●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 ●● ● Aug 18 [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/audit/?website=https%3A%2F%2Ftechrights.org&flag=eu [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/audit/?website=https://news.tuxmachines.org&flag=eu [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] "Check that heading levels follow a logical hierarchical sequence without [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] skipping levels." [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] ^ an very old problem due to HTML 3 instead of HTML4 or 5 + CSS (both 1998+) [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:26] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-AccessibilityChecker.org | Audit [05:26] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-AccessibilityChecker.org | Audit [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] not sure what a "landmark" region is though [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Ftechrights.org%2F [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] note warnings [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:42] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Ftechrights.org%2F ) ● Aug 18 [06:49] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Aug 18 [07:04] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 18 [09:59] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Aug 18 [10:03] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 18 [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] A cloud service with a St. Louis PBS TV station among its clients [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] suddenly went out of business. The station lost access to archived [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] data spanning 70 years and is scrambling to get it back through legal [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] action. [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] The name of the cloud provider is "Open Source Storage". I can't [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] tell what relation this company has with "open source". It seems that [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] "Open Source" is not a registered trademark leaving pretty much anyone [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] free to use the term as part of a brand name. (Please correctly me [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] if I am wrong here.) [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] PBS Station Lost 70 Years of Archive to Cloud Vendor Collapse [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] https://fstoppers.com/business/pbs-station-just-lost-access-70-years-its-archive-when-cloud-vendor-vanished-904044 [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] ... [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] The station is Nine PBS, and the story was reported by the public [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] media outlet Current. According to the complaint, the case was filed [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] by the operators of KETC (Channel 9) in Denver, because the cloud [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] provider, Open Source Storage, kept its servers at a Colorado [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] facility owned by Iron Mountain Data Centers. Nine PBS entered a [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] relationship with a company described as OSS's predecessor back in [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] 2019 and renewed the contract year after year, storing hardware, [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] software, and cloud-based archival material through the vendor. When [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] the station tried to schedule a renewal meeting in February, OSS went [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] silent. [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] Here is where it fell apart. The contract gave Nine PBS 30 days to [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] retrieve its data after service ended, but on March 6, the day the [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] agreement was set to expire, OSS cut off access with no warning. When [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] the station went looking for answers, it found OSS's website gone and [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] the company listed as delinquent with the Colorado Secretary of [12:30] schestowitz[TR2] State. ... 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