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cache busting by hitting a random string is amateurish, that's only bypassing the nginx caches, hit something like admin-ajax and you'll have much better results. in minecraft of course.
 
Bloodfeast Island Man said:
I didn't even know archive.today still worked. I haven't been able to connect .today, .md, .is, etc for a month or two.

Should I use ghostarchive and hope for the best or something else? I've had ghostarchive not work a couple of times.
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Ghostarchive if you want to share, but for personal archiving https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/tree/dev is the best. If it ain't on your disk, it might as well not exist. HDDs are cheap, just hoard shit.
 
Bloodfeast Island Man said:
I didn't even know archive.today still worked. I haven't been able to connect .today, .md, .is, etc for a month or two.

Should I use ghostarchive and hope for the best or something else? I've had ghostarchive not work a couple of times.
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Before you choose an archiving service, it would seem you should share you opinion about gay dating/marriage and then people can best direct you to an archiving service that aligns with your personal beliefs.
 
Bloodfeast Island Man said:
I didn't even know archive.today still worked. I haven't been able to connect .today, .md, .is, etc for a month or two.
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archive.today doesn't work with certain ISP providers if you are using a VPN. I have wanted to add this to the Archival Tools guide along with some other sites (megalodon.jp & ghostarchive.org) which do the same archival thing.
 
Bloodfeast Island Man said:
I didn't even know archive.today still worked. I haven't been able to connect .today, .md, .is, etc for a month or two.

Should I use ghostarchive and hope for the best or something else? I've had ghostarchive not work a couple of times.
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From what I've noticed, archive.today seems to geoblock some countries arbitrarily and without any kind of notice to the user. Assuming you have a VPN, switch to a different location. Only some locations seem to work, and I use Mullvad.

SpellforceFan said:
Ghostarchive if you want to share, but for personal archiving https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/tree/dev is the best. If it ain't on your disk, it might as well not exist. HDDs are cheap, just hoard shit.
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Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.
 
UERISIMILITUDO said:
I've not included quite a bit here. This whole thing seems gay. In fact, the owner of archive.is is, from what I can tell, threatening to make a dating app for homosexuals named after this person's grandfather.

As always, kiwis, :story:.
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Uh oh, I hope our top archive doesn't self-immolate over some petty bullshit, or an elaborate FBI/CIA OSINT smuggling plot. A lot of weirdos and spooks would celebrate its destruction.

This is what appears to be the archive.today shill account on HN if I'm getting this right. Here's all activity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nora-puchreiner (archive - first archived ~5 years ago within an hour of comments) (ghost) (mega) (wayback)
HN 36970702: Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019) (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback) - 205 comments
HN 37002818: [flagged] Ask HN: Is Archive.is an NSA Honeypot? (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback) - 12 comments
HN 37009598: Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback) - 62 comments
HN 39106799: Ask HN: Any legal way against forced software upgrades and feature removal (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback) - 67 comments
HN 41704005: Archive.ph is serving a TLS certificate for a different domain (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback) - 2 comments
HN 45701825: Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback) - 92 comments
(Turns out there is more, I'll take a look at it later)

Attempting to open any archive.today for Gyrovague.com results in Nginx page:

https://gyrovague.com/ (ghost) (mega) (wayback)
Gyrovague: archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet (ghost) (mega) (wayback) - 1 comment
Gyrovague: archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (ghost) (mega broken) (wayback) - 0 comments
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Uh oh, I hope our top archive doesn't self-immolate over some petty bullshit, or an elaborate FBI/CIA OSINT smuggling plot.
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I can't wait to need four archives like this just to protect myself against future dumbfuckery.

It's been discussed before, and an archive is one aspect of Kiwi Farms which Null can't replace. Absolutely no one would trust it for evidence. The entire reason a random archive can be trusted for some petty bullshit is exactly because it's incredibly unlikely for the owner of an archive to ruin his credibility over a tweet or some shit.
 
UERISIMILITUDO said:
I can't wait to need four archives like this just to protect myself against future dumbfuckery.

It's been discussed before, and an archive is one aspect of Kiwi Farms which Null can't replace. Absolutely no one would trust it for evidence. The entire reason a random archive can be trusted for some petty bullshit is exactly because it's incredibly unlikely for the owner of an archive to ruin his credibility over a tweet or some shit.
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In the past year it became evident to me that we have to oh baby quadruple archive for very important stuff. All of them have various problems, and the Archive.today man is both attacking and defending.

Here's an idea: what about a third-party archiver that downloads a .MHTML for you (preventing accidental self-dox but also no content specific to what you see), does not store it, but does store a record of the exact timestamp from the .MHTML along with MD5 hash (and others if needed). You upload your zipped copy to Kiwi Farms or wherever, and anybody can verify the authenticity by searching the database for the exact hash, or the URL to get a list of archives that were ever made.

This would make the archive service a lot easier to run because it would store orders of magnitude less data, and no potentially illegal content. It would be more of an archive verification service. The downside is that if the .MHTML is deleted by the original archivist and wasn't spread around, there's a record for something that doesn't exist anymore.

But maybe we're too autistic about this when a TikTok video or "Google Docky" with badly compressed screenshots is good enough for the Zoomies.
 
Bloodfeast Island Man said:
I'm using Mullvad as well. I'll try some other exit nodes later on and see if I can finally connect. I'll add megalodon.jp as a backup backup options.
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Their Netherlands servers seem to be working for me today, while a few others like US, JP, and rawdogging it would just give me infinite recaptcha loops.

The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
But maybe we're too autistic about this when a TikTok video or "Google Docky" with badly compressed screenshots is good enough for the Zoomies.
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My favourite part of zoomer drama is how it revolves largely around Discord screenshots, and perceived veracity is mostly based on the reputation of the accuser.
 
On one hand, the guy the archive.is owner is baiting is an NGO faggot with a family deeply involved in corpo-bullshit and absolutely deserves to get his shit kicked for being Lugenpresse, but on the other hand the archive.is operator shouldn't be throwing all of this away over a vendetta.
 
This one is bound to be a fun thread - France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

My first thought was "Cool maybe the EU will stop trying to regulate American companies 🌈" but of course, it's because of political reasons the EU are even making this decision and lo, the political sperging is just as you would imagine it. They even dusted off the old chestnut "Well, that's the problem, these people are wildly uneducated and unsophisticated" because they can fathom no other reason someone might vote for conservatives rather than liberals.
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The owner of archive.is has made another post:
https://archive-is.tumblr.com/post/807584470961111040 (archive)
It seems people don’t read between the lines. They took what I wrote on finne troll for neuroslop.

So let’s say it plain.

There is a family. A big one. They move in politics and in the arms trade.

There is one man in that family who does something else. He doxes people on the internet. He does it to drive traffic to
his little blog, packed with ads.

In other words, he is the fool of the family. No use to the real business.

He shames the family name and gets in the way of his father and his brother.

You don’t believe it?

He used to run a blog at patokallio.name. Now it’s called gyrovague.com. The name “Patokallio” is hidden in the sidebar.
You have to click to see it. It’s not in the text at all. In the posts, even in quotes, he cuts the name out every time.

So the talk with the family already happened. It must have gone like this: live how you want, but you are not our
brother, avoid using our name.

And now, in that position, the man has taken up doxing random internet projects just to make a little money.

Epic, isn’t it.
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There has also been a discussion on Hacker News about this by now:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 (archive) (archive)

Let's see, dang says this kind of thing is usually beneath them, and it had been flagged, but he overrode them due to the parties involved:
dang said:
Edit: after looking at this more closely, I have a counterintuitive (to me at least) take: I think this is interesting enough to transcend the usual categories. That is, we'd normally downweight this kind of post off the frontpage - but in this case there are so many unusual variables that the usual rules don't apply.
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I believe this to have been reasonable.

Gyrovague is, I believe it to be him, defending himself in the conversation. It's pretty funny how many people aren't taking his side, and calling him a dick for what he did.
:story:
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
This one is bound to be a fun thread - France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

My first thought was "Cool maybe the EU will stop trying to regulate American companies 🌈" but of course, it's because of political reasons the EU are even making this decision and lo, the political sperging is just as you would imagine it. They even dusted off the old chestnut "Well, that's the problem, these people are wildly uneducated and unsophisticated" because they can fathom no other reason someone might vote for conservatives rather than liberals.
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Holy fucking shit if you work in tech anywhere in the EU, I hope you like blue balls because I cannot remember how many times I've been told that "country wide switches to Linux" or "trusted, open source alternatives to US tech" are being developed en masse, only for all the corpocattle to still consoom FagOS and Jeetdows like nothing ever happened. You'd think with so much posturing they'd be up to something, but it really is the case that NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.
 
Ferryman said:
only for all the corpocattle to still consoom FagOS and Jeetdows like nothing ever happened
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That's because Microsoft bribed them to switch back. I know this happened at least once in Germany.

I don't think that'll work this time, and not just because Windows has become even less usable.
 
UERISIMILITUDO said:
It's pretty funny how many people aren't taking his side, and calling him a dick for what he did.
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Some people might remember cookiengineer, the raped stabbed maintainer of an Audacity fork and to this day self-described "4chan (/g/, /pol/, /q/, kiwifarms) discreditation target of 2021". He's not too happy about HN moderation and the supposed flagging army coming from /g/ and /pol/:
Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog Hacker News.png

His other most recent comment is about Audacity and its supposed role in spreading botnets, and was flagged, perhaps contributing to that sentiment:
cookiengineer's comments Hacker News.png
 
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