Int The Exabox, day.
"Snake, we're only going to get one shot at this. The Tumblr archives are heading to Iron Mountain at 0800 Zulu. By this time tomorrow, every single plinko horse and gpoy ever made will be tin foil."
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Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
Snake takes the lollipop out of his mouth. No archivist worth their salt trusts fire. "This is going to be Geocities all over again."
Mar 24, 2022, 6:29:00 PM [original] -
Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
"Our thoughts exactly. Unfortunately we were too late to save the servers, so we're going to have to do a field recovery."
Mar 24, 2022, 6:29:38 PM [original] -
Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
"I hate those. What's the estimate?"
Mar 24, 2022, 6:30:54 PM [original]
"Fifty PB."
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Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
"That's not the worst of it. Those drives are old. We can't risk the shock of a Fulton recovery."
Mar 24, 2022, 6:31:48 PM [original]
"You mean..." -
Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
"You clear the LZ, scout out power and clean water. We'll drop six shipping containers of NVME once you put up a flare"
Mar 24, 2022, 6:32:54 PM [original] -
Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
"What's the extraction plan? You can't Fulton a full shipping container."
Mar 24, 2022, 6:34:48 PM [original] -
Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
"Of course not. But most of that infrastructure is just SAS bays. The actual servers are barely 20U. And they're in flight cases."
Mar 24, 2022, 6:36:05 PM [original] -
Beta@beta@gayhorse.clubPublic
"So we get in, Set up a field ripper, and launch a couple million in high-end hardware into upper atmosphere?"
Mar 24, 2022, 6:37:14 PM [original]
"Just another day at the office"