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"Project-Id-Version: 004_backup 1.0\n"
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"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: Nika Zhenya <nika.zhenya@cliteratu.re>\n"
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"POT-Creation-Date: 2019-07-04 07:49-0500\n"
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"Last-Translator: Nika Zhenya <nika.zhenya@cliteratu.re>\n"
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"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
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"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
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"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:1
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msgid "# Who Backup Whom?"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:2
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msgid "> @published 2019/07/04, 10:00 {.published}"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:3
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msgid ""
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"Among publishers and readers is common to heard about “digital copies.” This "
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"implies that ebooks tend to be seen as backups of printed books. How the "
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"former became a copy of the original---even tough you first need a digital "
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"file in order to print---goes something like this:"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:8
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msgid ""
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"1. Digital files (+++DF+++s) with appropriate maintenance could\n"
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" have higher probabilities to last longer that its material\n"
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" peer.\n"
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"2. Physical files (+++PF+++s) are limited due geopolitical\n"
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" issues, like cultural policies updates, or due random events,\n"
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" like environment changes or accidents.\n"
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"3. _Therefore_, +++DF+++s are backups of +++PF+++s because _in\n"
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" theory_ its dependence is just technical."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:16
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msgid ""
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"The famous digital copies arise as a right of private copy. What if one day "
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"our printed books get ban or burn? Or maybe some rain or coffee spill could "
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"fuck our books collection. Who knows, +++DF+++s seem more reliable."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:20
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msgid ""
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"But there are a couple suppositions in this argument. (1) The technology "
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"behind +++DF+++s in one way or the other will always make data flow. Maybe "
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"this is because (2) one characteristic---part of its “nature”---of "
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"information is that nobody can stop its spread. This could also implies that "
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"(3) hackers can always destroy any kind of digital rights management system."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:26
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msgid ""
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"Certainly some dudes are gonna be able to hack the locks but at a high cost: "
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"every time each [cipher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher) is revealed, "
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"another more complex is on the way---_Barlow [dixit](https://www.wired."
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"com/1994/03/economy-ideas/)_. We cannot trust that our digital "
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"infrastructure would be designed with the idea of free share in mind… Also, "
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"how can we probe information wants to be free without relying in its "
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"“nature” or making it some kind of autonomous subject?"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:33
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msgid ""
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"Besides those issues, the dynamic between copies and originals creates an "
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"hierarchical order. Every +++DF+++ is in a secondary position because it is "
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"a copy. In a world full of things, materiality is and important feature for "
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"commons and goods; for several people +++PF+++s are gonna be preferred "
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"because, well, you can grasp them."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:39
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msgid ""
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"Ebook market shows that the hierarchy is at least shading. For some readers +"
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"++DF+++s are now in the top of the pyramid. We could say so by the follow "
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"argument:"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:42
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msgid ""
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"1. +++DF+++s are way more flexible and easy to share.\n"
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"2. +++PF+++s are very static and not easy to access.\n"
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"3. _Therefore_, +++DF+++s are more suitable for use than +++PF+++s."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:45
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msgid ""
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"Suddenly, +++PF+++s become hard copies that are gonna store data as it was "
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"published. Its information is in disposition to be extracted and processed "
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"if need it."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:48
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msgid ""
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"Yeah, we also have a couple assumptions here. Again (1) we rely on the "
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"stability of our digital infrastructure that it would allow us to have "
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"access to +++DF+++s no matter how old they are. (2) Reader's priorities are "
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"over files use---if not merely consumption---not on its preservation and "
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"reproduction (+++P&R+++). (3) The argument presume that backups are "
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"motionless information, where bookshelves are fridges for later-to-use books."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:55
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msgid ""
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"The optimism about our digital infrastructure is too damn high. Commonly we "
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"see it as a technology that give us access to zillions of files and not as a "
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"+++P&R+++ machinery. This could be problematic because some times file "
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"formats intended for use aren't the most suitable for +++P&R+++. For "
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"example, the use of +++PDF+++s as some kind of ebook. Giving to much "
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"importance to reader's priorities could lead us to a situation where the "
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"only way to process data is by extracting it again from hard copies. When we "
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"do that we also have another headache: fixes on the content have to be add "
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"to the last available hard copy edition. But, can you guess where are all "
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"the fixes? Probably not. Maybe we should start to think about backups as "
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"some sort of _rolling update_."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:67
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msgid ""
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"![Programando Libreros while she scans books which +++DF+++s are not "
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"suitable for +++P&R+++ or are simply nonexistent; can you see how it is not "
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"necessary to have a fucking nice scanner?](../../../img/p004_i001.jpg)"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:70
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msgid ""
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"As we imagine---and started to live in---scenarios of highly controlled data "
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"transfer, we have to picture a situation where for some reason our electric "
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"power is off or running low. In that context all the strengths of +++DF+++s "
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"become pointless. They may not be accessible. They may not spread. Right now "
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"for us is hard to imagine. Generation after generation the storaged +++DF++"
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"+s in +++HDD+++s would be inherit with the hope of being used again. But "
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"over time those devices with our cultural heritage would become rare objects "
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"without any apparent utility."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:79
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msgid ""
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"The aspects of +++DF+++s that made us see the fragility of +++PF+++s would "
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"disappear in its concealment. Can we still talk about information if it is "
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"potential information---we know the data is there, but it is inaccessible "
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"because we don't have the means for view them? Or does information already "
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"implies the technical resources for its access---i.e. there is not "
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"information without a subject with technical skills to extract, process and "
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"use the data?"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:86
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msgid ""
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"When we usually talk about information we already suppose is there, but many "
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"times is not accessible. So the idea of potential information could be "
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"counterintuitive. If the information isn't actual we just consider that it "
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"doesn't exist, not that it is on some potential stage."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:91
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msgid ""
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"As our technology is developing we assume that we would always have _the "
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"possibility_ of better ways to extract or understand data. Thus, that there "
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"are bigger chances to get new kinds of information---and take a profit from "
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"it. Preservation of data relies between those possibilities, as we usually "
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"backup files with the idea that we could need to go back again."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:97
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msgid ""
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"Our world become more complex by new things forthcoming to us, most of the "
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"times as new characteristics of things we already know. Preservation "
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"policies implies an epistemic optimism and not only a desire to keep alive "
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"or incorrupt our heritage. We wouldn't backup data if we don't already "
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"believe we could need it in a future where we can still use it."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:103
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msgid ""
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"With this exercise could be clear a potentially paradox of +++DF+++s. More "
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"accessibility tends to require more technical infrastructure. This could "
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"imply major technical dependence that subordinate accessibility of "
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"information to the disposition of technical means. _Therefore_, we achieve a "
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"situation where more accessibility is equal to more technical infrastructure "
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"and---as we experience nowadays---dependence."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:110
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msgid ""
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"Open access to knowledge involves at least some minimum technical means. "
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"Without that, we can't really talk about accessibility of information. "
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"Contemporary open access possibilities are restricted to an already "
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"technical dependence because we give a lot of attention in the flexibility "
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"that +++DF+++s offer us for _its use_. In a world without electric power, "
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"this kind of accessibility becomes narrow and an useless effort."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:117
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msgid ""
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"![Programando Libreros and Hacklib while they work on a project intended to +"
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"++P&R+++ old Latin American SciFi books; sometimes a V-shape scanner is "
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"required when books are very fragile.](../../../img/p004_i002.jpg)"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:120
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msgid ""
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"So, _who backup whom?_ In our actual world, where geopolitics and technical "
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"means restricts flow of data and people at the same time it defends internet "
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"access as a human right---some sort of neo-Enlightenment discourse---+++DF++"
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"+s are lifesavers in a condition where we don't have more ways to move "
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"around or scape---not only from border to border, but also on cyberspace: it "
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"is becoming a common place the need to sign up and give your identity in "
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"order to use web services. Let's not forget that open access of data can be "
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"a course of action to improve as community but also a method to perpetuate "
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"social conditions."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:130
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msgid ""
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"Not a lot of people are as privilege as us when we talk about access to "
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"technical means. Even more concerning, they are hommies with disabilities "
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"that made very hard for them to access information albeit they have those "
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"means. Isn't it funny that our ideas as file contents can move more “freely” "
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"than us---your memes can reach web platform where you are not allow to sign "
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"in?"
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:136
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msgid ""
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"I desire more technological developments for freedom of +++P&R+++ and not "
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"just for use as enjoyment---no matter is for intellectual or consumption "
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"purposes. I want us to be free. But sometimes use of data, +++P&R+++ of "
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"information and people mobility freedoms don't get along."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:141
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msgid ""
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"With +++DF+++s we achieve more independence in file use because once it is "
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"save, it could spread. It doesn't matter we have religious or political "
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"barriers; the battle take place mainly in technical grounds. But this "
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"doesn't made +++DF+++s more autonomous in its +++P&R+++. Neither implies we "
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"can archive personal or community freedoms. They are objects. _They are "
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"tools_ and whoever use them better, whoever owns them, would have more power."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:148
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msgid ""
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"With +++PF+++s we can have more +++P&R+++ accessibility. We can do whatever "
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"we want with them: extract their data, process it and let it free. But only "
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"if we are their owners. Often that is not the case, so +++PF+++s tend to "
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"have more restricted access for its use. And, again, this doesn't mean we "
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"can be free. There is not any cause and effect between what object made "
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"possible and how subjects want to be free. They are tools, they are not "
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"master or slaves, just means for whoever use them… but for which ends?"
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:157
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msgid ""
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"We need +++DF+++s and +++PF+++s as backups and as everyday objects of use. "
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"The act of backup is a dynamic category. Backed up files are not inert and "
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"they aren't only a substrate waiting to be use. Sometimes we are going to "
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"use +++PF+++s because +++DF+++s have been corrupted or its technical "
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"infrastructure has been shut down. In other occasions we would use +++DF+++s "
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"when +++PF+++s have been destroyed or restricted."
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msgstr ""
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:164
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msgid ""
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"![Due restricted access to +++PF+++s, sometimes it is necessary a portable V-"
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"shape scanner; this model allows us to handle damaged books while we can "
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"also storage it in a backpack.](../../../img/p004_i003.jpg)"
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:167
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msgid ""
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"So the struggle about backups---and all that shit about “freedom” on +++FOSS+"
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"++ communities---it is not only around the “incorporeal” realm of "
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"information. Nor on the technical means that made digital data possible. "
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"Neither in the laws that transform production into property. We have others "
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"battle fronts against the monopoly of the cyberspace---or as Lingel [says]"
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"(http://culturedigitally.org/2019/03/the-gentrification-of-the-internet/): "
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"the gentrification of the internet."
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:174
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msgid ""
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"It is not just about software, hardware, privacy, information or laws. It is "
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"about us: how we build communities and how technology constitutes us as "
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"subjects. _We need more theory_. But a very diversified one because being on "
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"internet it is not the same for an scholar, a publisher, a woman, a kid, a "
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"refugee, a non-white, a poor or an old person. This space it is not neutral, "
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"homogeneous and two-dimensional. It has wires, it has servers, it has "
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"exploited employees, it has buildings, _it has power_ and it has, well, all "
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"that things the “real world” has. Not because you use a device to access "
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"means that you can always decide if you are online or not: you are always "
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"online as an user as a consumer or as data."
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#: content/md/004_backup.js:186
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msgid ""
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"_Who backup whom?_ As internet is changing us as printed text did, backed up "
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"files it isn't the storage of data, but _the memory of our world_. Is it "
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"still a good idea to leave the work of +++P&R+++ to a couple of hardware and "
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"software companies? Are we now allow to say that the act of backup implies "
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"files but something else too? "
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