If you can, donate to them, even just a dollar. The Internet Archive is critical for preserving history! Heck, try to lobby your politicians to donate to them if you're outside of the U.S. (because that probably wouldn't work inside the US nowdays)
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Ugh some asshole who’s only going to live a century depriving an endless future of historical knowledge. Musk needs to be detained and imprisoned.
Yes, "detained." And "imprisoned." ☠️
I wished we hadn't voted for him. Wait a minute...
If you are USian, you did vote for him, either by voting, by not voting, or by not doing enough to prevent it. We on the outside of the US dystopia do get to suffer the consequences without having voted either way.
He is literally a foreign terrorist. Deport his ass!
Deport? Dude he is still a man of serious means. It won't stop him. He needs to be put in a supermax prison and in isolation. It is an intensely cruel punishment but the only appropriate one.
ironically hes from a country thats currently being influenced by russia too.
they already faced cyber attacks now this? i mean, what can i say that hasn't already been said? keep on fighting for democracy!
Modern book burnings create a lot less smoke and noise.
Musk should really be removed from power.
He should join a Mario game as the second player.
Musk should be removed entirely. He has gone completely authoritarian.
no one voted him in power in the first place, doesnt that go directly against democracy too?
Vacation to El Salvador. Permanent.
CECOT or gitmo.
Isn't he an illegal? Oh he isn't and you say he has papers? Oops! Sorry, cannot get him back, we don't have that kind of power, shrug emoji!
I didn't see any papers 👊 🇺🇸 🔥
he got in on a J-visa, so did his brother, he did something long enough so that him or his brother could permanently stay in the country. he allegedly was going to grad school? but quickly abandoned it once he got his citizenship.
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Isn't it weird how "doge" just goes after anything that actually benefits people?
They are just after things that doesn’t benefit them
He's a loser. As are all his "dark enlightenment" apartheid neo-Nazi bootlickers :-)
They used to burn books. Now they just defund information storage services.
sounds like the same thing.
You know what is so ironic? I remember not that long ago (OK, like 20 years ago...) that once something was on the internet, it is there forever as long as file sharing and multiple hosts do it... but it has become abundantly clearly that, despite the fact that it can be REALLY hard to get shit off the internet, it doesn't make it impossible. We've already seen it happen. The truth is, there is so much stuff that people DON'T widely share, and even then, the interest in their sharing in a torrent style is limited (I once downloaded leaked emails regarding transphobic propagandists talking to one another and while I kept seeding for almost a year, I barely got anyone downloading), that it is actually possible to make large amounts of stuff just vanish.
I think the real point of the adage, "once it's on the internet it's there forever" is more about the fact that you, personally, can't take it back. Someone might of screenshot, downloaded it, reuploaded it elsewhere. The real meaning being that, once it's on the internet, you no longer control it. Which I think still holds true, but it definitely was heavily implied that it would be there forever.
Pretty much this. Once you put it on the internet it's out of your control. It might disappear, it might not. Best just to assume it won't. Unless it's useful information, then it probably will.
I've seen several examples of things wiped before, so I've always been a bit skeptical of that adage. I've seen several niche forums, or even forums of small newspapers - just go completely offline.
It might be these are still sitting around on backups somewhere and will some day come to light and be hosted by some entity in an open format...
I made forum posts going as far back as 2000. Almost all of them are gone forever due to the reasons you mentioned. Even the wayback machine might have a snapshot of the forum, but not the threads made them, and not the posts made within those threads.
i started joining forums in late 2000s when i was in CC, those were og"reddit" sites before i migrated to Y'Answers, then to reddit after that.
I'm wondering if any BBS posts I made way, way back when are on any drives anywhere. I'm sure it's possible. I'm pretty sure the USENET posts I made back in the day started to get archived by Google (at least) and I'm pretty they will be around for quite some time.
Proprietary things built and run by private tyrannies using no standard protocol (like NNTP or ActivityPub) I don't give much of a chance...
I made BBS posts in the early-mid 90s. They don't exist anymore, because at that time the only BBSes I had any access to were local guys running one off a personal computer (and as such weren't even available 24/7). The DMs and chats that happened there? If those guys actually kept the logs and kept transferring them from HD to HD, then I'll be damned... but chances are likely they have disappeared into the ether.
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Time to donate again :)
$345,000?
That's like, 2 devs and an 8 CPU VM.
Holy shit, that's like not even a rounding error to the US Government. So obvious what he is doing.
It's trully disgusting and inexcusable.
That's 1/100th the price Trump paid to send innocent people to CECOT.
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Honest question...Can we just pop all that on a server in Canada or something? Couldn't the devs make a deal with another country not bound by your IP law or "government" to save your history along with that of other countries as well?
I'm gonna ask my MP as well.
Canada is another country that claim to be cool but if there are image of burning kids from Gaza or reference to Israel genocide or war crimes they will delete the data themselves.
Best approach would be a decentralized archive.
The author of archive box makes a very strong case for the need for both decentralized and centralized archives like the internet archive: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-changelog-software-development-open-source/id341623264?i=1000678444105
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, until there is any actual examples of Canada banning images. Even in this case, it’s a loss of public funding rather than blocking. The internet archive is mostly privately funded.
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