It's easy to forget in the moment how transient much of the internet is. After being bought by Snapchat and abandoned, Gfycat's certification has expired with nobody around to bother to renew it. Just like that, a vast chunk of the internet is gone. teddit.net/domain/gfycat…

May 20, 2023 · 3:06 AM UTC

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If you value something online, archive it. Digital media dies without warning all the time—never count on something staying up if you cannot personally guarantee it.
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Pidud @Pidud_
20 May 2023
the year is 2100, every link is dead, the only method we have of interrogating the past is by asking LLMs trained on the data of the era
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get yours today
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20 May 2023
archive tools to combat link rot: ‣ @waybackmachine extension/app: auto-save all pages you visit or manually with 1 click ‣ conifer.rhizome.org from @rhizome: auto-save interactive page copies ‣ @Pocket and @raindrop_io: save content & can make permanent link previews
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Replying to @tracewoodgrains
Read an article not tooooo long ago about losing a bunch of 9/11 coverage because it was all flash-based google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com…
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as a veteran neopets player i can attest that flash's zombie corpse remains alive and well for those who care to cling to it but yeah, the near-total death of flash is a great example of this
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Replying to @tracewoodgrains
The first half of that post combined with the giant reddit logo got me very hopeful :(
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Haha, not quite yet. That's more likely to die a slow death-by-diaspora as every interesting group there slowly splinters off into its own space.
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Replying to @tracewoodgrains
I’m not sure this is what you mean, but if “certification” means their site’s SSL certificate, then it’s pretty easy to force your computer to trust it despite being expired.
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It's an HSTS issue. No client-side fix in modern browsers.
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Replying to @tracewoodgrains @nickjsheriff
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”
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