Rob Landley on Nostr: This is why I created https://landley.net/history/mirror with actual local copies ...

This is why I created https://landley.net/history/mirror with actual local copies (rsynced from my laptop, with its normal backup) instead of links to archive.org.

https://hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly/110538513402295174

I've never trusted archive.org to persist: it's a privately funded online service, when domains change hands a new robots.txt will _retroactively_ purge the history from archive.org, then during the pandemic they decided to play chicken with a freight train:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/internet-archive-pandemic-library-provokes-broader-lending-fight

https://www.osnews.com/story/135949/the-internet-archive-has-lost-its-first-fight-to-scan-and-lend-e-books-like-a-library/