Fix it or Break it (announcements)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

Edit:

We are done with the major work. Now we just need to see how it goes.

This evening around 5PM Pacific we will be doing a few things that will require taking Voat down for an hour or two.

We are going to scale down some hardware as we think we’ve found one of the current issues with some higher CPU usage (this has been our holdup on not doing this sooner) as well as adjust some indexes on the database.

Let’s all cross our fingers that we can scale down Voat without a negative result, and if we do see a negative result we will fix it because that’s what goats do. The road may be a bit bumpy but we will get there.

These changes are being done to make room in our budget to bring up the new Voat code base (aka The Port) so we can start testing. While re-coding Voat to run on Open Source platforms we have refactored some larger areas in the code base that lay the framework for some really cool things going forward such as distribution and scaling. We are very excited to get this code in play as soon as possible as it means we can start implementing some of these larger enterprise features as well as new features we need such as "Voats" (Hmm... What could this mean?)

Also, I apologize for my drive by presence as I have real life things going on right now that require my time, such as moving. Moving is horrible. Needless to say, I am now a minimalist. On a personal note, I had 6 desktops computers and 2 4U servers I kept around for no reason at all, what is up with that?

Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

Edit:

Attn: v/guns, the number of votes on the Canary post

Canary:

https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806

VieBleu ago

You should make christmas ornaments out of those old hard disks - with your spare time and a bit of glitter.

tcp ago

OK, it's fast now. You should artificially slow down page loads unless you want libtards to sue you for rapidly firing red pills from high-capacity caches.

PhillyNekim ago

I think the current trend is to just smash them

jcal22x ago

So is it fixed or broken now?

kestrel9 ago

When VOAT is down for an hour or two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIaFtAKnqBU

kestrel9 ago

I guess we could go out and get some fresh air...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JF0Jys5ITc

oftotc ago

Well, it looks like you didn't break it :-)

Gamio ago

The 4U servers could probably make for a decent little torrent box especially if you've got enough old hard drives to do some redundancy and have cavernous amounts of storage. If their recent enough Xeon CPU's in them you can easily make a virtualization system using Fedora, cook up a user agreement thats as tight as possible to protect yourself and sell access to anyone willing to pay providing the bandwidth isn't too expensive.

9949244? ago

down with voat! BRING IT ALL DOWN!

herbert_west ago

Your hard work is greatly appreciated.

PuttItOut ago

Ok

PuttItOut ago

What luck, I have a local volcano within hard drive catapulting range.

B166-ER ago

How much does it cost to run the RoganBoard? I've been a member since 2005 and it seems to be a relatively small community, like what I think VOAT should be if it doesn't want to become the Post-Schwartz Reddit cesspool. RoganBoard runs phpBB if I'm not mistaken... I'm just saying, how important are all the bells and whistles when the front page on Voat only goes 3 pages???

DammitMoonMoon ago

not for good computer forensics. plenty good enough for regular folks though.

CrustyBeaver52 ago

Old hard drives contain some nifty magnets - which are fun, and also useful sometimes - caution, they are very powerful magnets. Don't get your fingers caught between them.

Also, there is platinum on the platter disks - you may wish to start a collection - the price of platinum has been known to surge at times - far higher than gold.

The electronics contain some gold and other valuable metals - which you may also wish to collect - it adds up over time. Drive cases are usually steel and /or aluminum - that too is recyclable. In fact, there is almost zero waste product in a used hard drive.

There are youtube videos on the proper methods for harvesting hard drives - and other components - CPU's, memory, mainboards and finger boards, electronics from inside any kind of drive - etc - there is a considerable amount of recoverable gold and other metals from these components. The older the computer, usually the higher the content - At today's prices I harvested about $5000+ worth of recovery out of sixty PC's... so you should expect at least $500 worth of recovery in six PC's. It's time consuming - but I treat it as a hobby that also pays a little.

Harvest the gold to be sure - but do not sell it - it is likely to go far higher in price in the future. There is a shortage, you see. That, and the price of gold is being artificially suppressed by the banking system at the moment - but that game is relatively new, and may not last. Historically, gold keeps pace with real inflation over time... and has done so for thousands of years.

Anyways - you could make a full time business out of this - but you would need a lot of computers - and I mean a lot of computers, to make it work.

Recover enough gold and you can make your own gold bars:)

VieBleu ago

You don't brag about another aspect (or maybe don't care) that makes your hobby great - it also keeps this stuff out of landfills and the ocean trash pit. Must be a little bit like a treasure hunt.

CrustyBeaver52 ago

The recycling industry is already very much established in this area - I am just a hobbyist with the gold bug.

They do in fact already recycle all components in all electronics here already - even the plastic gets shredded, and sold by the ton to be remade into something else.

We can no longer dispose electronics into the general landfill - the electronics, and all chemical products, and a few other items, like rubber, are separated out. Landfill is now mostly organic stuff that breaks down quickly - to protect the water table from toxic contamination. The lower Great Lakes are starting to make a real comeback as a result.

For the hobbyist, there are levels of recycling you can choose to participate in. I like to harvest the gold - but there are buyers who will purchase the bulk cards and chips online for a flat rate per pound or kilo - you ship the boxes, and they pay you through Paypal or send a check or something. Then they harvest the gold etc, from a much larger source supply line. Like I said above, if you want to do this as a business it will work as long as you have a steady supply of old hardware.

In England, by law, all electronics must go to a registered recycling company now - so an entire third sector industry has sprung up around this law. In America, most jurisdictions simply follow a private sector approach similar to the scrapping of automobiles. Certain environmental regs sometimes apply - but that is usually about it. Canada is about halfway between the two.

Treasure hunting? Why yes indeed - there are certain older CPU's that do contain a heavy gold content - back in the day these CPU's could contain upwards to 1/2 ounce of gold apiece - (when gold retailed at a very low price per ounce) - the CPU's themselves would sell for more than $1000 each. Gold is the preferred metal for expensive electronics, in part because it does not rust - neither does it age. After a while you get to know which specific older equipment - actual makes and model numbers - contain the best content. For example - the first generation of the Pentium Pro CPU has a very high gold content - several hundred dollars worth of recoverable gold, inside each CPU at today's prices. There is also a certain Toshiba big screen television - most of which are scrap now - that has a heavy gold CPU inside it. Half of those big screens also have high quality Fresnel lenses in them - retailing on Ebay for $400 apiece last time I looked. Old stuff from the seventies and eighties is usually also excellent - like old AT&T telephone switching equipment.

Like any hobby, the longer you spend at it, the better you get at doing it.

You see those big screen's at the side of the road when people throw them out - I grab every one - some people go looking for them. I just grab one if I am happening by. Fresnel lenses are amazing:)

Microwave ovens have a small amount of silver and copper, etc - but the big find there is the microwave wave guide emitter - you might be needing a bunch of those soon, also the small Bell satellite dishes. The robots are coming - they can be harvested too:)

Pro tip with the hard drive magnets - metal recyclers prefer if your metal waste is separated out so they don't have to sort it. Copper is easy because of the color, but painted steel and aluminum can be hard to separate - use the hard drive magnet - it picks up the steel, but not the aluminum.

VieBleu ago

i love everything you wrote, but - HARVESTING ROBOTS - !! now that's my favorite.

A sci-fi series springs to mind where the killer robots are hunted for a change. The poster -"Some people will do anything for a buck." -and the picture is a regular hobbyist guy taking down a big, black evil and sharp looking AI killer robot. ha ha ha I love humanity.

CrustyBeaver52 ago

This is why the whole self driving robot vehicle idea is already in jeopardy - there are already neighborhoods that if you leave your car for five minutes you come back and it's on blocks with the tires removed. Car mufflers are removed with a torch for their platinum content. Our license plates here also have a little annual registration sticker - people cut those off with tin snips to put on their own plates. Seen the cost of the new headlight assemblies lately?

Self driving vehicles contain far too much valuable salvage - never mind cargo - no, they are easy prey and they will be preyed upon. Hackers will have a field day hijacking transport trucks via remote control. With a couple of million dollars worth of cargo in the back? They are done for, for certain. Fundamental law of nature.

Terminators? They will be like helpless baby turtles trying to make the journey from the beach down to the sea.

GoofyGrape ago

"We are done with the major work. Now we just need to see how it goes."

Wew lad.

baneofretail ago

Voat alive again. Thanks putt.

guinness2 ago

What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

I have a small outdoor brazier that I burn my old hard drives in... it creates just a warped,melted mass of horror. Just don't breath in the toxic smoke and fumes!

(and make sure you've removed all of your holiday photos beforehand... and make at least two backups... because while those drives burn... you'll be reminded of stuff that you need and can't recall which drive it was stored on!)

PuttItOut ago

"What's that urn on your mantle?"

"My dead data. Best data ever right there."

Nadeshda ago

Lol

TerribleTroll ago

This is how it always begins, just an update all sounds benign right? WRONG! This is all a scam Voat is now in the control of the CIA as Assange points out the CIA is an agency, federal agency run by the American government and they employ spies, thousands of spies to literally spy on us all. Once the update is done CIA will monitor everything and it is game over man, it is fucking game over man game over!

KikeFree ago

CIA has a feed from CloudFlare.

PuttItOut ago

If Voat was In the CIA's hands I'm sure they'd upgrade our hardware from the tethered iPhones we've been using.

TerribleTroll ago

Right like that is what they would want you to think genius.

JudgeGuilty ago

Reformat and use for games. Problem solved.

That's what I usually do.

Thx for running Voat, btw. I'll see if I can squeeze a bitcoin out of my own moleskinned wallet, you honestly deserve it. The ppl here are great!

Rotteuxx ago

Sieg Heil, Fräulein !

jeremiahk ago

I love to line up old hard drives down range and put some rounds through them.

It's way better than the way Office Space does it.

PuttItOut ago

I'm saving a printer I'm going to office space. It's a dell printer, the most worthy of being office spaced.

Mick ago

It's legal in Delaware, mang.

Fahrvergnaked ago

Or a handkerchief with a pizza map on it.

reddit-is-retarded ago

On a personal note, I had 6 desktops computers and 2 4U servers I kept around for no reason at all, what is up with that?

Yeah. Get rid of that shit. Use digital-ocean or aws, and if you need real hardware for local routers and wifi, then use small form-factor - pi's, nucs, chrombox etc.

wgtt911 ago

Ask hillary... ( sorry could help myself )

Ina_Pickle ago

Real life has to come first. Good luck with the move.

ZalmoxisOfDacia ago

Build a cool wall by stacking them.

Hoonsuit ago

Is it possible to have withdrawals before the site even goes down?

Good luck with the update.

:)

watch_listed ago

@puttitout, for the hard drives, I honestly suggest a ceramic flower pot and a few pounds of thermite. Turn those suckers into slag.

9945434? ago

"What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?"

Yes, ideally

But if you can't,there's still the hillary way, bleachbit it

Now you can do both but that would be a tad overkill IMO

heygeorge ago

Thanks, putts! We'll take a line or two out of SBBH's CSS to help conserve bandwidth.

You should probably write zeroes to the drives... But sometimes I just go with physical destruction alone. It depends what's on there that's really sensitive

PuttItOut ago

Thanks you're the best. I mean it this time. Mostly.

heygeorge ago

2nd rate is more fitting, but from you? We'll settle for "best".

9945176? ago

Moving sucks ass...

ginx2666 ago

Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

Wipe and fill with porn. This way if they ever get stolen, the thief will be too occupied to harvest proper data.

Anoxim ago

Use DBAN. Derriks Boot And Nuke. Also get some 6" neodymium magnets for security.

9944994? ago

Good luck with your move and I hope you love your new place. If you need additional boxes, don't buy them- instead, go to a grocery store and ask for produce boxes (very sturdy).

PuttItOut ago

I think you should be my life coach. It might be too big of a challenge though.

9946715? ago

I doubt very seriously you need a life coach. <3

Ajaxofbarbaria ago

Why are you giving us the choice?

the_sharpest_knife ago

Throw the old hard drives at homeless people until they stop working and the homeless people start.

ZeroFuggzGiven ago

Take em apart. Keep the magnets. Shatter the platters. Heh, that rhymed.

Also, currently going through the hell that is moving. It truly sucks, especially in late July.

Thisismyvoatusername ago

Depending on the professor, it could have been extra credit, though.

HeavyBeefCurtain ago

GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

JK love you man

Rotteuxx ago

Shit mein, you mean it ain't an upvoat farm ?

heygeorge ago

@Rotteuxx you are violating your cabal NDA.

Rotteuxx ago

Should've paid more attention when we did the paperwork, I signed with a kikel, I ain't bound by anything !

heygeorge ago

You'll never work in this town again.

Rotteuxx ago

I own this town now, you work for (((me))) and you don't even know it

TestForScience ago

You could hang on to them and keep them as the "National Voat Archives."
Or just treat them as anyone would an old hard drive and either reformat and reuse or just toss them.

dooob ago

U sellin them pcs? I could use a pc.

Mick ago

Yes, thanks, Putt. Adminning is easier than Kev and I thought it would be. Ban someone here, suppress someone there and bam, we're admin!

Mick ago

Send me those hard drives, I need more storage (also my govt wants to go through them).

vandilx ago

Keep on kicking butt @PuttItOut.

A few moves ago, I finally got rid of all the servers, desktops, and laptops I was clinging to. For some reason, I could never throw an old one away... I'd always throw Linux or an old version of Windows on it an convince myself it would be something fun to SSH into or make a media server out of..... and never really did aside from the OS install and updates.

For disposal, I write zeroes to the disks at least twice, then physically destroying them with a household drill. It's fun, neatly destructive, and you just drill several holes into the platters and you're good.

lbruiser ago

Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

Get the UBCD, put it on a USB drive, and run DBAN. I suggest 7 times, but auto will do 3 and should be good for most cases.

LostandFound ago

Don't worry if voat goes down for a while were going nowhere. The drives? I recently binned over 100 147gb scsi drives all they were worth was the scrap metal the weight including the housings were too heavy to ship and make a profit. Good luck in your house move, really stressful time worth it in the end. You can't beat that new home, gotta find my ass grove feeling.

WarTracker1776 ago

Good job. We all have your back. Don't ever give up @Puttitout.

9943818? ago

I feel you on moving. I had my conversion to minimalism after helping move relatives with too much stuff as a teen, so I've kept my personal stuff minimal as an adult.

BookyMonstur ago

Thanks for the heads up and the dedication. I hate moving also. I used to move a lot in the military, and at my fourth house in two years I realized I still had stuff in boxes from the previous moves. I'm a borderline hoarder. In the past I've held on to junk because I associated a memory with it. Either of a person, place or certain event! I'll eventually get tired of the clutter and trash everything. Its best to follow your first instinct to decide if something is necessary or not. That's just me tho, you're on your own journey bro.

Nadeshda ago

Your awesome dude!

bikergang_accountant ago

...This will take forever!!... Oh, it's done. Just a few more things... (forever).. Ok I think we're almost there, just a bit more time..

[Every development cycle ever]

9943582? ago

Paint Voat Goats on the hard drives and sell them for bitcoin.

I'll buy one.

Deplorable_Me ago

Wipe them with a cloth or something.

VoatUser69 ago

Eat the hard drives. You can't take personal information out of feces.

PuttItOut ago

Doc did say my blood metal levels were a bit low. Will post results.

9943392? ago

Once more into the breech my friends! :D

XAPHAN ago

You mean like wipe? With a sponge?

Broc_Lia ago

I knew a security consultant who used to stick them to magnets then smack them with a sledgehammer until they looked like a soda can on the highway.

heretolearn ago

you're money baby, and you don't even know it.

revfelix ago

I always try to get rid of some of my old computers when I move, but somehow different ones always show up in my closet anyway. Eh, better a crazy computer dude than a crazy cat lady I guess.

9943286? ago

Put some nasty malware on the old hard drives, label them with "Proof of Russian election manipulation" and then send them anonymously to CNN.

guinness2 ago

Perhaps we should just post bricks to CNN too... just for grins!

Anonymous, nameless, faceless, (fictional) experts in how CNN management think, told me that they love bricks. The evidence is pretty conclusive!

9943503? ago

Oh yes.

Rotteuxx ago

You're using the wrong alt Puttsy, kek ;)

jiggawatt ago

A big THANK YOU to the Voat team. Please post a donation link so we can help to sustain this great community.

Donate to Voat

PuttItOut ago

We have an issue with processing donations currently. Hopefully soon we will be back up.

jiggawatt ago

crap yea, I just found that out. Post an update here once its worked out!

RamblinRambo ago

While re-coding Voat to run on Open Source platforms

Out of curiosity, why was this not done from the start?

MrPim ago

Because voat was never intended to come this far. It was a student project which has gotten totally out of hand.

RamblinRambo ago

Alright. Thanks.

PuttItOut ago

This is the best answer.

draw-new-lines ago

new features we need such as "Voats" (Hmm... What could this mean?)

Like having the ability to set a higher priority for subs we're subscribed to and love that get crushed by the more active subs... so we can actually see them on our front pages - e.g. the more than steller hairflips subverse.

PuttItOut ago

We have to code in play to accomplish this with the concept called "sets" but we haven't enabled user created sets because of the resources needed. It's very depressing for me not to be able to do a lot of the things we can do because of limitations of capital.

draw-new-lines ago

I get it. Slow and steady progress up hill, all the way. I hope when you break through these limitations the new ones don't get you down. Chin up, chest out and thank you. I have enjoyed hanging out here.

8_billion_eaters ago

Hang on to those hard drives. In 100 years from now, they'll be doing dissertations on them.

9943138? ago

Thank you for all of your hard work! Just remember to take a break once in a while, you've been pushing yourself hard for a while now. Nobody wants to see you burn out.

PuttItOut ago

I ebb and flow. I will work on voat nonstop for a few weeks then take a step back. I do burn out but a bit of time focusing on another primary recenters me.

I figure this is an "averaged" version of slow and steady wins the race. Although I might be delusional.

chmod ago

Here ya go @puttitout

shred -f -n 3 -v -z /dev/hda

*Make sure you get the right drive!

TheCompanionCube ago

Your username makes me believe this command will work

chmod ago

Shred can be dangerous. Especially using -f. Not for the faint of heart.

Cantilever ago

Thanks for all your hard work, Sir!

digitalentity1497 ago

Thanks Putt. Oh BTW....

Rummel ago

Hey I'll take your server clusters!

PuttItOut ago

I'll pack them into a shipping container and mail them to you.

RumpRangerRick ago

Old hard drives - take a hammer to them. repeatedly. when in doubt. hammer them some more.

Best Buy usually has an electronics recycling program if you have one of those near you.

pyres ago

Best Buy usually has an electronics recycling program if you have one of those near you.

If you want the FBI to come and visit you...

RumpRangerRick ago

What ? I've dumped lots of gear off without incident.

What next ? Calling the FBI on people buying hammers ?

Slayfire122 ago

I personally recommend acid washing the hard drives.

9943043? ago

Any idea how much Voats server costs per month will be reduced once all is said and done and ported over or is it one of those things you just gotta wait and see how it turns out? I think maintenance later today will get done without a hitch.

Thank you Putt for everything. And a round of applause to those working hard alongside Putt to help port Voat and to make this place better and more affordable. Cheers and rock on!

PuttItOut ago

Hoping for at least a 2k reduction if we can run on it.

go1dfish ago

Do you still have Bitcoin for Voat?

If so, you should get it to a local wallet ASAP especially if it is in coinbase.

There is going to be a fork, and you will want access to Voat's coins on both chains.

9943212? ago

That's awesome! I think anything lower than the 6k it is now would be great as I'm sure we all do. Hopefully once this is done Voat becomes more sustainable financially and the reduced costs aren't still too much to run on. I'll donate more to Voat later on when I can to do my part in keeping Voat afloat. I love you goats.

Le_Squish ago

Thank you for all your work. You really are the admin that could.

And yeah moving is terrible. You should probably shred the old hard drives.

HomerSimpson ago

Oh wow

DillHoleBagHands ago

You're doing a great job! Keep it up, man. @PuttItOut

weezkitty ago

Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

Any reason you can't keep them? "Just in case"?

A pass or two of DBAN is really sufficient. A good digital erase stops even the FBI (see Hillary)

PuttItOut ago

I have all my drives in a box so I could keep them but there is no reason, I'll never use them again. Some are 9GB SCSI others are 50-120 GB. Just old stuff.

ToTheMoonAlice ago

"Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?"

Wipe them, ya know... like with a cloth or something.

Apathy ago

But voat was already down all day...

PuttItOut ago

Yeah, I know.

go1dfish ago

Before you do this, run DBAN on them for good measure.

PuttItOut ago

It's a time thing, I'd have to spend an afternoon doing this. Would rather just throw them into a grinder and be done with it.

KikeFree ago

You're far better off just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX then you can reuse the drive.

Redditsdead ago

Tannerite makes short work of extra computer equipment. If you can get it to me in Canada, I have about 30 lbs of it.

crazy_eyes ago

Good luck. My fingers are crossed

Ywis ago

Thanks for all the hard work @PuttItOut

Wolfspider ago

Being a minimalist is the best way to live life! Welcome to the club. A little note on finance would be appreciated, we worry.

RedditisPropaganda25 ago

Will Voat cost $10K/month still?

Wolfspider ago

They are trying to fix that now! I hope for the best, this is my cyber home.

Vic_V ago

For every useless object you don't buy, I'm going to buy three and get on hoarders

JoeKerr ago

agreed

Awful-Falafel ago

No pain, no gain.

EggsnBakey ago

Take the platters out of the hard drives, use them as reactive targets for a firing range after boot n nuke.

Welcome_fags ago

Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

wipe them off with a cloth.

DammitMoonMoon ago

smashing them with hammers seems to be a popular thing lately.

nigger_plz ago

Take those strong rare earth magnets out of there and use them.

Klaxon ago

I had a buddy in IT who used old hard drives for target practice. Have fun trying to recover data from that.

NonsenseAbounds ago

Seriously though, I haven't really seen an effective way, using technology, to really truly make a hard drive 100% unrecoverable.

Write zeroes? It like has fuckin magnetic residue or some shit and using the writing algorithm they can reconstruct the data or something.

To me, the classics never go out of style. Hammer, sandpaper, optional woodchipper, then fire. It's not too hard to get wood to burn blue.

tl;dr If it's a mound of slag I'm 100% certain it can't be recovered.

jackfraser ago

A single pass of zeros is sufficient for just about any hard drive bigger than an early 80s 10mb ST-566 disk. Even at that time, an electron microscope was needed to guess what individual bits used to be prior to wiping, and that has a pretty high error rate.

There's no way anyone's recovering from a full zero wipe; and if you want, you can do a random wipe or a multiple pass wipe with a tool like DBAN, but it's probably unnecessary.

FTSIO ago

The IT guys at my old job used to bring all their drives down to my shop and I'd saw them in quarters on my band saw for them. Worked extremely well. Plus it got those guys outta their office which they always seemed to love.

crustyjuggler ago

I usually hammer the shit out of my old ones, and dump them off at the local best buy. If I was running something like voat, I would invest in a basic off the shelf torch with mapp gas.

Fun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4VfHG5_LIg

One-Way_Bus ago

You can degauss a hard drive. I've done it for work before. Just be sure to leave your watch or phone or something else valuable outside.

uvulectomy ago

Degaussers are really fun. And if you're extra paranoid, Garner makes drive crushers that bend regular drives in half, two at a time, and there's an attachment for the press to punch a ton of holes all over an SSD to make sure the storage cells are obliterated.

And if you're still worried after degaussing and crushing/punching....well, there's always thermite.

9947504? ago

Rare-earth-metal magnets also help to truly scramble old electronics, just don't do it near stuff you want to keep.

tame ago

Wash then tumble-dry.

MadWorld ago

wipe them off with a cloth.

:) You could use the bleachbit while wiping with a piece of cloth, but a complete white or shredding is recommended if you have sensitive info on them.

SexMachine ago

He should acid wash them.

Welcome_fags ago

Explain.

SexMachine ago

Oh, sorry, I fact checked this, and it's False

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/785299709342654465

NBCNews:

FACT CHECK: Trump says Clinton "acid washed" her email server. She did not.

Fahrvergnaked ago

My all time favorite Fakenews gaffe. They just couldn't help themselves from pointing out something wrong that Trump said.

nuworldblue ago

Smash them with hammers. Its the only way to be sure.

CowboyXero ago

No. We lift off. Then we nuke them from orbit...it's the only way to be sure

FireSauce ago

Microwave

Skeeterdo ago

Donald Trump.

Fambida ago

The proper method of hard drive disposal is a shotgun.

Aged ago

Thank you.

lxbb ago

Good luck with the port, I'm sure we can all get through any downtime. Moving is so hard. Getting rid of all those memories is tough but you'll make new ones in the new place. Boot n nuke for those drives. Or you can just smash them, but do it outdoors that stuff goes everywhere.

goatboy ago

I was hoping for a cocaine and hooker meet up party.

PuttItOut ago

You didn't get the invite?

pushthis ago

shred bash command will rewrite from dev/random many times

MrEvilPirate ago

Better bleach bit them @Puttitout

Edit, sorry the correct term is ACID WASH, right?

Rainy-Day-Dream ago

no the use of a corrosive element was fact checked as wrong

Broc_Lia ago

What, like with a cloth?

PuttItOut ago

If I can work in some of my jeans while doing the hard drive all the better.

4thDaGrymReaper ago

Wipe it with a cloth or something

https://www.bleachbit.org/cloth-or-something

frankenmine ago

If this Voat thing doesn't work out, you always have a back-up plan as a stand-up comedian.

TAThatBoomerang ago

Whenever I see a "Voat is under heavy load or we're fixing something" I always react positively, because it's a very obvious signal that something's happening and you're working on improving the platform.

PuttItOut ago

I wish I felt that way. I usually have a recoverable stroke.

JohnCStevenson ago

I'm sorry to hear that. But have you thought of the 22 million that would be uninsured under Trumpcare? Or the number of minorities that are beaten due to hateful rhetoric from people like Trump supporters who frequent this site? Have you thought of all of the people suffering under Donald Trump as president? Your website is a breeding ground of hate and fake news, so while you are recovering from your strokes, you should consider the anguish that the hateful people of Voat have put people through. I have suffered plenty of mental stress from having people repeatedly insult my heritage by calling me a kike, and by posting hateful messages against Jews day in and day out. If you recall, I mentioned giving @NeedleStack a temporary ban in the past - perhaps it would be best to shut Voat down for a few days, close the hateful subverses such as v/niggers, v/RidersoftheReich, v/ProtectVoat, and so on. Then, advertisers would flock to your site, and your health, friendships, and hobbies would not be in jeopardy. But if you continue to cater to this hateful audience, my team and I will not rest until Voat is known as a hate site on par with Stormfront far and wide. It will only be a matter of time before Voat is blacklisted from libraries and universities if it goes down its current path, and I will be proud to known that I have helped keep America safe from the racist white men on Voat.

Until then, take care, and examine your options carefully, @PuttItOut. I hope you make the right decision - for your own sake.

Edit: Take care of @Trigglypuff and @kevdude as well. They spout actual Nazi rhetoric, and have harassed me numerous times. If you value your livelihood, I suggest you comply with my demands.

Donky_punch ago

Your mom is a racist white male

9947620? ago

You sound like a National Socialist from your country's "Workers Party", trying to order private citizens into behaving how you want them behaving without a care for what they want.

Next thing you know, you'll be repeating the history you failed to learn from, trying to enact Gun Control on your enemies, causing a Night of the Long Knives when your party has full control of the guns, and locking up the Jews in concentration camps, just as the National Socialist German Workers' Party did under their charismatic failed-degree-in-arts leader Adolf Hitler back in 1930s Germany.

fluxusp ago

As if anyone reads this wall of shit. Go on.

Rainy-Day-Dream ago

I'm glad you waste so much time on this, I hope everything here really upsets you. I hope bothering with this has disturbed your life and taken time away from important things your needed to do

NeedleStack ago

Mmmmm, yes, you're so close! Tell me more, honey.

Ina_Pickle ago

He only has about 100 more points to go. Is it appropriate to have a celebratory post in this situation? A milestone is a milestone right?

Beast-mode-freak ago

-2418 at last count, very close. That is some serious commitment to his trolling/or work, still can't work it out so if he is trolling, that is brilliant.

Cantilever ago

Do the world a favor and kill yourself, kike faggot. Go find a rope and hang yourself. Quit breathing up all the white man's air. At the very least, castrate yourself, so you don't contribute to the gene pool

9947556? ago

Why even waste a good rope? Just follow Chile's example and bring a few along on occasional helicopter rides as "in-flight falling entertainment".

3dk ago

close the hateful subverses such as v/niggers, v/RidersoftheReich, v/ProtectVoat, and so on. Then, advertisers would flock to your site

Lmao. If that happened, there would be no one left here to advertise to!

Take your crocodile tears and censorship somewhere else. No one is forcing you to look at Voat. There are plenty of places on the internet that cater to your safespace snowflake demographic.

9947525? ago

I personally like how he casually threw in v/ProtectVoat at the end, like an anti-spam/anti-troll subverse was as bad as "KKK and Nazis" (their groups, not ours).

Obvious shill is obvious.

Grifter42 ago

The thing about JohnCStevenson is that he works for the fuckin' SoapBoxBanHammer crowd, who control /v/protectvoat. He makes anyone who calls them out look crazy. Those fuckers aren't working for the good of the site. They're working to gain control of it. Mick and Kevdude are a couple of faggot powerusers with ties to Hecho. Mick and Putt are buddy buddy, and it shows, because Putt lets those faggots brigade other users and break the rules of Voat.

The SBBH crowd doesn't want people like me calling them out, so they head it off at the pass by using those sort of tactics to pre-bias the crowd.

9954176? ago

SBBH controls v/protectvoat

Thanks, I needed that good hearty laugh, and nothing truly tickles my funny bone these days like Fake News and blatantly weak lies.

Now, as a regular poster on v/protectvoat who doesn't care that much for SBBH and hates SDBH, I will say this nice and loud so that even you can get the message through your thick skull:

Fuck off, you dumb little troll!

Grifter42 ago

Fuck you, faggot. Kevdude is a major poster on SBBH, and is the admin for /v/protectvoat.

9954311? ago

Fuck you, neoliberal (((multicultural globalist))) shill. Kevdude posting on Mick's subverse doesn't instantly mean that Mick has complete control over everything Kevdude ever touched.

Grifter42 ago

Throw as many buzzwords out there as you want, you're not gonna stop me from pointing out the fact that you fuckers are pulling some shady shit, and manipulating upvotes and downvotes.

9954366? ago

No manipulation required, your comments just suck enough to earn that many downvotes from the Free Speech activists here on Voat. If you don't like it, go crying on over to a "safe space" like HenryCorp's private subverses or Reddit.

Grifter42 ago

"Free speech activists"? That's a fucking laugh. Your people banned me from /v/showerthoughts when I haven't ever fucking posted in it.

You're posing as right-wingers, in order to gain control of the site. You're probably reading a script, or playbook on what to do when called out.

9954611? ago

1, I am not some all-knowing god, so I didn't know about your ban on v/showerthoughts up until now, and because of your attitude, I really don't care about it now that you informed me about it (by acting like I somehow already learned all this before I even started talking to you today). You're just being paranoid now.

2, Your account was banned for being a 'SaneGoatISwear alt' and 'ban evasion' by @SuperconductiveRabbi, so if you have an issue with the ban, go and prove to him that you aren't a "Sane" alt by actually acting like you aren't some paranoid schizophrenic lunatic who is convinced that literally everyone but you on Voat is actively working against you, and you should be able to get the ban reversed (at least until your acting fails and you start sounding just like our resident psycho again).

3, No one is posing as anything. Voat has just as many 4Chan-style National Socialists (which is supposedly different from Democratic Socialism or Communism on some key financial and social issues) as Anarcho-Capitalists and just as many Libertarians as Classical Liberals. The only two things that everyone can agree on are "freedom of speech is essential to the continued existence of our modern societies" and "the establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle worldwide are corrupt and/or incompetent to the very core". Beyond that, there is free discussion and acceptance of anyone who is willing and able to put up a solid argument for their case.

4, This site has no way of forcing any issues aside from the Administrator sticky posts on v/front and v/all and the moderator stick posts on individual subverses. Bots are regularly perma-banned if they try to tamper with votes in any way (up or down, random or targeted), spammers are regularly called out and subsequently banned if they continue spamming post-warning, the code behind the site is regularly worked on as an open-source project by the community as a whole, etc. The only way an issue lives or dies here on Voat is if it can stand based on its own merits.

The left has a very severe problem with Psychological Projection these days (attacking their opponents for secrecy after "you have to vote on the bill to find out what's in it", attacking their opponents for spying after "expanding the NSA's ability to spy on American citizens exponentially, and then using that expanded power to spy on every aspect of the opposition's Presidential campaign", attacking their opponents with claims of racism and sexism after "being the only party that founded the KKK, still views former KKK members as 'friends and mentors', and still thinks that minorities are 'too dumb' to figure out how to get a license or ID {even though they need one just to drive anywhere or buy alcohol legally}" and "routinely getting caught paying their men more than their women and hiring much larger amounts of men into the higher-paying positions within their ranks", etc.), and that problem routinely extends all the way down from the politicians to the voters and paid goons.

I look forward to your upcoming scripted reply posing as a right-winger now that I have yet again called you out in your attempts to forcibly gain control of this site.

Grifter42 ago

You summed everything you just said with the phrase projection. You accuse me of everything you're fuckin' guilty of, and you make a strawman out of what I said.

9954833? ago

I literally just repeated back to you everything that you initially accused me of, and suddenly I'm somehow the one who built the strawman you made attacking me in the fucking first place.

As I said, you're a paranoid schizophrenic who needs time in the Insane Asylum, but instead, someone at the DNC gave you a big bag of money and told you to go attacking Trump supporters on the Internet.

Grifter42 ago

And there's your classic tactic of gaslighting anyone who calls you out. Any fuckin' look at my post history would show that I ain't a faggot democrat, but you shills don't argue rationally.

9955088? ago

I'm not saying you have the post history of a Democrat, I'm saying that you have the post history of a paranoid schizophrenic or someone pretending to be a conservative who is actually focused on "divide and conquer" for placing yourself at the head of any anti-censorship site, both of which are likely to be strategies by Democrat PR groups like ShareBlue that can't compete on the field of ideas with populism and freedom.

Grifter42 ago

Bullshit. Divide and conquer is practically the motto of SBBH.

It's no coincidence that one of the prominent members of SBBH infiltrated ProtectVoat, alongside Showerthoughts, and other subreddits.

You folks use the strategies of creating easily defeated incoherent strawmen to use as upvote farms, and to appear legitimate. In reality, people like JohnCStevenson and Sanegoat are plants, designed to make people who oppose your takeover look crazy. That's why you push the crazy narrative so hard. Because you don't want people to actually scrutinize what SBBH aims to do to this site.

Solstiare ago

Fuck off, and take your marxist cunt cheese Jew fellation with you. And when you get to where ever you fuck off to, fuck off from there also.

MinorLeakage ago

Today I got to experience the joy of being the first to downvote /u/JohnCStevenson, and I have to say, it felt pretty good.

EDIT: Also, fuck yourself you dumb faggot. No one cares at all about your constant Jew-whining.

Marsog ago

Feels good don't it?

VoatUser69 ago

Faggot.

sakuramboo ago

What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

If you don't have a need for them, yes. Or, you can take them apart and make some cool wall art for your office.

Is no one using Slack anymore?

Fambida ago

Ha, I've got an open hard drive hanging on my wall.

PuttItOut ago

Voat funding idea: Hard drive clocks! It will be the new cool.

Fambida ago

... I'd actually buy that.

ApprenticeShitposter ago

Thanks for all your hard work!

Rainy-Day-Dream ago

we're in it for the long haul, do what you need to

setthethree ago

Moving is horrible. Needless to say, I am now a minimalist.

Off topic but I'm actually a proponent of moving at least once every 3 years. Moving will show you what you need and actually use. When you move you find so much stuff that you didn't use much (or at all) during the time you were living at the place you're moving out of, I donate or trash that stuff in a heartbeat, and reduce the clutter in my new place. Of course you'll get more stuff over time at your new place, but hopefully it ends up being close to a net zero.

TerribleTroll ago

You keep moving because after a few years everyone in the area knows you are a registered sex offender. Nice excuse though you sick fuck.

PuttItOut ago

This experience has taught me a lot. I will be viewing all new acquisitions in a minimalist mindset.

One problem I have is that most of the "stuff" I have is tool-like meaning I use it for something and thus it's valuable. It's easy to throw out clothing and knickknacks, but when it comes to other things (i.e. a light box for photographing) l have reservations even though I haven't used it in a while and it consumes dedicated space. It's a grey area.

peacegnome ago

The good news is that you have no time for a hobby like photography, and won't for the foreseeable future; so it won't be missed.

PuttItOut ago

How depressingly true my friend. Goats have taken over my yard.

KikeFree ago

Feed us! Carry our water. No, not the abattoir, we are being raised for the hair only!

9942848? ago

Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?

Open them up and make cool things out of the platters, like wind chimes. Everybody loves a good set of wind chimes.

go1dfish ago

Wipe them solidly FIRST.

Recovering overwritten data is hard, recovering broken platters is expensive, make attackers do both.

peacegnome ago

at the very least take out the RE magnets, they are usually pretty strong.

9943062? ago

Those things are fun as hell to mess with. Hold up, got a few bad drives I need to take apart.

wahala ago

They also make good mirrors too. We keep one in our camping/kayaking/fishing bin as a backup signal mirror.

go1dfish ago

They smudge really easy and are hard to clean, could work for a signal mirror though.

wahala ago

When you're miles away from the nearest bathroom but still need to put in your contact lens, they work good enough.

9942966? ago

Nice idea. Never thought of that.

7p ago

Sweet! Voat will be improved and I can actually chat on xyverse.

MrPim ago

Chat? On XY? Thats like conversing in a mosh pit.

goatboy ago

First...

To say putt is awesome.