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Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by sebmellen on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:28PM (#42994199)
We need better timestamping services for this.

I tried to write out an initial spec here, but I haven’t been able to write any implementations yet: https://github.com/sebmellen/proof-of-origination.

Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by vekker on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:47AM (#42997560)
There's this on the Bitcoin blockchain: https://opentimestamps.org
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by quacksilver on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:49AM (#42997572)
I guess you can use a third party like archive.org, if the blog is crawled by it, the owner doesn't get them to delete it, and there is no politically motivated revisionism going on based on the archive.org maintainers.

I would be suspicious of a reasonably popular blog claiming to have predicted stuff and not being able to back that up with an archive.org capture (or raw scraper data), though I guess it is somewhere where storing a hash on a blockchain may offer some benefits for edge cases.

Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by TeMPOraL on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:52AM (#42998659)
> We need better timestamping services for this.

If I were to write a dozen blog posts today, and then straight up dump them on my blog, dating each of them so they're spaced roughly evenly since Jan 2021 to today, and start each of them with a preamble saying "I wrote this in my journal around [backdated timestmap]; publishing it now ([real timestamp]) as part of my 2025 blog revival commitment" - what would you say then? This little preamble explains both the sudden appearance and lack of any prior traces on the Internet corresponding to claimed creation dates. Are you going to call me a liar?

No, if someone with even half a brain wants to fake expertise this way, you won't be able to tell. If anything, what will give them away is anachronisms in text. Like idk. an off-hand remark about ChatGPT in a post dated 2021 could make you wonder.

Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by nickburns on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:02AM (#43000412)
But you're still a liar. And 'calling you out' isn't a prerequisite to (correctly) suspecting it.