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 10 months 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 10 months ago
TheSpermWhale@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve never seen anything more accurate in my life
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
I hope you also have a t-shirt that says, ‘stop staring at my face, the citation is down here’
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Sometimes entire journals disappear (or maybe they never existed to begin with)
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Yup. Expect that everything lasts exactly as long as you don’t want it to.