Oh gosh Internet archive saw a lot of shit but continued their work no mater what, I got most of old ROMs there its a great digital museum but wrong people in wrong places of power will ruin every beneficial things out there.
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He is such a poser.
Isn't it weird how "doge" just goes after anything that actually benefits people?
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Genuinely thought that his shirt read "kech support"
They used to burn books. Now they just defund information storage services.
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.
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Yes, the trouble with archiving is knowing what will be important in the future, rather than just popular now. We saved a lot of games from the 80’s through 2000’s through piracy, because they were popular to pass around, but we lost a most of the early web because no one thought it would disappear until the internet archive came along.
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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...
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What a time to be alive. It's like Ancient Rome has entered the peaceful minecraft nature server.
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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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I'm Canadian and I fully agree. Having the discussion on how to protect history is important as we know. That's just what first came to mind. I am also no tech wizard. Just an old man with ideas.
lemmy.world
Why, where is lemmy.world based?
Meaning the entire Internet archive.
$345,000?
That's like, 2 devs and an 8 CPU VM.
That's 1/100th the price Trump paid to send innocent people to CECOT.
This publicity will probably bring in more money for the internet archive than what was cut.
Still a dick move by musk, but I'm glad it's not an existential threat to the project.
For a bit.
Public institutions need and deserve public funding.
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.
Best $100 I ever spent.
You are far more generous and capable than I am. I started a monthly 5 dollar donation.
Every penny helps.