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I wonder if this technology will eventually revolutionize music the same way synthesizers did. Or at least lead to music and effects/filters that are simply not possible with curre…

Agreed. I'd guess for ~90% of web users, GDPR popups have lost all meaning. The thought process is not about opting in or out, it's more "how do I close this popup as quickly as po…

https://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/internet-archive-to-ignore... They are gradually expanding the scope of sites where robots.txt is ignored, perhaps "testing the water".

I'm guessing Archive.is will probably disappear within the next 5 years, taking all data down with it. Nobody knows who owns or maintains the site, and recently the mysterious owne…

"bothered to index" and "IA can be quite selective" implies that there's a human overseer to the Wayback operation, not true! Pages are archived automatically, and sites are crawle…