Great! A bunch of us here wanted it. Now it exists. 👍

It's a "dark archive" of the arXiv - a non-public backup to save the data in case of attack by hackers or the US government. The arXiv, I hope you know, is the biggest source of modern math and physics papers.

Who got the job done? The TIB: the Technische Informationsbibliothek, run by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, in Hannover, Germany.

They write:

"The TIB has now set up a so-called dark archive for the arXiv content in order to be able to make the backed-up data accessible if the data stored in the USA is lost. The archive functions as a silent reserve: the complete copy of the content is stored decentrally at the TIB, but is not publicly accessible. This means that the data stock – almost 10 terabytes – is protected against potential outages and can be activated in an emergency.

The TIB is currently working on processes to keep the archive up to date: new submissions and updated versions must be backed up regularly in order to preserve the state of research as completely as possible.

“Building a Dark Archive is an expression of our longstanding commitment for a reliable, international academic provision, and as a partner of arXiv. Even though the Dark Archive today only works in the background, it is a key element in safeguarding digital research contents in the long term, because in case of a crisis, we could open the archive,” explains Dr Irina Sens, Deputy Director of the TIB."

We should call it the darXiv.

More details here:

https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/

@redsad I feel pretty covered with y’all, youse people, darlings, and of course, hello fellow kids!

@Jgbird Two things, wait three: 1) Hiya! 2) Great shot! 3) I can grow Mexican sage! I didn't know hummingbirds like it. I'm gonna go call my garden shop and reserve some to plant this weekend.

@w7voa It'll be fine. Dear Leader has a sharpie and a nuke. What could go wrong if a hurricane heads to CorruptoLago?

@adwright Right? Like, I don't know what happened to veer us away from the happy space socialism timeline with it's shiny clothes and groovy finned cars, but I'd very much like to be in that one, please. Berenstein Bears all the way. This Berenstain Bears timeline is awful.

@kimlockhartga @Mrfunkedude

Yeah, en pointe killed my ability to ever wear anything but wide toebox flats.

The things we let little girls do to themselves is astonishing.

@bjoern Wow!

Mastodon is now officially a "Digital Public Good" and as such a important peace of the UN "2030 Agenda" sustainable development goals.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-dpga/

#DigitalPublicGood #UN #Agenda2030 #sustainability #digitalSovereignty #Mastodon

@farah I mean, I haven't tried...but I'm willing to bet terrorizing people is WAY more fun than actually digging down to the issues of why you want to hurt people.

I am completely making the next statement up, as I have zero facts to back it up, just previous research on domestic violence. I would be willing to be a stack of folding money that the people who serve in ICE enforcement have a statistically higher chance of having been abuse victims as children.

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/

@hosford42 @jeanoappleseed @actuallyautistic

No worries! I'll hunt around pubmed and see if I can find them. Don't spend spoons on it. :)

@jkirkendall Always! 🥰

@dan613 yes! I need that!

@kimlockhartga @Mrfunkedude Right? I do have spondy, plus spinal injuries (+knees, hips and feet, but not shoulders weirdly) from being a competitive gymnast. My specialty was uneven parallel in the 70s and 80s, so you’d think my shoulders would be a mess. But it was slapping the bar with my hips at 50mph, and hitting the ground a lot until I learned a new trick, that did most of the damage.
And yeah, I’ve been through a lot of doctors, tried a ton of meds. (Cymbalta seems to help a little), tons of insanely expensive tests that insurance doesn’t cover, and at the end they just shrug and say I dunno.
Honest to god, all I want is a scrip for hydro that is smaller than the dose sold over the counter in every other western country. 5mg once or twice a day, that’s it. You’d think I was asking for heroin infusions. 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️

@Osteopenia_Powers @GottaLaff it is absolutely intentional.

@nazokiyoubinbou @GottaLaff He was in fucking Den Hauge! They should have arrested him for crimes against humanity. Instead they catered to his petulance and made a big show of sucking his dick in public. I’m disgusted by how he was fawned over.

@kibcol1049 He was at the fucking Hauge! They could have arrested him for war crimes and freed the whole goddamn world, instead of sucking his mushroom cock.

@niko @aisling @LunaDragofelis They opened my suitcase and took my gummies, but I didn’t get arrested, so...

@sbourne @KirstenAnne @ai6yr when I was a kid, we had a cabin in the Everglades. It was a stilt house, in that it was about 12 feet above the ground. I learned to recognize the sounds of panthers, bears, crocodiles and alligators. Caymens too, but they’re not really dangerous. Thankfully the monkeys hadn’t gotten that far south yet, so at least we didn’t have to worry about herpes monkeys attacking. 🤣. The pythons were starting to be a problem, I saw one catch a deer. Florida really is jumanji.

Data center developers are increasingly tapping into freshwater resources to quench the thirst of data centers, which is putting nearby communities at risk.

Large data centers can consume up to 5 million gallons per day, equivalent to the water use of a town populated by 10,000 to 50,000 people.

With larger and new AI-focused data centers, water consumption is increasing alongside energy usage and carbon emissions.

https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption