borg|chat
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Chris RemingtonM to [email protected] • 4 months ago

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

www.democracynow.org

external-link
message-square
17
fedilink
275
external-link

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

www.democracynow.org

Chris RemingtonM to [email protected] • 4 months ago
message-square
17
fedilink
Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the Internet Archive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources. The San Francisco-based nonprofit operates the Wayback Machine, a popular tool that saves snapshots of websites that may otherwise be lost forever, and it has archived federal government websites at each presidential transition since 2004. While it’s normal for a new administration to overhaul some of its online resources, the Trump administration’s pace of destruction has shocked many archivists. “There have been thousands and thousands of pages removed,” says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, who notes that even a page about the U.S. Constitution was scrubbed from the White House website.
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • FartsWithAnAccent
    link
    fedilink
    34•4 months ago

    I wonder if this is why there have been unprecedented attacks on the Internet Archive.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      11•4 months ago

      That and Wikipedia.

  • jlow (he/him)
    link
    fedilink
    23•
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    And you can help:

    http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

    • Estebiu
      link
      fedilink
      4•4 months ago

      Is there a simpler way to deploy it? Like, a docker compose…? Or a different project?

      • kingthrillgore
        link
        fedilink
        7•4 months ago

        https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile

        • Estebiu
          link
          fedilink
          1•4 months ago

          I love you.

          • kingthrillgore
            link
            fedilink
            2•4 months ago

            Welcome…to costco?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      3•4 months ago

      I never knew this and I’m on a 500mbps plan with gigabit available if needed so this is cool!

      • JustEnoughDucks
        link
        fedilink
        2•4 months ago

        Doing my part with 20-30mbps upload 😂

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          1•
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          I’m seeing if I can do the video platforms as they’re bandwidth heavy and I got heaps (unlimited 500/500), but so far the hardest part seems to be to actually get it to upload. Seems like the ArchiveTeam servers are overloaded. If it’s still 0 by morning, I’ll switch to the US government or Telegram as that one seemed to work a tiny bit better.

    • Clocks [They/Them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1•4 months ago

      The project seems abandoned

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        7•4 months ago

        Are you being intentionally dense? It has gotten multiple updates every day for the last week?

        • Clocks [They/Them]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          4•4 months ago

          Oh mighty wise one, you have shown me the error in my ways!

          How could my perspective, seeing a page without https, then looking for source code, and stumbling upon https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/Ubuntu-Warrior (last commit 2 years ago), ever have happened!

          Woe is me.

          (I am mocking your attitude).

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            5•4 months ago

            They have repos for each “grab”. The warrior is pretty much just a wrapper and doesn’t need to be updated frequently.

            Most users are running the specific docker containers anyways as they allow for a higher concurrency than the warrior and perform better.

            • Clocks [They/Them]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              1•4 months ago

              Thank you

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            5•4 months ago

            Bow down before my great powers to link to a change log, you imbecile. Now that this error has been revealed to you, certainly you will be less of a useless piece of shit. Enjoy your newfound knowledge and prosper!

  • KayLeadfoot
    link
    fedilink
    13•4 months ago

    Love the versioning. Saw minor edits to the “Fork in the Road” landing page over time, including the cleaning up of just plain sloppy typos. They clearly deployed half-cocked, didn’t even run spell-check.

[email protected]

[email protected]

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Programming
  • Operating Systems

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

  • 566 users / day
  • 1.21K users / week
  • 2.68K users / month
  • 7.74K users / 6 months
  • 39.5K subscribers
  • 3.8K Posts
  • 64.5K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • alyaza [they/she]
  • TheRtRevKaiser
  • @[email protected]
  • rs5th
  • @[email protected]
  • Leigh
  • TheRtRevKaiser
  • Chris Remington
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org