I wonder if their totally hip and in the know millennial staff is aware of tools like this (1) that allow you to dump WARC files directly onto IPFS and then pin them there permanently for basically zero money (2) and that they can then be accessed using Brave via IPFS nodes which nobody seems to have found out how to censor yet. It’s going to be a shock when they realize that these things exist and that real journalists, archivists, and librarians don’t like it when propagandists try to distort reality by destroying information. We don’t like it at all.
Napkin math indicates that Vice creates on average under 1GB of data on their site excluding video per month. Including images under 10GB. That means that maintaining an archive of every page on their website would come to... about $1.40/mo using IPFS and pinning using Eternium. They can’t censor or takedown IPFS and they really don’t understand the hornet nest they just kicked...
Oh also, here (3) is another handy tool for those of you who find yourself reading something and then not being able to find it again. It’s definitely a specialized tool but one of those things that really really improves the workflow of many people who run into that problem regularly. It records all the text that appears as you use yours computer, saves local versions of all the sites (uses a pretty minimal amount of space on your machine) and then makes that database easily searchable. It’s handy when stuff starts disappearing.
I wonder if their totally hip and in the know millennial staff is aware of tools like this (1) that allow you to dump WARC files directly onto IPFS and then pin them there permanently for basically zero money (2) and that they can then be accessed using Brave via IPFS nodes which nobody seems to have found out how to censor yet. It’s going to be a shock when they realize that these things exist and that real journalists, archivists, and librarians don’t like it when propagandists try to distort reality by destroying information. We don’t like it at all.
(1) https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb
(2) https://www.eternum.io/help/
Napkin math indicates that Vice creates on average under 1GB of data on their site excluding video per month. Including images under 10GB. That means that maintaining an archive of every page on their website would come to... about $1.40/mo using IPFS and pinning using Eternium. They can’t censor or takedown IPFS and they really don’t understand the hornet nest they just kicked...
Oh also, here (3) is another handy tool for those of you who find yourself reading something and then not being able to find it again. It’s definitely a specialized tool but one of those things that really really improves the workflow of many people who run into that problem regularly. It records all the text that appears as you use yours computer, saves local versions of all the sites (uses a pretty minimal amount of space on your machine) and then makes that database easily searchable. It’s handy when stuff starts disappearing.
(3) https://apse.io/
Cheers, more people should read this.
Also saving APSE, might gonna use that soon.
Hello fren, maybe make this into its own post so more people will see, as more websites are sure to follow vice's example.
I’ll be doing that tonight.
acronymd acronyms acronyms
i mash stuff for a living
Did you understand the acronyms? If no I’d be happy to explain any of them.
Its cool. Ignorance is bliss.