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Re:A note to young folks: download the things you love by ViVr on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:58AM (#37304285)
Information wants to be free but might be losing the battle regardless. The siren call of centralization lures in too many people who only realize the implications when it's too late.

On most projects and topics i work on i keep personal notes. Sometimes i copy entire pieces of information from websites into my notes so that i don't lose it when the website dies. Any interesting webpage i at least archive through both archive.today and archive.org. Eventually i might look into taking that locally as well.

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Re:A note to young folks: download the things you love by midoridensha on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:37AM (#37304886)
Since archive.org is now getting into a court battle that doesn't look good for them, it would be prudent to make local copies of anything you want to save on there, in case the whole site disappears.
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