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#3I've already made my donation to IA this year but I might need to make another.
Somehow it's the IA's job to fix problems that we all know are problems, sadly.
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#4I've already made my donation to IA this year but I might need to make another. Somehow it's the IA's job to fix problems that we all know are problems, sadly.
Wikipedia reminded me multiple times to donate to the Internet Archive this year.
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#5Some days, nearly half the links I click are dead so I've found myself relying on the waybackmachine more and more over the past few months. It's really shocking just how fast digital obsolescence reared its ugly head. Of course angelcites etc. were a clear early blow, but nowadays...
I've started saving the html (including the css seems like too much overhead, and often it's incomplete or relies on downloads still - and screenshots are not searchable) of every interesting article I find online, downloading quite a few videos too with yt-dlp. I'd long copypasted all interesting comments into a txt file, but now it seems like data hoarding's the way to go - at least in moderation, focusing on things I'll actually refer back to.
I remember 15 years ago, discovering pdf dumps on random sites like a kid in a candy store. Perhaps it'll be like that again, with people presenting museums of their favorite old pages.
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#6I've already made my donation to IA this year but I might need to make another. Somehow it's the IA's job to fix problems that we all know are problems, sadly.
Wikipedia reminded me multiple times to donate to the Internet Archive this year.
Haha, i know what you mean...my mind works the same way ;)
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#7Some days, nearly half the links I click are dead so I've found myself relying on the waybackmachine more and more over the past few months. It's really shocking just how fast digital obsolescence reared its ugly head. Of course angelcites etc. were a clear early blow, but nowadays... I've started saving the html (including the css seems like too much overhead, and often it's incomplete or relies on downloads still -…
> I've started saving
I do similar. I've had https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox bookmarked for a while as something to try better organise all that, but like a great many things I haven't go around to it yet.
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#8Some days, nearly half the links I click are dead so I've found myself relying on the waybackmachine more and more over the past few months. It's really shocking just how fast digital obsolescence reared its ugly head. Of course angelcites etc. were a clear early blow, but nowadays... I've started saving the html (including the css seems like too much overhead, and often it's incomplete or relies on downloads still -…
While the author(s) are still alive, they are often a productive contact.
(In one case I was able to give back: bundling up the several scans an author had of a half-century old paper from their student days into a single, hopefully cromulent, PDF)
Edit: recall also that accepting that links are one-way and might be dead was the key simplification that allowed HTTP to take off after prior attempts at hypermedia had failed.
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#9Some days, nearly half the links I click are dead so I've found myself relying on the waybackmachine more and more over the past few months. It's really shocking just how fast digital obsolescence reared its ugly head. Of course angelcites etc. were a clear early blow, but nowadays... I've started saving the html (including the css seems like too much overhead, and often it's incomplete or relies on downloads still -…
> I've started saving I do similar. I've had https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox bookmarked for a while as something to try better organise all that, but like a great many things I haven't go around to it yet.
I use Raindrop for this. It’s a pretty great bookmark manager made by an indie dev, but it also can create archives of bookmarked pages.
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#10Not from the IA, but see https://scholia.toolforge.org for an especially nice presentation of freely-available scholarly metadata.