Re:Ask HN: Why is archive.is logged into GitHub as user “volth”
by preciousoo on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:28PM
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hmm i hadn't thought of a ban scenario. A little google led me here https://stackoverflow.com/a/66105692/3875151, it seems like the user will live on as long as github continues to shadow ban them.
Now I wonder what their involvement with the archive.is team is, the nixos folk seem really pissed off by his removal.
Edit I guess the law was involved somehow. Still doesn't answer why they're logged into archive.is, and how archive.is is able to save their account state, even though github 'disappeared' them: https://web.archive.org/web/20210116151808/https://twitter.c...
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-was-this-treewide-pr-perfo...
Re:Ask HN: Why is archive.is logged into GitHub as user “volth”
by preciousoo on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:44PM
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Last note: according to other internet sleuths, this user runs/is closely connected to those who run archive.is
https://gyrovague.com/tag/archive-is/ https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/archive-today https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/149405
I've encountered it before, here's an example of an account that exists but is also in some kind of banned state: https://github.com/ainslee21
This account was made using TOR, which caused it to get into that state, his was probably banned for violating TOS regarding that archival stuff.
See:
https://archive.ph/1nZ02 https://social.primeos.dev/notice/A2Z8duADM786JykvNQ