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A pulled an old friends website down from Internet Archive. He's moved on the next stage, but I was glad I was able to put his site back up. It'll be a shame if IA goes down permanently, but we need a decentralized solution anyway. Having a single mega organization in charge of our collective heritage isn't a good idea.
A decentralized solution, doesn't that scream internet archive on blockchain? What could go wrong.
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The undertone was intended to be: that's an insane amount of money, something one with quadruple that amount of experience would maybe earn in a for-profit organisation, but I guess your reaction further proves it's different where you're from
To put the reaction into context, the individual low income threshold in that area is 105k USD [0]. [0] https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-f...
Does this mean you get benefits (like free housing, healthcare, and money to buy food with) if you earn less than 105k/year? Or what does low income threshold mean here
A pulled an old friends website down from Internet Archive. He's moved on the next stage, but I was glad I was able to put his site back up. It'll be a shame if IA goes down permanently, but we need a decentralized solution anyway. Having a single mega organization in charge of our collective heritage isn't a good idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa... I found this reddit thread from /r/DataHoarder about backing up the internet archive particularly interesting, given the circumstances
How much of the archive is affected? Could be a targeted effort to tamper with historical records.
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Verge article as possible replacement: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41793081
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This raises an interesting question: should email addresses be private? Addresses of buildings aren't private, and they're somewhat analogous as with many computing concepts. (Aside: Before spam filters were quite good, it was typical to avoid scraping of addresses by mild obfuscation, but I think those days are gone, and this is distinct from privacy anyway.) If someone wants to upload and never be found out, then t…
This raises an interesting question: should email addresses be private? GDPR is clear on this and there have been significant fines for revealing email addresses against the will of their owners (e.g. using cc instead of bcc). Not saying this is the ultimate wisdom, just a data point to consider.
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To put the reaction into context, the individual low income threshold in that area is 105k USD [0]. [0] https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-f...
FTR that page just says 403 forbidden Does this mean you get benefits (like free housing, healthcare, and money to buy food with) if you earn less than 105k/year? Or what does low income threshold mean here
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I have always thought about this. It would be interesting to have users actually store small amounts of redundant info on a device connected to the internet. Very similarly to what a torrent does but with more peers (more data shards than full copies) and less seeds. And try and keep a huge database for everyone. Obviously open source and it would end up something like tor where they just assist the network with secu…
IIRC there were a few storage based projects that popped up using alt coins to encourage people to offer excess storage space for other randos on there internet. The possibility you might be storing illegal content might have been what killed it/them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_storage_cloud gives a few examples, like Filecoin.
1) wedding itself to crypto with FileCoin.
2) terrible performance due to architectural choices (basically: too much pointer-chasing, except every pointer was back out to the DHT).
3) No serious attempts to integrate with existing software distribution strategies.
I think it's still a good core idea.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41793081
That's just about article quality though. Is there a policy about linking to known compromised sites? Should one flag the submission for moderator attention?