I feel like this one is relatively uncontroversial
URL pronounced as "earl" however? I'll spend all of my remaining energy in life ensuring the person saying it is stapled to the bottom of the Mariana trench with rebar
Already got a copy on my NAS, I update it every year or two when I remember to.
But you've missed the point, my personal access to a Wikipedia text snapshot is not equivalent to the free access of information to everyone. The information just existing somewhere isn't enough.
And anyway a person can't practically keep their own copy of the Internet Archive. It takes up something like a quarter of an exabyte
I often assume this kind of thing is part of an effort to filter for idiots
If you know that's an invalid IP address, you're probably less likely to fall for the scam after the scammer has put the setup work in. So if they filter you out before a scammer has to spend any actual effort on you, that means more time they can spend scamming people who might be more likely to fall for it
That's why these things often have egregious spelling errors and other seemingly obvious red flags
I feel like this has been one of my soapbox things for a while now, but
Americans, the Internet Archive and Wikipedia stand as two of the biggest contributions to human knowledge preservation in all of history. To lose either would be a huge backslide for us as a civilization, and it never really seemed like a genuine threat until recent events over there.
I know there's a lot of other shit going on right now, but you must do what you can to ensure both are able to continue their work.
Stuck around because it reminded me of a lot of the good parts of Reddit that increasingly seem to be gone from the actual site. Though not that I'd really know because I probably only go to Reddit once every few months now via a search for something, and every time I do, it seems even worse than the last time.
I'm just hoping the growth continues such that the less busy communities start to pick up a bit, we're getting close to the point where there's a community to cover most interests I've thought looked for, but many of them are ghost towns. But we're making progress, month on month it does feel like there are more people knocking around
Oh no, don't get me wrong, I work from home just fine.
If I'm working from a cafe, restaurant or bar, I'm spending the whole time there distracted
Which I guess is indeed a personal issue, so far play