessing the web site, and probably Gemini and IRC, is blocked from Tor. That means that visits to TR (and TM) would be visible. | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> it impacts schestowitz.com only afaik. That netblock. | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > When I checked the other day, it was TR and TM too. | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > However, access to HTTPS / HTTP works find now via Tor, so they did fix something. | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Nice. See | Aug 17 15:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <techrights-news> Update on the Tor Situation https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/17/update-on-the-tor-situation/ ping admfubar lxo | Aug 17 15:35 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Re: TV station's "cloud" provider fails | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Note the name of the cloud provider: "Open Source Storage". | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > PBS Station Lost 70 Years of Archive to Cloud Vendor Collapse | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://fstoppers.com/business/pbs-station-just-lost-access-70-years-its-archive-when-cloud-vendor-vanished-904044 | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > A St. Louis public television station has lost access to more than 50 | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > terabytes of its own archive after the cloud vendor holding the files | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > apparently went out of business. The material spans about 70 years of | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > programming, and it is now sitting inside a Denver data center that | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > so far has refused to hand it back. | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > The station is Nine PBS, and the story was reported by the public | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > media outlet Current. According to the complaint, the case was filed | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > by the operators of KETC (Channel 9) in Denver, because the cloud | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > provider, Open Source Storage, kept its servers at a Colorado | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > facility owned by Iron Mountain Data Centers. Nine PBS entered a | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > relationship with a company described as OSS's predecessor back in | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > 2019 and renewed the contract year after year, storing hardware, | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > software, and cloud-based archival material through the vendor. When | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > the station tried to schedule a renewal meeting in February, OSS went | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > silent. | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Here is where it fell apart. The contract gave Nine PBS 30 days to | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > retrieve its data after service ended, but on March 6, the day the | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > agreement was set to expire, OSS cut off access with no warning. When | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > the station went looking for answers, it found OSS's website gone and | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > the company listed as delinquent with the Colorado Secretary of | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > State. ... | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > - public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > materials, to ensure preservation - Tom's Hardware | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-after-contracted-cloud-storage-vendor-goes-defunct-public-tv-channel-sues-iron-mountain-data-center-which-hosts-archival-materials-to-ensure-preservation | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I know this provider. :) | Aug 17 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Live and learn... | Aug 17 15:38 |
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