ventegus

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by ventegus 2mo ago
They operate in antiphase: annas-archive.st and sci-hub.gl are suspended. This couple checked all the domain zones money can buy and... ended up using different sets, with zero intersection
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by ventegus 2mo ago
kiwifarms and sci-hub have been kicked off .is
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by ventegus 2mo ago
I went here for an IP to write in /etc/hosts and no one has posted it yet :(
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by ventegus 8mo ago
Just do not take him for your own roleplay model
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by ventegus 8mo ago
taking this very post from flagged trash can and posting again - is definitively a such act
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by ventegus 8mo ago
There is a perception that the use of the archive by the HN community has some positive value for the archive. But in fact: 1. HN uses a free service that someone else pays for. 2. HN abuses its paywall bypass function, which is not its mai
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by ventegus 8mo ago
thetimes.com has a paywall if you visit it from the UK, and full content if you are in the US. entonces, US-based archive.org "bypasses" this paywall as well: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.
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by ventegus 8mo ago
It was already in <s>"The Simpsons"</s> "Accelerando"
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by ventegus 8mo ago
Actually, I'm not entirely sure on how archive.org achieves its resiliency. It's a rather interesting question for archive.org, if one were to interview them, that is. Unlike archive.today, they don't appear to have any issue
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by ventegus 8mo ago
They always direct clients to a server abroad. The task is exactly opposite to what CDNs do
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by ventegus 8mo ago
e.g. currently most media snapshots contain wartime propaganda forbidden at least somewhere. RT content verboten in Germany, DW content verboten in Russia, not to mention another dozen of hot spots. "Other websites" are completely
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by ventegus 8mo ago
Hm, a pro-Kremlin website, banned on Russian state firewall while actively used by Myrotvorets and many gov.ua sites....
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by ventegus 8mo ago
How's this supposed to work? It doesn’t even make it through the Cloudflare captcha.
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by ventegus 8mo ago
They use EDNS for regional compliance, not for bandwidth optimization.
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by ventegus 8mo ago
Did you save it?
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by ventegus 8mo ago
They might need to tweak a single word. Streisand readers won’t have a clue which. Save the page now and compare a week later.
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by ventegus 2y ago
They check for client IP. True Googlebot always comes from 66.249.*.*
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by ventegus 2y ago
Why not? Many of us host terabytes of opaque data on platforms like GitHub without ever paying or facing deletion threats.
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by ventegus 2y ago
wsj has easy-to-bypass paywall but hard-to-bypass antibot/antiscraping solution, so the browser extensions work better than hosted bypassers
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by ventegus 2y ago
It is haters' secret weapon to take archive.today down: https://x.com/archiveis/status/1809081807452696711