I’ve have had enough bookmarks fall out of the book that I have changed my strategy. Instead of using a bookmark I take a photo of the last page I was reading before closing the book. I then add the photo to favourites so it’s easier to find. And then later when I continue to read, I check in my camera roll to see what page I was on. With the current book I am reading I also like to end on the end of a chapter when I can. Easy to remember that next time I will start reading chapter 5 or whatever. And if I don’t have time or energy to read to the end of a chapter I still try to remember what page number I am on, just in case my phone runs out of battery and I want to continue reading.

However, that experiment ended. They mention there were some learnings and they then say:

> The Internet Archive continues to explore methods and code to decentralize the collection, to have a mirror running in various ways - these include IPFS, FileCoin, and others. The INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK project also added general mirroring and tracking code to a number of projects that are still in use.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK

I would really like to know if any sort of thing like that is still ongoing and if it’s accessible to people in general. Would be nice to mirror some data from IA to my local drives, for example via BitTorrent or IPFS, to have it for offline exploration and personal archive.

I know that individual items have torrents. And I’ve downloaded a few that way but always it ends up only using the “web seed” (i.e. the BitTorrent client is retrieving the files from IA via HTTP) because there are no one seeding some random single item I found. Plus, those torrents are unreliable sometimes because they include meta data files that were since updated but the torrent was not updated and so the web seed is giving the updated files that don’t match what the torrent says their hashes should be. So then you have to jump through some extra hoops to fix that and then resume the download, and all the while the HTTP connections to IA servers time out because their servers are overloaded. So when I say I wonder about possibilities of using BitTorrent I mean to retrieve whole collections of many items instead of individual ones, and with actual other peers instead of just having it put load on IA HTTP servers.

For example, if I browse HN, I open the linked article in a new tab instead of in the same one where the comments are. And I close the tab as soon as I’m done looking at it. Whether that be a couple of seconds because of annoying dark patterns, or a long time thanks to being actually readable and interesting. From that tab I might navigate to another page on the same site if the site seems good. If they then pull horse crap with the browser history in that tab I will most likely close the tab and not read anything more on that site. If I repeatedly get annoyed by a domain from having gone to it and found dark patterns I will eventually remember that the whole site is bad and stop clicking any links to it either. But mostly I don’t have to remember so many sites to actively avoid. Closing a tab is cheap when all of the history is from the same site that tab was opened for in the first place.

It’s unfortunate and annoying that they get to play tricks with dark patterns still, and I wish nobody did that / could do that in the first place. In general I mean. I dont know if this particular page does it intentionally or accidentally.

I usually try to not comment on it even if I do come across that. As I know many consider it off topic, and even the HN guidelines say to not comment on it [1]. But I still appreciate when others, like your comment here, point those things out and I then don’t click on to the linked article in the first place when I see comments about that unless other comments are indicating that the content itself is particularly interesting.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49669587

Points: 1

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With that one, Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Task Manager, kill iexplore.exe was usually all you needed to do thankfully. No hard power off necessary.

Will this also work with third-party camera apps like ProCam?

https://www.procamapp.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/procam-5/id6787737491?mt=8

But maybe the platform where the bird graphic was sold did not say any such thing in the licensing terms. In which case, tough luck to the artist.

And on the other hand, if there were such terms agains using the graphic as your logo then the artist should have sued and gotten a sizeable payment.

> Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the various Jewish and Christian biblical canons, including deuterocanonical manuscripts from late Second Temple Judaism, as well as extrabiblical books. As such, they cast new light on the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and of Christianity, and their relationship with Jewish religious traditions.

One could similarly imagine a set of M-Discs from today that would be rediscovered 1000 years from now that could prove similarly useful to the people of the future thanks to data on them that has been preserved unaltered since today until then on that set of M-Discs.

He said, you can already see the opening hours of all the stores and stuff on Google Maps.

I said, no, not a website like that. I mean, the website itself is open 9 to 5 Monday through Friday, and outside of that it’s closed.

My friend looked at me and just said, why?

Idk, I think it would be neat, I said.

My friend didn’t get it. This guy gets it.

On one hand yes. On the other hand maybe adding this detailed error reporting will prove so useful to LLMs that it helps uutils adoption grow significantly, instead of uutils fading into obscurity while the world keeps running on the original coreutils.

For anyone else wondering what RPA means. Never heard that abbreviation before.

vs

> Abstraction hides unnecessary detail.

Sounds like these ways of describing abstraction are in agreement with one another to me.

If you hide what’s unnecessary you’re left only with the things you think should leak. And you think they should be left unhidden so that you can use them for something, so to leverage them.

1: In the blog post they wrote:

> this website vanishes in February. Despite the fact that it's registered and paid for until 2040.

So the way .name 3LDs worked, was that you had to pay for it. Not a free subdomain that’s handed out in return for the domain owner injecting ads into your site.

2: The other thing I meant by a) but that I failed to state explicitly is that in scenario a) I am imagining that doe.name and some other 2LDs with highly common last names had been bought by a third-party, similar to how the Freewebs company was owning freewebs.com and giving out subdomains of that to people. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webs_(web_hosting) for details on how Freewebs worked if interested and not familiar with them.

I would not have guessed that the .name registry itself was running a 3LD setup for everyone across all of .name, because it is so different from how all other TLD registries I know of manage the domain name hierarchies. For example .co.uk which is also 3LD was much more straightforward to understand and recognise historically because the 2nd level was a category (alongside a few other categories like .gov.uk, .ac.uk, .org.uk).

A few years ago, .uk opened to second level registration also, which somewhat similarly makes domains under .uk more confusing to me as someone outside the UK who knew about .co.uk and the likes because now I can no longer know if a 3LD under .uk is the way it is because it’s under an official category or not. For example, say that there is a 3LD domain manchester.autos.uk. I wouldn’t know if .autos.uk was an official category domain or not without specifically looking it up, now that 2LD registrations under .uk are open to others.