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by oranges33
Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:39 pm
Forum: Misc
Topic: Not a bad time to backup your favorite archive.org content
Replies: 5
Views: 865

Re: Not a bad time to backup your favorite archive.org content

it might be worth it to backup your favorite archive.org content either on a personal drive or on archive.today How do you back up archive.org content to Drive or a Wordpress website? I’d like to make a Wordpress page of my Wikipedia user page and sandbox that was completely deleted, not blanked! 😡...
by oranges33
Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:52 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Replies: 63
Views: 14054

Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto

And that is assuming the holder was lucky/smart and managed to convert it to "real" currency before the price plummeted again. BTC has had some truly insane ups and downs since 2018. I still say "meh", especially to the wacky assortment of other cryptos. If other exchanges go the way of Coindesk an...
by oranges33
Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:37 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Replies: 63
Views: 14054

Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto

Crypto is just another convenient, trendy high-tech coathook for use by con artists and pathological liars to stiff the ordinary folk. You may or may not be right, but I don't think it was a bad investment, at least until last year. I've followed Gerard more than White, and he's stated many times i...
by oranges33
Sun Jul 16, 2023 4:21 pm
Forum: Misc
Topic: Not a bad time to backup your favorite archive.org content
Replies: 5
Views: 865

Re: Not a bad time to backup your favorite archive.org content

Do they have it in a static format, or will it just dissappear without trace if they close shop? I know just as much as you do about how they store their data. There's been public speculation about what could happen to the data if they closed shop. The main issue is the dataset is so large it's not...
by oranges33
Sat Jul 15, 2023 7:55 pm
Forum: Misc
Topic: Not a bad time to backup your favorite archive.org content
Replies: 5
Views: 865

Not a bad time to backup your favorite archive.org content

archive.org lost a major lawsuit. It wasn't directly related to the wayback machine, but archive.org needs funding and staff to upkeep access to petabytes of data. nothing lasts forever, including archive.org it might be worth it to backup your favorite archive.org content either on a personal drive...
by oranges33
Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:50 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Replies: 63
Views: 14054

Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto

On her blog, Molly states 'Bitcoin' doesn't have a good argument against being a security. Additionally, she uses a third person 'we' to describe Bitcoin, as if Bitcoin were a group of people instead of commodity, which is a necessary framing to prove something is a security. https://i.imgur.com/vUR...
by oranges33
Sat Jul 15, 2023 6:47 am
Forum: Misc
Topic: Wordcloud of your most used words on Reddit
Replies: 3
Views: 619

Re: Wordcloud of your most used words on Reddit

bbb23sucks' wordcloud

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by oranges33
Sat Jul 15, 2023 6:41 am
Forum: Misc
Topic: Wordcloud of your most used words on Reddit
Replies: 3
Views: 619

Re: Wordcloud of your most used words on Reddit

Vigilant's wordcloud

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by oranges33
Sat Jul 15, 2023 6:38 am
Forum: Misc
Topic: Wordcloud of your most used words on Reddit
Replies: 3
Views: 619

Wordcloud of your most used words on Reddit

This tool can give a snapshot into the brain of a Reddit user

https://redditmetis.com

A lot of wikipedians use reddit a lot. Put their reddit username in there and you can see what's swimming in their head!

this was mine, might run some people on Wikipedia subs

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by oranges33
Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:06 pm
Forum: Kumioko's Korner
Topic: We are all Kumioko
Replies: 41
Views: 24293

Re: We are all Kumioko

I you want to create a wiki i would pick a topic your interested in and invite people to participate. If you get some banned or blocked editors from Wikimedia then great, but i woukdnt assume that. I've done that. The wikis I created still get hundreds of thousands of views a month. I'd advise you ...