lexlambda

> As we put more of our records and news on the Web and nowhere else, that’s *vitally important for historians and other people who appreciate knowing* who said what to whom and when.

Fortunately the Internet Archive crawler has already continued (confirmed by Jason Scott), the new information is just not yet represented in the Wayback Machine.

Considering the importance of events currently happening around the world (wars, elections, ...), that's very good. (although I'm not sure how extensive its coverage is)

However, all the archiving efforts by individuals using Save Page Now or the API are still halted.

Seems fair. You can't make it right for everyone, and at one point they need to draw a boundary, to care for your citizens and keep up the standards. Otherwise everything would fall to the lowest common denominator.

I don't think it's fair for the article to say that a "temporary measure" has now become a permanent one, it likely is temporary until the problem is solved.

Sometimes I ask myself why the schedule of those always-late trains isn't changed. If it would be planned that it always arrives "15min later", people and other transportation could work with that timing so much better.

I haven't done it, but I want to. A very important thing you should know is that only the most recent 5000 videos are kept in the history export, so my advice is to download it frequently.

What I've been doing is regularly getting the .json dumps takeout.google.com and merging them. (for around 4 years now)

I plan on eventually processing that data later to track usual statistics, but also for example my interests over the years (by grouping and then searching for common topics like Minecraft, Haskell, Covid, ...).