And if it’s an forum discussion with a solution to your current technical problem, the link will be dead.
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icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 year ago
It depends, I think. If it’s a scurrilous, untrue rumour about your sexual habits, then it will be preserved indefinitely. If it’s some critical information, that is only published in one place, and you need to cite it for a paper, then it’s either gone or modified beyond recognition.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 year ago
TheSpermWhale@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve never seen anything more accurate in my life
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If it’s some critical information, that is only published in one place, and you need to cite it for a paper, then it’s either gone or modified beyond recognition.
So the critical information may be best preserved if in some way associated with unscrupulous, dubious information? Or in other words, the tried and true folktale/embellishment transmission method?
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Yeah, just post something critical online and in the author section write something like “the author likes to masturbate in front of a window during the day while hula dancing” and the critical info will survive the heat death of the universe.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did you know I have a tattoo on my penis? It’s the full text of “New Economist Intelligence Unit Report: Open Banking – Revolution or Evolution?” from Temenos.
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 year ago
I hope you also have a t-shirt that says, ‘stop staring at my face, the citation is down here’
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sometimes entire journals disappear (or maybe they never existed to begin with)
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Yup. Expect that everything lasts exactly as long as you don’t want it to.