Does The World Bank Website List "COVID-19 Test Kits" Before 2019 & Is There More To The Story? (10:26) ~ The Last American Vagabond

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[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It appears that they listed these COVID-19 test kits in 2017:

https://archive.is/CpjOD

It may be that they updated the database and renamed PCR test to COVID-19 test.

I don't see an archive of the page before 2020.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's what Ryan Cristian stated in the video, and more along those lines.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

Hey Jason, do you have a mirror of this? I can't find it anymore.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

Does The World Bank Website List "COVID-19 Test Kits" Before 2019 & Is There More To The Story?

The Last American Vagabond on BitChute backed up all his censored YouTube content, so far as I know. There may be other mirror backups like LBRY, etc. if you're seeking higher rez. Apparently BitChute recently improved their search so it's now easy enough to just copypasta the title.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Thanks. It's strange: I did a basic search before, but couldn't find it. I heard they improved their search engine, but it still sucks.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

Happy to help. In 2021 I aim to set up my own PeerTube instance to share/mirror my archive, including stuff like this.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Yes, please do. Can I help you with this? I've been using GNU/Linux for more than 10 years and know my way with it.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

I welcome the help!

I'm sure I'd mentioned it years before, but I'd like /u/d3rr and /u/Robin to co-admin my PeerTube instance. I hope they're still game. If it's okay with them, perhaps you could too. To my knowledge you seem to be among the great ones here on SaidIt. Being proficient in Linux is bonus.

I am assuming d3rr's PeerTube is hosted by a service and more suited for big bandwidth, yet with limited terrabytes. I see myself as providing a larger long-tail.

I'd host it here at home, under the laws of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Stage 1 Initial Goals:
I don't have any grand plans other than to secure the content (ie. FreeNAS or better), connect the content (ie. get a ~$4k 24-drive rack-mountable thing), archive/mirror content via PeerTube, IPFS, LBRY, Wikimedia, etc., and set it up to automatically upkeep/maintain channels (ie. always download the latest, plus discover what's been removed/censored for an elevated status).

Stage 2 Spreading:
I'd like to accept submissions that would need to be peer reviewed via SaidIt (to prevent porn, etc). Perhaps there are other social media aspects to embrace too. I'm not interested in hosting/being/doing social media, but I don't mind being a back-end archive for some (ie. SaidIt, WikiSpooks, etc). I can get another fiber line or few when necessary (ideally via community support). I'd also eventually need to improve my electrical situation and add UPS backups. Since this hoard would potentially make me a target, it's also critical to spread out with more backups. I'd be thrilled to provide a free service for people: They get empty hard-drives to me and I put them in some docking bays. Online they would copy what they want to those drives. I would mail them their drives and ideally they'd share their own mirrors. Perhaps this mirror system could be spread far and wide. Importantly, we'd want to know what content is rare (vs abundant, verifiably) and in need of more sharing.

I have some reasonably clever potential names for this project, but won't openly share them until I get the dot com. (PM me if you're curious, or have a better name.) Also, before April, I need a new much cheaper place to squat on my other 3 domains that I mean to do something with.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I'm down to help. I have to delete spam uploads from my PT every day anyway. My setup is $5/mo VPS and $5/mo for 250GB of object storage/S3/Digital Ocean Spaces. So unifying your entire collection would be hard, but baby steps.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I'm not interested in being an open platform for anyone to post to. I don't even want to be a "platform" so much as an archive to share.

I'm guessing I could close it all and provide a "request to join" and offer invites to SaidIt friends. If I were to open it to random folks, I'd want their content hidden until it was verified, classified/metatagged, and rated by at least a few members first in order to weed out the pron and nonsense.

$10 is cheap, but 250gb is not much at all. What kind of traffic do you get?

Would it be possible to scrape the YouTube page, the show notes, comments, etc. to add to the "archive"? Would it be possible to do the same with BitChute and other sites? Would it be possible to merge all that mirrored info from different sources all for the same mirrored video - and also share it? Sharing the mirroring of the mirrors to both centralize and decentralize simultaneously. Aggregate and disseminate.

Perhaps more practical: Would it be possible to have 100tb on a home "back-server" cooperating with a 250gb main "front-server"? The front-server would keep "fresh" and recently "accessed" content, while also pointing to all the archived content on the back-server. Every time back-server content is accessed that content would be brought to front in anticipation of others accessing it (ie. via a SaidIt post) to better handle higher traffic and bandwidth. Like a shoe store.

Even better would be if the back-servers and front-servers could be decentralized too so the many could join forces with the many. This division of archiving/serving might make it easier to screen what content gets archived and what gets weeded out. Or maybe it's just unnecessary complexity. IMO, it would allow some folks to focus on their interests more (ie. hosting vs archiving, socializing vs finding, etc).

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

$10 is cheap, but 250gb is not much at all

Truth. It costs about $5/mo for each 250GB of storage online, so that's the advantage you can bring with home serving, cheaper and more storage.

What kind of traffic do you get?

Not much. I have 8200 video views total, having the PeerTube instance up for over a year. Last month I used 183 GB of data transfer.

Would it be possible to scrape the YouTube page, the show notes, comments, etc. to add to the "archive"? Would it be possible to do the same with BitChute and other sites?

Yes, it's an easy import wizard thing for importing one video at a time. There's no concept of merging or mirroring, you Import to PeerTube, you make your own copy of the data. (Within the PeerTube ecosystem, there is a mirroring concept.)

Would it be possible to have 100tb on a home "back-server" cooperating with a 250gb main "front-server"?

Sure. This would probably be something you manage yourself at the OS level, to present it like a single big drive to PeerTube, etc.

Or maybe it's just unnecessary complexity. IMO

Yeah for energy efficiency and simplicity, you might want to try to cram all of the drives into a single machine. Or start with 25TB for PeerTube/public video and see how it goes.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

If I had a box to hold it all I'd do it yesterday.

I'd also need to get more drives to raid them. FreeNAS had (still has?) some limitations for setting up a volume, a bitch for someone with a tight budget like me.

183gb is a sneeze in my traffic, even before I started using fiber. Though the up traffic on the DSL (and I think on the fiber) is much less than the down. I would hope that viewers wouldn't suffer too much.

Can PeerTube play at more than 2x speed? If so, that would be a huge advantage over most video sites. Since leaving Brave for Waterfox that's something I miss.

Can PeerTube utilize torrents?

Can PeerTube utilize/employ/share with IPFS?

Can PeerTube collaborate/share/mirror with LBRY?

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the kind words. I can probably set up a PeerTube instance and have a set of Youtube channels mirrored. But for your existing archive: I'm not sure if importing them into PeerTube is the way to go. Why not keep things simple and share them straight via HTTP, FTP, or Bittorrent? I like the idea of featuring censored content automatically, but I don't know if I can do it, since it requires programming, which I have little experience with.

I don't really get the point of the service you're talking about. Why would anyone need to mail physical hard drives when files can be copied over the Internet? And again: doesn't Bittorrent make it obsolete? What exactly are you trying to achieve?

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've often wondered that too. Simply access the folder directories seems to make more sense. I haven't used FTP in 20 years, so I forget what it's all about. I love the idea of bundling and generating bittorrents to avoid the problems of direct downloading (ie. incomplete requiring start over). An automated script would be even better. Even better would be to verify their source, include the link, a thumbnail, organize and bundle them by dates, and then bundle the bundles (shards) into bigger collections. To get really fancy one could add an interface that people could search through and check off what they want to be bundled and custom torrented. Of course the home-server would need to be torrenting this stuff too.

How long would it take to copy a 4tb hard drive? Under a day. How long over the internet? Muuuuuch longer. This would be more for people who want to save time and have allthestuffs instantly for a plug and play archive. Saves them from having to collect it all. Perhaps there just aren't enough wannabe digital hoarders out there who aren't already doing it, thus virtually no market for such a thing. Wouldn't be my first lame idea.