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Except they do in Europe under the 'right to be forgotten'.
That's what they think. Fortunately for the Internet, there are lots of unaffected servers outside it.
And unfortunately for Joy Reid.
Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
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Re: Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When I delete an article from my blog It's not yours anymore once it's public. It's like saying "when I do something crazy in public I want to be able to make everyone forget about it later on". That's not how things are supposed to work. > I don't want anyone to be able to read it anymore People can still have local copies so you have absolutely NO CONTROL.
> It's like saying "when I do something crazy in public I want to be able to make everyone forget about it later on". That's not how things are supposed to work. Says who?
How would you go about erasing actual memories?
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is, it's getting harder every day to find DRM-free content. For audio, CDs are getting out of fashion, and piracy channels lack the seeders because everybody is on Spotify.
What do you mean? Google and Amazon both sell DRM free music. (Apple might too, I've just been out of that ecosystem for so long that I don't really remember)
iTunes is now drm-free except for streaming
Re: Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
#224Hmm, all they got to do is have a dynamic robots.txt that forbids wayback from the deleted articles, and they'll remove the workaround even. yes?
Sure, but they'd have to create a list of every deleted article which seems like it would be pretty long.
I assume their software is quite capable of automatically creating such a list to include in robots.txt, automatically generated.
Re: Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
#225Over the last year I've come to trust effectively nothing on the internet. I've had so many Spotify playlists I was following disappear, whole artists, websites, articles, etc. I'm slowly moving to offline-first versions of all the information I care about. Edit: This change too also lends to the 'slow web' (or just slow $whatever) movement, which I'm a fan of.
One of the first things I do with any article that I've enjoyed is download an HTML copy and create a PDF. Too many times I've bookmarked something only to come back a year later and it's gone.
Re: Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes but the article itself is user-provided content to Medium that the author has a right to ask to be deleted (under GDPR), presumably? So perhaps it will be simply a matter of the The Wayback Machine having to have a policy to delete things if requested?
No! GDPR is about personal data, which is well defined in the regulations and does not include blog posts. The right to delete data (or "be forgotten") is nothing to do with GDPR. If the original post contained personal data, it is a different issue but if that was put out into the public domain, it is a hard problem to solve.
What if the blog post contains personal data?
Re: Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's like saying "when I do something crazy in public I want to be able to make everyone forget about it later on". That's not how things are supposed to work. Says who?
How would you go about erasing actual memories?
The passage of time is the typical method.
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Yup, it's becoming a sad state to be able to own things and not be dependent upon the whims of others. I went from buying all my music (physical and digital copies), and sometimes had to remove DRM from the digital copies, to stopping that and just using Spotify. I'm slowly planning to stop paying for Spotify, but it would be very expensive to buy all the music I listen to. I think this will lead to at least 2 things…
I used to save tracks by recording them through the "analog hole", using the following commandline in Linux: parec | sox -t raw -r 44100 -Lb 16 -c 2 -e signed-integer - -t wav raw.wav It still requires a lot of manual work, such as cutting the tracks, and making sure there are no "skips" (which somehow can happen). Skips could theoretically be removed using a consensus algorithm (using multiple recordings). I just wi…
I'm not familiar with the 'parec' command. Are you able to filter out other audio streams (e.g. Slack alerts or accidentally opening a page with an auto-play video)? I was under the impression that one of the big advantages of Pulse Audio was its ability to separate multiple streams.
Interestingly enough, I had similar scripts about 15 years ago pre-Napster. The earliest mp3 sharing sites tended to push full-albums instead of breaking things up by track. I had a lot of fun using some of the earlier mp3 tools to break up and tag tracks. I still have a lot those mp3s on various HDs, and I know it because my splits weren't perfect for certain tracks that don't have 2 second gaps.
Re: Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is, it's getting harder every day to find DRM-free content. For audio, CDs are getting out of fashion, and piracy channels lack the seeders because everybody is on Spotify.
What do you mean? Google and Amazon both sell DRM free music. (Apple might too, I've just been out of that ecosystem for so long that I don't really remember)
I feel like music is one of the few pieces of media that's very easy to buy DRM free. Movies, TV shows, books, and most other things are heavily encumbered after you "buy" them.