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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 months ago

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

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Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 months ago
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Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the Internet Archive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources. The San Francisco-based nonprofit operates the Wayback Machine, a popular tool that saves snapshots of websites that may otherwise be lost forever, and it has archived federal government websites at each presidential transition since 2004. While it’s normal for a new administration to overhaul some of its online resources, the Trump administration’s pace of destruction has shocked many archivists. “There have been thousands and thousands of pages removed,” says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, who notes that even a page about the U.S. Constitution was scrubbed from the White House website.
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    2 months ago

    The project seems abandoned

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      Are you being intentionally dense? It has gotten multiple updates every day for the last week?

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        Oh mighty wise one, you have shown me the error in my ways!

        How could my perspective, seeing a page without https, then looking for source code, and stumbling upon https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/Ubuntu-Warrior (last commit 2 years ago), ever have happened!

        Woe is me.

        (I am mocking your attitude).

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          Bow down before my great powers to link to a change log, you imbecile. Now that this error has been revealed to you, certainly you will be less of a useless piece of shit. Enjoy your newfound knowledge and prosper!

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          They have repos for each “grab”. The warrior is pretty much just a wrapper and doesn’t need to be updated frequently.

          Most users are running the specific docker containers anyways as they allow for a higher concurrency than the warrior and perform better.

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            2 months ago

            Thank you

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