I discovered today that my external HDD was preformatted with exFAT instead of NTFS for compatibility to Apple products (which I don't own anyway). Cluster size 256 KB, meaning every file (except blank) reserves a multiple of 256 KB of disk space.

I want to find folders with many small files under 1 KB that cause slack space, and pack them into a TAR archive.

are not recursive, i.e. only count files in that folder but not its subfolders.

Reason: Personal preference. I once had an S7, which used a double-home-button start shortcut (physical home button). I would like to have it at a similar location.

was uploaded to the Internet Archive on September 5th 2017, and received three million views before it was removed in late 2019.

As seen in the Archive.Today capture of the item page, there were two comments ("reviews"), one of which was spam, and another one asking the same question, neither of which was from me. I randomly discovered the URL in a browsing history database snapshot from about two years ago, saw it was removed, and consulted Archive.Today, which made me curious how it got so many views.

What was so special about it to that brought it to three million views?

Im August 2016 veröffentlichte Simplicissimus (damals mit etwa 30.000 Abonnenten und heute etwa 924 Tsd.) das Video „YouTube Deutschland Zerstörung (Schlechter Content ist eine Entscheidung)“. Es war ein gut produziertes Kritikvideo über einige große deutsche YouTuber wie ApoRed, Mert Matan, Katja K., und BibisBeautyPalace.

Es war mindestens bis 2020 online und wurde in der Zeit über 400.000 mal aufgerufen mehr als 30.000-fach positiv bewertet. Dann wurde es entfernt.

Ich habe nicht damit gerechnet, dass ein hochwertiges und gut angekommenes Video nach vier Jahren einfach entfernt wird, sonst hätte ich es wohl gesichert. Und sogar die Hintergrundsmusik aus dem Video, „Pacman ft. Rhyzup – Listen Up”, wurde von SoundCloud entfernt.

Hat es jemand von euch zufälligerweise gespeichert?

The staff of Wikipedia's host organization, the Wikimedia foundation, has declared (i.e. from all Wikimedia foundation sites in all languages) since 2015, i.e. it is rare. The number of users banned by Wikimedia staff is around the same as the number of U.S. presidents. He will likely be one of the next.

, for those interested. But the purpose of this post is just to mark my words.

Hopefully this is the right place to ask this. (The whole purpose of data hoarding is historical preservation, so I guess it is.) Just found . I was originally going to post this in , but this subreddit appears more suitable.

Is there any data hoarder from Germany who by chance happens to have backed up early videos of the channel "Simplicissimus"? (ID: UCKGMHVipEvuZudhHD05FOYA)

Looking at a , they have taken down some videos, such as ("YouTube Deutschland Zerstörung (Schlechter Content ist eine Entscheidung)"), a 10-minute essay video from August 2016 criticizing the "big players" in YouTube Germany at that time. It was available until at least 2020, gaining over 400K views and more than 30.000 likes.

Looking at a (), it was received much positively, so I am not sure why they took it down.

I liked that video and . (Note: I am not TheWheatisHeat96, but I fully agree with his video.)

It certainly is not the only video they have removed, but the most memorable.

Hopefully, by chance, someone out there happens to have downloaded it.

For validation:

Rules

1- All data Shared and Requested in this subreddit should fit into ONE of those category: Open source, Public domain, Publicly available content, Abandonware-like content, Preservation projects, Compilation of content to protect it, Lost content.

"Lost content" applies.

Whenever I visit Wikipedia, it is just there, like a public park. Even on a public computer, I can just open and start browsing immediately, instead of being greeted with:

We really really heart your privacy!!!111! So we shove this pop-up into your face!

Sure, transparency about advertising and handling of user data is good. But the benefit of Wikipedia is that it does well without it, as it is not ad-funded.

On nearly every other site, there is some kind of interruption pop-up. But not on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects).

• Edit 2021-04-14 08:17:11 UTC: Adding “about advertising and handling of user data” for clarification.

I hope that planned obsolescence will one day be regarded like tobacco today, and product packages must contain a clear warning like:

THIS PRODUCT IS DESIGNED TO FAIL AFTER 18 MONTHS

And for printers, the number of pages until failure.

THIS PRINTER IS DESIGNED TO FAIL AFTER 5000 PAGES

Also with pictures of electronics scraps and failed repairs due to glue (electronics gore), and iFixit repairability scores.

If big tobacco is held accountable, why not electronics vendors?

There was a picture on Wikimedia Commons some months ago. I revisited it, and saw it was gone (deleted); no backup on Wayback Machine. It was deleted because apparently the uploader (now inactive) failed to provide in the file description that they created that work.

On MediaWiki, the software used by Wikimedia Commons, "deleted" content still exists in the database, but only administrators (sysop's) retain access to it, while locked away from public.

I have no Wikimedia Commons account yet. If the first thing I ask after creating a Commons account is for a Commons administrator to provide me a copy of deleted work for personal use, that would not come over as kindly, but rather shady, and very likely to be rejected.

Looking at , images are apparently only to be undeleted if for fair use on a local Wikimedia project, such as English Wikipedia, nothing outside Wikimedia. I presume they would be very reluctant to provide copies for personal use, or for any use outside of Wikimedia projects, even though I presume they regularly access deleted content for personal use and out of curiosity, which I can't blame them for. Curiosity is human nature, after all. Man, it must feel exciting to browse that vault.

But is there any entity that backs up deletion-nominated Commons images regularly?

For Wikipedia, there are Deletionpedia and EverybodyWiki which back up deletion-nominated articles and drafts (due to 6-month G13 inactivity deletion), though the EverybodyWiki sadly has no functional Special:Export page. Also, some content could be rescued from . Obviously, text is more compressible than images (binary data), but is there any archive of deleted content for Commons?