While I absolutely understand the frustration of losing years worth of "preservation-level quality" data, you have to admit that the Internet Archive is a free service we do not deserve. They (the folks behind The Internet Archive) do not owe us anything.
> The Internet Archive serves millions of people each day and is one of the top 300 web sites in the world. A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 145+ Petabytes of server space (and we store at least 2 copies of everything). We are funded through donations, grants, and by providing web archiving and book digitization services for our partners. As with most libraries we value the privacy of our patrons, so we avoid keeping the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of our readers and offer our site in https (secure) protocol.
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What an unbelievably pissy and deserving tone from the author. If you want to be an archivist and you've permanently lost data that was stored in a single, external location, hopefully it's a learning experience
According to your quote the data was stored in at least 2 places, but Internet Archive are choosing not to restore it? That's a different type of learning experience.
> What an unbelievably pissy and deserving tone from the author.
n.b. they are interlocuting with "Patron Services" :X
Pissy? "My support experience with Internet Archive was frustrating and ultimately futile. They did not adequately address my queries and requests" is a very whitebread version of "pissy"
> If you want to be an archivist and you've permanently lost data that was stored in a single, external location, hopefully it's a learning experience
What were the specif things that were deleted and is there information in there that is damning and so a "glitch" was able to bracket whatever was needing to be scrubbed?
I wonder if in the links/uploads for @gingerbread man may be something censorized.
Thank you for this post. I agree and feel the struggle as well.
Often the issue is even to communicate that this type of data is, literally, a _secret_ and should be treated accordingly.
I'm looking forward to things like mTLS and solutions with short token lifetimes and automated rotation. This should definitly reduce the amount of encrypted secrets in Git repos and basic auth logins for every 3rd exposed service.
In the end developers rarely care how the secrets gets to the application, or if it's fresh or been in the same namespace for over a year.
For a year I've been constantly thinking about this state and how there must be way way more people with the same experience.
I recently managed to ask a few people about their current situation. And indeed, they too share this experience.
Thank you for the short "Absence of more meaningful activities"
paragraph. I was about to head down a rabbithole and procrastinate higher priority tasks but the text reminded me of more important things.
One thing I'd like to share with you all, it was by far the most helpful regarding this topic: Dr. Andrew Huberman (hubermanlab.com) recently published a video called "ADHD & HOW ANYONE CAN IMPROVE THEIR FOCUS", I couldn't possible summarize it nearly as good as Dr. Huberman did and I kindly ask you to use your favorite search engine to look it up.
It opened my eyes to new options to get out of this time wasting loop that I wasn't aware before.
* namecheap.com: It's cheap and easy to use. Has a lot of TLDs to choose from.
* freenom.com: Started using free domains, dropped most of them, kept a few as paid domains, which I don't regret.
Hosting:
* server.lu (now part of server.com): Luxembourg is a great location for hosting, especially with a 1Gbit port. I still have my old contract which I don't plan on terminating as long as them don't force me. Getting the full bandwidth throughout Europe. Not the cheapest plan, but one of the best dedicated servers I ever owned.
We all know by now that most "No-Logging" claims end up being untrue.
The most surprised I am about the fact that PIA is not able to provide any information about the user even if required by court.
true, but things like wages and social standards are other statistics.
Additionaly to the mentioned "low-wage-job" boom you have to mention part-time employment.
Which does count as employment but doesn't result in the usual 40h+/week.
At least in Germany these things are connected, in that keeping people employed part-time, and not using fixed hours, serves to transfer risk from the employer to the employee, thus further undermining long-term social stability. Not to be too anti-capitalist about it, but one of the reasons societies grant rights to corporations is that they are supposed to move risk away from the workers and thus improve the buffer of economic stability. Obviously it doesn't always work like that in practice.
IANAStatistician, just pointing out that "hey look 5% unemployment" can be a very misleading statistic to use for laypersons.
