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i cant remember the pron title that i watched from vcd back in 2005 dang

Do you still have the VCD?

no

Forum and Reddit will become the sources of useful information. I have been using reddit and lowyat keyword in my search term whenever I want to find information and very rarely it disappoints.

Internet last forever but persons operating it don't.

No wonder many of my childhood local prawn dishes disappear already.

I wonder is anyone archiving/preserving porn? 🤔

What would be lost if the Internet Archive were no more?
October 29, 20245:19 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
By Vincent Acovino, John Ketchum, Mary Louise Kelly, Zazil Davis-Vazquez

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Brewster Khale, the founder of Internet Archive, about the attack by hackers that put the archive offline for days — and what may have happened if it had succeeded.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

Who preserves what happens on the internet? Well, one answer can be found in an old church in San Francisco, which is home to the Internet Archive. That's a nonprofit with a bigger digital collection than the Library of Congress. The Archive holds a record of billions of web pages on its servers. This month, it was attacked by hackers. It was offline for days, prompting a question - what would get lost if the Internet Archive is no more? Brewster Kahle is the founder of Internet Archive, and he's on the line now from San Francisco. Welcome.

BREWSTER KAHLE: Thank you very much, Mary Louise.

KELLY: So I just checked. Your site looks like it's up and running. It's online. Is everything back and fully restored?

KAHLE: It's not fully restored, but the basic services of archive.org and the Wayback Machine - yes, our library is back, which is really wonderful.

KELLY: The Wayback Machine - just to inject - this is the archival service for your website.

KAHLE: Yes, yes. That's where we collect web pages by working with 1,300 libraries, and then we make a service - a free service to make it so you could see the web as it was.

KELLY: So can you just describe what these last couple of weeks have looked like for you as you've tried to get the website back online and keep it up and running?

KAHLE: Oh, it's been so hard. Basically, we needed to upgrade our security significantly because, basically, somebody was able to deface our website. There's no damage to the data, which is great, but they did get our usernames and email addresses of patrons of the Internet Archive. So people's passwords continue to be safe because they were all encrypted, but the list of email addresses doesn't help the spam problem out there.

KELLY: Yeah. So why would hackers target you?

KAHLE: We don't know, but we're not the only ones. So, yes, we were targeted with cyberattacks, but also Calgary Public Library got hit, and they're still offline. Seattle Public Library system was attacked, and they're mostly back up - Toronto Public Library. And the big one was British Library was attacked a year ago, and still some of their services aren't back up.

KELLY: There's no ransom that's been demanded, nothing like that?

KAHLE: No. No, there hasn't been that. It's mostly been embarrassing. So we have gotten the message, and we're addressing - putting in more and better firewalls and code sanitization to go and make sure that the services stay up as people are expecting.

KELLY: Yeah. There's obviously a rich irony here for a site dedicated to preserving activity on the internet potentially being wiped off the internet. What would be lost if a cyberattack had actually succeeded at damaging your site permanently?

KAHLE: Well, if the Internet Archive were to go away - it has unique collections of the World Wide Web and also books, music, video, television for decades of television. It's a full-fledged library. So the idea of losing the Internet Archive is not just the web collection, but it would be a whole lot more.

KELLY: What you're describing, Mr. Kahle, is such a huge responsibility, protecting all of this information. Are you confident you can do it?

KAHLE: We'll do everything we can. As part of the job, we have preservation and access sort of tattooed into our souls. So preservation to go and make sure that the information that we've collected stays, and then we - can we make it as accessible as possible? We first wanted to make sure that our preservation function was in good shape, which we did. And then we worked very hard to try to get the access back up. But we're seeing attacks on libraries from many different angles, and this is just another one.

KELLY: That is Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and founder of the Internet Archive. Thank you.

KAHLE: Thank you.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-516245...ve-were-no-more

Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Internet
Friday, 25 Jul 2025 9:00 AM MYT

The data nerds are fighting back.

After watching data sets be altered or disappear from US government websites in unprecedented ways after President Donald Trump began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely.

Their goal is to make sure they are available in the future, believing that democracy suffers when policymakers don’t have reliable data and that national statistics should be above partisan politics.

"There are such smart, passionate people who care deeply about not only the Census Bureau, but all the statistical agencies, and ensuring the integrity of the statistical system. And that gives me hope, even during these challenging times,” Mary Jo Mitchell, director of government and public affairs for the research nonprofit the Population Association of America, said this week during an online public data-users conference.

The threats to the US data infrastructure since January have come not only from the disappearance or modification of data related to gender, sexual orientation, health, climate change and diversity, among other topics, but also from job cuts of workers and contractors who had been guardians of restricted-access data at statistical agencies, the data experts said.

"There are trillions of bytes of data files, and I can't even imagine how many public dollars were spent to collect those data.... But right now, they're sitting someplace that is inaccessible because there are no staff to appropriately manage those data,” Jennifer Park, a study director for the Committee on National Statistics, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, said during the conference hosted by the Association of Public Data Users (APDU).

In February, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s official public portal for health data, data.cdc.gov, was taken down entirely but subsequently went back up. Around the same time, when a query was made to access certain public data from the US Census Bureau’s most comprehensive survey of American life, users for several days got a response that said the area was "unavailable due to maintenance” before access was restored.

Researchers Janet Freilich and Aaron Kesselheim examined 232 federal public health data sets that had been modified in the first quarter of this year and found that almost half had been "substantially altered," with the majority having the word "gender” switched to "sex,” they wrote this month in The Lancet medical journal.

One of the most difficult tasks has been figuring out what's been changed since many of the alterations weren't recorded in documentation.

Beth Jarosz, senior program director at the Population Reference Bureau, thought she was in good shape since she had previously downloaded data she needed from the National Survey of Children's Health for a February conference where she was speaking, even though the data had become unavailable. But then she realised she had failed to download the questionnaire and later discovered that a question about discrimination based on gender or sexual identity had been removed.

"It's the one thing my team didn't have,” Jarosz said at this week's APDU conference. "And they edited the questionnaire document, which should have been a historical record.”

Among the groups that have formed this year to collect and preserve the federal data are the Federation of American Scientists' dataindex.com, which monitors changes to federal data sets; the University of Chicago Library’s Data Mirror website, which backs up and hosts at-risk data sets; the Data Rescue Project, which serves as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts; and the Federal Data Forum, which shares information about what federal statistics have gone missing or been modified – a job also being done by the American Statistical Association.

The outside data warriors also are quietly reaching out to workers at statistical agencies and urging them to back up any data that is restricted from the public.

"You can't trust that this data is going to be here tomorrow,” said Lena Bohman, a founding member of the Data Rescue Project.

Separately, a group of outside experts has unofficially revived a long-running US Census Bureau advisory committee that was killed by the Trump administration in March.

Census Bureau officials won't be attending the Census Scientific Advisory Committee meeting in September, since the Commerce Department, which oversees the agency, eliminated it. But the advisory committee will forward its recommendations to the bureau, and demographer Allison Plyer said she has heard that some agency officials are excited by the committee's re-emergence, even if it's outside official channels.

"We will send them recommendations but we don't expect them to respond since that would be frowned upon,” said Plyer, chief demographer at The Data Center in New Orleans. "They just aren't getting any outside expertise... and they want expertise, which is understandable from nerds.” – AP

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2...ment-statistics

storage mahal

my bizhosting page which i created back in year 2000 in pri school... is no longer there

Last time so many forum.. now hard to find it anymore

But /k say why need so many Data Centres wor

The internut now also more sanitised. I remember the days when it wasn't very difficult to find hardcore content if you knew the keywords.

Epstein will be so happy he has been forgotten.

Why some social media sites don't allow account deletion or closure request by the owner?

In Europe, GDPR states it's a personal individual right to erase his data over the internet.

Everything you need to know about the “Right to be forgotten”
https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Right to Be Forgotten
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/rig...o-be-forgotten/



When will they allow user self account deletion/closure in this forum?

Amid a crackdown on civil society groups in the USA, reporter Whena Owen meets Wellington-based digital infrastructure activist Julian Oliver, who is working with NGO and activist groups to move their most sensitive data out of US-friendly jurisdictions, and into places where it might be more secure.

But, as Oliver explains, that doesn’t include New Zealand.

How can information stay available over time in a digital production world?