Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians

MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  (exactly the problem you’re having)

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  Thanks! That worked perfectly!

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  • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had the same problem and this forum post solved it: (link to a website that no longer exists)

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    • p_consti@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But that is at least solvable with the internet archive (most of the time)

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  • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Too many damn times…

    I was promised an immortal repository of knowledge in my youth. Now most of my bookmarks are dead links and finding answers is just like your example half the time.

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• RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Read the wiki” but the part of the relevant wiki page for the subject was removed years ago and the edit history was purged after the server ran out of disk space.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Return to thread and complain that people are clueless and directing you to a useless resource. Mod locks thread and threatens you with a ban.

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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ugh, yes. I try to always remember to update with what I did to fix it. Although if I’m honest, what probably happens 95% of the time is I just forget about the post entirely.

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ‘Eh, I’ll copy these writings later’

    Diotrophes of Miletus, probably.

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