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11·20 days agoTo be fair Wayback Machine is not the only option, there are at least 3 other Internet archival services besides archive.today:
- Ghostarchive
- Megalodon
- Etched (warning: cryptobros)
Unfortunately their scrapers are nearly not as developed as Wayback Machine’s and archive.today’s are (Ghostarchive and Megalodon can’t bypass Anubis/Cloudflare check, for example). Ghostarchive is neat when it works because of very high-fidelity captures (even more high-fidelity than archive.today’s captures are), but only something like ~75% of everything I’ve ever archived there works. Oh, and it can also archive short (<10 min) YouTube videos with low/average bitrate.
Megalodon is pretty much useless for Wikipedia because it doesn’t work with, like, half of all online news websites.
I haven’t archived anything on Etched yet, but their premise of “archiving a web page forever on bitcoin” doesn’t seem attractive so I probably won’t use it.
This is only tangentially related to the matter at hand, but there seems to be some attack on YouTube with fully LLM-generated channels and videos “covering” this situation: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dlQhs.
Interesting…
So apparently this is a very deep rabbit hole, because now we have a third person who might own this service - Nora Puchreiner. Nora Puchreiner is… an interesting identity. Besides the links given by Jani (gyrovague.com owner) in the post, I could find her Wikipedia and Twitter accounts (both completely gone):
- https://archive.today/2024.08.22-043809/https://x.com/norapuchreiner/ (https://megalodon.jp/2026-0202-0536-35/https://archive.today:443/2024.08.22-043809/https://x.com/norapuchreiner/ in case this snapshot “suddenly” disappears), suspended by Twitter for unknown reasons.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Renamed_user_ghsfrdDFG678mFG7903145lk (renamed; was “User:Nora Puchreiner”), suspended by Wikimedia Foundation for “impersonation” (though I have no idea who she could impersonate, because all accounts under the name “Nora Puchreiner” I could find obviously belong to one person).
1·1 month agosince it’s a transparent blockchain that is being monitored by millions of people
Cryptocurrency tumblers exist for a reason. Though I agree that using Monero (or just keepig this money as it is) for such purposes would be better.
Surgeries for trans people aren’t cosmetic though.
whatsapp signal telegram
Telegram isn’t encrypted, and honestly you shouldn’t use it.[1] Whatsapp and Signal are US-based, which means that they will give up your data on the first request.
Use actually secure messengers, like Delta Chat, SimpleX, or Matrix with end-to-end encryption.
2·2 months agoIt sounds like Pale Moon is your best option.
27·2 months agoWikipedia, as well as encyclopedias and textbooks, are secondary sources.
don’t take Wikipedia seriously unless it cites a primary source directly.
Pale Moon is not a “15-year old browser” and constantly gets updates with “new technologies” being added.
Please do a research the next time you’re going to give your opinion on some topic.
You can even disable these features if you do not like them at all
As a smart person said:
BETTER IT NOT EXIST AT ALL
If I went to a restaurant, they placed a hot steaming stinky turd sandwich on my table and then went “oh, but you don’t have to have it”, I still wouldn’t fucking eat there.
Why should we be okay with the Turd Sandwich that is
crypto being served by BraveLLM features served by Mozilla being opt-in???
worth using
Why is Pale Moon not “worth using”?
None of the various Firefox forks has any chance to keep existing without Firefox
What’s this extension?
They can’t make all the old versions disappear from the Internet
Meanwhile DMCA:
Btw, 1.5.2 is the last version which you can run straight from the
.jar. All versions after it require some sort of authentication bypass.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152085
There are also some interesting statistics from the post’s author: