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In a science fiction novel I wrote, the main character has trouble understanding the concept of data that has a physical location; to her, it's something that's just there. While I don't know if the real world will be that extreme, I don't think it's at all impossible. I think over the long term -- and maybe not even all that long -- it's probably inevitable. It does require some mind-shifts on all sides, including t…
> In a science fiction novel I wrote care to link it?
https://coyotetracks.org/for-sale/
And, a direct link to Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Kismet-Watts-Martin-ebook/dp/B01MY02O...
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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.
I used the Firefox extension Scrapbook, until the change to WebExtensions killed it. I feel changes like this are incrementally making the Web "theirs" and not "ours". Separately, someone replied on here to me, a few months ago, that archive.org's policy for respecting -- or not -- robots.txt was in the process of changing. I don't think that putting up a robots.txt policy should be able to retroactively remove from…
Over 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.
Me too. Practically every video I have seen since ~2012 went through youtube-dl, along with 100x more that I didn't watch. The memory hole is real, I plan to post my kit sometime, there's a few pieces on github (until?) already. I suspect the majority of the material I deliberately archived will be gone on YT, it's somewhere around 20% and it's going to hit 50. A big chunk is historically significant. There is a seri…
> There is a serious push to criminalize memory.
I hadn't thought about it that way, but it seems so true. And thanks for sharing bup!
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I used the Firefox extension Scrapbook, until the change to WebExtensions killed it. I feel changes like this are incrementally making the Web "theirs" and not "ours". Separately, someone replied on here to me, a few months ago, that archive.org's policy for respecting -- or not -- robots.txt was in the process of changing. I don't think that putting up a robots.txt policy should be able to retroactively remove from…
Do you know about Web ScrapBook, a WebExtensions successor to ScrapBook X? https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook
I looked for alternatives, around the time Firefox stable transitioned. I recall that ScrapbookX was going to try to transition. There was language about writing to browser local storage, but that appeared to me to be too constrained for my use, as well as not yet being in place.
Since then, I've taken more cursory looks but not found a suitable extension. I recently learned about Wallabag, but it did not appear to have the same amount of facility; nonetheless, I want to set it up and give it a go.
I've been a little distracted, this winter. So, I've not problem solved like I should.
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So add some "personal data" to the end of anything you might want to demand someone forget later.
No, if you intentionally made that data public then it's done. GDPR doesn't, say, force you to remove political views of Theresa May from newspapers, despite that being covered by personal data, because Theresa May made those views public.