Technology

Not surprising. They archive information that powerful people would rather we forget.

I was briefly able to get to https://archive.org/donate - I’m going to kick them a few bucks and recommend anyone else who can afford to also do so.

There’s also this, copied verbatim from the site:

Other ways to donate Mail your donation to:
Internet Archive
C/O Philanthropy Department
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94118-2116

In order to ensure you receive an acknowledgement of your gift as quickly as possible, please include an email address with your mailed donation. We regret that we cannot accept cash or check donations in currencies other than USD.

Stock or Wire Transfer:
If you would like to make a stock or wire transfer gift, please contact us at [email protected]

I say we go full Streisand effect on whatever dickhead is trying to censor them.

What kind of dick smack attacks the internet archive!!!!

Why out of all sites why internet archive

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

I was wondering what was going on. The Internet Archive is an incredibly important asset beyond archiving websites because it has things like the Prelinger Collection, which is the largest archive of industrial, educational and other ephemeral films, which would be only accessible via commercial sites like YouTube otherwise.

And that's really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the audio, video and texts available.

I hope this gets resolved soon.

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.

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

And I wondered why I couldn't access the page 6 hours ago...

Why the fuck...

So the recording industry thugs hired out a job. Not the first time.

Donated!

Department of Erasing History.

Sounds like a group of pedophiles.

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

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.