CombatWombat

joined 5 months ago
[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 44 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It’s so strange that the people who are most strident about “there are only two genders and you can only be the gender you were assigned at birth” are the first to insist that a woman is secretly a man because she’s good at sports, or a man is secretly a woman because he doesn’t watch sports. You’d think the gender essentialists would be most strident about great women athletes being women no matter what, but somehow gender is something assigned at birth that you can’t decide to change about yourself, but can be removed by a committee of old white men if they don’t like you.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 11 points 5 hours ago

It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 27 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 21 points 5 days ago (4 children)

A good article, but as a millennial, I was completely unprepared for the 2 psychic damage I took from this sentence:

Even based boomerware like IRC has to play second fiddle to them.