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KonalaKoala ,
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This seems like it could be the work of someone who doesn’t want their webpage data being scraped and stolen by AI LLMs, that are using archive.org as some kind of method for bypassing paywalls.

Tachikoma741 ,

Damn. I guess this is why we can’t have nice things.

I guess I’ll take this opportunity mention if one cannot make a monetary donation to IA. You can always help them out by help seed some of their torrents. I’d appreciate it at least :P

Magnetic_dud ,

I tried to seed the torrents but I never found anything that needed seeds, most users download via browser

graeghos_714 ,

Odd. I’m able to listen to music there still

r3df0x ,

Reddit also has vote fuzzing where you can get the number of votes, but it’s always manipulated for some reason.

I don’t understand the point, and tbh it’s a serious case of social media mind fuckery. It’s a real problem for anyone who creates an incredibly specific subreddit for use by a group and then everyone is left wondering who keeps downvoting them. That can have real life consequences for anyone who doesn’t understand what is happening.

kent_eh ,

Reddit also has vote fuzzing where you can get the number of votes, but it’s always manipulated for some reason.

The stated reason is to prevent abuses like “piling on”.

Snapz ,

The attack on the few remaining services that the “every person” openly benefits from is so disheartening.

Not the save structure for org, but this feeling made be remember The Consumerist in it’s heyday and when it was bought and silenced effectively… you know kids, the internet used to be a thing that actually helped and supported us without the ready acceptance of 51% “hallucinations” in information. It was actual people, in small, quiet corners, that didn’t demand subscriptions and micro transactions at every turn. It wasn’t that long ago.

blusterydayve26 ,

Used to be, “the tragedy of the commons” didn’t quite so literally mean an attack on the common resources.

recapitated ,

It has time on its side.

Suavevillain ,
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The Internet Archive is so important. The closest thing to a digital library.

Resol ,
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How am I supposed to know what jcctv.net looked like back in 2011 now?

Thanks a lot, Department of Erasing History. I hate you now.

(And yes, that is indeed a real website… well, it WAS a real website)

whyalone ,

Donated!

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

Department of Erasing History.

Sounds like a group of pedophiles.

EmperorHenry ,
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the internet archive is a very useful tool for countering the “official story” whenever the powers that be are lying.

If you’re able, I hope you donate to the internet archive. There’s a lot of horrible people from all over youtube that like to erase their old videos to help control their own narrative.

max ,

Is it a tutorial of how to be a jerk?

anticurrent ,

I very rarely go to the internet archive, but the moment I needed to get a safe copy of very old software, shitty people decided to DDOS it. shitty humans. find better hobbies losers

uis ,

I read “find better hobbies” as find better horsies

snownyte ,
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Someone is really trying to recreate the Burning of Alexandria. Can we be certain that Internet Archive and Wikipedia (as awful of a shit place that can be) are going to stand the test of time at this rate?

gwen ,

when was wikipedia crap? /genq

half_built_pyramids ,

The culture of editors can get toxic, but usually the content is still good.

Nziom ,

Why out of all sites why internet archive

Phegan ,

Someone wanted to erase history.

Nziom ,

Luckily non of the data was deleted

girsaysdoom ,

It might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.

KairuByte ,

That’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.

echodot ,

Well they made a bad job of it because you can’t do that with a DDOS attack. Basically it’s the same as picketing the entrance to a building. All you need is a lot of people anyone can do it at any time.

Actually entering the building and manipulating contents it holds is much more difficult, as then you actually have to engage with the building security.

A DDOS attack can never delete data.

PyroNeurosis ,

A DDOS alone cannot delete data, but like your picketing analogy, if you can get in first, the picketing will keep out anyone looking to stop your interference.

kandoh ,

They’re storing proof of my fuck up which I fixed but if anyone looks it up I’m cooked

TheHottub ,
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Let’s here it.

PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

There

xavier666 ,

Modification of history is one of the most common tools of dictators

Nziom ,

But they have back up to the entire thing am pretty sure any change would be detectable if a dictator is behind this then he’s extremely stupid

Agent641 ,

If the internet archive goes offline we can just view a cached version of it at the internet archi OH NO!

Nziom ,

I thought there back online was there any update on the issue?

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