My Dreamcast memory card with my PSO character on it from when I was in uni in 2000.
Hah, the number on my bank account sometimes feels like it’s just pixels.
But most valuable to me would be old irc chatlogs with people who’ve passed. It’s been years since I’ve felt the need to pull them out and read them, but I’m happy to know they’re there.
My music collection, about 12TB of high bit rate music.
Can i borrow it?
You wouldn’t download a car, would you!?
borrow a car.
Jesus, how many songs is that? And who made them?
The majority are 100MB+ high res files, so it’s only 90,000 songs. Mixture of all genres.
Nice try, hackers.
My PayPal account. Though I believe my undergrad thesis project may be another option from another perspective.
The most valuable digital data I own isn’t a single thing but rather the unity of everything, because my magnum opus is I have the world record for the most websites having signed up for. Think of any website in the world and I’m probably there, almost always with one account. And you may recognize me on there if there’s a chance you see me talk about this on there too.
How do you know you hold the world record?
The wiki page says so, as long as it’s still there.
Lol wat
You didn’t think world records had their own wiki pages? That’s how I was able to grasp confirmation that I did it and that I have the world record for the number of websites having signed up for. Inevitably it’s also engraved in the iterations of the wayback machine.
I have notes detailing literally thousands of websites where I have usernames and passwords, some even on the deep web, some even on consoles, and so forth. Doesn’t matter the device, the browser, what is required to access the site, etc.
I rarely use the same names on more than one website, that’s not something I got into the habit of due to the different systems on every website. Half of them are random while the other half follow a naming theme, where I make a username based on the things Stingy says are his in the Mine Song in Lazytown (thismailbox is mine, and thistriagonalsign), which helps with memory (I also sometimes vary in my used nicknames depending on the site).
Knowing you have a world record is something that just sticks with you, it’s like having a kid (no I’m not a mom yet). I am grateful for my ability to keep the record.
Just fyi, if you have a password mnemonic, you should NEVER share that with anyone. If a malicious party learned of it, knowing the rules by which you formulate your password can help them generate a highly-targeted dictionary attack with average success runtimes orders of magnitude lower than an unassisted cracking attempt. Moreover, knowing the mnemonic basically lets an attacker extrapolate ALL of your passwords.
No, what I describe only applies to usernames, never passwords. For that, it helps to have several hiding places where you can hide different parts of a printed guide.
Wouldn’t you like to know…
For real though, my password vault.
The data I have that I find the most valuable, apparently isn’t owned by me. It’s owned by Google, Microsoft, etc… Shouldn’t I be making money off my browsing habits? They are my browsing habits, after all.
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I’d pay them for location history and Earth if they asked for it
A bunch of irreplaceable demo tracks and singles from bands that broke up twenty years ago.
Get them up on archive.org?
There’s an idea. I already have cloud backups, and physical backups, but public backups really appeal to me, as does sharing these tracks with the world.
Legally, though, I don’t own the music; I just have it, own a license for it, I mean. With bands that don’t exist anymore, I don’t anticipate any issues; for singer-songwriter types, though… that’s thornier.
Well I do have around 200 pictures of my butthole, and if I was held for ransom where those pictures were emailed to either of my grandfathers then I would pay a tidy sum to prevent it. Grandma, mom, dad, step-niece, I don’t care. But if my grandfather might see my butthole, I would happily pay $40m to keep him from seeing my bare back butthole and balls. I don’t want you all to get the wrong idea, I love Gramps, but he has seen enough of my butthole, and I want to stay in his will.
Only 200? Step up your game. Gramps didn’t sub $5.99 / month OF out of his retirement funds for nothing.
I have, in fact, gained access to your sphincter vault. I will be emailing these pictures to both of your grandfather’s (and 2 excoworkers). Please send me 40 million dollars to scammy(dot)scam scam(at)notascam(dot)com.
Thank you.
Lemmy moment
The true power move is to send it before the hackers do. Beat them to the punch.
Hamilton moment.
Why do you hold on to them?
I wanted to do one of those old school photo montages where I took a picture everyday. It becomes a real chore trying to find time to expose your dump truck. Call it sunken cost fallacy, but my butthole has done a lot for me over the years.
…Why would you do a photo montage of that?
To send to my grandfathers.
Why?
I mean, why do we take pictures of our offspring? They’re keepsakes to remember how they’ve grown. When I play them the montage on their death beds they can finally say, “you sure have grown into a giant asshole.”
My best guess is hemorrhoid followup - what would you do, ask your neighbor to look and comment on your butt?
Oh dear. I guess that’s what’s necessary.
You should consider putting pants on, then
But I don’t have pants on to put
My orginal pokemon blue save file and the 151 (152 if you count missing no) from my childhood. They are all just chilling and hoping that maybe one day I’ll come back and play with them like the good old days when we were masters.
Get a ROM dumper and get that save off the cartridge now before it’s too late, if it isn’t already. I collect and restore old games and most gen 1 Pokémon carts have a dead battery by now.
I’m amazed that my original Pokémon Red lasted as long as it did - but the in game battery will eventually die. If you really want to save it I highly recommend using a cart dumper, something like the gbxcart, to save your file elsewhere.
I had lost my original Red had died but my first big team is saved onto Pokémon Stadium which gives me a good chuckle anyone I put that in.
My TOTP codes
Super sad storytime. Back in the early 2000s, I had an awesome Sony camera phone with a real xenon flash.
I probably had thousands of photos on it on an SD card that has been through multiple phones.
Suddenly, my mom started feeling pains in her stomach area and was later diagnosed with staged 4 cancer.
After she passed away, I accidentally fell into a lake and broke my phone and lost every photo and video of my mom. I only have a video of her voice that I posted on Facebook while she was washing my dog for the first time.
Since then, I haven’t lost a single photo. Each photo and video is saved in 4 different locations, in a B2 bucket and in different countries.
I still have this old phone. I’m hoping one day I can retrieve it. Until then, always save your photos in multiple places.
I’m sorry for your loss.
Computer stores might be able to retrieve the data. It’s better if you go somewhere locally owned, they might have a suggestion for a specialist.
I have tried. Mailed it to a specialist in Taiwan that claimed it was possible. Couldn’t get the data out.
wait hold on youre hsing the same phone? thats really bad, whenever data loss occurs the firsr thjng yiu should do is stop using the pjone entirely and send it in to a data recovery specialist
You write as if you’ve had a bit too much to drink
maybe comrade jackpot is on mobile
They said the phone is broken. They still HAVE it.
If you still have that phone, try a data recovery specialist. They might be able to get something out.
I paid over $500(in early 2000s) and was not able to retrieve it. Maybe 20 years later there is a chance.
That’s unfortunate, I’m sorry to hear that…
Yes but it’s gonna cost you a lot of money
Photos of my family.
This ^
Pass vault and nudes of my ex’s
