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Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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Post by spinach »

tonystubblebine wrote: post #39
egdod wrote: post #29

> You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story. Fuck Medium.

Not sure it's obvious, but that article only exists because of medium's paywall. That subscription money goes to the author, and in the case of that publication, also editors. I can understand why someone might not want to be a medium customer yet, but I don't see how cursing them is warranted.

Early tech bros built the internet on the idea of everything should be free (even if at the same time they idolized billionaire CEOs) and now the idea of free is pervasive and things like journalism, a pillar of democracy is failing.

Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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journalctl wrote: post #44
egdod wrote: post #29

> You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story. Fuck Medium.

Just letting you know I downvoted this because it contributes nothing to the conversation that we haven’t heard a million times before. Yes, Medium sucks ass. I’m sorry. I hate it too. But to see this on every. Single. Thread. involving a Medium article makes me want to pull every last goddamn hair out. The fact that it’s the top comment right now speaks to HN’s apparent inability to actually discuss the content of a…

It’s almost like silicon valley mostly makes broken crap.

Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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mojomark wrote: post #12
fredsted wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That made me very frustrated! Here's the proper article, with actual pictures: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-artifacts-pul...

Thanks for the link. Aside from the OP article's basic regurgitation of prior (perhaps stale - I couldn't read it either being behind a "sign-in wall"), the Smithsonian author clearly didn't view it as a race against time and human-induced climate change, but merely an unexpected windfall for researchers: "There are countless negative impacts of the changing climate, but the recovery of these artifacts could be an un…

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Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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Post by snak »

egdod wrote: post #29

> You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story. Fuck Medium.

I decided to block all medium cookies in Chrome a few weeks ago when that message popped up, and now that you mention it I haven't seen it in a while, so I guess it is enough, no scripts/add-ons required.

Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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Post by journalctl »

SomeOldThrow wrote: post #52
journalctl wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just letting you know I downvoted this because it contributes nothing to the conversation that we haven’t heard a million times before. Yes, Medium sucks ass. I’m sorry. I hate it too. But to see this on every. Single. Thread. involving a Medium article makes me want to pull every last goddamn hair out. The fact that it’s the top comment right now speaks to HN’s apparent inability to actually discuss the content of a…

It’s almost like silicon valley mostly makes broken crap.

Broken records, apparently.

Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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Post by journalctl »

lallysingh wrote: post #47
journalctl wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just letting you know I downvoted this because it contributes nothing to the conversation that we haven’t heard a million times before. Yes, Medium sucks ass. I’m sorry. I hate it too. But to see this on every. Single. Thread. involving a Medium article makes me want to pull every last goddamn hair out. The fact that it’s the top comment right now speaks to HN’s apparent inability to actually discuss the content of a…

The venue blocks access. Linking to an inaccessible article will get complaints. That's the appropriate response. If HN refused medium articles, this problem would solve itself. What value does medium provide to be worth losing HN as a source of traffic?

But it doesn’t, so why bring it up? Just ignore it and move on. I don’t understand why these conversations aren’t considered not germane and deleted, honestly.

Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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Post by inetknght »

basch wrote: post #49
Plyphon_ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Incognito gets you around this. I know it's beside the point. However incognito is the laziest of bypasses to a subscription-wall which tells me Medium aren't really behind it as a strategy anyway.

uMatrix, can granularly block js, cookies, css etc on a per site and per domain (different elements loading into a site) basis. Blocking all cookies and javascript on medium has minimal to no negative impact on my experience.

I use uMatrix with a global deny of everything. When going to a site never previously visited uMatrix then puts up a big warning sign indicating that the entire site is blocked. That's handy to increase anti-phishing defense depth too.

Re: Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

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Post by RosanaAnaDana »

mhandley wrote: post #26

The unidentified "wrenches" [1] look awfully like a Trangia pan handle [2]. Wonder if they were used to hold a hot cooking pot? [1] https://miro.medium.com/max/4344/1*yF6s3HG4AY4WAQruLPSmag.jp... [2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trangia-Pan-Handle/dp/B06XWJ32LP

Huh. Exactly. The notches on the handle would be for lashing in another piece of wood to act as the lever arm.
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