It's important for people writing papers and such who need to cite material.

I wonder if there's some way to use the TLS certificate to get a cryptographically-signed copy of a webpage with timestamp that someone could later validate as having been downloaded on that date. I don't know if existing TLS libraries are capable of that. Like, Web browser menu option "Store cryptographically-signed webpage". Absent a later certificate compromise, I'd think that that'd at least provide people a way to credibly say "this is really what was on that webpage on August 15th, 2026". Like, you'd have to save a copy of the TLS session and then have libraries that could read and validate an already-generated session. The timestamp is already embedded in the session.

Some protocols, like OTR, are designed to specifically not allow that, but AFAIK, TLS could.

EDIT: Well, technically the timestamp is gonna be during the handshake, not tied to the HTTP request internal to the TLS session. It might be possible to game that by establishing a TLS session, holding it open without activity, and issuing a request much later. I'd think that that'd potentially be disallowed by Web servers one way or another, since otherwise you could probably do a denial-of-service attack by holding open a lot of sessions for a long time.

EDIT2: Oh, wait, no, shouldn't be an issue, because the HTTP Date response header is gonna have a timestamp tied to the response.

Time to use peertube

Searching anywhere in general is getting shittier and shittier by day. Web searches are riddled with hallucinated AI generated garbage pages. Finding the right answer for difficult problems is getting worse and worse. We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.

You can't remove it. It's there forever.

When I joined Lemmy I decided it was unwise to trust anything on Reddit less than a year old. Now it's anything under two years old.

It’s another move to protect against AI scraping that isn't paying them for access.

Wrong.
You can request deletion of archived pages.

And Invidious while being logged out of YT while that's still an option, but I have both a PeerTube and Odysee set up already.

I seem to have the best luck with the inv.nadeko.net instance and to a lesser extent the invidious.nerdvpn.de instance, and both instances proxy by default.

yup. continuing to feed them traffic after their repeated attacks on the userbase is just sad. stop using them. yeah it sucks the info is gone, but acting like they'll wake up and change is absurd.

this is the way.

And you think reddit actually deletes it? Risk data loss? All that valuable data? No way. They might shadow delete it, but it's there forever.

When RIF died, Voyager became the new forum app for me.

Apollo and Voyager for me so I straight-up retained the same UI.

I would have at least expected him to ask Spez to put some lasagna on his bumhole as lube.

most of my technical questions about Linux are not even answered lol. So difficult to get good answers on reddit.

Don't forget, Reddit is legally allowed to train on your content, but not the other way around. It's consistent with US law, where corporate tax is half of income tax.

Core memory unlocked! I remember catching a couple mix demo cds the 01 warped tour and Hum's stars was on it. I actually green album with the zebra on it shortly after.

What a terrible day to have eyes.

I wanna see if YouTube is that stupid they send my 18+ year old YT account an age verification check. April 2007 feels like a long time ago.....

Dumping YT / gMaps / Google SSO etc and replacing them bit by bit is a hard vice to break, but I've got others using self hosted shit now (yay Immich and Jellyseerr arr....) and I'll keep on doing it for others too.

This company limited search crawlers to google, why are you surprised?