if i fail, let me be wormfood.

a liveblog of sorts — absolutely titillating, i know. also, i hate the idea of having to look at (no subject) in my titles, so these will likely get titled the same way i title shitty video game clips.

in any case, i am using this guide on how to get a (functioning!) backup of ye olde tungle; it's very simple and gentle, and the download is ticking away atm. it ticks up posts in chunks of 50 (cmdprompt gives a running tally — basiacat: Getting posts 22000 to 22050) and it's going up about once per second for me, which i think is dependent on both internet speed and processor speed, both of which i'm lucky to have in Beef format. what's interesting is that it's also spitting out an error log of images it's getting a 404 on, one urlopen error ("no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it), and a couple of forbidden downloading (403) errors which really just brought me back to tumblr ca. 2010, where people would disable right-clicking on their themes so that no one else could steal the photos that they stole off of weheartit.

oh look at that, it gave me a 500 posts left to sa— ok we're done, it's hung up on 0 remaining posts to save, and i assume it's like. indexing? or something? okay there we go, 30829 posts backed up and that's the number listed officially on the tungle machine too.

this backup is really great compared to the "official" tumblr one, because that was an email i got with a fucking 30gb zip that spat itself out into individual html files for each posts, with zero organization by date. this is maybe not as nice as twitter's archive download, but it's functional and organized. five stars and big ups to the person(s) who created that program and to the person who wrote that guide — they were both so easy to use and i'm gonna go push this on all my friends asap now.

ok! that's one life update done! NO CLUE how i'm going to organize this kind of post into my tags now. goodnite