I was able to see all pages except for "3. Look at yourself objectively"
Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [...] Nameservers responsible for archive.is (ben.archive.is, anna.archive.is) are returning answers tailored to the IP address of the requestor [...] From this thread https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
That's "how" not "why". Most major services tailor queries based on the source IP, for some reason when archive.is does it to cloudflare queries it's either broken or purposefully broken. At first I thought it might be something to do with 1.1.1.1 in the archive.is network but then I noticed cloudflare queries on behalf of clients don't even source from that IP.
Archive.is intentionally returns bad results to Cloudflare DNS, because Cloudflare don't send them the EDNS Client Subnet Header. Archive.is haven't said much about why, but what they have said appears to accord with this blog post: https://www.sajalkayan.com/post/cloudflare-1dot1dot1dot1.htm...
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#24His post "I hate the news" (0) was(is) very influential for me personally. It was seminal in what become a rather significant change in my habits and view of the world. I am now very conscious that news are entertainment, purely and simply. With the goods and bads of any other entertainment form. From time to time, while explaining my position to others (often seen as kind of radical), I refer this post. I hope it co…
Google currently has it cached.
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#25I doubt his kind of "dangerous" thinking will be allowed to be spread for much longer in our corporate dystopian internet. It's just a matter of time before speech daring to criticize the corporations will be considered a security threat or whatever and immediately deleted.
Based on which precedent did you arrive at this conclusion?
Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [...] Nameservers responsible for archive.is (ben.archive.is, anna.archive.is) are returning answers tailored to the IP address of the requestor [...] From this thread https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
That's "how" not "why". Most major services tailor queries based on the source IP, for some reason when archive.is does it to cloudflare queries it's either broken or purposefully broken. At first I thought it might be something to do with 1.1.1.1 in the archive.is network but then I noticed cloudflare queries on behalf of clients don't even source from that IP.
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#27I’ll try to figure this out today
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#28I doubt his kind of "dangerous" thinking will be allowed to be spread for much longer in our corporate dystopian internet. It's just a matter of time before speech daring to criticize the corporations will be considered a security threat or whatever and immediately deleted.
Based on which precedent did you arrive at this conclusion?
If you are going to penalize my freedom to NOT buy products the originate from a specific location, it is a slippery slope to see what other forms of protest might be curtailed in order to alter markets.
Edit: Downvote me all you want, doesn't make it less true.
[0] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/30/rand-paul-israel-m...
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#29Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
#30I’ll try to figure this out today
Also, I'm not sure how it is presently configured, but if the site is presently a dynamic CMS, it might be worthwhile to export the static assets and host the site on S3/GCS/IPFS. And to publish a tar.gz copy along with a signature checksum.