Justin Zamora wrote on 2/2/19 3:39 PM:
Thanks! I always forget about archive.org!
Semi-off-topic, but this is helpful for Racketeers recovering older
Scheme docs/discussion/code (some of the best thinking happened many
years ago, and is still relevant)...
Here's a useful Firefox Quick Search bookmark:
Name: [SEARCH] ARCHIVE.ORG
Location: https://web.archive.org/web/%S
Keyword: a
Basically, whenever you get a normal Web decay 404 error, or some kind
of anti-abuse/anti-privacy blocking by the server, you can go to your
browser's location (URL) bar, and prepend "a" with a space, and press
Enter/Return. No add-on required. (Also, you might want to set the
location bar to not send your typing and mis-pastes to search engines,
and to only do autocomplete from your bookmarks, not from history or
anything else.)
(Aside: This is especially helpful if you're running through Tor with JS
disabled by default, because some useful news sites, especially, will
actively refuse to serve pages to a Tor exit node IP address with JS
disabled, and one popular CDN will also refuse to serve pages to this,
whether or not its site customers know it. Offhand, I can think of only
one news site that is Tor-hostile without usually having news articles
readable in Archive.org. Note that you're leaking a bit to Archive.org
and bugs it runs, of course.)
(Further aside: I try, when mentioning Tor, not to inadvertently endorse
it too much, given that its security has often been overstated, which
could be very bad for people who actually desperately need that
security... I've been experimenting with using Tor mainly as a free
low/moderate-security VPN for most daily desktop Web browsing, because
even sketchy and likely-compromised Tor nodes have better reputations
than my ISP, :) and for techie continual learning, and sense of
obligation. I previously ran a proxy tunnel through EC2 for this
purpose, but that's not great, either, and I wanted to find a solution
for people who can't afford an extra ~$5/mo. Tor seems not-great
against some sophisticated adversaries, though, and the situation seems
almost hopeless with the current de facto Web architecture -- without
even blackbox traffic analysis, potentially large numbers of compromised
nodes, or general endpoint vulnerabilities. But it's good for a little
privacy from your awful ISP, open WiFi, etc., if you don't mind it being
slow, and if, like me, you are boring enough that you don't mind your
mere use of Tor presumably raising your profile a bit for actors
more-sophisticated than your ISP or compromised cafe/hotel WiFi. Also,
Tor Browser is more consistently privacy&security-respecting than the
other browsers, with possible wait&see exception of Brave. Example
warning for more general audiences is on
"https://www.neilvandyke.org/replicant/";.)
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