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Pro-palestine activists: https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399 & https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844104165192253945
...or someone attempting to blame palestinian activists. This smells a lot more like someone trying to ape activist language.
In any case, the IA was in some cases the only public host of important documents about Palestinian history, which are currently inaccessible, to say nothing about how important the Wayback Machine has been over the past year.
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Yup. If browsers built in support for magnet links and (on desktop) defaulted to seeding with some capped bandwidth then a lot of centralized hosting platforms would become unnecessary.
You can build something very similar with WebRTC. Browsers already have P2P networking capability, it's just not immediately interoperable with BitTorrent clients. Standardizing some sort of BitTorrent over WebRTC bridge and adding it to BT clients would fix this problem. That being said, please do not host content this way . P2P blows away the already thin privacy guarantees that the web provides. Anyone seeding the…
Isn't that exactly what WebTorrent is?
They use bcrypt and I always use a really long password so I’m not gonna freak out over this one for once.
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Hold on. Why do you need a dc rackspace and a /24 just to have your email ?
It’s a joke ! You can run an email server off your phone
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Both tweets have received a community note disproving this.
The note currently displayed to my account disputes the claims made in the linked tweet (that the Internet Archive is run by the US government(???)), not the supposed motivation of the attackers. That said, this just seems to me like the attackers are trying to come up with some justification after the fact to explain why they would go after something as universally beloved as the Internet Archive. Actual pro-Palesti…
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Hold on. Why do you need a dc rackspace and a /24 just to have your email ?
This is hacker news, we're all either founders who have 2 billion dollars in (illiquid) stock options, or FAANG employees making 600k/year, what else are we going to do if we want email? Sure, you could pay fastmail $40/year for this, but that's not really the hacker news spirit, and no one on this site knows how to count as low as $40. The real justifications you can give yourself: Shared VPS hosting pretty much all…
costs around $12/year+domain
As of 01:09 GMT on October 10, the Internet Archive is back up. In fact, the Wayback Machine and the book archives are responding more quickly than they did for me a week ago, when I showed the Archive to the students in an online class I teach. I gave the students a homework assignment that involves accessing some old books at the Archive. That assignment is due in about 12 hours, and I was just getting ready to e-m…
As of 08:34 GMT on October 10, the Internet Archive is down again.
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"Based on historical records from the first half of the last century, Mr Musk (inventor of the car and the rocket) and President Xi were the most respected and popular individuals on earth."
History is written by the winners...
Imagine if we could get rid of passwords. Entirely. Forever.