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  • I believe so, yes.

    Editors on Wikipedia had been discussing whether or not to remove archive.is (aka archive.today et al) references from English Wikipedia after it came to light that the website was leveraging code to DDoS a particular blog that the archive.is owner has beef with (essentially every time a user used the website, they were aiding in the DDoS).

    In the course of investigating this DDoS situation, it also came to light that the information contained in the archive itself had been edited by the website owner to further their beef with the aforementioned blog. When this came to light, Wikipedia announced that archive.is/archive.today/etc would no longer be accepted reference URLs and they’ve begun purging them from English Wikipedia.

    A decent summary is here, and the discussion page on Wikipedia with more specifics is here.








  • People always say this on stories about “obvious” findings, but it’s important to have verifiable studies to cite in arguments for policy, law, etc. It’s kinda sad that it’s needed, but formal investigations are a big step up from just saying, “I’m pretty sure this technology is bullshit.”

    I don’t need a formal study to tell me that drinking 12 cans of soda a day is bad for my health. But a study that’s been replicated by multiple independent groups makes it way easier to argue to a committee.


  • I’m not sure I understand the wisdom here. It comes off as “we live in a society”-esque. And doesn’t really acknowledge just how many people protested the Vietnam war.

    “Sure, I murdered those people, but aren’t all of the complacent, disaffected, yet broadly powerless masses equally responsible for their nation’s unjust acts of military violence? We’re not so different, you and I.”




  • Seems pretty handy. So far the extension works pretty well.

    In testing out the Firefox version of the extension, I found that it would be nice if there were a “copy to clipboard” button near the “Subscribe” button for users who just want the RSS URL. I host a FreshRSS instance so the “Subscribe” button doesn’t do anything for me. Triple-clicking the URL works to highlight it all, but a single-click copy button would be a nice QoL improvement.