Apologies for the self-promo. Downvote and I'll know not to do it again.

This trend of outright banning the Internet Archive has me extremely worried. I fear a future where news articles are memoryholed, and no one can remember exactly what was reported and how sensational it all seemed.

I've been working on this project [0] for a while. Originally, I started with a tool that would allow people to snapshot webpages in their own browser, and they could selectively share their snapshots. Then by consensus, everyone could understand what exactly had changed, and they could draw their own conclusion about why.

While working on it, I realized that an authoritative answer to "what did it look like on $DATE" can't be produced by a no-name company. It's gotta be a non-commercial entity that's got a track record of integrity. The dream would be to allow MemoryHole customers to submit their snapshots to the Internet Archive (or other non-commercial entity). It's definitely a copyright nightmare - so no clue how this could work.

[0] - https://memoryhole.app

> It's definitely a copyright nightmare - so no clue how this could work.

It could work as a decentralized free and open source system that doesn't care about copyright. Like how torrents work now, but it would be good to have it work over Tor or something. Perhaps as a DAO for the management aspect of it. I don't know how exactly. But disregarding copyright by using a centralized company is the wrong idea.

Or you can do the lawful approach and try to work within the framework of that copyright nightmare. But "fuck copyright" is an easier path.

You - as a company - can just avoid any copyright stuff when your extension saves the stuff only on the client. I see there are many other issues then.

The torrent approach is nice. I could imagine a selfhosted way to store the data (for a group of people)

> I could imagine a selfhosted way to store the data (for a group of people)

Linkwarden does this well. You can share a collection for a small group of people.

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Tor is a honeypot run my government intel operations. Don't use it.

Not all exit nodes are run by the Government.

Please provide evidence for such strong claims. Otherwise it's just FUD.

How about I2P?

All privacy is an illusion, the government can read your thoughts, your neighbors are secretly informants, etc etc.

Tor is fine especially for onion sites. You just have to understand the limitations.

(I2P is also good.)

I really like this also reasonable priced.

Is there a way to export/download my saves in a reasonable way?

Thank you! Yes, you just get a zip file with all of your saved pages.

It looks like this:

├── files

│ └── 632daffb-2f4f-4795-bb4d-3149d24f4264

│ ├── original.html

│ ├── readerview.html

│ └── screenshot.png

├── manifest.json

└── metadata.csv

I did exactly this in early 2025 with a small keyword tagging pipeline.

You may run into some issues with Docker and native deps once you get to production. Don’t forget to cache the bumblebee files.

No problem. It's an SLM, I have a dedicated on-prem GPU server that I deploy behind tailscale for inference. For training, I reach out to lambdalabs and just get a beefy GPU for a few hours for the cost of a Starbucks coffee.

Archived copy

https://archive.is/JbtH8

Thank you. I didn't know this existed.

https://qtconsole.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

On the other hand, it would make it harder for big business to retain talent.

You mean they would have to offer a good job with competitive wages, enjoyable work conditions, good benefits (mat leave, paid time off, sick pay, etc.) and a good career path?

This is a feature, not a bug.

This is why big business is not an ally for anything that makes health care cheaper or easier to engage. It's a great system for them.

JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon, all huge employee counts, together seriously tried to tackle healthcare costs in the US.

There was also instantbird - an IM client that let you connect to various IM platforms (MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Facebook before “Messenger”)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instantbird

It's an IRC network. https://libera.chat/

What are you using this for?

www.couriermanager.com - SaaS for courier companies, basically. The new server is the common pool instance - I have others for dedicated clients.

After a year it’s not reasonable to call the restrictions temporary.

In reasonable countries these businesses still get at least some compensation. That makes it a temporary restriction, the government would not be interested in paying it forever.

Take a day off in the middle of the week.

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sigh ! if only, that was possible at a job. Wonder if any companies have tried this. a day off midweek instead of two day weekend. That probably affects the momentum

It would also affect the weekend. It takes a day for the stress to disappear, and by Sunday 2pm it's back, but it's a glorious couple of hours Sunday morning.