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Archive Team? (shines bat signal)


Not everything is worth archiving for all eternity. Do we really need a 300 hour Final Fantasy 7 playthrough with 3 viewers archived for all eternity like it’s the Magna Carta


But that's missing the point of what archiving content on the Internet tends to be mostly about: you cannot possibly go through all of it and decide what's worth archiving, so you archive it all by default. Then, you can skim through it or remove whatever you choose to.


If you want to pay for it, go for it. I suspect a lot of content on the Internet will never be missed if it was deleted.


easy for you to say, mr. el memorioso


When we find out John Smith played final fantasy before establishing the earliest of human rights. Maybe?


There is this story about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski and how film saved the photo, but this feels like a 1996 problem. In 2006, disk space was cheap enough to save all the photos.

https://professionalartistmag.com/how-film-saved-now-infamou...


What would be a driving reason to use this versus Brave?


Because brave has a questionable business model where they, on one hand, block third party ads and trackers, and on the other inject their own ads, tied to their BAT cryptocurrency (the latter part being opt-in IIRC).

They also:

- added their own affiliate codes when visiting some sites [1]

- installed VPNs without consent [2]

which also taints their privacy focused posture.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/brave-browser-windows-vpn-with...


According to Mozilla's "Firefox vs Brave" page, the foremost reason is Brave's ad blocking might be too good and block pages you don't want to block.


The ones that give Google money to Mozilla, presumably - but there are other problems with Brave.


So, like Bono, then?


...or 11ft8, which can open anything


  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11foot8


I like how google shows "How tall is the 11-foot-8 bridge?" "12 feet 4 inches"

(because maintenance work was done on it, but retaining its name)


666ft....


They're trying to say that they've never studied philosophy, or perhaps even discrete mathematics, and possibly that they don't understand the inherent value in breaking down and very methodically and rationally trying to explain ideas or answer questions that may seem "obvious."


No, I just thought the article was intellectually lazy and picking on strawmen.


That's literally what they did.


This is just photography not radiation or magnetism, so some of those examples wouldn't come up...but I imagine skin cancer and some other preventative concerns might be addressed?


> This is just photography not radiation or magnetism

Ackchyually light is an _electromagnetic_ _radiation_

The question stays valid though, how many benign things would be treated, how many of these treatments would have net negative results, and at what cost for the already crumbling health system of most western nations


Some news outlets are reporting that as fact, yes.


Your implication being its not, or you just adding nothing here?


not to be confused with the awesome chiptune cover of NIN:

https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine...


I was surprised the link wasn't about this remarkable album, but glad to see it was the first thing mentioned in the comments. Brendan was very particular about the treatment of each track being true to specific sound chips, and it was one of the first Bandcamp vinyl projects.

He's currently building out The Bloop Museum near Baltimore, for video games, computers, and related stuff - https://givebutter.com/bloopholiday


I helped him out (in a very small way) on that album. Super fun project to work on. Brendan is very talented.


I hadn’t heard of this, but it’s amazing. If nothing else, the computer puns for the track titles gave me a chuckle.


That’s what I came for.


that's what we get!


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